August 2008 Archives

Of all the mundane details that programming bothers me with, operator precedence/arithmetical order of operations pisses me off the most. Pardon the vulgarity, but if you've ever had to wonder whether 5 + 6 * 2 was equal to 22 or 17, or even worse--had a bug caused by guessing wrong in that sort of situation, you know how I feel.

I just gave a presentation in my Cognitive Neuroscience course at Stanford about Oliva and Schyns' paper "Coarse Blobs or Fine Edges? Evidence That Information Diagnosticity Changes the Perception of Complex Visual Stimuli", doi:10.1006/cogp.1997.0667. I was happy with the presentation, so I post my slides here for anyone who's interested.