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Gradient illusionSimultaneous Contrast Illusion. The horizontal gray bar is the same shade throughout. I know I haven’t posted in awhile, but give me a break, I need some time to fix a few problems.First, I’ve never been happy with the theme, and I want to make myself a new one; also, spammers have made my blog [...] This speech was given by Adam Treager; who was speaking on behalf of his graduating class at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology. You know, I really wish, for your sake and mine that I could stand up here and say “Whew! Glad that’s over! Wow! We’re finally done!” Of course, you know as well [...] It would be hard to find a single piece of paper that better demonstrates the problems with the American educational system then this: Finally! A teacher that understands that the purpose of educations is to fill a student’s mind with disconnected facts while destroying their will and ability to think. I’m sure young Alex will learn a [...] There is a quick, and almost foolproof, test to see of the argument you just made sucks. Here it is: If your argument is proven unquestionable true; is it fundamentally relevant to the question at hand? There’s a natural tendency to start insulting people when in an argument. Passion tends to produce [...] 1. The Bias Bias. I find it interesting that a fixation on bias can, in the end, produce it’s own kind of bias. 2. Objectivist Roundup #135. Maybe I was too hasty to say that I only had ‘three links.’ Since this link links to a bunch of other links (how [...]
Quest for Fire is a bizarre little movie. On the surface, it seems to mimic ‘Call of the Wild’ or some other naturalist school of thought; yet if you look a little closer, there are elements which I can only classify as ‘Romantic’ (in the romantic era use of the word.)
I hang out with a lot of different groups representing great differences in political and philosophical positions; and I can tell you, trying to penetrate the lingo barriers can be difficult. Every group has their own words and phrases it likes to use; and their own definition of these words used [...] I know I promised that I wouldn’t fill up my blog with ‘quotes of the day’ and the like, but since making that promise I’ve realized that I really am quite lazy, and quote-posts are very easy. Plus, there are so many good quotes out there, I really can’t resist. So, I decided a quote-post about [...] What does this tell us about the future of computer-human interfacing? In 2005, the online chess-playing site Playchess.com hosted what it called a “freestyle” chess tournament in which anyone could compete in teams with other players or computers. …Lured by the substantial prize money, several groups of strong grandmasters working with several computers at the same time [...] |
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