Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "TED" channel.

  1. i disagree. i think this guy is biased because he's been a cartoonist for so long. "if all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" comes to mind. this should be something that a few slides with good diagrams and text can fix. slides can even be printed out with a similar format. the problem with comics is that it has to be a story. which takes away from the clarity of purely the information. it's hard to use a story as a reference afterwards. from adding spatial effects to his video lectures (distractions) and bored students, i get the feeling he needs to focus on the clarity of his lectures and that their too long. let students be blown away by how short and simple they are
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  2. +Best of Adam and Dr Drew i don't think that the woman in the video is asking as much for positive association as she is asking for an equally positive association. she is fixating more on the problems of racism that her race faces, than just her race. "racism is actually very uncommon" don't make me laugh. i think you are showing your true colors. you seem all to eager to shoot down the video
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  3. exactly
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  4. too many assumptions
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  5. +Chris Seltzer i agree that she could have picked better example. those were rather shaky/questionable. but the video did have a good message about subconscious biases
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  6. he's a quack
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  7. Maddie Patty slides can do the same without the unnecessary baggage of having it in a story format
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  8. Maddie Patty at that point the line between a comic frame and a slide becomes very blurry. i think the strength of a comic is to quickly tell a short story as an example with humor. a few comics here and there would be fine (you often see this in slides). but i wouldn't want the whole lesson to be one big story
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  9. Searle seems more optimistic about consciousness in this talk, than i'm used to from him.
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  10. what's with all the quotes attributed to the wrong people?
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  11. that's circular reasoning. you presuppose that there have to be consequences ( patents ).
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  12. it may not be physical force. i think it's simply considered so normal that not doing it would invite ridicule and a lot of attention. (it's not that black and white)
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  13. i think it's all fine here. what else is there talk about? but it would be nice if people could make threads here that have topics, like on the imdb website
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  14. i disagree with you. what obvious facts? here's a fact: he didn't publish his ideas with a peer reviewed journal
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  15. she makes good points. choosing is hard
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  16. another thought. patents don't seem to prevent anyone from having a monopoly. they actually do the opposite.
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  17. are you suggesting that Islam does not mention anything about women covering their bodies?
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  18. omg wtf!
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  19. you are suggesting that the social pressure of wearing a head-scarf is independent of religion. obviously you are mistaking. this social norm didn't just appear out of thin air. by rejecting these social norms that are based on islam, she is standing up to "god". there is also irony in her standing there in a head-scarf, saying what she dared. (it leaves a bad taste in my mouth)
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  20. although it's cool. it's using existing senses. "create new senses" is a bit of a stretch
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  21. @jjmm112 i don't think the "man box" idea is only obtained to you're upbringing. your upbringing is not the only time you "learn" how to behave.
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  22. not a very enlightning talk. but i'm very impressed by the way he does not make any mistakes when he speaks. no "um"'s and he doesn't have correct himself at any point.
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  23. Maddie Patty lol, yes i recognize it. thanks, i respect yours too. i don't think our opinions are necessarily that different. i think the confusion came mostly from the many possible assumptions people can make about whether the guy has tried using slides and if he was also handing them out or what a comic means to him (he's not very specific). the comic format probably forces him to be really short. despite my criticism i do like his enthusiasm
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  24.  @karolarch  i don't understand where you see Pot calling the kettle. are you comparing the length of my comment to the length i say it takes to express something as a comic? i agree in the general sense with what you say, but i don't think it requires comics. in the same sense that visualizations can be beautiful, emotional etc, without being in a comic. you can also see the example he provides is of a teacher giving a comic assignment for a novel. this seems more appealing to those into literature and perhaps art. for those students that are not into these subjects or just not into comics, it could detract from other subjects by now having to see comics there too. at which point it turns into an unpleasant distraction. i think that inspiration comes from building on ideas of the subject. and depends on the kind profound insights the teacher can provide. i think that comics specifically are not required or that great for that, and is just an idea that the presenter has latched onto
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  25.  @karolarch  you did not really mention a tailored approach until now. if comics are used only when they can be tailored to the student, then of course they can be useful. tailored education is pretty much always better. yes a tailored approach probably won't scale that well. maybe AI can provide in that at some point. who knows. but, as i was talking about the general case, i do think that methods i've learned work better there than comics. i'm a HUGE proponent of recording lessons, which i think is being done far too little. hardly ever having them, has been an obstacle for me. and recordings don't even exclude comics. so i'm not that attached to methods i've learned, and accept others easily, if they are more effective. it seems that we are talking past one another.
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  26. i thought it was an okay talk until he contaminated it by starting to talk about money. what the hell does money have to do with simplicity. very narrow...
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  27. @locusSol i completely agree that he hasn't gone far enough. there is a lack of how this could be used in the real world. for me it just looks like he is trying to brute force his way to model the universe. i'm not really blown away. he didn't really connect with the audience. i was expecting a more down to earth explanation after having read some of his book "a new kind of science", but i must say i'm rather disappointed.
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  28. you should be more honest and admit that religion is pretty much the cause. women are forced to wear head scarfs. this creates a gender imbalance which rears it's head in politics. (it's all connected)
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  29. or forgotten quotation marks
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  30. i agree with you that it's probably the only "justified" way in this economy, but it's still flawed reasoning in general. maybe i'm a dreamer like the people in "zeitgeist: moving forward (2011)"
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  31. Aviri Char i was not confused about that. there are several typical differences between comics and slides. a typical difference is that comics tell a story. when we start taking away such typical differences then it becomes blurry. i don't consider slides being on the screen and a comic being on paper typically, to be a significant difference. because things on a screen can typically printed out and vice versa with a scanner. at which point, that difference disappears. assuming of course that the presenter has access to these devices. i agree that a teacher controls the flow in a presentation, more than with something static. that's why i was careful not to mention presentations
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  32. Aviri Char it's not a repeat. you and me are having a different discussion than i was having with Maddie Patty. you started a new discussion about presentations and the media for slides and comics. i didn't agree with you fully. just because i said that the difference between something on paper and on the a screen is negligible does not mean that, i consider this the biggest difference like you do. more specifically, to me slides do not become a comic when put on a page nor does a comic become slides when put on a screen. unfortunately you seem to be the one confused. you're making too many assumptions
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  33. Aviri Char starting from your first comment you have been patronizing. and if that wasn't bad enough, you're simply wrong too. it seems like you desperately want me to be confused, about something i'm not confused about. don't be that guy that holds onto mistaken assumptions
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  34. Aviri Char can you point out where i was behaving and thinking like a child?
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  35. Aviri Char very unconvincing. you're making too many assumptions and also some problematic statements. for example, if i agree with something then i'm faking/pretending and if i don't agree then i'm being stubbornly clinging. it seems like you have already closed your mind
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  36. Aviri Char do you understand the problem i was pointing out with my example?
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  37. Aviri Char it's a simple yes or no question. i can't tell if you understand. that's why i'm asking
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  38. Aviri Char how convenient for you
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  39. Aviri Char it's convenient because you can immediately shut down any discussion, by declaring that it's too obvious for you to answer. anyone can declare this, but not anyone can demonstrate this. this is simply being intellectually dishonest. i want no part of the notion of awareness you have demonstrated. i would even say you lack awareness. your ego is in the way
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  40. Avari Char unlike you, Maddie Patty actually engaged me in discussion. people can't read your mind and you refuse to explain your strange conclusions. this actually shuts down communication
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  41. Aviri Char you didn't call me out. because you stopped engaging. i actually called you out and you didn't respond
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  42. Aviri Char to me, this is what acting and thinking like a child looks like. you have nothing, that's why you resort to name calling
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  43. Aviri Char you're projecting
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  44. Aviri Char again you are writing messages, but saying nothing. learn to communicate your thoughts and i will consider responding
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  45. it's true that he didn't say much this time. lookup his chinese room argument, that's probably his most important point.
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  46. short and sweet
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  47. that's your misunderstanding. there is no expectation for everyone to be dressed like a nun. this is not the case with hajibs.
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  48. maybe you are an independent woman, but that does not mean you can't be wrong about other things. a head scarf is not just any appearance, it has a meaning. to me it symbolizes oppression. you may be successful but that does not automatically mean that you are not oppressed. - you never said why you wanted to wear one: is it because everyone else does? - can you explain that men don't have to cover themselves? - let me ask you: when did you choose to be a Muslim?
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  49. yes, islam telling people what to do. it tells women to cover themselves. so there is no point in denying that it is the reason why women are forced to wear head-scarfs and men don't have to. telling people that there will be consequences if they don't do as they are told, is also a kind of force.
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  50. i'm not saying that you demanded this
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  51. @jjmm112 yes i went through 12 comment pages to reply to you. well but atleast i was not the one counting.
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  52. pathetic reply
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  53. this was a shorter talk, but it was surprisingly good. he's so right. trying to argue with him only further proves his point...
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  54. islam wants this, and there are expectations. to me this is a kind of force. you are talking on their behalf yourself.
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  55. none of the people you named started completely from scratch. and that's pretty much what patents are trying to do. they had trainers to learn from. heck even their sports wasn't their creation.
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  56. lol "communist" isn't that a little presumptuous? it's not that black and white
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  57. you don't want to understand my definition of "force". social pressures are usually invisible. Islam is not saying you can do whatever you want, otherwise there would be no point. it's telling people what they should do. this is enough to creates this pressure just because i ask someone does not mean they will tell the truth. for religious people it seems it's easier to simply deny everything, than look at themselves and consider having been wrong all this time.
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  58. you realize that something without evidence can be dismissed without evidence right?
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  59. finally a proper talk again
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