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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Hey, what the hell… the dependent and independent variables are actually on the correct axes.
This is perfect.
excellent…
important to remember the local minimum… not too much not too little
This is why I should have stopped learning things a long time ago.
Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?
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I would have made two lines. One for ‘data’ looking like log(x+1) and one for ‘information’ looking like 1/e^x.
With no data there is no confusion. There is nothing to be confused about. Initial date is very confusing. After a while the increase in confusion from more data becomes less significant, but still increases towards infinity.
With no information there is infinite confusion. More information always reduces confusion, asymptotically approaching an ideal state of zero confusion, but we always have more to learn.
My point is, more data may add confusion, but more information is never a bad thing.
Unless it’s your Aunt Melba recounting her health problems. That’s what “TMI” is all about, man.
er, that should be 1/(e^x – 1). :)
You need a dot labeled “the internet” at the far upper right hand corner of the paper.
llewelly beat me to it.
Hey Jessica. Loved this one, and posted a link to it.
So beautifully put, Jessica – and so true.
@Robert de Forest: Well, not necessarily; it depends vastly on the context.
Say, you want to solve a problem. Given no information, chances are you’ll be very confused; I don’t know about you, but me – it usually scares the hell out of me. With a proper amount of info, solving the problem becomes kind of easy. Then, when given even more information, I’d tend to get confused again: my first question would be: “Why on earth do they say it to me?”. The second one would be: “My perfect solution just wasn’t that perfect; back to square N – and the confusion.”
That based on more 30 years of computer programming, but, IMHO, very valid for all kinds of practical problems as well, speaking out of bitter experience.
And – based on 6 years of teaching programing – it’s almost more than true.
But, still, yours is a good shot anyway, thought- and discussion-provoking.
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e.e. cummings – all ignorance toboggans into know
all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter’s not forever,even snow
melts;and if spring should spoil the game,what then?
all history’s a winter sport or three:
but were it five,i’d still insist that all
history is too small for even me;
for me and you,exceedingly too small.
Swoop(shrill collective myth)into thy grave
merely to toil the scale to shrillerness
per every madge and mabel dick and dave
–tomorrow is our permanent address
and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do,
we’ll move away still further:into now
I think this would fit well under the “faith” label too, haha. (At least in my experience)
Cool!
Neatly sums up my relationship with computers!
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I would have agreed with Robert de Forest’s (Oct 9) analysis until my oldest child was > 25 yrs. After that there was *way* too much information.
You should get a royalty for every use of this graphic that will appear in slide decks for the next 5 years.
Very clever.
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A related chart looks upside down from this one; the X axis is labeled “Degree of Certainty” and the Y, “Probability of Being Right.”
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“age of information an media”=∞confusion+∞information
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The famous ‘U’ curve, aka sophomore slump… the transition from attention to instinct.
Very nice.
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So…this is where the geeks hang out.
Can I get this on a shirt? A mug? A billboard? E-mail me if you add this to your store!!!!
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Brilliant! Where would you put Twitter on that graph? :)
How can a few informations confuse you?
Gaa! TMI! TMI!
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I’m planning to show this graph in my algebra class this week and see what the students think about it.
Jessica,
May I have your permission to use this image in my email footer at work? I love this. Please email permission if granted.
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