5 month ago
Linkorama : Vygotsky's Theories - "Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to volu
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Linkorama : Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE - It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we a
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18 month ago
Eric Meyer : Amusing - Or: speed is in the eye of the beholder.
43folders : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Amusing - "I say this because the preference in question is dead and does absolutely nothing in Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0."
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20 month ago
43folders : Cognitive load - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "the level of effort associated with thinking and reasoning"
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23 month ago
43folders : Marketplace: Why do we make bad money decisions? - "And what they've found in these experiments is that the people with what we would normally regard as brain damage make more rational and sensible choices."
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merlinmann : Presentation Zen: From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting? - "Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning."
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Tags and Cognitive Load - One of the criticisms of tags is that they are 'just keywords again', which is true. The key difference is that they are experienced differently by the users, in a way that imposes much less cognitive load.
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