Off to Starbucks

[ciphergoth]

Off to Starbucks, to run away from distractions and get some work done.

I'll try not to twist my ankle this time. The half-the-weight laptop should help.

PS: some interesting comments on crowd estimation. And Google has bought a blog company.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I was trying to do a crowd estimate while i was on the train back from London, and i could only get something like 80,000. Not sure what i was doing wrong but it was very obviously a wrong value, because this one was more densely packed and louder and longer than a 500,000-strong one i'd been on before. Trouble is i was going on numbers numbers and estimates made as one person inside the crowd (i.e. the first person set off at 12, which i gather they didn't, the route i think went down that way *bit of string + A-Z*, we saw the end get to Hyde Park at about 6:00, everyone travelled at the same speed all the way through, etc.) which probably weren't all that accurate at all.

Must look at the site on how to estimate a moving crowd at some point. ~wonders if stat mech would work for a big enough sample~