smoothing

Solar makes a lot of sense if backup/storage/smoothing weren't needed since pv has gone down in cost.

Is it just that they're being that much quicker in smoothing out prices of stuff on the stock market?

Spending more on the government level, outside of the military, is also good as a smoothing factor for the economy.

The smoothing doesn't increase the road capacity, though there is likely a small benefit to mitigating the negative effects of merging.

Also, I didn't say that smoothing the waves increased road capacity, though improving merging may help a bit.

Plus smoothing traffic will save on your own car's wear and tear.

If the smoothed wave results in traffic flowing at 35-40MPH, then smoothing will increase the flow, since the peak flow rate takes place at 35-40 MPH.

Whether the temperature changes induced by Pluto's orbit--which cause the methane ice to move between the atmosphere and the surface--would cause a smoothing effect over time; e.g.

Here's the thing, motion smoothing fakery is for sports.

I'd kill for the equivalent of Windows standard font smoothing in Linux.

Maybe the language model could use some smoothing?

It led me to do some research and I came across a pretty interesting page on the topic of smoothing out waves of traffic.

We’ll work on smoothing this out over time in future 0.9 point releases." This is a pretty major change and a big caveat!

You'll also often see the Laplacian combined with a Gaussian (the "LoG" operator) for pre-smoothing since it tends to be particularly sensitive to any noise.

(Edit: some parts of games and game engines use this sort of "double buffer" approach for other purposes: smoothing and interpolation mostly, of visual frames in between logic ticks, or for network prediction.

I think the only times where the way you drive matters is when the density is kinda sorta high but still low enough for a safe following distance at reasonable speeds, at which point "smoothing out waves" becomes a common sense matter of "don't follow so close", which is effectively the same thing, and something everyone should be doing anyway when the density is low.

Smoothing the waves can eliminate immense rush-hour delays, if this eliminates panic-braking that can cause minor daily accidents.

Smoothing would take judgement and external manipulation to correct a course.