Re: [silk] Easily forgotten phrases

2014-03-01 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem Hasselblad? Ambergris? One learns all the time! And you forget Tabasco? What's the false positive your mind turns

Re: [silk] Easily forgotten phrases

2014-03-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: Mine would have (in addition to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the name of which I keep forgetting): I suspect both of us think that our knowledge of this phenomenon is higher than it actually is. Udhay -- ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Easily forgotten phrases

2014-03-01 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
I see what you did there, Udhay. On 2 March 2014 08:12, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: Mine would have (in addition to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the name of which I keep forgetting): I suspect both

[silk] A new buzzphrase: procedural content creation

2014-03-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Very interesting - the new frontier of 'content' creation. Herewith the most high profile example so far. http://www.speedtree.com/avatar/ Rarely has a movie studio been under more pressure to get the vegetation right. It was late spring in 2009, and Industrial Light Magic (ILM) had just been