«In the absence of controlled trials, statisticians have widely assumed that it is impossible to determine cause and effect from an observed correlation alone. Does Y cause X or X cause Y? The apparent symmetry of this scenario seems to exclude the possibility that any statistical test could tease them apart ( Read more... )

"The software works with sensors and effectors provided by a simple LEGO robot. The sensors are sampled every 100ms. For example, the sonar sensor on the robot is wired as the worm's nose. If anything comes within 20cm of the "nose" then UDP packets are sent to the sensory neurons in the network."


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“I think that play, in a more general sense, is fundamentally one of the ways that we understand the world, the real world,” says Wright, “as is storytelling. I think the two are both kind of educational technologies, and that’s the part that interests me; basically, how we take these things - whether it’s storytelling, or play, or games - and use ( Read more... )

Street typography from Tom Williams on Vimeo.

Иногда шрифт бьёт прямо в сердце


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Меня, аматора, очень восхищают такие штуки:

http://design-seeds.com/


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Вот на сколько у старых Нокий функциональный интерфейс продуманней и изящнее LG!

1110 - мой идеал телефона.

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Nethack is a roguelike, and so I'm required to say something about one of those games' most controversial features: permadeath. (  ... )