this is a little dense, but the preface has a nice statement on neurobiology, and wikipedia has some interesting articles on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. I suppose I'm looking for a popsci book on how computer…
> This has been known in the advertising world since the 50s Any reference from the 50s? Also, anyone care to recommend modern references that go into these topics? (David Ogilvy comes to mind but that's from the 60s).
Whats most impressive is the brain's ability to absorb that much information at such speed. Somehow I was able to discern the numbers 120 and 450 in that snippet, but not the rest. I suppose with years of practice this…
It was bought at a well known North Face store. Unless they received a batch of fake ones which seems less plausible.
Absolutely, I concluded the same some time ago when I saw it being sold en masse in major retailers in the US. Most of these brands now seem synonymous with some status/lifestyle statement.
I bought a NF jacket thinking it would be something that could last me a good 5+ years. The inner padding around the collar just desintegrated after a few weeks and looks like a white plastic band. The outer shell…
I've been meaning to read that biography. if anything for its notes about Johnny von Neumann, who strangely doesn't have a biography of his own. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mathematician-S-M-Ulam/dp/...
what i use: *.facebook.com:443 note that this may cause delays with whatsapp in sending/receiving messages. it also sometimes delays placing/receiving calls. you can temporarily disable noRootFirewall for critical…
>United States control of the Philippines was never intended to be permanent. From the beginning, the colonial mission was seen as one of paternalistic "tutelage" That snippet sounds a little self-serving, "we're just a…
We used that book for a course and I found it among my less favourite ones. its been a few years since I used it, but I remember it shallow and uninspiring. not trying to start an argument here, maybe just an outlier…
>I have my doubts there will be cushy FAANG jobs for everyone capable of playing around with network architectures in a few years. Presumably because technical needs of FAANG might be moving in other directions. Could…
pg tips used to sell a tea that came in a brown/oragne box. It was rich and tasty but somehow they discontinued it. Lipton and many teas in the US taste of cardboard. It baffles me how people find anything in it to keep…
not everyone is in the same mindset, no need to be a jerk about it.
A comment that points out a possible marketing campaign followed by a response that questions the comment while casually dropping the brand name and model of a product. That response seems marketing campaign.
I was just debating about this book and read not so favorable reviews about it. can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (book) specially the past about going through the stargate?
I was just debating about this book and read some not so favorable goodreads reviews about it. Can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (the book) specially the part about going through the stargate?
this is a little dense, but the preface has a nice statement on neurobiology, and wikipedia has some interesting articles on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. I suppose I'm looking for a popsci book on how computer…
> This has been known in the advertising world since the 50s Any reference from the 50s? Also, anyone care to recommend modern references that go into these topics? (David Ogilvy comes to mind but that's from the 60s).
Whats most impressive is the brain's ability to absorb that much information at such speed. Somehow I was able to discern the numbers 120 and 450 in that snippet, but not the rest. I suppose with years of practice this…
It was bought at a well known North Face store. Unless they received a batch of fake ones which seems less plausible.
Absolutely, I concluded the same some time ago when I saw it being sold en masse in major retailers in the US. Most of these brands now seem synonymous with some status/lifestyle statement.
I bought a NF jacket thinking it would be something that could last me a good 5+ years. The inner padding around the collar just desintegrated after a few weeks and looks like a white plastic band. The outer shell…
I've been meaning to read that biography. if anything for its notes about Johnny von Neumann, who strangely doesn't have a biography of his own. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mathematician-S-M-Ulam/dp/...
what i use: *.facebook.com:443 note that this may cause delays with whatsapp in sending/receiving messages. it also sometimes delays placing/receiving calls. you can temporarily disable noRootFirewall for critical…
>United States control of the Philippines was never intended to be permanent. From the beginning, the colonial mission was seen as one of paternalistic "tutelage" That snippet sounds a little self-serving, "we're just a…
We used that book for a course and I found it among my less favourite ones. its been a few years since I used it, but I remember it shallow and uninspiring. not trying to start an argument here, maybe just an outlier…
>I have my doubts there will be cushy FAANG jobs for everyone capable of playing around with network architectures in a few years. Presumably because technical needs of FAANG might be moving in other directions. Could…
pg tips used to sell a tea that came in a brown/oragne box. It was rich and tasty but somehow they discontinued it. Lipton and many teas in the US taste of cardboard. It baffles me how people find anything in it to keep…
not everyone is in the same mindset, no need to be a jerk about it.
A comment that points out a possible marketing campaign followed by a response that questions the comment while casually dropping the brand name and model of a product. That response seems marketing campaign.
I was just debating about this book and read not so favorable reviews about it. can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (book) specially the past about going through the stargate?
I was just debating about this book and read some not so favorable goodreads reviews about it. Can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (the book) specially the part about going through the stargate?