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"One concern, though, is that some social skills may not develop as effectively when so many interactions exist online. We learn how we are and aren’t supposed to act by observing others and then having opportunities to act out our observations ourselves. We aren’t born with full social awareness, and Dunbar fears that too much virtual interaction may subvert that education. “In the sandpit of life, when somebody kicks sand in your face, you can’t get out of the sandpit. You have to deal with it, learn, compromise,” he said. “On the internet, you can pull the plug and walk away. There’s no forcing mechanism that makes us have to learn.” If you spend most of your time online, you may not get enough in-person group experience to learn how to properly interact on a large scale—a fear that, some early evidence suggests, may be materializing. “It’s quite conceivable that we might end up less social in the future, which would be a disaster because we need to be more social—our world has become so large” Dunbar said. The more our virtual friends replace our face-to-face ones, in fact, the more our Dunbar number may shrink." • #стайность ∙ #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“The Dunbar number is actually a series of them. The best known, a hundred and fifty, is the number of people we call casual friends—the people, say, you’d invite to a large party. (In reality, it’s a range: a hundred at the low end and two hundred for the more social of us.) From there, through qualitative interviews coupled with analysis of experimental and survey data, Dunbar discovered that the number grows and decreases according to a precise formula, roughly a “rule of three.” The next step down, fifty, is the number of people we call close friends—perhaps the people you’d invite to a group dinner. You see them often, but not so much that you consider them to be true intimates. Then there’s the circle of fifteen: the friends that you can turn to for sympathy when you need it, the ones you can confide in about most things. The most intimate Dunbar number, five, is your close support group. These are your best friends (and often family members). On the flipside, groups can extend to five hundred, the acquaintance level, and to fifteen hundred, the absolute limit—the people for whom you can put a name to a face. While the group sizes are relatively stable, their composition can be fluid. Your five today may not be your five next week; people drift among layers and sometimes fall out of them altogether.” - × × ×

Вот это вот про пинаемый песок мне неприятно напомнило любимое некоторыми рассуждение "за слова надо отвечать, и если ты кого-то словом оскорбил, тебе в морду дадут и правильно сделают". Безусловно, есть социальный порядок, где норма — фильтровать базар, чтобы не получить в морду, или норма — быть близко знакомым со всеми соседями, иначе не выжить, или норма — искать компромисс с троллями, ибо уйти некуда. Но, внезапно, появляются другие формы, где всё вышесказанное не обязательно и даже не особо полезно. - 9000

"How has Laika changed over the past few films? — Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next project. But we have a core team. By going from film to film together like we have, all the innovations that happen over the course of making a film, from 3-D printing our characters' faces in color to advances in rigging or lighting, stay with us. All of the things we learned on Coraline we applied to ParaNorman, and all of the things we learned on ParaNorman and Coraline we applied to The Boxtrolls. In the time that we've been making films, every single department has achieved dramatic technical innovations. And those gains enable us to be more expansive in the kind of films we make." • #прокино - × × ×

«Нобелевскую премию в области физиологии и медицины за 2014 год получили Джон О’Киф, а также Мэй-Бритт Мозер и Эдвард Мозер за открытие «встроенной GPS» в мозге человека. Об этом в понедельник, 6 октября, сообщается на сайте премии. Ученые исследовали grid-нейроны, которые позволяют человеческому мозгу построить воображаемую карту окружающего его пространства. С помощью grid-нейронов человек ориентируется в незнакомой местности и может планировать маршрут». • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

«Курс доллара к 10:10 мск достигал 40,04 руб. (+8 коп.), евро – 50,1 руб. (+22 коп.). Стоимость бивалютной корзины к 10:19 мск составила 44,56 руб. (+0,1%).» • #рукономика - × × ×

«Доллар теперь по сорок рублей, а евро — по писят». - × × ×

Нужна следующая поэтическая серия от Давыдова: http://lenta.ru/photo... - × × ×

0. Экспокомпенсация с учётом сцены (сейчас это отчасти пытаются делать HDR-алгоритмы), а затем и с учётом арт-фильтров (тут есть, правда, вопрос о том, чем это отличается от сегодняшних арт-фильтров). 1. Смарт-кроп — автоматический выбор зоны события, по третям, золотому сечению, людям в кадре и композиционным акцентам. 2. Выравнивание и компенсация оптики и геометрии на лету (как это делают лайтрум и Skrwt). - × × ×

К этому всему ещё добавляется хранение RAW внутри исправленной картинки (чтобы упоротые могли получить свои исходные картинки) и LYTRO-подход к пост-фактум-обработке. - × × ×

"Now all that is changing fast, as a growing cadre of researchers seek to understand the spectacular biology and surprisingly complex behavior of what Dr. Fennessy calls a “gentle giant and the world’s most graceful animal.” Scientists have lately discovered that giraffes are not the social dullards or indifferent parents they were reputed to be, but instead have much in common with another charismatic mega-herbivore, the famously gregarious elephant. Female giraffes, for example, have been found to form close friendships with one another that can last for years, while mother giraffes have displayed signs of persistent grief after losing their calves to lions." - × × ×

“Giraffes also have excellent vision. Their eyes are among the largest of terrestrial mammals’, they can see in color and over great distances frontally, and their peripheral vision is so wide-angled they can essentially see behind themselves as well. Their keen eyesight lets them scan for predators, especially lions, which are their biggest threat apart from humans, and to keep track of each other.” - × × ×

top comment on HN gives an interesting link on giraffe neuroscience http://jeb.biologists.org/content... - кот от котов

“What is the social function of the novel? I’m not thinking about the pay-off for the author, who gets to develop a skill and earn a living from it and accrue a prestigious public image into the bargain. Nor about the rewards for the publisher, who may, or more likely may not, make a significant amount of money. Nor even the pleasure for the individual reader, who enjoys hours of entertainment and maybe feels enlightened or usefully provoked along the way. What I’m asking is, what’s in it for society as a whole, or at least for that part of society that reads novels?” • #прокниги - × × ×

“So as well as categorizing novels as well or poorly written, popular or unpopular, one could also, and perhaps more usefully, distinguish those that become part of the conversation, and those that do not.” • #стайность - × × ×

"Amazon has launched a crowd-editing and -writing service called WriteOn into private beta. In an announcement on the Kindle Author Forums, the company said that the site would act as a “community where readers and writers come together around the creative process to make good stories great and great stories better.” • #прокниги ∙ #будущее_автора - × × ×

"nettarot is an information age tarot deck designed for the digital medium. draw cards by clicking the deck, and shuffle the deck by refreshing the page. some cards have special properties, and some cards will not appear every time you run through the deck. as with afk decks, each card can be drawn only once, and the deck can be depleted." • #карты_и_колоды - × × ×

“Anti Tagging is an app by buffer Renaiss Inc. that detects faces in photos and glitches them out. This is done in an effort to prevent algorithms on social networks like Facebook from tagging photos of people based on their faces. Anti Tagging is currently available on iOS.” • #профото ∙ #безжалостный_постмодернизм ∙ #прозрачное_общество - × × ×

"France is on the verge of introducing some of the most stringent anti-smoking legislation in the world. As part of a new proposal, which was first announced Thursday, tobacco companies will be forced to sell their cigarette sticks in plain, neutral packaging in the country, or, as it was explained by French health minister Marisol Touraine, boxes of "the same shape, same size, same color, same typeset." ¶ Australia, which has mandated that cigarettes be sold in dark olive, logo-free boxes since 2012, is the only country thus far to have enforced entirely neutral cigarette packaging. If the new French plan, which is expected to be part of a sweeping health bill, passes through Parliament this autumn, France will become the second. But there's good reason to believe many others might follow." - × × ×

стоп, а стиральный порошок? - кот от котов

"But the spread of police body cameras is also raising concerns about what is recorded, when and how video might be released to the public, and how the millions of hours of video will be archived and protected from leaks and hackers. Some police unions worry that videos could become tools of management, used by higher-ups to punish an officer they do not like, or that private conversations among officers could go public. The rising use of cameras has put the police in a complex and uncertain landscape of public records law." • #прозрачное_общество - × × ×

That is, has police to become impeccable? I doubt it. POS cashiers are under constant cross-surveillance for many years; has it resulted in much problems for them? - 9000

Кассиры не являются частью общей федеральной/муниципальной системы, и никто не обязывает владельцев этих POS хранить данные (или даже проверять работоспособность). А полицейские записи обычно фиксируются и лежат в архивах. Это не значит, что их не будут терять, когда очень нужно, но в общем и среднем этих записей будет много, они наверняка будут доступны под Freedom of Information для граждан и журналистов, с большим простором для интерпретаций и анализа (даже для неархивируемых записей). В этом море будет удобно и топить важное (для одних), и по мелочам выстраивать общую картину (для других). Но качество самих людей от этого вряд ли поменяется. - × × ×

Например, F.S.O.L. и My Kingdom/ISDN, а затем и Amorphous Androgynous с The Isness/The Otherness. (И узнал, что вышел у F.S.O.L. новый альбом в 2014-м.) - × × ×

Или вот Chicane со старинными Behind The Sun/Far from the Maddening Crowds. - × × ×

"And while that’s great news for those looking to take less-wack selfies at the bar, the new video features that come along with it mean something else: a high-quality camera filmmakers—and those who aspire to be—can keep in their pockets. Not that they didn’t have that before. iPhones have been used to make shorts and other types of films before—there are even multiple iPhone film festivals—but what the iPhone 6 offers is what Apple’s Phil Schiller called “technology used by high-end DSLRs” during yesterday’s product announcement. Coupled with the ability to grab 1080p high-definition clips at 60 frames per second, take 240-fps slow-motion shots, provide cinematic video stabilization, and offer up to 128 gigabytes of storage, there’s more than enough oomph in the iPhone 6 for a few takes. It’s the kind of power that could, like other developments in filmmaking technology, give rise to a whole new style of moviemaking." - × × ×

But how do you control the focus? In film-making, there's usually a separate camera assistant to control the focus. - 9000

Фокус-пуллеры нужны на больших проектах и дорогой технике, всё же, а на таком инди-масштабе за копейки оказывается достаточно того, что выдаёт ручная подкрутка фокуса или фикс. В новом айфоне автофокус во время видео стал _работать_ (а не так, как в 5s, который пока не пнёшь — не перефокусируется), в следующей версии, глядишь, будет работать сносно. - × × ×

“Choosing the right one. What a problem. I mean – if you look at them, with their different personalities and sexy curves, how can you prefer one over another? Maybe you like long legs, or are fascinated by bold shapes – but then you see that elegant thin one and you just cant’ help falling in love…” - × × ×

http://www.chicksandtypes.com/ - × × ×

"Another interesting tidbit: Bono gave us an update as to the total number of iTunes accounts. The last time we received an official figure from Apple was this past April during an earnings conference call when Tim Cook boasted of 800 million accounts. According to Bono, that number today stands at 885 million. And while we have no confirmation from Apple, it stands to reason that Bono, thanks to U2's recent deal with Apple, is likely to be aware of the most up-to-date figure. "They have 885 million iTunes accounts," Bono told Fanning, "and we're going to help them get that number to a billion."" - × × ×

“Larry Ellison has agreed to step down as chief executive officer at Oracle (ORCL), ending one of the most entertaining and profitable runs for a leader in business history.” - × × ×

wat - социальный груффало

“Included are questions that can be asked throughout the product development lifecycle – from identifying problems/generating ideas to improving a live product. ¶ Some quick notes before I get on with the list: — Ask why or why not with many of these. I didn’t want to list it each time. Usually people will say why or why not without being prompted if you’re interviewing them live. But if not, ask them. ¶ — A lot of these will yield similar responses to each other. Pick 1 or more from each group that you think would be best given your situation. ¶ — In addition to the questions below, many products seem to require specific questions that aren’t “template-able,” especially in the product discover-validation phases.” - × × ×

"Nobody knows how the story of forbidden symmetry ends. Mathematicians continue to explore the properties of Penrose tiles. Quasicrystals remain the subject of both basic and applied research. But it has been an incredible journey so far. In the past 40 years, five-axis symmetry has gone from impractical to valuable, from unnatural to perfectly natural, from forbidden to mainstream. It’s a transformation for which we can thank two scientists who pushed past conventional wisdom to uncover a remarkable new form of infinite variation in nature." - × × ×

Ух ты. Про рекурсивность его не знал. - mindszenty

«В середине октября в Латвии запускается новое русскоязычное новостное СМИ под названием Meduza. Проект, который будет сочетать агрегированный и собственный контент, создается рядом бывших сотрудников «Ленты.ру» под руководством бывшего главного редактора издания Галины Тимченко, бывшего главы отдела спецкорреспондентов Ивана Колпакова и присоединившегося к ним Ильи Красильщика (бывший директор по продуктам «Афиши»). Создатели Meduza рассказали Forbes, чем их издание будет отличаться от других СМИ, почему редакция переезжает в Ригу, и как из инвесторов проекта вышли Михаил Ходорковский и Борис Зимин». - × × ×

И название с медузой! - × × ×

А домен какой будет? - tcharge

"Has Anything Changed? In some ways, no. OkCupid users are certainly no more open-minded than they used to be. If anything, racial bias has intensified a bit. Here are the numbers for 2009 till now—use the slider to move through time. Like a javascript DeLorean." - × × ×

“So, yes, this is all just dating data, but it shows who and what we define as beautiful. And that’s something that affects everyone.” - × × ×

"At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations that then translate into political action." - × × ×

(Спасибо за ссылку @metavoid) - × × ×