THANK YOU! Jesus, the amount of misinformation and inane assumptions around this topic is infuriating. Mental "imaging" and imagination are extremely "low-resolution" patterns when compared to actual sensory patterns, and the only reason they are intelligible within our own minds is because it addresses huge swaths of your own memory, that is, a whole host of previously experienced or otherwise stored patterns. This is why you can "feel" the memory of the dream even though you can't describe it in detail--the waking recollection is a low-res reference to an already low-res series of neural patterns.
In other words, they're simply not images; the word "image" has just always been a more or less functional way of describing the phenomena. They are patterns of patterns, not bitmaps.
The only thing that will compensate for any perceived "lack of ability" is when you stop assuming you lack it, and you start practicing it. Anything can be learned. Art is not magic. Creativity is not magic. It takes practice, just like anything else.
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Agreed. Wouldn't "Weapons of Mass Disruption" make it more accurate?
It's funny, because I can imagine if you balked at working with the chemicals, somebody would tell you to "stop being a pansy." Joke's on you, male stereotypes!
I'll wholeheartedly second the Arduino -- and not just because I'm an ITP grad student;) I don't know what a good age range for it is, but is has the major advantages of teaching a wide range of concepts -- electricity, electronics, sensors, programming, computer communication / serial, etc etc etc., and the immediate positive feedback of "It works!" When you can hook up a potentiometer to a Processing sketch over serial and see the instant gratification of a graphic moving on-screen, it really encourages you to go further and further. I would have LOVED to have something like that as a kid!:D
I concur! If you have a picture of your "Death Star" (as my sysadmin friends call it) with all the hundreds of blinking colored lights and racks, I know I as a kid would have been utterly compelled by it.
Exactly, it's a variation on Slashdot Procedural Post (SPP) #1: "I'm not a [skilled occupation], but they're idiots for not thinking of [obvious flaw]."
This variation, 1a perhaps, is "I haven't read [book or article], but I nonetheless know everything about it and they're idiots."
Good points. I feel like nobody is really framing these arguments correctly: in terms of tools. Two of the tools in question are software (drafting/modeling) and hand (drawing/modeling). Each have their advantages and disadvantages. My personal experience is that I almost always start a projectâ"whether it be graphic design or installation artâ"on paper, simply for speed. I think anyone would agree that pencil on paper is a faster prototyper than software, especially with experience. The only faster prototyping mechanism is your imagination, which has lots of other limitations and is a separate argument. What I like about drawing / hand modeling is that it gives you a different range of texture and poetry than software. I feel like you only really start drafting in software once you already have a system of ideas or have to in order to reach a new level of complexity. That being said, obviously there's no reason to ideologically eschew any individual tool. Tools are used when they do the best job, and it behooves us to have a fully-featured toolkit.
This is a really good idea. I wonder what the best way to deal with arbitrary levels would be, since we wouldn't want to pre-define security levels but have the site in question be able to somehow define what amount of security is required for what. Hm. Any OpenID developers here?
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Holy shit, that is terrifying... D:
Apropos? Yes. Funny? Sure. Obligatory? No.
Explain how the present interface is a "godawful Web 2.0 mess."
THANK YOU! Jesus, the amount of misinformation and inane assumptions around this topic is infuriating. Mental "imaging" and imagination are extremely "low-resolution" patterns when compared to actual sensory patterns, and the only reason they are intelligible within our own minds is because it addresses huge swaths of your own memory, that is, a whole host of previously experienced or otherwise stored patterns. This is why you can "feel" the memory of the dream even though you can't describe it in detail--the waking recollection is a low-res reference to an already low-res series of neural patterns.
In other words, they're simply not images; the word "image" has just always been a more or less functional way of describing the phenomena. They are patterns of patterns, not bitmaps.
The only thing that will compensate for any perceived "lack of ability" is when you stop assuming you lack it, and you start practicing it. Anything can be learned. Art is not magic. Creativity is not magic. It takes practice, just like anything else.
Agreed. Wouldn't "Weapons of Mass Disruption" make it more accurate?
...when does Apple come out with the iWMD?
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... and by funny, I mean... depressing.
It's funny, because I can imagine if you balked at working with the chemicals, somebody would tell you to "stop being a pansy." Joke's on you, male stereotypes!
Arduino forever! In any case, the arduino is popular for a reason. :D
"Calculon's Byack!"
I'll wholeheartedly second the Arduino -- and not just because I'm an ITP grad student ;) I don't know what a good age range for it is, but is has the major advantages of teaching a wide range of concepts -- electricity, electronics, sensors, programming, computer communication / serial, etc etc etc., and the immediate positive feedback of "It works!" When you can hook up a potentiometer to a Processing sketch over serial and see the instant gratification of a graphic moving on-screen, it really encourages you to go further and further. I would have LOVED to have something like that as a kid! :D
I prefer the line, "Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?"
Did you know that so-called "volunteers" don't even get paid?
Bingo. I managed to convince them that acting in the local renfair was community service so I could get my college scholarship. Sweet!
I concur! If you have a picture of your "Death Star" (as my sysadmin friends call it) with all the hundreds of blinking colored lights and racks, I know I as a kid would have been utterly compelled by it.
haha, this is great! Thanks :D
Exactly, it's a variation on Slashdot Procedural Post (SPP) #1: "I'm not a [skilled occupation], but they're idiots for not thinking of [obvious flaw]."
This variation, 1a perhaps, is "I haven't read [book or article], but I nonetheless know everything about it and they're idiots."
though I admittedly had to correct her use of "flagella"
Yeah, kids are always getting their flagella into awful places, and just TRY to get them to wash them!
Dude, it's a joke :( Laugh? Do you really think xkcd is 'elitist?' If anything, the comic is satirizing the ostensible 'elitism' of mathematicians.
Good points. I feel like nobody is really framing these arguments correctly: in terms of tools. Two of the tools in question are software (drafting/modeling) and hand (drawing/modeling). Each have their advantages and disadvantages. My personal experience is that I almost always start a projectâ"whether it be graphic design or installation artâ"on paper, simply for speed. I think anyone would agree that pencil on paper is a faster prototyper than software, especially with experience. The only faster prototyping mechanism is your imagination, which has lots of other limitations and is a separate argument. What I like about drawing / hand modeling is that it gives you a different range of texture and poetry than software. I feel like you only really start drafting in software once you already have a system of ideas or have to in order to reach a new level of complexity. That being said, obviously there's no reason to ideologically eschew any individual tool. Tools are used when they do the best job, and it behooves us to have a fully-featured toolkit.
I'm Steve Jobs, motherfuckers!!!!!! </Samuel L. Jackson voice>
This is a really good idea. I wonder what the best way to deal with arbitrary levels would be, since we wouldn't want to pre-define security levels but have the site in question be able to somehow define what amount of security is required for what. Hm. Any OpenID developers here?
...why the link to "pro se" is a particular revision instead of the current article?
Quick! I need a golf cart motor and a 1,000-volt capacimator!
A 10' lawyer-pole?