It's interesting to see the transition of our written communication over time as technology improves. The trend seems to be going towards face to face communication, but with words; the latency is being decreased, and the intuitiveness is being increased. Also, it is getting more informal, perhaps because formality was primarily a function of the difficulty in communicating, a response is more likely to be refined if it is the only response you will be sending for a month.
Well, part of what he said in the article was that it was more important that the student can create a consistent mental model. So even if you have no idea what the '=' means, you can infer a possible meaning from the answers and use that every time you see it (on that test).
Well, it does say "experiment". But I think the point is summed up in this line: "I believe that piracy will always exist". The OP is showing that data is so malleable that no matter how many Megauploads you take down, there will always be a way to share it, which seems obvious to us at HN, but to a layman this might be a little more eye-opening. Or maybe he was just fucking around over the weekend and wanted to find the most ridiculous possible way to send data.
Interesting. I wonder if they could paint patterns on the parking lot to make it not seem like a "nice flat body of water"? I suppose they would have to be large, as there are already the lines for the parking spots, and those obviously aren't working, but subtle, so they don't confuse the drivers.
Yes, I think it would be quite interesting to have a museum exhibition where a high quality print of a original Van Gogh is displayed next a high quality print of the filtered version. I would defiantly pay to see that
I wonder if any other famous artists saw their work differently than the rest of us?
This is really interesting. I wish the pictures he provided were a little bigger though. I still don't know that this really improves on the originals. To me, part of the genius of Van Gogh is his unusual use of color. The "improved" versions look nice, but they also look sort of boring compared to the old versions- they are more realistic, but they also loose a lot of the whimsicality and surreally of the originals (two of my favorite traits of Van Gogh). I guess my problem with this article isn't as much the new versions of the paintings, as the authors assertion that they are superior to the originals.