People who attempt suicide often send out multiple signals, many of which are not detected by anyone until after the fact. If a person is seeking attention then they need attention, otherwise their response might be escalation. The parent comment here needs to be modded down here for now knowing what you are talking about, even if you think you are being well meaning.
Well, if you can hold your attention on a single task for a short amount of time then I would try the Pomodoro Technique. I had issues similar to what you describe and this has helped me a great deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Briefly: you pick a task, set the timer (the recommended time is 25 minutes), focus on that one thing, and then reward yourself with a five minute break. Reset timer, repeat. It can become game like, challenging yourself to stay on task until you get to the chime, and the 25 minute boundary seems like the right level of challenge versus attainability. Lots of free software/apps out there to help you with it.
Well, circa 1986 I worked as a photographer for a newspaper and we commonly used "photog" to refer to ourselves. What do I do at the paper, "I'm a photog." Who is covering the big game, "You're the photog, now get to the stadium." Why does Joe smell funny, "That is stop bath, he's a photog."
Detractors in this thread are reading way to much into it, this is not an assault on the language.
Right, and while the number of CS majors are going down, we are busy expanding "game design" opportunities. I would say something like "this is the way the world ends" but that was already used on a FPP today.
As a 39 year old psychologist one month away from the big four oh and noticing cognitive slowdown, I would suggest trying not to force the issue but look for a way to hack it. I started using David Allen's Getting Things Done system three years ago and - yeah I know gimmicky business thing blah blah -- it is actually a great way to relieve yourself from having to remember things.
On the technical end I run Tracks to manage my work, there are a lot of GTD-related programs so shop around.
Is this really an engineering approach, it looks like the David Allen's "next tangible step you can take the physical world" approach. I am one of those people who found Getting Things Done life changing.
So can anyone provide insight on whether this sort of thing is going on across all areas of Wikipedia -- or is it just part of the English-language culture? I would be interested in knowing how the French, German, or Russian versions have wound up self-organizing for example.
I like how the next article on the blog is about increasing your Google page rank and tips for within-site cross linking. The link from slashdot should help.
They are also good to use when doing things like teaching a workshop of trying to lead people to a site in a lecture. It is a lot easier for people to either note it on paper of type it in to the machine that they are in front of and especially saves time when people complain that a link must be down because of a typo.
Well first off, my gut reaction is to reject everything.:) Just kidding. The problems (and I have not seen more than the article, so I am just making a lot of suppositions here) are like this.
1. As other people posted in this thread, the terms of use for SL indicate that you may not use a bot to collect personal information, and so the users DO have an expectation that they are not being approached by bots for the expressed purpose of collecting personal information.
2. As you mention at the end, the design is significantly flawed WRT yielding useful results.
3. Without IRB review, there is no guarantee of risk abatement for subjects. Back to your street corner example, lets say that one of the people approached was one of the 25% of college women who have been sexually assaulted and the proposition causes her to have an unexplained (to the researcher) anxiety attack, or depressive episode. The researchers here (presumably knowing that they were being annoying) would need to have demonstrated that they could intervene if they created a potentially harmful situation for the subject.
4. The very fact that you are in a public place implies that you are not being part of a research project unless otherwise informed to the contrary -- that is the informed consent part. The burden falls on the researcher. An IRB may approve situations where there is considered minimal risk (do people stand to the left or right on an escalator), but again, the researcher must first demonstrate that there is no risk involved the participants.
I could come up with more, but this is starting to seem like work.:)
Nice catch on that. By US federal regulations, a research project can only be "exempt" after an IRB reviews the proposal and declares it exempt. Sounds like a contradiction I know, but you are NEVER exempt from being reviewed, just judged to be exempt from additional monitoring/oversight (for low risk situations). A researcher may NEVER decide on their own that the IRB would declare a project exempt.
Here are links to relevant sites:
Appendix A: Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
The article mentions fleetingly at the end that the ethical issue is still up for grabs. I wonder if they actually got IRB approval for use of human subjects. Even though it is a bot that interacts with the other avatars, it is still an investigator-designed intervention into this space, they are collecting data in a deliberate and systematic way, and looking to generalize the results. The fact that they are collecting data without consent and using it in this manner strikes me as a violation of user privacy. Yes, I serve on an institutional IRB, and no, this would never pass in my institution. It is frightening that these researches imply that there is somehow a lower standard for virtual environments (it is not the avatar that is being studied, but the human on the other end) for the conduct of psychological experimentation.
My record "Cained" comes out in September. It was weird the way this record came about, I was having dinner with Elton John at his house in Nice and he had on background music and as we were going through the dinner several of my favourite Chill records were played and I kept naming the tune or the artist much to Elton surprise and he asked me how I knew about this kind of music and I told him and he got me a three record deals. As they say in show business it is not what you know it is who you know. Have a listen I hope you like it.
So EJ tells MC to do an album, and now it is being promoted on the Internet, and.... Nice timing.
I completely agree. The fact that new artists have access to channels to get their music out is incredible. Most of my myspace contacts are bands and musicians who I would never have heard of, gone to see, or bought their music had it not been for this. And WRT the social dimension, that would have to be the #1 means of quality stuff disseminating, through word of mouth and the various social networking sites.
I think the problem is that EJ and the way he is used to working is largely irrelevant, time for him to step aside or put his money where his mouth is and speak out to keep sites like Pandora online.
Not to make this a community Troll, but in case anyone didn't notice Batavia IL is where Fermilab is located (I live and have an office there (Batavia, not Fermilab)). Anyway, it is great that people can call up the schools and haze them about the FOSS alternative, but like so many other posters have said Oo.o is clunky/not a lot of professional quality training materials/hard to find a person who can help you, &c. And one would think that of all places in this oppressed world a city with a giant community of scientists using a bazillion machines running FOSS (and headquarters to Linux Users of Northern Illinois)-- with all of those Linux machines in people's homes -- that is where the critical mass should be for the revolution to take off.
Well.... So what. I am using Oo.o right now for a lot of stuff, especially the nifty calc/database integration so I can do cool stuff with my mySQL warehouse. But when I get down to writing the report it will be in Word because it is more polished, does not do weird stuff, and will let me get it done quickly -- and if those things didn't matter to me or anyone else in the world then we would all be producing TeX documents with EMACS. Do I want my kids to have to go through the frustration of having things just not-quite-work because I did and it was good for me... no.
Man am I in a bad mood, gotta go code some HTML using vi to get my mind off of this.
FWIW, I ran the article's data through SPSS using a chi-square/McNemar+Risk Estimate test (appropriate for dichotomous treatment+dichotomous outcome variable models) and got an alpha=.744. So, no statistically significant treatment effect from the seeding, but in exactly the same way that the author thought. (Shame on him for using a standard regression model.) http://www.omninerd.com/2007/04/20/news/1234/comme nts/9917
I would say that since advertising and marketing aim at being all pervasive, ever present, and insistent on pushing the brand, it is OK to take control over those domains which you have some control over. I am a big fan of AdBusters. Is having to look at billboards for beer or gentleman's clubs part of the social contract when I drive to the airport? What about busses and bus stops, or stuff taped to lamp posts and mailboxes? I think that the fact that the marketing industry gets us to put the "social contract" first when they could really care less about their end of things (delivering quality, utility) when pushing for brand recognition discounts them from my list of people to worry about.
And when you learn more about how they target children, and aim tobacco and alcohol ads at them, and push for brand and trademark awareness by age four, well, I just can't feel sorry for them. As a human being with some shred of dignity left I have the perfect right to shut out any of the crap that they try to inject into my horizon, I just wish that I could do it offline.
I got an 1100 from my father who replaced it with a color printer and found that it was jamming all of the time as well (misfeeding multiple pages). I contacted HP support about it and they mailed me a free repair kit. It included a piece of cardboard the size of a PDA with an angled piece of plastic covered with adhesive. I stuck the cardboard in the feeder, the plastic thingy stuck inside, and I have never again had a paper misfeed.
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But you are not thinking like Roman. The numbers make sense if you remember that they would have used an abacus for calculations -- so IV would mean de-incriment the ones column and increment the fives. Here is a nice site that talks a bit about the business aspects.
Interestingly I have made two software purchases that have used MySQL as a backend: SPSS Text Analysis for Windows as well as the new version of WebTrends. While I was happy to see the programs using an open backend, it was troubling that the installation processes assumed that mySQL was not running on the local box (as it was in my case), so the install process did not want to take into account such things as existing permissions schemes.
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People who attempt suicide often send out multiple signals, many of which are not detected by anyone until after the fact. If a person is seeking attention then they need attention, otherwise their response might be escalation. The parent comment here needs to be modded down here for now knowing what you are talking about, even if you think you are being well meaning.
Well, if you can hold your attention on a single task for a short amount of time then I would try the Pomodoro Technique. I had issues similar to what you describe and this has helped me a great deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Briefly: you pick a task, set the timer (the recommended time is 25 minutes), focus on that one thing, and then reward yourself with a five minute break. Reset timer, repeat. It can become game like, challenging yourself to stay on task until you get to the chime, and the 25 minute boundary seems like the right level of challenge versus attainability. Lots of free software/apps out there to help you with it.
Fifty years ago next week
Screens alit with amber glow
Press the NEXT key to begin
Name/group and shift-STOP make it go
AUTHOR MODE choose an option
Pad, avatar, wasted, or empire kills?
But DATA leads to one concoction
That's fun to play and builds your skills
=BTYPING!
Well, circa 1986 I worked as a photographer for a newspaper and we commonly used "photog" to refer to ourselves. What do I do at the paper, "I'm a photog." Who is covering the big game, "You're the photog, now get to the stadium." Why does Joe smell funny, "That is stop bath, he's a photog."
Detractors in this thread are reading way to much into it, this is not an assault on the language.
Right, and while the number of CS majors are going down, we are busy expanding "game design" opportunities. I would say something like "this is the way the world ends" but that was already used on a FPP today.
As a 39 year old psychologist one month away from the big four oh and noticing cognitive slowdown, I would suggest trying not to force the issue but look for a way to hack it. I started using David Allen's Getting Things Done system three years ago and - yeah I know gimmicky business thing blah blah -- it is actually a great way to relieve yourself from having to remember things.
On the technical end I run Tracks to manage my work, there are a lot of GTD-related programs so shop around.
Is this really an engineering approach, it looks like the David Allen's "next tangible step you can take the physical world" approach. I am one of those people who found Getting Things Done life changing.
So can anyone provide insight on whether this sort of thing is going on across all areas of Wikipedia -- or is it just part of the English-language culture? I would be interested in knowing how the French, German, or Russian versions have wound up self-organizing for example.
I like how the next article on the blog is about increasing your Google page rank and tips for within-site cross linking. The link from slashdot should help.
They are also good to use when doing things like teaching a workshop of trying to lead people to a site in a lecture. It is a lot easier for people to either note it on paper of type it in to the machine that they are in front of and especially saves time when people complain that a link must be down because of a typo.
I could come up with more, but this is starting to seem like work. :)
Here are links to relevant sites:
Appendix A: Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm
Appendix B: The Belmont Report
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm
A copy of our screening form and a link to the AERA grid for risk and ameliorative measures can be found at: http://www.imsa.edu/learning/research/hasrc/The article mentions fleetingly at the end that the ethical issue is still up for grabs. I wonder if they actually got IRB approval for use of human subjects. Even though it is a bot that interacts with the other avatars, it is still an investigator-designed intervention into this space, they are collecting data in a deliberate and systematic way, and looking to generalize the results. The fact that they are collecting data without consent and using it in this manner strikes me as a violation of user privacy. Yes, I serve on an institutional IRB, and no, this would never pass in my institution. It is frightening that these researches imply that there is somehow a lower standard for virtual environments (it is not the avatar that is being studied, but the human on the other end) for the conduct of psychological experimentation.
I was writing my essay and it went right over my head.
That is either unfunny or flamebait. There are more engineering students in Mexico than in the United States right now. So if there is a race to get a whale to the moon, they will probably bury us.
The reference to the SO as a Guinea Pig is proof that the guy really is a geek and that he will soon be alone like all of the rest.
I completely agree. The fact that new artists have access to channels to get their music out is incredible. Most of my myspace contacts are bands and musicians who I would never have heard of, gone to see, or bought their music had it not been for this. And WRT the social dimension, that would have to be the #1 means of quality stuff disseminating, through word of mouth and the various social networking sites.
I think the problem is that EJ and the way he is used to working is largely irrelevant, time for him to step aside or put his money where his mouth is and speak out to keep sites like Pandora online.
Not to make this a community Troll, but in case anyone didn't notice Batavia IL is where Fermilab is located (I live and have an office there (Batavia, not Fermilab)). Anyway, it is great that people can call up the schools and haze them about the FOSS alternative, but like so many other posters have said Oo.o is clunky/not a lot of professional quality training materials/hard to find a person who can help you, &c. And one would think that of all places in this oppressed world a city with a giant community of scientists using a bazillion machines running FOSS (and headquarters to Linux Users of Northern Illinois)-- with all of those Linux machines in people's homes -- that is where the critical mass should be for the revolution to take off.
... no.
Well.... So what. I am using Oo.o right now for a lot of stuff, especially the nifty calc/database integration so I can do cool stuff with my mySQL warehouse. But when I get down to writing the report it will be in Word because it is more polished, does not do weird stuff, and will let me get it done quickly -- and if those things didn't matter to me or anyone else in the world then we would all be producing TeX documents with EMACS. Do I want my kids to have to go through the frustration of having things just not-quite-work because I did and it was good for me
Man am I in a bad mood, gotta go code some HTML using vi to get my mind off of this.
FWIW, I ran the article's data through SPSS using a chi-square/McNemar+Risk Estimate test (appropriate for dichotomous treatment+dichotomous outcome variable models) and got an alpha=.744. So, no statistically significant treatment effect from the seeding, but in exactly the same way that the author thought. (Shame on him for using a standard regression model.)e nts/9917
http://www.omninerd.com/2007/04/20/news/1234/comm
And when you learn more about how they target children, and aim tobacco and alcohol ads at them, and push for brand and trademark awareness by age four, well, I just can't feel sorry for them. As a human being with some shred of dignity left I have the perfect right to shut out any of the crap that they try to inject into my horizon, I just wish that I could do it offline.
I got an 1100 from my father who replaced it with a color printer and found that it was jamming all of the time as well (misfeeding multiple pages). I contacted HP support about it and they mailed me a free repair kit. It included a piece of cardboard the size of a PDA with an angled piece of plastic covered with adhesive. I stuck the cardboard in the feeder, the plastic thingy stuck inside, and I have never again had a paper misfeed.
Hi. I host with dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com). Even on their cheapest plans they include unlimited Mailman lists, so it is a pretty good deal. I run about 8 domains with them and they are quite reliable. Their tech support is also quite good. Note, I wrote the Mailman list admin documentation, so I consider myself experienced on this topic.
If you are not averse to referral credits, use this link (and thanks). --chris
But you are not thinking like Roman. The numbers make sense if you remember that they would have used an abacus for calculations -- so IV would mean de-incriment the ones column and increment the fives. Here is a nice site that talks a bit about the business aspects.
Interestingly I have made two software purchases that have used MySQL as a backend: SPSS Text Analysis for Windows as well as the new version of WebTrends. While I was happy to see the programs using an open backend, it was troubling that the installation processes assumed that mySQL was not running on the local box (as it was in my case), so the install process did not want to take into account such things as existing permissions schemes.