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Is it because websites are converging on what boosts search rank? Or maybe there is a consolidation in the frameworks used to build web sites? Perhaps users gravitate to using sites whose layouts are "familiar"?
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar:
Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: "Why are all websites starting to look the same?"
These posts usually point out some common design elements, from large images with superimposed text, to hamburger menus, which are those three horizontal lines that, when clicked, reveal a list of page options to choose from.
My colleagues Bardia Doosti, David Crandall, Norman Su and I were studying the history of the web when we started to notice these posts cropping up. None of the authors had done any sort of empirical study, though. It was more of a hunch they had.
We decided to investigate the claim to see if there were any truth to the notion that websites are starting to look the same and, if so, explore why this has been happening. So we ran a series of data mining studies that scrutinized nearly 200,000 images across 10,000 websites.
[...] This outsize power is part a larger story of consolidation in the tech industry—one that certainly could be a cause for concern. We believe aesthetic consolidation should be critically examined as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @05:46AM (2 children)
Your page on "How I became a constructivist." contains a number of interesting things. One problem, however, is that you say "classical P or Q can more or less be expressed intuitionistically as not (not P and not Q). (This is an example of the double-negation interpretation in action)." This is one of the roughest ways I have ever seen double negation introduction and De Morgan's Laws used in reference to intuitionistic logic with almost no introduction. Those two topics are such ungodly minefields that just throwing them out there just took me by such surprise that I literally said "Oh no" out loud. I usually save those relationships until a lot of other ground is covered to prevent such reactions. Not the least of which is that interdefinability of operators nor double negation elimination hold in an intuitionistic system.
Although I do wonder, are you any or all of: a dialetheist, negation is failure, paraconsistent, infinite-valued logician, Logic of Paradox, fuzzy logician, Kripke, or Heyting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @09:15AM (1 child)
Just to be clear, that list isn't exhaustive and I removed some of the more advanced and specific options off there. But I wanted to keep people new to the topic from being completely overwhelmed and figured if you knew where you landed in one of the other related systems and concepts, such as CoL or Kleene, or BHK (almost got started listing them again), then you'd volunteer it.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday May 21 2020, @03:28AM
I have no idea.
-- hendrik