Went for coffee with Dan yesterday. Afraid I monopolised the conversation somewhat (I really do try not to do that). Mostly because I was thinking about thesis stuff, so kept blathering on about it.It was one of those situations where I realised just how out of practice I've gotten with explaining design and design theory. While I was there I sketched out a quicky diagram of the perceptual process. Problem is, of course, the perceptual process is so much more complex you just never get done the diagram and it gets unreadable pretty soon.
Hmm, looking at the diagram again, it's missing an arrow from expected percepts to percepts, which is one of the key ideas: our expectation of what we will encounter perceptually plays a huge role in what we pick out of our environment and on which we focus our attention. When a perceptual field matches our expectations, we don't spend time recognising or interpreting it, we are constantly looking for the thing that doesn't match our model. When experience does match our expectations, our need to understand our environment is assuaged.
Anyway, have to get up for a management meeting in the morning, so I suppose I should leave off and get some sleep.
Comments
2010-07-25 14:02
> and would have no Trac integ ration The trac-bzr plugin[ 1] seems to provide good integ ration between bzr and t [...]
2010-07-13 21:47
I've always been fascinated wi th the Asterisk AMI interface. So much so that I married tha t fascination with the [...]
2010-07-03 21:32
Yes, only references in dicti onaries are replaced, so hold ing references in lists, tuple s, etceteras keeps them alive.
2010-07-03 11:18
They hold references to remove and install?
2010-06-24 08:34
There's higher-level objects w hich are tracking what is repl aced (the actual Mock objects) . They hold references [...]
2010-06-24 08:23
I haven't tried it, but it see ms to me like this approach ha s one fundamental problem: If you replace all refs o [...]
2010-06-24 08:22
That's the "magic" that made m e go "ooh shiny"
2010-06-24 06:03
That's even more evil than the mock patch decorator...
2010-06-06 18:33
blush Oh.
2010-06-06 11:07
That's what the module does (a utomatically), but on a per-te st-run basis, and only for the process being tested (i [...]
2010-06-06 02:43
Maybe I'm missing something im portant here, but why not just write small scripts to mimic whatever dangerous utili [...]
2010-06-05 15:17
I thought about stubbing out t he python call to the process in the current process, but I want something which stu [...]
2010-06-05 14:47
Hmm... if Mock isn't flexibl e enough to handle mocking pro cesses adequately then I'd lik e to know how it could b [...]
2010-05-19 10:27
Hey, maybe it's a stupid new bie question, but where and ho w exactly should the patching of the core take place? [...]
2010-05-04 14:36
I used Qemu and VirtualBox pre tty extensively back when I wa s working for the OLPC, but mo st of the stuff we were [...]