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Wow, that’s harsh.

If it knows his number, then why would it need to ask? And why would it suggest a wrong number?

I have also avoided giving Facebook my phone number, so I was surprised one day when they correctly guessed it, only asking me to confirm. I realized later that this was likely due to friends uploading their address book, in which case Facebook only has to match names between friends.

In Nitin’s case, maybe one of his Facebook friends knows Nitin Jaisw and has him in their address book, but with only the first name. They might not have Nitin Reddy in there at all.

byroniczeroon Bias Against Novelty in Science

Obligatory knee-jerk accusation of “pseudoscience” at the mention of Sheldrake: check. It’s a topic about overly conservative attitudes in the scientific community. Thanks for demonstrating that tendency with your insulting comment.

byroniczeroon Bias Against Novelty in Science

Obligatory mention of Rupert Sheldrake: http://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-scien...

byroniczeroon New Ways into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’

“Very few drums or vocals” is one of the qualities valued by the Music for Programming podcast: http://musicforprogramming.net/?about

byroniczeroon The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford [video]

I had considered that, but still detected — perhaps incorrectly — a whiff of implied denigration in the choice of what to say about Ruskin and how to say it.

My comment was an attempt to establish a neutral balance by linking to an argument in favor of the wrong side. If anyone has a good argument for the right side — for why abstraction rules and traditional drawing, painting, and sculpting skills are worthless — I would love to read it. Hopefully, it amounts to more than “because we have photography now”.

I may disagree with what I perceived as the tenor of the original comment, but I saw no reason to downvote it. I see no reason why mine should have been downvoted, either.

byroniczeroon The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford [video]

Nice try, calling it the “wrong” side. For more on that side, check out Art Renewal Center: https://www.artrenewal.org/articles/Philosophy/TheReal19thCe...

byroniczeroon Intro to RenderMan for Blender

Autodesk recently made their software (including 3ds Max and Maya) free for educational/non-commercial use for 3 years. No watermarks or other restrictions.

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2014/10/students...