Advice from Alan Kazdin from Yale has influenced my parenting of my 4 young boys more than any other single source. His recommendations against punishment are based on the fact that research shows they are not effective for long-term behavior change in children. It is challenging to use the methods in heated moments, but even without perfect application, they have been helpful.

Here is an article that introduces the ideas:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/no-spanki...

Here is his book, that has full details and many examples:

https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Parenting-Toolkit-Step-Step-...

Thank you for recommending this. I'm going to try this method with my "less easy" kid.

They also store passwords in plain text. They emailed me my password for a reminder on a season ticket account. My account is a few thousand dollars, others would be 10s of thousands.

>why not use a free stock image or a great work of art for the demo

Because a stock image is not standardized and has not been a standard for decades like Lenna has.

It's just about impossible to go back in history and change all the research papers and recompile all the algorithms and update them to a new image.

Of course we could still do it if enough people cared. But do we? is pornography morally bad? What about cropped pornography like lenna? Do the majority of people even think pornography is sexism? If it is sexism, then does that inherently make pornography bad? is all sexism bad? Is it bad that men are attracted to females/vis-versa and that sexually biased attraction exists? To me I would answer in the negative to all of these.

While I personally feel like porn is dubious (primarily due to the exploitative nature of the industry) I feel like this whole controversy is way overblown.

Before this thread I had no idea said controversy even existed. As far as I knew the Lenna image was just a pretty decent photo, not the result of cropping a playboy cover.

I guess the idea that a derivative artwork can be seen a unique artwork in its own right doesn't mean anything anymore...

> (primarily due to the exploitative nature of the industry)

Could you elaborate on this?

It's no secret that there is a lot of exploitation happening in the industry. I'm not sure how you need it elaborated?

If you think that everyone in the porn industry wants to be there and loves their job then you're missing the wood for the trees...

Someone else mentioned this and I agreed, so I already replaced it before seeing this comment. The Lenna image did make a good demo, but so do other images.

The flower example is much less interesting than an image with a human face, i.e Lenna.

It's a minor matter, but it's a shame you felt the need to remove the image when it's so useful and relevant.

I find faces a little problematic actually. Since facial recognition is such a huge part of our brain, it always seems like Primitive is ignoring the face too much and spending time on extraneous details. (I've previously experimented with weighting some areas of an image more than others in the algorithm because of this.)

I think the flower works well, but I might replace it yet again if I find an even better demo when I have more time to spend on it.

Until this thread I didn't even know this whole "issue" existed.

It doesn't; as per usual it's just an SJW making a gratuitous leap to associate an innocent thing with a bad thing.

Upvoted (as with all your other posts here) because you made a perfectly valid criticism that the program author agreed with and adopted, but the geek boys got typically defensive.

I don't think you're going to have any effect simply due to the 1. complexity of the image, as it's a real photograph, and 2. the complexity of colors and hues in the image.

there's a reason why it's seen as a "standard test image", and not as some fodder for sexism. it's the above plus historical baggage.

Which Lenna image are you referring to? I can't see any picture that resembles a naked or otherwise exposed woman.

The OP agreed and replaced the image. It wasn't a nude due to cropping. It was the same as on Wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

SEXISM AND PORNOGRAPHY lol

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This error only occurred on a certain revision of GPS satellites, not all of them. It would have been a problem, except luckily the error was only on a message for determining UTC. The error did not affect the message or clock that are used in determining position.

No, the discrepancy was only on a timing message for determining UTC. This is not used for determining position.

Specifically, one or few of the sattelites sent a wrong value "A0" in its "Page 18 of subframe 4" message. Page 37, §2.4.5.5 in http://www.gps.gov/technical/ps/1995-SPS-signal-specificatio...

https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2016-January/095692...

I think the large picture of the woman in the bikini might be a little too revealing. You might go with something tamer. I imagine it would make the target audience more comfortable.

Yeah, the picture is super off-putting; I liked the app concept but any interest I had disappeared when I saw that login screen. It looks like something more suited for Tinder than a health tracking app, and frankly, I'm sick of seeing skimpily clad women as the metric for idealness. It's demeaning and demotivating as hell if you can't fit into that mold. Not to mention that some titillating picture of a woman's ass isn't in any way appropriate for a general interest app in the first place.

I think it's fine. Although it should show either a fit man or woman, depending on what sex you choose. Something to inspire you with the will the continue on the iron path.

Thanks for the feedback. I will be looking to change this to a less intimidating image.

That demo measurement is for the upper arm. A waist that size would be disturbing, or an infant.

You can program in Python using Kivy [1] to create apps for Android, iOS, and the desktop. I made a simple app and took it through the entire process it is now on the Android app store. You are still using Python so you can focus on programming and not language features, but you get the benefits of programming something your students can show off.

[1] http://kivy.org/docs/gettingstarted/intro.html

Thanks for pointing this out. I've been using pygame with my students but kivy looks great.

Which is why he added the caveat "naturally".