http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives.
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
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The “freestyle” result, though startling, fits with my belief that talent is a misused term and a misunderstood concept. The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know about my diet, my personal life, how many moves ahead I saw, and how many games I held in my memory.
Megerkezett a Nikon D90+18-200-t levalto kombinacio: Olympus E-PL1 + 14-150
A lenyeg: az E-PL1 + 14-150 egyutt konnyebb mint a Nikon 18-200 onmagaban.
The thing that many people may not understand initially is that these bugs arenot “steady all the time” as you put it. I literally spends hours and hours each day photographing bugs, and I often get nothing at all. I took 182 photos of just one spider recently over a period of about 4 hours - and I maybe got less than 10 good photos of him.
There is no trickery involved in my photography - just extreme patience and perseverance. I have to understand the behaviour of the arthropods, how to approach them, how they will react to the flash etc, etc…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/tags/macro/
Movie: District 9 (4.9/5)
Loved it!
Good+strong story, great visuals. Humans are humans (greedy, beastly, arrogant, naive), aliens are not too aliens, but it doesn’t really matter, their purpose is to be different, the story concentrates on the human reaction.
Not 5 star because I almost got sick watching it. The camera is shaking like crazy, which I guess is part of the documentary style, but I hate it (ruined Public Enemies too).
