π£ New! Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230 (html)
https://is.gd/beyond_singlemindedness_pdf (pdf)
Writing as a transdisciplinary collective from across the cognitive sciences and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a Gestalt switch that puts interaction at the heart of cognition
Fedi authors include: @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg @saulalbert @abebab @cdutilhnovaes @fusaroli @davidschlangen @LizStokoe
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Gotta love this. New Year's eve fireworks in Scarborough, England were canceled last night so as not to disturb an Arctic walrus named Thor. He's resting, you see. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/yorkshire-walrus-thor-walrus-from-the-arctic-is-spotted-in-scarborough-for-the-first-time-in-living-memory-3970578
Oh, and happy new year.
Yesterday I got to do a segment on KIRO 7 news (local to Seattle) about #ChatGPT and took the opportunity to try to push back on the #AIhype
Sorry, @alex there wasn't a good moment to say #MathyMath ...
One thing nearly every #OpenSource project needs help with is #documentation
Emily Ormier interviewed @bmac, Manager of Technical Editing at Digital Ocean, who provided pragmatic advice about how to make your project's docs better:
Brian MacDonald, Manager of Technical Editing at DigitalOcean joins me to discuss the importance of writing efficient documentation for any product. In this episode, Brian and I chat about his talk at All Things Open entitled Verbs Not Nouns and covering the importance of writing documentat
Nieuwe mensen op mastodon be like:
Ik leid een stil leven,
alle aanloop ontwend.
Waar is iedereen gebleven
die ik nooit heb gekend?
- LΓ©vi Weemoedt -
Also looks like someone at the UK's Royal Astronomical Society set up a Mastodon account and is crafting custom posts for it, but it only has ~300 followers compared with their >50K on Twitter:
I see this all too often -- major public/nonprofit organizations set up shop here, but don't know how to best cross-link/promote it, so the accounts get kind of lost. If you care about #astronomy & like their work, give them a boost or follow :)
Bubbles, a 32 year old African elephant, plays in the river with his best friend Bella a 3 year old labrador in Myrtle Beach Safari, South Carolina.
Photographer Barry Bland
Mark Dingemanse
Nate Cull (.social)
Eirliani A Rahman
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
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Erik Moeller
Mr. Tengu πΊ
Eugène Franken