our minds constantly sift through everything we have ever experienced in order to determine what the world around us will be like. we see what we see and we predict what the next instant will look like; taste like; smell like; feel like. we filter out differences from those expectations and learn from them(eventually - and perhaps ( Read more... )

have you worked with any of the following? pros/cons?:

Canon EOS Rebel XTi
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EOS 5D
Sony Alpha DSLR-A700

so, i should have known when Cthulhu visited me in my breakfast this morning(yes, really)...


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oh right, i have a show coming up. it sounds like it's going to be fun...there's going to be an entire room that's a hell installation =) i've got six pieces going up, so i'm pretty excited. i'm most curious to see what the other artists contribute. i know the curator and she's got some interesting tastes...it's her first curation, but she's ( Read more... )

i've been reading an excellent book, On Intelligence by Palm mastermind Jeff Hawkins and would *strongly* recommend it to anyone who has the capacity to think outside oneself. the book is basically a breakdown of Hawkins' theory of what creates intelligence as is inherent in the human cortex. even if you don't agree with all of his theory, which ( Read more... )

when a lot of computational work culminates in a bunch of charts that do what they should, and, in conjunction with observation and a little math, predicts exactly what it should, one should only be happy with the result ( Read more... )

in the world i work in, it was(currently - at the time) 2:54pm in Pune, India today - which is about 2:54am for me - when someone needed something for his day to continue. now someone is working because i had the answer from WTF over here at WTF hour of the day. and while this makes me understand the mutability of time on a regular basis, it ( Read more... )

if you don't care about spreadsheets, don't bother reading this ( Read more... )

a worthwhile 20 minutes. i'd also recommend reading On Intelligence

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