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У каждого из персонажей есть по полдюжины разных повесток и стремлений с приоритетами всех мастей, каждый имеет несколько точек зрения на себя и ситуации. - × × ×

Очень тонка эта грань между картонными персонажами без внутреннего наполнения, и потом сразу переполненными фигурами универсального профиля на все случаи и амплуа. - × × ×

"To demonstrate that such a capability would be necessary, two motivating scenarios are briefly presented next. For instance, to enable a UAV carrying a long cable suspended load to enter / exit short openings (such as a window), the load needs to be dynamically swung into the opening, such that the tension in the cable goes to zero at the right point in time. This enables the UAV to go through the window while the load undergoes free fall, prior to the tension in the cable being reestablished. Alternatively, to enable UAVs to transport suspended loads while flying under a strict ceiling height, either to avoid radar detection or when flying indoors, requires dynamic motion of the load to avoid large obstacles on the ground." • #гудрон - × × ×

Видео с вертолётчиком, метающим в грузовики деревья с размаху, отдельно доставляет. - × × ×

Вспомним здесь прошлогодний пост про то, как квадрокоптеры жонглируют шестом: https://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

Придумал себе трендовый юзернейм. - × × ×

Круто, в трёх местах одновременно =) Я думаю как великие! - типа смартовый пацан

Бгг, я адепт оной. %) Очень скептично настроенный, но все равно адепт. (впрочем, понимаю что вы сейчас о другом) - лайм безбожников

Стало ясно сейчас, накануне нового выступления Тима Кука перед публикой — с другой стороны оказывается не только «стабильность s-релизов», но и высокий шанс того, что обычной памяти станет вдвое больше, и сотовый модуль, наконец, перестанет засыпать при исчерпании свободной памяти, как он это любит делать на аптаймах больше пары-тройки недель. - × × ×

“Snowden conducted a remote interview today as part of the New Yorker Festival, where he was asked a couple of variants on the question of what we can do to protect our privacy. His first answer called for a reform of government policies. Some people take the position that they “don’t have anything to hide,” but he argued that when you say that, “You’re inverting the model of responsibility for how rights work”: When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.” - × × ×

"I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a student for a day. It was so eye-opening that I wish I could go back to every class of students I ever had right now and change a minimum of ten things – the layout, the lesson plan, the checks for understanding. Most of it!" • #образование - × × ×

Teachers, long relied on tests, discover debugging. - 9000

^ - Тринадцатый

“Bringing the beauty of print to the mobile interface is our all-encompassing vision at Flipboard; in doing so, we’ve learned that it’s necessary to provide our users with an experience dedicated solely to their content. With powerful magazine and topical recommendations, we’ve nearly perfected the way our users find stories, but never before, until now, have we tinkered with how our users read them.” - × × ×

“Neuroesthetics (or neuroaesthetics) is a relatively recent sub-discipline of empirical aesthetics. Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic perceptions of art and music. Neuroesthetics received its formal definition in 2002 as the scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of a work of art.[1] Neuroesthetics uses neuroscience to explain and understand the aesthetic experiences at the neurological level. The topic attracts scholars from many disciplines including neuroscientists, art historians, artists, and psychologists.” • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“These results suggest that sometimes our initially hardwired gut reaction to appearance can be overridden, and sometimes even without effort. All it may take is increased familiarity about the person. As the researchers note, “Among people who actually know and interact with each other, the perception of physical attractiveness is based largely on traits that cannot be detected from physical appearance alone, either from photographs or from actually observing the person before forming a relationship.” - × × ×

“Philip Davis, professor of psychological sciences at University of Liverpool and author of two books on Shakespeare and the brain, conducts research in reading and literary thinking. In one well-publicized study, Davis used EEG and other electrophysiological techniques to look at the moment-to-moment effects on readers of functional shifts in Shakespeare’s verse.” - × × ×

“Аuthor of two books on Shakespeare and the brain”! - × × ×

"Unlike many animals, raccoons “flourished rather than receded in the face of human expansion,” Pettit points out in an article for the American Psychological Association.1 Part of the reason for their success may be that the urban environment has contributed to their intelligence. In humans, the effect is well known. Educational psychologist Walkiria Fontes has compared the cognitive abilities of rural and urban children on two metrics: crystallized intelligence, which is associated with experience, and fluid intelligence, which is the ability to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge. She found that urban rich kids have the edge with both kinds of intelligence. But even poor urban students scored better than poor rural students in fluid intelligence." - × × ×

"A farmer says he has had the same ax his whole life--he only changed the handle three times and head two times. Does he have the same ax? ¶ This question launches Howard Mansfield's fascinating book about historic restoration, The Same Ax, Twice. Mansfield explores the sanctity and lineage of historic sites, from Japanese Shinto shrines (completely rebuilt 61 times in 1300 years), to igloos (rebuilt annually, oldest documented human dwelling), to the USS Constitution (80-90% rebuilt since it first sailed). ¶ He argues that these relics are stronger because of their reconstruction. As he puts it: “So, does that farmer have the same ax? Yes. His ax is an igloo, and a Shinto shrine. He possesses the same ax even more than a neighboring farmer who may have never repaired his own ax. To remake a thing correctly is to discover its essence.” • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“Whose soul is stamped on a work of art? On a tool? On a scientific specimen? What does it mean if we conflate realness with human essence? ¶ If you care about authenticity, this research is pretty troubling. Sure, it shows that people value the original artist's hand in his/her work. But more than that, it shows that value is positively correlated with a perception of human touch. That perception can be faked--to both positive and negative ends. Artists embue anonymous objects with fictional narratives to increase their value. Companies buy up long-lived brands to add a human story to their wares. Spiritualists contact the dead.” - × × ×

“The global market for nonmilitary drones has already ballooned into a $2.5 billion industry, one that’s growing 15% to 20% annually. And that’s under the current law. One of the biggest potential markets for commercial drones—the U.S.—isn’t even open for business yet. At least not officially. While the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial purposes is soaring in countries like Japan, Australia, France, and the U.K., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has yet to institute regulations governing the operation of commercial drones, and in the meantime it has issued a blanket ban prohibiting their use in nearly all endeavors. Further complicating things is the gray area in defining the difference between “recreational” drones (which aren’t restricted by the FAA) and commercial drones (which are). In September the FAA issued exceptions to six film companies to use drones, and it has approved their use to monitor oil operations in Alaska. Regulators aren’t expected to issue a full set of guidelines for at least another year.” • #гудрон - × × ×

Интересно, а какая у нашей Росавиации позиция по поводу дронов? Впрочем, я примерно догадываюсь. - denis

"Quip Spreadsheets is not a separate app or file type, but is instead seamlessly integrated into the Quip product experience. You don't have to choose between text, images, task lists, or spreadsheets — you can combine everything on a single page: Within your documents, you can embed full-featured spreadsheets — as many as you want, with support for formulas, over 400 functions, and all the data formatting options you'd expect." - × × ×

Правда, она стоит 18 баксов и не собирается дешеветь, как нам говорит ereaderIQ — http://www.ereaderiq.com/dp.... Но на это у нас есть, конешно же, торренты. - × × ×

Скажем, вот: http://btdigg.org/search... - × × ×

“Camera51 analyzes the scene looking for objects, faces, shapes, lines and other criteria, then suggests an optimized framing option based on traditional composition rules, such as the “Rule of Thirds”. It also provides the option to manually select up to three objects in the scene by tapping on it. The app then chooses what it deems to be the best framing, focus and exposure for your subjects.” • #профото - × × ×

(К которому я ещё за последние годы добавил прекрасный элемент «мужик, чайником будешь», выдавая ассистентам отдельные фрагменты паззла и роли, а потом это всё складывая во что-то смешное.) - × × ×

"The economics are straightforward, and worth explaining. The amount of money you can get from advertising on a general editorial site has been declining as the level at which advertisers find the value worthwhile hasn't found bottom. Some sites can command high CPM (cost per mille, or thousand, ad impressions) rates because their visitors intensively click and do stuff, like buy things, sign up for offers, view other ads, and so forth. But for most publications, even those in the formerly lucrative technology/gadget space, the value of an impression has shrunk." • #будущее_мидий - × × ×

“I don't want to reveal specific subscriber numbers as a small business, but let's take the rough number of 25,000 that Marco put out to Planet Money several months ago as a basis. Let's even assume 100% of those subscribers are monthly and through the App Store, thus grossing about $35,000 before taxes. ¶ To achieve that number consistently, The Magazine would have to sell ads at $2.66 CPM on 13 million page views a month, which means we would probably need 20 million page views to make those numbers. ¶ Is our modest fortnightly periodical going to attract 20 million page views against 150 or so articles every month? Unlikely. Can we attract enough subscribers on an ongoing basis to bring in revenue that lets us pay writers well and sustain our operations? Yes.” - × × ×

"The Magazine will stop publishing its every-other-week issues on December 17, 2014, cancel all outstanding subscriptions, and automatically provide pro-rated refunds (either through Apple or directly) for subscriptions that continue past December 31, 2014. (We will be in touch directly with Kickstarter backers who subscribed via our Year One book campaign.)" - × × ×

Интересно, что истории они публиковать перестают, но при этом сайт и приложение оставляют, ещё в сентябре обещали андроидное приложение, запустили кикстартер для антологии, и, вроде как, умирать не очень собираются. • #будущее_мидий - × × ×

“Writing guides tend to be pretty unsatisfying. They offer plenty of concrete rules, but why, a reader might ask, should the rules be followed? The answer is usually “because” — as in, “because I say so.” This, of course, is where humanity found itself before the advent of the scientific method: the mystics spoke, and everyone had to decide for themselves whom to believe. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker takes a different approach, one that is both more ambitious and more modest. In his new book, “The Sense of Style,” he draws on research, and particularly his deep knowledge of linguistics, to give his writing principles a scientific basis. Readers can thus have some assurance that Pinker’s advice is good, and, knowing the reasons why, they will be more likely to know when a rule should be broken. Yet he does not push this method beyond its natural limits. Scientists, after all, still know relatively little about the ways dark squiggles communicate ideas. Instead, he shows readers how to take apart a piece of fine writing to see what makes it tick.” • #схватил_за_мозг ∙ #как_писать_слова - × × ×

“Text that has a lot of local ambiguities is frustrating to read, because it constantly forces the reader to backtrack and reinterpret. One of the things that differentiates “smooth” from “choppy” prose is the absence of these dead ends. The authors of traditional style guides, like Strunk and White, were dimly aware of the problem, but lacked the technical concepts to analyze it, and offered useless advice such as “Keep related words together.” The advice is useless for the Yale sentence, the related words panel and on sex in fact are already together; disambiguating it requires moving related words apart to get a panel with four professors on sex. For that matter, if it had been a panel on drugs with four professors, then the word-moving solution would make things worse: a panel with four professors on drugs is just as misleading as the panel on sex with four professors.” - × × ×