What a very diplomatic way to call bullshit on someone (o;
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If so, this might be the first of a few re-orgs.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lipstick-effect.asp
And just as a somewhat tangential but related story to the phenomenon, British soldiers distributed lipstick tp the liberated but gravely ill women of the Bergen-Belsen concetration camp in WWII, it lifted their moral just enough in some cases to help save their lives.
https://organicdailypost.com/make-tick-tubes/
I'm out in the yard a lot, I pull ticks off daily. I fortunately never have had Lymes but I noted (anecdotally) that the tick population has exploded in the last 10 years with the milder winters.
It's concerning. Probably going to get a flock of guinea hens this year.
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-l...
The people in the field of Human factors and ergonomics pretty much still have those titles.
There is a lot of overlap but my point is UXers were known as Usability folks on the whole
Ergonomics was and still is it's own thing. It very much relates to the physical world exclusively.
Should we continue to just gawk at those models too? Or do something about it?
It's 2017, not an episode of Mad Men.
The 7 +/-2 rule is, in part, about the design and layout of information so as to better aid the end user in leveraging the way their memory stores information spatially.
In short, it's about how to best design a system to give information TO a user.
What you're talking about is pretty much the reasoning behind methods like 'Fist of Five', 'five star' or '5 face' voting systems. These are methods well grounded in psychology and I might argue going up to 7 is unnecessary.
I'm not sure I agree. However I do believe the "Maker" movement was over sold by O'Reilly media and Dale Dougherty in particular. I stopped subscribing to Make Magazine few years back when it became apparent it was little more than a print version of Hackaday or Instructables.
Regardless of Maker. There is a plethora Robotics Competitions, existing Hacker spaces and STEM is huge.
The number of kids that were going to tinker at home is a fairly fixed. Where we'll really move the needle in terms of more people getting into engineering is in formal education (inc Robotics competitions).
Disclosure: I'm a little biased, I help design and build IDE's for some of these comps, e.g. http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/what-is-zr/ but I also have advocated and help implement "maker spaces" in my local school system. There is a sea-change, so I'll push back on the idea that little came of the 'maker movement'
That said, I appreciate Kurzeil has attempted to build products somewhat inline with his visions. E.g. https://www.kurzweiledu.com/products/kurzweil-1000-v14-windo...
But these are mere tinker toys compared to the grand predictions, and mostly failed products too.
I'm sorry, I do have to disagree. It's little more than recognizing a problem and envisioning a solution. Ideas are cheap.
And in that sense they are little more than entrepreneurs with grand long term visions that require no commitment. Give credit to those who put blood and sweat behind their visions - and make them happen, not make vague 'predictions'. That's what Hollywood is for.
I predict in the future we will be creating food from carbon scrubbed from atmosphere.
I predict in the future that humans will communicate with machines through quantum teleportation via implants
I predicate that in the future that if these predictions don't hold true, no one I know will be around to call me on it.
The Machine acted in a way that was not expected by the human driver.
This gets to a fundamental issue we will have in the transition to the utopian driverless future. Learning to identify and react to this new class of driver.
I just get more out of the research and you don't have to visit to get that.
I've posted this video elsewhere in the this thread but putting here for completeness. It's a better overview compared to the bbc article.
I've been to New Grange and Stonehenge. While it's pretty neat to go there, it's just a structure. The real value and interest for me is reading up on what the researchers have found out. Let the plinths for Stonehendge were quarried 150 miles away in what is now Wales.
Just think about that, mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-MOGw0RMo
Key takeaways that might answer why the original team missed the clues... note the Simulation results from the Japanese team. Throughout the video it's clear they're chasing the scent of information through data analaysis and visualisation.
I think the Hololens stuff at the end is a little fluffy but it speaks to the tools scientists and engineers have available today versus the 70's
It is all I can do to bite my tongue when I receive questioning looks from elder relatives for not going to church, not getting married in a 'real church' etc etc.
I respect my elders but I can't square the circle that is their tacit acceptance of the evils the church has done in Ireland.
I'm guessing at least one person in the room was on android and syncing with gcal.
As with any organic, self propelled, system.. it matures and growth turns to maintenance, and eventually decay. Is the general argument here that SV has become a victim of it's massive organic growth, has it eaten up one of it's resources (housing, healthy diversity, etc) to the point where another city/system can now flourish??
e.g. here in MA http://massenergywebservices.com/drivegreen/table-all.php#bo...