Comments for Eduardo Valle's Blog http://blog.eduardovalle.com Technology, Science, Teaching Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on A (Virtual) Box of Surprises by Andy http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2010/10/01/a-virtual-box-of-surprises/#comment-246 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:41:21 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=215#comment-246 Good article, great help for me.

]]> Comment on Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me ! by @dieselpokers http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/12/14/buy-me-upgrade-me-register-me/#comment-245 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:28:43 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=387#comment-245 We shall see!

Interesting post! :)

]]> Comment on Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me ! by Alisson Sol http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/12/14/buy-me-upgrade-me-register-me/#comment-244 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:27:36 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=387#comment-244 It is not like they don’t know…
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=106472

]]> Comment on Am I forgetting anything ? by eduardovalle http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/10/10/am-i-forgetting-anything/#comment-241 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:58:02 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=373#comment-241 Thank you, Michael !

]]> Comment on Am I forgetting anything ? by Shilman http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/10/10/am-i-forgetting-anything/#comment-240 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:49:22 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=373#comment-240 Congratulations Eduardo! I’m really happy for you and look forward to hearing more soon!

]]> Comment on Scientific sense and hurt sensibilities by Ana Paula http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/06/07/sense-and-sensibilit/#comment-230 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:01:49 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=343#comment-230 “why give some sensibilities more importance than others ?”
Well, some sensibilities simply are more wide-spread than others… Sex is still a huge issue in the vast majority of contemporary societies. “Sex” X “artificial intelligence” sounds like anything but a fair comparison to me…
I don’t think you were coward. Instead, you found a good compromise between respect for others’ sensibilities and free-expression of your views. This “phenomenon” is sometimes called “maturity”…
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]]> Comment on Scientific sense and hurt sensibilities by eduardovalle http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/06/07/sense-and-sensibilit/#comment-229 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:31:08 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=343#comment-229 I think that everyone is entitled to their sensibilities, but I would argue that our scientific work would be impossible if we would take everyone’s sensibilities in consideration (some people are deeply offended by the idea of “artificial intelligence”, for example). Then, why give some sensibilities more importance than others ?

But I agree with your position that those images should be used only if needed, and that’s exactly what I’ve told the student: “Do you really need those images ? Are they essential to get your point across ? If you do, keep them uncensored; but if not, get rid of them altogether”.

In the end, I was (as usual) coward and asked the committee to take a collective decision (other then censor the images, to which I was adamantly opposed): keep the images as they were, take out the images completely, or put them in a separate downloadable supplement. We’ve considered the separate supplement as a good compromise between scientific truth and protecting sensibilities.

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One important consideration I pointed to the student is the “surprise effect”. Pornography is not his mais object of study, and thus the title of the dissertation does not suggest that the reader might stumble upon this kind of content inside the work. I think that if someone opens a text titled “Detecting Pornography in Videos and Images”, they cannot complain if they find some examples; but if they open a text titled “Video and Image Classification” and on the middle of the text they find this huge porn pic, they have the right to feel somewhat betrayed.

]]> Comment on Scientific sense and hurt sensibilities by Ana Paula http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/06/07/sense-and-sensibilit/#comment-228 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:43:43 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=343#comment-228 Bold post…
Well, as a mother I think Alisson has a point. It’s difficult to understand this when you don’t have kids, believe me!
Yet, I think all people have the right to have their “sensibilities”. Yes, we are adults and completely able to understand and cope with the professional context of such technical material, but we are human beings of our time too.
For example, I’ve had the unfortunate “opportunity” to see a couple of these videos at the lab, and although I have no “trauma” from the experience, I’m not afraid to admit that I don’t feel comfortable with those videos, and would rather avoid such “visions” whenever possible.
Anyway, I agree in one point: the censor bars don’t prevent the shock. Maybe the best solution is to show an image just if it is completely fundamental to make a technical detail clear. If your point is to stress that your base is diverse enough, I guess that citing (in text) some situations would make it. In any case, ONE gay porn or “with-oriental-people” example does not prove anything, don’t you think?
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]]> Comment on No easy answers by eduardovalle http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/06/06/no-easy-answers/#comment-227 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:21:22 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=335#comment-227 But that’s one the main issue for an academic-purpose desktop system (at least in the data-processing intensive fields): it has to serve as front end for a lot of different systems, serving different purposes. I was hoping that the scheme of isolated Frameworks of MacOS would make it an ideal candidate for that, but — as always — reality seems to be more complex…

]]> Comment on No easy answers by Renaud Richardet http://blog.eduardovalle.com/2011/06/06/no-easy-answers/#comment-226 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:17:39 +0000 http://blog.eduardovalle.com/?p=335#comment-226 Well, maybe you’re asking OS X to be a lot of things at the same time (Linux with Macports and Windows with Parallels)…

Safari –> have you tried Chrome?
Parallels –> maybe fullscreen
MacPorts –> yeah… maybe reinstall from scratch…

I know the pain. Hope you find a cure.

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