Philosony: Yea, though I walk through the uncanny valley... (1)
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Filed under: Rants I wrote a few weeks back about the uncanny valley and Hideo Kojima's possibly telling observation that war machines of the future may exploit the creepiness of robotic simulations to instill fear in their prey. I want to turn my attention now to a discussion of the valley as it applies more directly to us as gamers - overcoming the creepiness of computer generated people. Quantic Dream has already boasted of successfully ...
Seeing the Invisible (1)
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I rarely treat myself to fiction due to the pile of business books looming on my desk. But this summer I read People Magazine’s must-read fiction book of the summer called The Shack. Toward the end of the book there’s a scene where the main character is introduced to what it might look like if you could see each other truly. What if you could see each individual’s personality and emotions as color and light? ...
Video: Ganzbot reads Twitter feeds aloud (11)
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Filed under: Robots We've seen methods for hooking house plants up with their own Twitter account, but there's hardly anything more satisfying that building a robot to read back all those feeds from the thousands of people you're undoubtedly following. Ganzbot is a decidedly low-budget robot that relies on an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and a USB cable to receive up-to-date status information. Have a look at the innards as well as ...
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On Potentiality, #1 (1)
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I have a childhood friend who is just a tiny bit younger than me but always so much younger, her skin never showing her age, her cheek marked with a birthmark so Hawthornian it seemed impossible ever to finish looking at her, my eye caught forever in the optimism of her incompleteness. She always had her face tilted up toward the sun. Yet she had also contracted the illness destined mainly for men in my ...
Compulsion (2)
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Back from a fantastic week and a bit in Mexico I’m slowly catching up on things. I liked Marek’s piece about compulsion. I don’t like the idea of ‘compulsion’ per se, but acknowledgment of the emotional elements at play is nice. “The iPhone is a great example of how to move from capability and compulsion. There are already tens of millions of users out there equipped with Windows Mobile smartphones and high-end products from Samsung, ...
Selective Apathy Frees You to Care More - Stepcase Lifehack (4)
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Photo courtesy of Libby What do you think of this phrase: “The Joy of Apathy”? It sounds like such a clashing contradiction: how can joy, which is associated with happiness and passion, be found in the opposite stoicism of apathy? While joy and apathy certainly aren’t the same, they often work together and are complementary, as we’ll see. Every one of us has a capacity to care and be happy. That’s good, and is a ...
Selective Apathy Frees You to Care More (1)
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Photo courtesy of Libby What do you think of this phrase: “The Joy of Apathy”? It sounds like such a clashing contradiction: how can joy, which is associated with happiness and passion, be found in the opposite stoicism of apathy? While joy and apathy certainly aren’t the same, they often work together and are complementary, as we’ll see. Every one of us has a capacity to care and be happy. That’s good, and is a ...
Handling Painbody Attacks (1)
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Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher who emphasizes practices such as being Present in the Now moment teaches about an energetic ‘parasite’ within us called the painbody. The painbody is essentially a very active ego running in full force, seemingly overtaking us with emotion, pain, and resistance. The painbody basically feeds off of ego juice like misery, sadness, anger, superiority, inferiority, and so on. Typically the active painbody needs to run its course and play itself ...
Thinking like an editor (1)
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I’m a realist. Long ago I abandoned my dream of becoming a writer/director. It was around the time I realized I couldn’t pen a single sentence of meaningful dialogue or instruct an actor with any degree of confidence. Sometimes it’s best to be honest with yourself. But one thing I found myself drawn to in editing was how you could manipulate images and sounds to construct a perceived reality that was almost totally different from ...
Once More With Feeling - Putting Emotion Into Singing (1)
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Here's an article I wrote recently for an articles submission company. It's aimed at tribute band singers, karaoke singers and anyone who wants to sound like their favorite recording artist.It's also aimed at those who think (or have been told) that they need more emotion or commitment in their performing.---------------------Let's talk emotion. There are three major elements that make most people chose their favorite singer or recording artist1. the sound2. the song hook (the catchy ...
Minds Are Tricky Things — Part II (1)
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In a fit of recursion, I am going to begin my discussion of the scientific understanding of the mind by bringing up a piece of psychology research into how people perceive neuro-imaging. This not only gives a taste of what different types of research can be like, but reveals something rather disturbing: merely adding a brain scan image or two makes people more likely to rate an article as scientifically sound. This gets us into ...
用minimise me生成MSN Messenger头像 (2)
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在这个博客刚开始不久，还在用英文写博客的时候，我介绍了一个由MSN中国推出的在线生成卡通头像的服务MSN Cartoon。使用这个这个服务上传自己的照片，然后经过简单的几个步骤，便可以生成一套共15枚头像。这套惟妙惟肖的头像可以用在IM聊天工具，论坛头像以及博客评论的Gravatarz中。不过，这项服务只针对中文用户推出，并没有其他语言版本。 今天给大家带来另一款由MSN推出的在线生成头像的工具minimise me，这是一个专门为MSN Messenger而推出的头像生成服务。 与MSN Cartoon不同，minimise me并不是由用户上传照片然后生成卡通头像，而是让用户自己选择头像的各部分如脸型，发型，眼睛，嘴巴，配饰等等，然后DIY一个大脸头像。不用注册就可以使用，非常简单。 如果你想从零开始DIY头像，那么在首页选择『Create a character』，那么你可以在操作面板上一步一步从脸型到配饰，拼凑一个头像。下面是Chada拼凑出来的，感觉和自己有点像哈。 同时，也可以选择『Celebrity gallery』进入现有的头像库里，选择喜欢的下载或者是重新编辑。 在DIY头像完成以后，点击右上角的『download』，系统会生成一个『MSNMinimiseMeSetup.exe』文件下载到你的本地计算机。在启动MSN Messenger的情况下，双击该文件，便会将你DIY出来的头像导入到Messenger中，同时，你的表情图释中也会添加四枚表情图释。 如果你想把照片卡通化而不仅仅是卡通化或DIY一枚头像，网上有很多这类型的工具，这里推荐一个我曾经介绍过的Befunky，非常方便和简单。 相关日志MSN Cartoon:Create a cartoon emotion with your photo (3)Simply Google:实用的Google减肥版 (11)Flashearth：地图8合1全球尽揽眼底 (5)
用minimise me生成MSN Messenger头像 (1)
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在这个博客刚开始不久，还在用英文写博客的时候，我介绍了一个由MSN中国推出的在线生成卡通头像的服务MSN Cartoon。使用这个这个服务上传自己的照片，然后经过简单的几个步骤，便可以生成一套共15枚头像。这套惟妙惟肖的头像可以用在IM聊天工具，论坛头像以及博客评论的Gravatarz中。不过，这项服务只针对中文用户推出，并没有其他语言版本。 今天给大家带来另一款由MSN推出的在线生成头像的工具minimise me，这是一个专门为MSN Messenger而推出的头像生成服务。 与MSN Cartoon不同，minimise me并不是由用户上传照片然后生成卡通头像，而是让用户自己选择头像的各部分如脸型，发型，眼睛，嘴巴，配饰等等，然后DIY一个大脸头像。不用注册就可以使用，非常简单。 如果你想从零开始DIY头像，那么在首页选择『Create a character』，那么你可以在操作面板上一步一步从脸型到配饰，拼凑一个头像。下面是Chada拼凑出来的，感觉和自己有点像哈。 同时，也可以选择『Celebrity gallery』进入现有的头像库里，选择喜欢的下载或者是重新编辑。 在DIY头像完成以后，点击右上角的『download』，系统会生成一个『MSNMinimiseMeSetup.exe』文件下载到你的本地计算机。在启动MSN Messenger的情况下，双击该文件，便会将你DIY出来的头像导入到Messenger中，同时，你的表情图释中也会添加四枚表情图释。 如果你想把照片卡通化而不仅仅是卡通化或DIY一枚头像，网上有很多这类型的工具，这里推荐一个我曾经介绍过的Befunky，非常方便和简单。 相关日志MSN Cartoon:Create a cartoon emotion with your photo (3)Simply Google:实用的Google减肥版 (11)Flashearth：地图8合1全球尽揽眼底 (5)
用minimise me生成MSN Messenger头像 (1)
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在这个博客刚开始不久，还在用英文写博客的时候，我介绍了一个由MSN中国推出的在线生成卡通头像的服务MSN Cartoon。使用这个这个服务上传自己的照片，然后经过简单的几个步骤，便可以生成一套共15枚头像。这套惟妙惟肖的头像可以用在IM聊天工具，论坛头像以及博客评论的Gravatarz中。不过，这项服务只针对中文用户推出，并没有其他语言版本。 今天给大家带来另一款由MSN推出的在线生成头像的工具minimise me，这是一个专门为MSN Messenger而推出的头像生成服务。 与MSN Cartoon不同，minimise me并不是由用户上传照片然后生成卡通头像，而是让用户自己选择头像的各部分如脸型，发型，眼睛，嘴巴，配饰等等，然后DIY一个大脸头像。不用注册就可以使用，非常简单。 如果你想从零开始DIY头像，那么在首页选择『Create a character』，那么你可以在操作面板上一步一步从脸型到配饰，拼凑一个头像。下面是Chada拼凑出来的，感觉和自己有点像哈。 同时，也可以选择『Celebrity gallery』进入现有的头像库里，选择喜欢的下载或者是重新编辑。 在DIY头像完成以后，点击右上角的『download』，系统会生成一个『MSNMinimiseMeSetup.exe』文件下载到你的本地计算机。在启动MSN Messenger的情况下，双击该文件，便会将你DIY出来的头像导入到Messenger中，同时，你的表情图释中也会添加四枚表情图释。 如果你想把照片卡通化而不仅仅是卡通化或DIY一枚头像，网上有很多这类型的工具，这里推荐一个我曾经介绍过的Befunky，非常方便和简单。 相关日志MSN Cartoon:Create a cartoon emotion with your photo (3)Simply Google:实用的Google减肥版 (11)Flashearth：地图8合1全球尽揽眼底 (5)
Emotional robot has empathy, understands your frustration (5)
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Filed under: RobotsNot that robots with emotions are anything new, but a project going on in Europe could perfect the art of crafting mechanical people that can "learn when a person is sad, happy or angry." The Feelix Growing project is getting even more advanced with software that gives robots the power to understand how a person is feeling based on feedback from cameras and sensors. The bots look at a human's facial expression and ...
Deconstructing The Girl Effect (7)
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[Via a friend at McKinney] If you want some practice at making ideas stickier, I have a great case study for you. Rope aside 30 minutes and follow along with the process below. It concerns the work of a group called The Girl Effect. Here’s the game plan: 1. Start here. It’s a pdf document with statistics demonstrating the value of investing in girls in the developing world. (For example: “When women and girls earn ...
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Lorenzo said:
How to make an idea stick.
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The Heath boys as bloggers are even better than their book. Is that even possible?
Experiencing Emotional Roller Coasters Once You Begin Meditating (1)
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Meditation is often considered linked to ideas such as peace, stillness, happiness, freedom, and joy. People who begin meditating may certainly experience these states during meditation, especially later on down the line, but many times what they experience is the exact opposite, both during meditation as well as in day-to-day life. It is very common for meditators to begin to experience emotional roller coasters and so understanding what’s going on behind the scenes can really ...
The birth of the terrorist fist-jab (3)
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It’s hard to track a sleazy idea to its source. For instance, who started the rumor that Snapple supports the KKK, or that Hilfiger is a racist? We’ll probably never know. But, thanks to a mea culpa in Slate, we can now trace one bad (but sticky) idea to its origin. Remember the notion, now widely mocked, that Barack and Michelle Obama’s fist-bump was a terrorist gesture? In this funny piece, Christopher Beam admits fault: ...
A Girl Like Me (2)
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I recently did a workshop with a group that’s working to remind people that racism still exists in America and must be actively fought. They pointed out that many people have, in a sense, declared victory on race — after all, haven’t the racist elements of the law been expunged? Haven’t most of the overtly cruel acts of racism stopped? Don’t we have a frontrunner for President who is black? Yes to all, but as ...
Präsentationstechnik 2.0 (1)
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Wenn Sie regelmäßige/r Leser/in dieses Blogs sind, wissen Sie, dass ich hier immer wieder moderne, zeitgemäße Präsentationsformen, -techniken und -erlebnisse propagiere. Oliver Adria hat mich auf eine Präsentation aufmerksam gemacht, die auch in diese Kategorie der “Präsentationstechnik 2.0″ fällt: Die Kernaussagen: Schieben Sie alte Gewohnheiten bei Seite. Trauen Sie sich, Präsentationen mal “ganz anders” aufzubauen. Jede Präsentation sollte eine zentrale Kernaussage haben. Nehmen Sie sich die Zeit, diesen zentralen Punkt auch wirklich zu finden und ...
