There's this Godard quote which sums this one up for me: "All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend towards fiction." (I think the director mentioned it in an interview too?)
I watched this and I felt like I kept coming back to it in my head and learning more and more for months afterwards. It was commissioned by the Macedonian government to document the disappearing traditional beekeeping practices in that area. They didn't mean to make a story out of anything. They would just go and film every regular day of Hatidže's life, but an incredible story unfolded anyways.
There's so much to take from this. One of those pieces that I just have to get my friends to watch so we could discuss because just describing it won't do it justice
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Shameless plug: looking specifically at the Dissemination Phase part, I can't help but thinking he would love Code Ocean (https://codeocean.com). It addresses each of his points:
- distribute software (execute with a single click)
- reproduce results (published code & data - yours and others' - is archived with its environment)
- collaborate with colleagues (built-in to the system)
(Disclaimer: I work at Code Ocean. We're in beta.)
Honest question, did you read the article? While I haven't read this particular one, I'm familiar enough with the field to know that controlling for confounding factors is one of the most basic types of controls. Any half-decent article would control for the kind of thing you're suggesting.
That said, the article appears to have been published by Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, which does have a less than stellar reputation for rigorous peer-review and, as a result, article quality[0].
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I would love to see motion and animation get more attention and love from the JS community, but at the same time I shudder at the potential for abuse.
How do you build a powerful tool and avoid that side effect? D3 is one example I can think of for a very powerful, yet constrained and focused tool (I would say opinionated but that word has lost all meaning).
The financial system does not recognize fairness as a factor. Apple is playing the game to make money for its shareholders. It would be noble of them to behave otherwise, but I certainly don't expect it.
