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by Daub 3y ago
I used to make fences in Wales, with it famously rocky ground. The fences we made were effectively straight lines which were bound at each terminal point by big posts dug into the ground and braced with side struts. Installing one of these
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by Daub 3y ago
OP kinda has a point though they did not phrase it effectively. From my experience, here in Asia we generally don't hang paintings/drawings/anything on walls. Most framed images are photos and these are more likely to be plac
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by Daub 3y ago
A professionally hung painting would not be on wires but on a dedicated wall mount. But Cable mounts are easy to reposition. True story... I once went to a public museum in Malaysia to photograph a painting I had an interest in. The light w
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by Daub 3y ago
Agree. This even applies to simple Booleans, which are sometimes completely ignored.
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by Daub 3y ago
If I had my way, I would introduce internet search techniques as a core module in all university programs. Too often I see in my students work evidence of lazy searching. It is as if they expect Google to be able to read their minds or even
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by Daub 3y ago
From the other side of the water, as an art teacher, I can say that I really appreciate the precision of computer/software engineers. Artists/designers can be so 'fuzzy', so 'hand wavey' and so prone to mystifi
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by Daub 3y ago
Found this rather poignant page: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Cross-referenced to this (death of Dennis Ritchie): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105526
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by Daub 3y ago
> In the real world, we have an intuitive understanding of how big something should be and if we see two objects that look the same size, but if we know that they aren’t, we infer that one object is more distant than the other. I see you
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by Daub 3y ago
A Very intuitive GUI. Was able to get up and running within seconds.
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This would likely be 'one's perspective' not 'perspective' per se. However, generously, even the later can be understood as referring to the 'science of point of view'.
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by Daub 3y ago
This excellent anecdotes refers to the perception of space. As a proud possessor of monocular vision, I think a lot about spatial perception. Also a huge fan of Oliver Sacks and also A. R. Luria (neurology) and Rudolf Arnheim (perceptual ps
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by Daub 3y ago
I would dispute the title. "How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective" should really be "How the design of Disney parks affects our perception of space" There is no such thing as 'our' perspective
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by Daub 3y ago
To directly answer the question: absolutely yes, though it is not a popular theory nowadays. Whether this is an act of the subconscious, unconscious or is hard to know, but certainly it can frequently manifest unintentionally. From my exper
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by Daub 3y ago
Its not often that HN makes me laugh.
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> I'd love to code up a machine learning project that showed the user many color combinations. I teach painting in an art school. The huge problem with almost all pallet choosing apps (e.g. Adobe's https://color.adob
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by Daub 3y ago
The merit of a 'give me an example' question is that it evidences a degree of self reflection in the candidate. Specifically, that they can abstract their daily circumstances to produce general truths regarding themselves. This we
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by Daub 3y ago
> In resume screening they look for keywords. You need to list the thing they want. I agree with this. One way or another, as an interviewer I need to know what your skill/experience set is. Skills/experience can always be deve
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by Daub 3y ago
The painting was a fresco. There are a few ways to make frescos but the one employed here was likely buono fresco: colored pigment applied directly to wet plaster. In this way the painting becomes a physical part of the wall. In contrast, a
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by Daub 3y ago
Time perhaps to post this classic from XKCD: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/09/xkcd-curve-fitting-in-r/ To anyone who has worked in research, the various strategies it shows would be tragically familiar.
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by Daub 3y ago
I remember bookmarking this site years ago, nice to see it here. The about page says it was founded in 2005. https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/about-us/
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by Daub 3y ago
This comes as no surprise and is pretty much what I teach my drawing students. nice to see it confirmed. Did you publish this? When drawing, novice artists give this T shape the maximum attention to the exclsioon of all else.
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by Daub 3y ago
I have only one eye, one that does not even work very well. However, in a lecture theatre I can recognise students in the back row and even know when they are making eye contact with me. Considering the poverty of information that my brain
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by Daub 3y ago
Yep. That's the one.
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by Daub 3y ago
I agree. That is actually the point I was making... differentiating Being a capable painter/draftsman from being a capable artist. Check out Mary Casset... A great technician but a meh artist compared to Renoir who had a tenth the skil
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by Daub 3y ago
That is a good point. His 'a la prima' technique was crafted to produce quick results that either succeed or failed: quality via quantity. Typically, his paintings took one or two days to produce.
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by Daub 3y ago
I stand corrected. However the drawings of her indicate a woman who is prematurely broken by life. Google 'Sorrow' by Van Gogh... that is her. Compare that to Van G's self portraits done at the same time.
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by Daub 3y ago
I guess it means... committing to a self-destructive life in order to serve a creative vision: 'Dive deep, come up wealthy'. Its not the only way for a creative individual to function, but I could easily list many from the top of
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by Daub 3y ago
Forget the way that his paintings now decorate the front of chocolate-boxes, Van Gogh was one of the most hard-core artists who has ever lived. His relentless pursuit of 'vérité' drove his to some obsessive extremes. - As a youngi
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> On a more personal note, the California Yes is super frustrating when making plans with people. Just because someone said Yes, does not mean they have any intention of actually showing up. They might get a headache an hour or so before
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The painting that the woman left behind seems to be what has attracted people to this case. I look at paintings on a daily basis, and am very used to 'reading' them. Here I what I get from it... - The artist did not go to art scho

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