"Collected" vs "complete"

In my quest to reduce my dependency on printed books, I ordered a Kindle copy of "The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats". I was "leafing" through it, re-reading my favorites, when I noticed that "Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad" was missing.

Looks like I'll be keeping my dog-eared paper copy of "Selected Poems and Two Plays of William Butler Yeats" (1962).

Google Tasks missing on my Samsung Galaxy S4

Got an S4 a couple of weeks ago as part of the renewal cycle with Working Assets for my cell phone.

I do like the phone (after turning off all the gesture stuff). However, I can't see my tasks (created in Google Calendar using the Chrome browser) on the phone. I've made sure that the calender on the phone is set to my calendar. I even tried adding a due date to the tasks (in the browser on my PC), to no avail.

Has Google gotten so big that they are unable to integrate this? Or is this the evidence of some internal marketing tug-of-war between Samsung and Google, where Samsung is trying to force users to their applications instead of the standard Google local applications / web applications?

Anyone from Google (or Samsung) care to help?

Google Maps: erratic "In Current Traffic"

Where'd it go?

It shows on my Android phone.

The Shape of My Commute, part 5

A simpler chart. This is only directly observed estimates (red line) vs. actual times (blue line). The point at noon is "fake" so that the shape of the commute is easier to see.

I still feel like the accumulated, averaged estimates from Google maps are too low, but that may just be the effect of the bad days having more psychological impact. This chart below shows directly observed estimates (red line) vs. accumulated, averaged estimates (blue line). I presume that, after some number of direct observations, the red line could be smoothed to something that would closely match the blue line, but I don't know enough about statistics to figure out what that number of observations would be.

Or maybe the commute is really getting worse.

Here, also, is a link to the Google spreadsheet with the data.

The Shape of My Commute, part 4

More actual data. More questions.

The Average Estimate numbers from Google Maps for the morning look slightly optimistic (5% - 10% low).

The evening numbers are much farther off, more like 25% low.

Don't know if I'll ever know why. I can, however, come up with a "realism factor" that I can apply to the Google Maps numbers to get something closer to my Actual observed numbers.

The Shape of My Commute, part 3

Starting collecting actual data. After three data points it's not looking good for the estimated times, but confirming my gut feel that the estimated times are too low. I added an "actuals" column of data (shown in red). The spikes show the data points I've collected.

Still, from the estimates I can get the overall shape (e.g., commute times at each slot relative to each other), even if the absolute values are wrong. Overlaying the actual data will then give me the picture I need.

I'm guessing that we will see a wider variation between estimated and actual close to the peak times. We'll see if that guess proves out as I collect more actuals.

What's The Next Big Thing?

www.google.com

http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2013/03/12/whats-the-next-big-thing-in-technology-lets-ask-sxsw-interactive-2013-attendees/9076/

 www.yahoo.com

 http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NEXT_BIG_THING/NEXT_BIG_THING.html

 www.bing.com

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/what-is-the-next-big-thing.html

www.wolframalpha.com

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