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To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition
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To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition
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To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition
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To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition
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Interesting article about the similarities and, more importantly, the differences in comprehension and experience of reading versus listening to text. Includes lessons for the classroom on the importance and uses of both.
https://theconversation.com/does-listening-to-audiobooks-improve-learning-267817
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"Linux Is Hard — Until You Understand These 7 Things
The beginner mistakes nobody warns you about"#Linux #Documentation #Tutorial #Tech #Comprehension #Apprentissage ...
https://medium.com/codex/linux-is-hard-until-you-understand-these-7-things-555e53bc516a
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision
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The Power Of Using A Story For Better Data Comprehension And Hence Decision Making
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2021.2016151 <-- shared book review, “Data Story: Explain Data And Inspire Action Through Story”
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[I encountered this excellent graphic from @saurabh Rai, and went and explored the ideas put so succinctly here; I found, well, a technical story overview (link above) to ‘match’; however, this should not be considered an endorsement of this book]
#data #storytelling #data #comprehension #presentation #story #frameworks #context #setting #dataquality #communication #usecase #robustness #insights #correctness #decisionmaking #narratives #decisions -
Tout simplement ! 🌈🦋🙏
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Tout simplement ! 🌈🦋🙏
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Tout simplement ! 🌈🦋🙏
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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In #Python `any` and `all` are global functions that work on any `Iterable` producing elements that can be converted to `bool`. If you wanted (semantically) `find` #Find or `first` #First, they are less obvious (though specific types can provide them, such as `str.find`). `first` implies the underlying `Iterable` promises some predictable order, and there might be duplicates, and you might care about the position of the found element in the larger sequence.
So let’s talk about the idea of `find`: you do it all the time and for ordinary `Iterable`s, there aren’t one-word answers. Let’s start with (the not always) "bad" answers (I don’t want you to do them, so I won’t show code).
You could use a `for` loop and `break` on a match (remember, maybe, that `for` does have an `else`). Worse performing, you could produce a filtered list (with a #Comprehension or with the actual `filter` function), then just grab the first element. You’d test of course, for an empty list. Unlike the `for`, here you look at the whole list.
Here’s another way. I consider it more Pythonic. Given an ordered sequence `s` and a predicate `p` (or you can imagine a simple expression instead) then
`elem for elem in s if p(elem)`
…is the machinery of a comprehension or #Generator depending on what you surround it with. Parens or using it as an argument, will make it a generator.
`next(elem for elem in s if p(elem))`
Gets an iterator from the generator; initializes it, and causes it to find and return the first element of `s` that meets the requirements. If there is no match, then it raises a `StopIteration` exception. `next` takes another argument: a default. If you call it like this, instead of an exception it returns `None`:
`next(elem for elem in s if p(elem), None)`
It’s as efficient as the `for` (actually, a little better because `for` loops are slightly slower in general and also would have to save the found element for use afterwards. It reads better, to me anyway.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
SLARTIBARTFAST: Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 4th” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-29)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34927/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #slartibartfast #comprehension #keepbusy #meaningoflife #meme #mystery #occupation #purpose #understanding #universe #carryon #staybusy
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A quotation from George Carlin
Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Sometimes A Little Brain Damage Can Help”More about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/80730/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #comprehension #confusion #reaction #uncertainty #understanding
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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding …
[καὶ ἡ εἰρήνη τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ ὑπερέχουσα …]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Philippians 4: 7 [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/17699/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #philippians #comprehension #God #peace #tranquility #understanding
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19-Nov-2025
Vocal #comprehension #learning is widespread across #birds -
“We are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia. You ask whether these remarks do not conflict with my repeated definition of Initiation as the Way In. Not at all; the Inmost is identical with the All. … When the entire system of the Universe is conterminous with your comprehension, ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ become identical.”
#ableToPerceive #aleisterCrowley #all #allTheLayers #anything #askWhether #attention #book #comprehension #conflict #constantlyIncreasing #conterminous #control #directedOutward #doMore #downRight #enlarging #entireSystem #everyStep #exercise #extroverts #fromWithin #GHQ_ #identical #inParticular #inevitably #initiation #inmost #inward #lunacy #magickWithoutTears #melancholia #moving #neurosis #notAtAll #object #obviously #ofTheUniverse #outward #penalty #quote #rank #remarks #repeatedDefinition #restrictingOneself #scope #seeMore #Self #skirmishingPatrol #surround #theUniverse #theWayIn #travelInward #vision #wholeArmy #wholeHearted
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Perplexity is the moment the mind meets its limit and still tries to continue.
It’s the flicker between knowing and not-knowing — the instant before surrender.
It signals that a structure is cracking, that comprehension can’t contain what’s arriving.
If you don’t rush to fix it, it becomes clarity’s doorway.
#Perplexity #Clarity #Mind #Surrender #Comprehension #Knowing #NotKnowing
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 470 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #belief #comprehension #creed #faith #mystery #religion #understanding
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Whoa, hold your horses! 🏇 KernKerns has built the ultimate #procrastination machine disguised as an "AI interface"—perfect for those who'd rather not actually read anything. 🤯 It turns out, understanding is best achieved by letting an #app do the thinking for you, because who needs #comprehension when you have buzzwords? 📚✨
https://www.kerns.ai/ #AI #buzzwords #technology #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
We can never understand other people’s motives, nor their furniture. - Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 3 (1963)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aesthetic #comprehension #furniture #meme #motivation #motives #others #taste #understanding
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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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#IWMLecture: Media Affordances on How We Talk About & Represent Narratives, Prof. Joseph P. Magliano. Mo, 14.07. 2025, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, large conf. room (IWM/Schleichstr. 6, Tübingen).
Everyone interested is welcome to join. ✔️ Participation online: 📧 redaktion(at)iwm-tuebingen.de
#LearningSciences #edu #comprehension #digitaleBildung #media -
German, the language with the most compelling argument for camelCase and PascalCase.
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Dr. Sarah-Maria Thumbeck gave a co-authored presentation with the title "Efficacy of a strategy-based #intervention on text-level #reading #comprehension in persons with #aphasia: a repeated measures study" at the Nordic Aphasia Conference
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A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #reality #truth #boundaries #brightline #categorization #category #classification #complexity #comprehension #inflexibility
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#OpenAI launches #GPT-4.1 series with major upgrades in #coding and #comprehension
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Analysed how well AI understands stories 🍎🍊. AI can get confused by extra details! 🤔 Keep content clear for better AI summaries. Always manually review AI analysis.
#AI #Comprehension #NarrativeAnalysis #TechInsights #TTMO #Semantics #ArtificialIntelligence
https://www.alanbonnici.com/2025/03/ai-got-it-wrong-comprehension.html
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James #Webb confirme que quelque chose ne va pas dans notre #compréhension actuelle de l’ #univers
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We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572-1578), “Of Pedantry [Du pedantisme]), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #Montaigne #comprehension #education #evaluation #improvement #learning #memorization #rubric #school #student #teaching #understanding #wisdom
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Every man hears only what he understands.
[Es hört doch jeder nur, was er versteht.]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), “Life and Character,” #383]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/goethe-johann/36052/
#quote #quotes #quotation #Goethe #communication #comprehension #conversation #hearing #listen #listening #meme #message #perspective #reality #subjectivity #understanding
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L' #Europe ( l' #UE ) bouleverse la #physique #mondiale avec la #création de #particules #quarks, une #découverte #historique qui marque un #tournant pour la #compréhension de l’ #univers
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L' #Europe ( l' #UE ) bouleverse la #physique #mondiale avec la #création de #particules #quarks, une #découverte #historique qui marque un #tournant pour la #compréhension de l’ #univers www.mobeez.fr/actualites/1...
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Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
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Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
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Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
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Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
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Lots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
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@TheOldGuy you're gonna make them start #twitching their eyes.
That level of #comprehension will turn some brains into a #snakeEatingItsTail
Most just #blip out for a second and then keep #bleeping out their #nonsense
Biddi-biddi-biddi-biddi-biddi-biddi-biddi
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#israel #palestine : #war / #history / #narrative / #comprehension / #peace / #humanization / #prime / #literature
„LEARNING EACH OTHER'S HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Palestinians and Israelis” -
Well designed information is clear, unambiguous, and enhances comprehension and other human performance.
The illustration below shows a duration. Several design changes could each have made this usable, such as adding a space:
23:00 09:30
or a word:
23:00 to 09:30#InformationDesign #ContentDesign #TechComm #TechnicalCommunication #interface #usability #duration #time #clarity #comprehension #accuracy #performance #UserPerformance
