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Sorry for asking but is there any reason why you don't just use a different color theme for VS Code?
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I remember reading about something related to perception (however unrelated to group dynamics) called "Wundt curve", an attempt to describe the relationship between the intensity/novelty of a stimulus and its perceived "hedonic value" (roughly its pleasantness) [1]. I read (in the references here [2]) that the original source for this result dates back to 1874: "Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie" (Main Features of Physiological Psychology) by Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt [3]. However, I could not find it in there from a quick look at the archive.org scans [4], so this might be wrong.

BTW, the first paragraph of Wundt's wikipedia entry was pretty surprising to me: 'Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt {...} was a physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, at University of Leipzig, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research. This marked psychology as an independent field of study. By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other disciplines. He also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the Institute's research.'

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Wundt-Curve-1874-lef...

[2] https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/6575/volumes/v13/NA-13

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt

[3] https://archive.org/details/grundzgederphys15wundgoog/page/n...

also somewhat related: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03212593.pdf

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm guessing to easily refer to the parent company (not sure if these collections are still called companies, english is not my native language). Instead of GOOG one could probably use Alphabet but differentiating between Facebook and FACEBOOK might be a bit confusing and for Amazon that might just be to be consistent with the rest of the article.
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Also funny how they link to https://usability.yale.edu/web-accessibility/accessibility-y... at the bottom of the page, but the link itself is almost unreadable because it's small, orange font on top of grey. Not arguing the page itself needs better accessibility - it's art after all.
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I think there might be a point where recommendation algorithms kind of 'overfit'/become a filter bubble. I remember reading a article about the youtube recommendation algorithm led to increasingly more radical videos until you end up on 'that weird side' of youtube (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...). Depends entirely on what metric you are trying to opimize, I guess. With youtube is probably something like "time spent on the site". If you want non-sensational content instead you should probably read papers on arxiv or something.
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, point cloud renderers are a real thing. There are open source libraries that let you explore millions of points in your browser: http://potree.org/. I even saw a demo (http://nurulize.com/) showcasing animations but I think the main problem with point clouds is that there is no good solution for physics/lighting yet.
Comment · 8 years ago
I would love to see a PWA.. In my experience those work (a lot) better than their native counterparts. Some good examples are mobile.twitter.com, instagram.com and maps.google.com
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