Nikon D7000 Review by Thom Hogan
Time for the rubber to meet the road (okay, the photons to meet the electronics). Since so many things have changed internally from the D90 there must be some differences, right? You bet your sweet bippy there are. Battery Life New battery, new performance figures. Fortunately, good performance figures. The one drawback to the new battery system is that it isn't exactly a fast charging system. Writing to Card I'm still trying to get a full handle on card performance in the D7000. Raw shooters will not be terribly happy with the buffer size. Autofocus System Surprise, surprise. Mirror up, well, that's another story. Metering System Another surprise. I've noticed a bit of chatter on the net about "overexposure." The corollary is that if you pop up the flash for some fill, the D7000 seems to get that exposure just a little more on target than previous consumer cameras. However, all isn't perfect. White balance is decent to good, especially in mixed lighting. So let me say this: chillax.
Confirmation Bias
The Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis. The Truth: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information which confirmed what you believed while ignoring information which challenged your preconceived notions. Have you ever had a conversation in which some old movie was mentioned, something like “The Golden Child” or maybe even something more obscure? You laughed about it, quoted lines from it, wondered what happened to the actors you never saw again, and then you forgot about it. Until… You are flipping channels one night and all of the sudden you see “The Golden Child” is playing. What is happening here? Since the party and the conversation where you and your friends took turns saying “I-ah-I-ah-I want the kniiiife” you’ve flipped channels plenty of times; you’ve walked past lots of billboards; you’ve seen dozens of stories about celebrities; you’ve been exposed to a handful of movie trailers. “Be careful. Sources:
Synchronicity
Synchronicity is the occurrence of two or more events that appear to be meaningfully related but not causally related. Synchronicity holds that such events are "meaningful coincidences". The concept of synchronicity was first defined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, in the 1920s.[1] During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it.[2] Jung variously defined synchronicity as an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle," "meaningful coincidence," and "acausal parallelism." He introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture.[3] In 1952, he published a paper "Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge" (Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle)[4] in a volume which also contained a related study by the physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli.[5] In his book Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, Jung wrote:[6] Description[edit] Examples[edit] Criticisms[edit]
Dan Ariely on How and Why We Cheat - Farnam Street
We all like to think of ourselves as honest, but there are inevitably certain situations in which we’re more likely to cheat. There are many things that make us less honest, like feeling disconnected from the consequences and when our willpower is depleted. Learning why we cheat can help us avoid incentivizing it. Three years ago, Dan Ariely, a psychology and behavioral economics professor at Duke, put out a book called The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves. I read the book back closer to when it was released, and I recently revisited it to see how it held up to my initial impressions. It was even better. We’re Cheaters All Dan is both an astute researcher and a good writer; he knows how to get to the point, and his points matter. In The Honest Truth, Ariely doesn’t just explore where cheating comes from but he digs into which situations make us more likely to cheat than others. Cheating was standard, but only a little.
15 Free Sites to Download Vector Graphics
A free collection of PSD files was published recently, and so vector graphics would feel left out if we don’t publish a post about them. So here’s a list of 15 great and Completely Free vector graphic resources, and you don’t even have to sign-up for downloading data from these websites. These websites enable you to download vector graphics and vector art for desktop publishing and graphic designing. These free graphics reduce a designer’s work to half, or even less. They are a great help to boost creativity. You might also like to view : Superb Free Vector Sets for Designers All website names are linked to the sources, to visit any, just click its name. Free Christmas Vector A vector download directory only for Christmas and holiday season. Vector Open Stock An absolutely free site to find vector file packs. Free Vector Download Absolutely free, registration free. Vector Art Box Mostly only AI (Adobe Illustrator) files. Vecteezy A vector graphics search engine. Vector 4 Free DragonArtz Designs
confirmation bias
Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs. For example, if you believe that during a full moon there is an increase in admissions to the emergency room where you work, you will take notice of admissions during a full moon, but be inattentive to the moon when admissions occur during other nights of the month. A tendency to do this over time unjustifiably strengthens your belief in the relationship between the full moon and accidents and other lunar effects. This tendency to give more attention and weight to data that support our beliefs than we do to contrary data is especially pernicious when our beliefs are little more than prejudices. Numerous studies have demonstrated that people generally give an excessive amount of value to confirmatory information, that is, to positive or supportive data. reader comments
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Filter bubble
Intellectual isolation involving search engines The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser, circa 2010. A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolation[1] that can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior, and search history.[2] As a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles.[3] The choices made by these algorithms are only sometimes transparent.[4] Prime examples include Google Personalized Search results and Facebook's personalized news-stream. Technology such as social media “lets you go off with like-minded people, so you're not mixing and sharing and understanding other points of view ... Concept[edit] Many people are unaware that filter bubbles even exist. [edit]
