kirse

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by kirse 18y ago
without needing years of branding Both parties stuffed "years" of branding effort into less time through an incessant and overwhelming campaign effort. From the Obama camp, the "O" logo was literally unavoidable... TV ads, magnets of all
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by kirse 18y ago
I guess what you're saying is how much communication was intended for the logo when it was designed, correct? A logo doesn't communicate anything "by itself" but its empirical nature (text, colors, shape etc.) without branding. You wouldn
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by kirse 18y ago
I noticed you're already down to (-1) and seem to be new to the site... Just a little pro-tip, don't bring out any views around here that go against the tenets of scientific naturalism. If you do, you're generally assumed to be yet another
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by kirse 18y ago
Uhh, the Nike swoosh? The Adidas three-stripes? McDonalds arches? Obama's logo is good, but if you're talking about simplicity and communication, it barely compares to the culturally-transcendent nature of those corporate logos. Those lo
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by kirse 18y ago
Reminds me of this scene in Bruce Almighty: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1725338/bruce_and_grace_romant...
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by kirse 18y ago
I think there was an experiment with a cat where they actually generated an image from what fell on the cat's retina. The only study I've ever seen on this has been based on simply grabbing the image off the reflection of the eye. I can'
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by kirse 18y ago
They've established the basic principle. All it needs now is refinement. This "basic principle" is no different when they do other MRIs that can detect patterns in brain activity (specific to one individual). The computers aren't doing a
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by kirse 18y ago
So did I... I'm surprised Impromptu wasn't on the list: http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php It's great for little message-pops and when you need quick user-input.
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by kirse 18y ago
This too: some of your anxiety is caused by your desire for the benefits of each -- job and calling -- without the costs. I think every young person, including myself, tries to have it all and we don't realize that something has to be sac
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by kirse 18y ago
Depends on how urgent your development is at this point. If you're trying to bang out some code for a goal or deadline, don't bother switching now. You'll only frustrate yourself when your flow is constantly being interrupted by having to
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by kirse 18y ago
You clearly misunderstand your own theory, because this specific paper written by an evolutionist (on TalkOrigins, the shrine of evidence for Evolution) reinforces the view on why biological evolution has no goal: http://www.talkorigins.or
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by kirse 18y ago
I knew someone was going to post this and should have addressed it.. Programming an evolutionary model is not setting artificial environmental constraints and then letting an unbounded process operate at will (as your comment implies). You
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by kirse 18y ago
+1 Thanks for the explanation. I can fully understand both the legitimacy and the desire to model the specific process of genetic propagation, but was somewhat confused how exactly that logically validates it as an accurate representation
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by kirse 18y ago
If the programmer specifies the boundaries (laws) of his own universe, then the evolutionary processes that happen within his own universe are not representative of the actual universe which he claims to be modeling. Why? 1) Current scient
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by kirse 18y ago
How exactly is it evolutionary computing when there is a designer in the equation (programmer) who puts constraints on the algorithm by the simple act of coding it and running it on systems that he designed? This seems more like "computing
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by kirse 18y ago
At the moment I'm still a little averse to the stock market You're smart to have recognized that you need to diversify, but don't fear the stock market! How much of this applies to you depends on your age (I'm 22), but this is when most
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by kirse 18y ago
It looks lively, but it also looks like they stuffed every single fun and lively object they could find inside their doors. Maybe it's just the pictures but their office seems really visually crowded: http://blogs.openforum.com/wp-content/
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by kirse 18y ago
I debated this MySQL vs. Postgre issue for a little while before deciding it was just better to go with MySQL and get started rather than nitpick over a solution. It's one thing I've realized pretty quickly in a startup -- don't try solving
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by kirse 18y ago
Web startups, 60% of the time they work every time!
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by kirse 18y ago
This whole social-network photo/video thing will be biting my generation in the ass for many, many years to come --especially as we get older and seek higher positions that involve more public scrutiny. I'm pretty sure the de-facto way of a
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by kirse 18y ago
I could understand that study. When one roots their personal value in something external, like a measure of success, they spend their whole life working ridiculously hard and sacrificing everything to validate themselves based on the measu
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by kirse 18y ago
From an optimistic (and even mental health) perspective, externalizing failure and internalizing success - aka "I did the best I could but the situation did not materialize" - is much healthier than internalizing failure and blaming yoursel
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by kirse 18y ago
Sorry axod, they're right. You should have a full expectation of nothing but the highest level of privacy when you are on a service that GPS tracks you wherever you go and allows you to publicly view everyone in a given radius. Not only th
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Christmas engineering: Ultimate home light display (17:10 in)(holdman.com)
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by kirse 18y ago
-- History is full of examples where a model emerged from lots of separate data and turned out to be correct. History is also full of even more examples of models that have turned out to be incorrect. Historical examples of validity have
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by kirse 18y ago
The end result (Macro-Evolution) cannot be empirically observed in action. Neither can God. Don't feel bad for me, because I am just as happy putting my faith in the existence of God (an entity that cannot be empirically observed), as yo
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by kirse 18y ago
Thanks for the link, it's all so obvious now! How can you ever go wrong when you're the one who gets to define both the end result and then fill in the means of getting there? Of course the evidence will always point to the end result, bec
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by kirse 18y ago
Are you not going to answer my question then? Or do you genuinely not know the answer? Your position is intellectually bankrupt, your arguments presented thus far are literally over 5 years old and well-debunked, the scientific community
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by kirse 18y ago
We're really getting nowhere, but I'm curious to know one last thing. Since you seem to be speaking as an ambassador for the scientific community, which one of these processes would have a more solid foundation in fact and truth? 1. An emp
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by kirse 18y ago
Save for all that fossil evidence, genetic evidence, corroborating evidence in short-lived creatures. Yet again, what you're saying here is "Trust me that I put all the independent pieces together properly and that's what is shown on the

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