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Embarrassment can make you a better designer

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by on July 12, 2018 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, syndication, Tools & Skills


The human brain is a formidable machine. Get yourself doing the same task over-and-over-and-over, and your brain will start shaping itself around that task. If you’re an interface designer, chances are you’ll build a special eye for type sizes, alignment, color tones. If you’re focused in UX, your brain will likely be stronger in skills like systematic thinking, flow definition, hierarchy, and consistency. The same applies for spotting errors. The evolution of thoroughness As you start your design career, finding mistakes and inconsistencies is a fun little exercise you do every now and then. It’s exciting. Each pixel off, you’re able…

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AI can kick your ass at all these games

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by on July 12, 2018 at 3:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, gaming, syndication


Since the inception of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, we’ve been trying to find ways to measure progress in the field of AI. For many, the golden criteria for AI the Turing Test, an evaluation of whether a computer can exhibit human behavior. But the Turing Test only defines whether AI can fool humans, not compete with them, and it’s very hard to say how deep the Test goes. A much better arena to test the extent of AI’s intelligence, many scientists believe, are games, domains where contestants can measure and compare their success and clearly determine which one performs better.…

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Apple unveils underwhelming MacBook Pro update

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by on July 12, 2018 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


As we suspected, Apple has announced an update of its two priciest MacBook Pros: the 13-inch and 15-inch laptops with Touch Bars. This move is basically a spec bump with no major or groundbreaking developments, but there are a few nice touches sprinkled in. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is getting a 6-core, 8th generation Intel Core processor, while the 13-inch version now has a quad-core from the same manufacturer. They now also include support for 32GB of system memory and a 4TB SSD. If you have the cash of course, as upgrading to that SSD will put an extra $3,200 on…

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Here’s why Bitcoin’s blockchain has blocks that go over the 2MB limit

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by on July 12, 2018 at 2:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


When you really try to nail down what makes a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin really Bitcoin, the more technical you get, the closer you get to discussing block size. A block is really a set of data, and for Bitcoin they’re mostly related to transactions. Bitcoin miners are really in the business of adding blocks of information about transactions to a database known as a public ledger. In the end, that public ledger is really just a series of blocks that have been chained together to provide a complete and demonstrated history of transactions. They’re only every really ‘processed’ when the blocks…

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