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by lbarrow 15y ago
GazeHawk intern here -- I wrote the article. I have to disagree. The entire argument of the article is that people learn a specific pattern for looking at websites that they don't use in other contexts; putting a blank screen in front of th
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by lbarrow 15y ago
It's the heatmap. The threshold between red and white in the heatmap appears to be more meaningful than it actually is.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
GazeHawk intern here. These are really good points. We're aware that heatmaps can be problematic and we think about tweaking the way we build them quite a bit. Maybe in a few blog posts time you'll notice that we're using a different-lookin
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by lbarrow 15y ago
What assertions in particular did you have in mind?
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by lbarrow 15y ago
There's a lot of cool chemistry involved in the eye adjusting to darkness and light. My favorite fun fact is that as you adjust to darkness, the spectrum of light your eye perceives becomes slightly blueshifted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Good point. But I would argue that, fundamentally, the interaction between the eyes and the brain is much different than the interaction we have with cameras. The optic system is deeply, deeply meshed with the brain's perception of reality.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Right. I thought about including a description of pursuit movement, but omitted it because I didn't think it came up frequently when viewing web pages. Humans actually have a whole bunch of special-case eye movement patterns, like the "catc
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Fixing this sort of loophole should be far higher on Congress's list of priorities than it is now. There is no reason why a massively profitable corporation like Google should pay so little in taxes when poor Americans are nickel-and-dimed
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by lbarrow 15y ago
As the author of this blog post, I wish I had thought of that line :)
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by lbarrow 15y ago
My friend Peter set up a remote login to his laptop from his phone. When he accidentally left his laptop in a cab in Manhattan, he was able to track it down and get it back from the cab driver after about three weeks. He also was able to mo
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Go ahead :)
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Successful software projects are all alike; every unsuccessful software project is unsuccessful in its own way. -my boss
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Damn! My start-up idea was to sell glasses that allowed you to view the holographic structure of the world.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
This is great! Lots of fun.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
The problem with applying complicated algorithms to an infographic is that it makes it more difficult for the reader to know what exactly they are looking at. I think infographics should always have a "transparent" quality where a reasonabl
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by lbarrow 15y ago
If you're looking for a literal stock exchange game, the Wall Street Journal runs a reasonably good one called the virtual stock exchange at http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
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by lbarrow 15y ago
He's certainly the only Republican I'd ever seriously consider voting for.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
Playing around with phrases that have overlapping wavelengths is great in this thing.
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by lbarrow 15y ago
That's an interesting idea... I'll see if anything comes of it.
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GazeHawk intern here -- I wrote the post. Our post next week is going to be focused more on using different clustering metrics as a way of making the data easier to understand. We definitely have plans for running some big studies where we
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by lbarrow 15y ago
I think it's really difficult to rigorously evaluate that sort of thing. Different websites serve different purposes and need different designs.