{"id":6671,"date":"2016-01-01T03:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2016-01-01T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T07:54:19","slug":"coursera-basic-optics-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6671","title":{"rendered":"Coursera: Basic Optics I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This course is in Mandarin, by \u6731\u58eb\u7dad Shi-Wei Chu of National Taiwan University.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction (week 2) of the course is interesting. The professor uses an illusion I've not seen before:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6672\" src=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024-834x1024.jpg\" alt=\"35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024\" width=\"640\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024.jpg 834w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/35927-see_albert_einstein_marilyn_monroe-834x1024-768x943.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is either a photo of Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe (Copyright 2007 by Aude Oliva of MIT). For those who wear glasses (somehow the professor expects everyone wears glasses), it is Marilyn Monroe without glasses. Either way, the difference is made by squinting our eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course is in Mandarin, by \u6731\u58eb\u7dad Shi-Wei Chu of National Taiwan University. The introduction (week 2) of the course is interesting. The professor uses an illusion I've not seen before: It is either a photo of Albert Einstein or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}