Re: Follow-up questions for details on the "min distance" algorithm from Martin Thomson on 2014-08-05 (public-media-capture@w3.org from August 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:13:47 -0700
To: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>
Cc: Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnU7A5Q1gbHGQS99qf_3kO+xgGE=NkUd1YVcjwrguf+_0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 5 August 2014 11:42, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I suggest changing the algorithm from abs(actual-ideal)/ideal to
> abs((actual-ideal)/ideal) to avoid that. Then it's just a long absolute
> distance and no harm done.

If we get rubbish in, we shouldn't tolerate it like that.  The
application developer screwed up somewhere and surfacing that error
earlier is going to cause less problems in the long run.

Received on Tuesday, 5 August 2014 20:14:15 UTC