Thus Spake Igoethustra
This week I spent the majority of my time developing the data-presentation application I mentioned in the project timeline. Specifically, I focused on creating the user interface, the back-end scripts to pre-process data given different calls, and how to structure the data to be presented. This has been going fairly well and I’ve [...]
The biggest advance I made this week was recognizing that I’ve been going about things precisely backwards. Since the beginning of class I’ve focused primarily on finding the right algorithm(s) to study. I’ve been researching various supervised learning algorithms, but have been frustrated because 1) many of them are able to accomplish the same tasks, and 2) [...]
As mentioned in the previous Algorithms post, over the last few months I’ve gathered a large (and growing) amount of data about various aspects of my life and I’m interested in analyzing it to gain knowledge about what affects my behavior, and what I can change to live better. A while back (I’m not sure [...]
Over the last few months I’ve been working on an application that collects data about various dimensions of my life and behavior. It tracks things such as sleep, physical activity, and weight, with the purpose of understanding my behavior, making changes, and improving my health and well-being. While I’ve so far been able to gather [...]
Below are my submissions for our penultimate 2D assignment: color. In class we learned about the basics of color theory, including color relationships and properties, and we were tasked with exploring these ideas by manipulating the ‘levers’ of color (hue, brightness, and saturation). I think both of below images are pretty simplistic, but I liked [...]
Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy
In our first class Katherine briefly introduced logo design and what made for a successful logo. Though successful logos were successful for many reasons, some of the best shared the same quality; they had two clear visual interpretations, both of which reflected something meaningful about the organization they represented. Upon discussing this [...]
As an undergraduate studying social and political philosophy I spent a lot of time thinking about justice. Though answers to questions about the nature of a justice were never easy to come by there were at least a few proposition I found uncontroversially true; specifically one: in a just society, the particulars of one’s birth (their [...]
Week three of 2D Design focused on typography. We were given a whirlwind tour of the subject, covering typefaces, fonts, type families, kearning, leading, and more, in one action-packed class. Though we covered a lot of ground, there was a unifying theme that ran through our discussion of these [...]
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