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by diiq 17y ago
Thank you thank you thank you. It's hard to remember that there are other people, there on the horizon, also screaming into the wind at the top of their lungs --- and the knowing makes the night less lonely, my throat less sore, and the win
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by diiq 17y ago
I am glad to know that this is true of people within the field. I've always found mathematics a romantic subject, but the landscape is so broad I always feel lost. Well, maybe not 'glad' --- it's too bad that people are punished when they t
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by diiq 17y ago
I do, and they disappoint me for the same reason; I work in a machine research lab, and we work very hard to write papers which are both clear and publishable. I hold every writer to the same standard --- communicate in the clearest possi
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by diiq 17y ago
I am always disappointed when someone cloaks their ideas in such thick intellectual veneer. I can't do justice to someone else's voice, but a few minutes were all that was necessary to make the first paragraph sound like a person: (translat
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by diiq 17y ago
This has made my day. The perfect balance of absurd patience and dedication to accuracy with a playful, irreverent attitude. Lovely.
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by diiq 17y ago
Planning fanatics: planatics. As for overcoming the syndrome, try taking a workshop in improv comedy; most cities have a troupe that offers community courses now and again. By placing yourself in situations where you cannot help but work fa
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Knots and Giant Spiders (intuitive problem solving)(diiq.posterous.com)
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by diiq 17y ago
The article itself was perhaps a little disappointing --- it mostly discussed syntax rather than semantics that I find confusing. It did link to http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... , though, and I am finding th
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by diiq 17y ago
I use color theory. http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm
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by diiq 17y ago
Apart from the usual utilities, I've got an emacs-lisp version of write-or-die; it deletes words if you stop typing for more than a few seconds. It's an excellent motivator for first drafts.
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by diiq 17y ago
The original RSVP, as I recall, had a car metaphor as the interface. An analog, infinitely variable accelerator would, I think, make this much more friendly --- in addition to the other remarks (combine short words, etc). If it simultaneous
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by diiq 17y ago
I agree, readability can be tested. I am attempting to claim that readability is not the key factor. There have been font readability studies; but if designers were to follow them, all work would be black-on-white-large-x-height-minimal-
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by diiq 17y ago
Mu. There can be no such thing. Both fonts accomplish a purpose. Many like one because they feel it is easier to design with. Any reputable designer will instantly recognize both. They are two of the most used fonts in the world. There is n
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by diiq 17y ago
Both fonts fulfill the purpose for which they were designed. Helvetica was built to live in a gridded world: the horizons and verticals of Swiss modernity (look again at R and see how space-consuming it is). Arial was built to look like Gro
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by diiq 17y ago
So that's undyed? What a fantastic color. Yet again the inadequacies of digital interfaces driving me mad --- I want to see it! And (no doubt I'll never get the opportunity) touch it. I'd like my VR now, please.
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by diiq 17y ago
It would be easier to read this if they gave equations or names for sequences, insdead of using elipses --- 5, 13, 21, 29... is harder for me to understand than 5+8n; and the similarity between 5+8n and 3+8n is instantly obvious. Maybe that
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by diiq 17y ago
Almost none of the content is actually present --- there are merely placeholders. It looks like a good table of contents --- but I'd hope that some more actual text would have appeared since 2001. This is maybe useful if you are unsure of b
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by diiq 17y ago
I'd attribute it to the jerky, springy motion --- it appears not to have the sinusoidal velocity cruve we expect from a friendly mammal.
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by diiq 17y ago
Appearance, and not authenticity, was his goal. And the illusion of 'train' is excellent.
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by diiq 17y ago
It's the ultimate car for Larry Ellison.
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by diiq 17y ago
Treat them as a friend and a person. A label as broad and misunderstood as 'introvert' will only hinder you in enjoying their company when you have it. It's probably best not to 'care' for anyone but yourself and (perhaps) those physically
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by diiq 17y ago
I would feel more comfortable with such predictions if research were clearly walking the wooded path to AI. Moore's law works because 1. We already have processors 2. We have a metric to measure processor speed Then the path we're
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by diiq 17y ago
Absoutely. No one can work all the time . If I go for a walk after a few hours in the studio, I see the world as a source to draw from, a fountain of ideas. The world inspires because the work is an inspiration-tinted lens. Going for a wal
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by diiq 17y ago
Couldn't paint what I'm painting now, if I didn't paint what came before it first --- even if what came before was utter drivel. I will agree with this: Always work when you're inspired. Don't let it slip past you. But: Always work when you
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by diiq 17y ago
It's worth the read, if only for the reminder that languages are programming tools . It's not enough just to have the right functions, a clear syntax. I love me some snap-on wrenches --- they are the best in the world --- but I need other
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by diiq 17y ago
A kindergartener with pictures of bunnies and kittens . Pretty much any attempt at rebuttal is null and void.
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by diiq 17y ago
I wrote a little cl script called 'do'. It requests a name, description, and tag list for anything I think I might like to 'do' in the future. For instance: Name: Gideon Series Do a series of new-primitivism photos, Goldsworthy pie
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by diiq 17y ago
Not in high school, and not in collegiate art school. I have a copy that I pass around via samizdat, because the mandatory drawing classes here are useless to students without the basic principles. (Also worth noting: 'The Memory Book' by L
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by diiq 17y ago
That's what makes this work, though --- you only need one result, one name and the associated 'tagged' names. Then you search each of the tagged names. 60 resuls is plenty to get one good result per name --- heck, you don't even need that
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by diiq 17y ago
One could plausibly scrape a significant portion of the adjacency of the network from chained searches for '25 things' and similar notes.

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