I've always thought teachers should embrace wikipedia as a real life example of how knowledge is accumulated and record.
Each student is required to team up with a partner and add valuable content into wikiapeda. Grades will be based on the quality and depth of information added, and the difference will be used for comparison. Extra credit will be added if the edits remain. (defined some way)
Early students would be expected to start new subjects.
I'd like to see this widely implemented international. Grad students would be expected to add significant sections of their dissertation.
Funny. Al Gore. For Internet. I happen to think Assange needs and deserves it.
But Gore did pitch and win funding for the basic DARPA net which grew into the Internet. BTW, you will never find an old quote of him saying he invented the Internet. The people who still believe this have not realised the extent of workers being shafted in the USA for the last 30 years. This is still a wealthy country, we just are not so rich and immoral as to carpet bomb entire countries so that corporations can improve their bottom line.
Can't wait to see how funny the future is, with depression level economy and unions broken. Your children in work camps, a religious nut in the white house, dog eat dog world where old and poor freeze to death, and young kids grow hungry.
I've had the pleasure to learn and work closely with a few Mathematicians when I worked at the University. Seems like a great job, if you don't mind lecturing once in a while. I enjoyed their presence. It's as if you could sit in the office together still and silent all afternoon why you worked. Well, mostly still - I needed a notepad to visualise, a huge limitation and crutch.
My general impression was that if these people didn't have lectures they would never get to communicate normally with another human. Generalising from my small sample I would say they are closest to the stereotypical absent minded professor.
--- The more education I've received, the clearer the scope of my ignorance.
I'd be careful about describing a previously unknown carnivore as cute. It might have been unknown because nobody met one before, but it could be because nobody who met one lived to tell about it.
I wonder if there is interest in studying the adaptive phase of the subjects transfering between 4 to 3 legs. What effect does age of the subjects have? I hope they study the transition of gates on tread mill.
I would love access to this data and a peak at the models. Using Neural-nets? Evolutionary nets?
I imagine a 3 legged robot would be the most cost effective proposition system.
Bradbury isn't an SF writer the way Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov were. His work always had the thinnest possible skin of technology surrounding a story about people. We was one of the more humanist writers of the day and the technology in his stories often made little sense.
Any story that isn't central to people is a waste of time. Be a parent for a few years and you should realize this.. everything else is a distraction.
I recently had a foot bone infection which ended me in the hospital for nearly 2 months in isolation from other patients while they inserted lots of antibiotics. I did see a lot of friendly staff and everything seemed well.
At one point I needed a skin graph and we were discussing where to take the skin from. I was in mixed company (males and well as females) and narced-up and suggested foreskin (it was a huge area - which made it a ridiculous statement) There was a general chuckle. I thought it was pretty good considering my condition. Perhaps not. Oh well.
I didn't realized it at the time, but from that point on most all the female nurses found something sexist or sexually offensive in our conversations. It wasn't until weeks later my doctor mention something about my chart was getting full of comments (and harder to read.) And suggested I might use care in joking with the staff (female nurses) because some were placing objections of offenses in my chart. My medical chart!
I asked to see my chart after that, and there was hemming and howing about how I would need someone here with me to answer questions, and scheduling was difficult. But by this time I had figured it out. The job must lack drama for some of the nurses and I had become the focus of female nurses frustration and bitterness.
I requested and was given a transfer to one of the regular (very busy) floors and immediately and from then on had a very positive experience with staff and got to keep my foot.
A month in physical therapy and I'm still trying to get back some of my regular muscle mass - but that's another story.
Good luck - I hope things go better for you in the future.
effective use of ammo, by avoiding studs when shooting people through walls!
Augumented reality has markets lined up to use, manufacturing - airplane for example.
The real problem is tracking. With todays technology you would need two GPS communicating (on fixed to a know location.) some combination of magnetic, or optical to reference accurately the location and orientation of the head with reference to the warn GPS.. and then the gps's orientation.
Small errors blow this apart. A different approach is clearly needed.
Perhaps true.. but could you think of experimental conditions where you 'normalized' for this?
If you could interact with octopuses (same specie) until there get to know you.. then release them and later re-engage with a method of measuring personality.
Dam! I should have been a scientist - I was heading that way before I started visiting a web site called slashdo!
My wife keeps salt water tanks and we had an Octopus named Oglebbie. Oglebbie was such a sweetie. (I'm calling her a female, but that is an assumption.)
We had what can only be called the classic love affair - doomed from the start..
It started with small touching with fingers/arms. It was routine - every day a few times I would put my octopus-looking hand in and she would embrace. And Pull - she wanted me to stay.
They have a very sharp beak BTW. Only try this if you are willing to get bit. She never bit me.
It was definitely love. As soon as I turned on the light she would shoot across the tank to the top door area, and I would open it.. verbally complaining at the time about never get rest.. and Oglebbie would inflate herself with water and climb out to travel across the top of tank to play.
After a sort time (few minutes) she would go back to the door and if I went over there she would shoot the water at my general direction, then dive in.
Tragic love.. She would dream of us romping across reefs, and having fun. I would want to go running through fields of flowers with her...
One day she lost all her zing. My wife was away and I didn't keep the water level up.. the salt concentration went too high. She didn't die but she lingered, and didn't want to play - which was more torturous for me because she was there.. but not there. And it was my fault.
Thank you for sharing - I'm still getting over it.. (I really did feel terrible - and the way she seemed to haunt the tank - a fraction of her was left. It's like how your non-nerdy spouse see you when you are coding - but permanent.
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I've always thought teachers should embrace wikipedia as a real life example of how knowledge is accumulated and record.
Each student is required to team up with a partner and add valuable content into wikiapeda. Grades will be based on the quality and depth of information added, and the difference will be used for comparison. Extra credit will be added if the edits remain. (defined some way)
Early students would be expected to start new subjects.
I'd like to see this widely implemented international. Grad students would be expected to add significant sections of their dissertation.
In a few years it would be even more amazing.
Just a matter of time they will be at local Airport/Bus/Train Stations.
Funny. Al Gore. For Internet. I happen to think Assange needs and deserves it.
But Gore did pitch and win funding for the basic DARPA net which grew into the Internet. BTW, you will never find an old quote of him saying he invented the Internet. The people who still believe this have not realised the extent of workers being shafted in the USA for the last 30 years. This is still a wealthy country, we just are not so rich and immoral as to carpet bomb entire countries so that corporations can improve their bottom line.
Can't wait to see how funny the future is, with depression level economy and unions broken. Your children in work camps, a religious nut in the white house, dog eat dog world where old and poor freeze to death, and young kids grow hungry.
It should have been a moat filled with radioactive acid, alligators, paranoia, and sharks with lasers on their heads!
Better idea - decriminalise all drugs for:
1. getting rid of the last fence in racism -
http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1315
2. Save money, clear out jails, and help people trapped in addition - as they did in Portugal -
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887
I've had the pleasure to learn and work closely with a few Mathematicians when I worked at the University. Seems like a great job, if you don't mind lecturing once in a while. I enjoyed their presence. It's as if you could sit in the office together still and silent all afternoon why you worked. Well, mostly still - I needed a notepad to visualise, a huge limitation and crutch.
My general impression was that if these people didn't have lectures they would never get to communicate normally with another human. Generalising from my small sample I would say they are closest to the stereotypical absent minded professor.
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The more education I've received, the clearer the scope of my ignorance.
When I entered college I was a computer programmer.
Some when between then an graduation I became a software engineer.
(life happened)
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The more education you get, the greater your clarity of ignorance.
At least you have a token ring to use!
I only have a 1968 paper tap input device and 1/2 the pins don't work so I have to poke holes with my pen.
It's networked by an old fashion phone in suction cups modem system.
And I walk to work and back home up a hill both ways.
And do you know what? I like it!
I'd be careful about describing a previously unknown carnivore as cute. It might have been unknown because nobody met one before, but it could be because nobody who met one lived to tell about it.
Short book title for you: The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Heorot
I LIKE this.
Now - get the hell off my lawn!
"Get off my LAWN!"
I have signed up with Lifeshares.org which is an organ donor 'club.'
This group pools together like minded people to increase chances of getting an organ.
All the members agree to give first preference to others in the group - before donating too less philanthropic minded people.
The group increases your chances of quick organ replacement and gets around the very unjust normal politics of organ donation.
Take a look.
Interesting study ;
I wonder if there is interest in studying the adaptive phase of the subjects transfering between 4 to 3 legs. What effect does age of the subjects have? I hope they study the transition of gates on tread mill.
I would love access to this data and a peak at the models. Using Neural-nets? Evolutionary nets?
I imagine a 3 legged robot would be the most cost effective proposition system.
Cool stuff!
I've watched many kids in public and the true answer seems clear;
Most dam kids are not getting enough of those drugs!
Perhaps the parents of middle and rich classes are just not giving kids enough.
Very strange - I just finished watching this lecture video this morning. I've all so seen her talk in TED.com
http://microbeworld.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=516458&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asm+(MicrobeWorld+Video)#
Cool Stuff!
'Locking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphores '
Excuse me.
Bradbury isn't an SF writer the way Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov were. His work always had the thinnest possible skin of technology surrounding a story about people. We was one of the more humanist writers of the day and the technology in his stories often made little sense.
Any story that isn't central to people is a waste of time. Be a parent for a few years and you should realize this.. everything else is a distraction.
Flame away!
I recently had a foot bone infection which ended me in the hospital for nearly 2 months in isolation from other patients while they inserted lots of antibiotics. I did see a lot of friendly staff and everything seemed well.
At one point I needed a skin graph and we were discussing where to take the skin from. I was in mixed company (males and well as females) and narced-up and suggested foreskin (it was a huge area - which made it a ridiculous statement) There was a general chuckle. I thought it was pretty good considering my condition. Perhaps not. Oh well.
I didn't realized it at the time, but from that point on most all the female nurses found something sexist or sexually offensive in our conversations. It wasn't until weeks later my doctor mention something about my chart was getting full of comments (and harder to read.) And suggested I might use care in joking with the staff (female nurses) because some were placing objections of offenses in my chart. My medical chart!
I asked to see my chart after that, and there was hemming and howing about how I would need someone here with me to answer questions, and scheduling was difficult. But by this time I had figured it out. The job must lack drama for some of the nurses and I had become the focus of female nurses frustration and bitterness.
I requested and was given a transfer to one of the regular (very busy) floors and immediately and from then on had a very positive experience with staff and got to keep my foot.
A month in physical therapy and I'm still trying to get back some of my regular muscle mass - but that's another story.
Good luck - I hope things go better for you in the future.
effective use of ammo, by avoiding studs when shooting people through walls!
Augumented reality has markets lined up to use, manufacturing - airplane for example.
The real problem is tracking. With todays technology you would need two GPS communicating (on fixed to a know location.) some combination of magnetic, or optical to reference accurately the location and orientation of the head with reference to the warn GPS.. and then the gps's orientation.
Small errors blow this apart. A different approach is clearly needed.
Like the white rats in a funny book most of us have read.. Perhaps they are measuring us ..?
Dam! I want YOU at my next party mixer!
"You GO guy!!" (or gal)
Perhaps true.. but could you think of experimental conditions where you 'normalized' for this?
If you could interact with octopuses (same specie) until there get to know you .. then release them and later re-engage with a method of measuring personality.
Dam! I should have been a scientist - I was heading that way before I started visiting a web site called slashdo!
There is a good body of lit. out there that Octopus have no 'handedness'
The have 8 'arms'.
You my friend may be thinking of a squid, or a very good lover!
- Absolutely!
My wife keeps salt water tanks and we had an Octopus named Oglebbie. Oglebbie was such a sweetie. (I'm calling her a female, but that is an assumption.)
We had what can only be called the classic love affair - doomed from the start..
It started with small touching with fingers/arms. It was routine - every day a few times I would put my octopus-looking hand in and she would embrace. And Pull - she wanted me to stay.
They have a very sharp beak BTW. Only try this if you are willing to get bit. She never bit me.
It was definitely love. As soon as I turned on the light she would shoot across the tank to the top door area, and I would open it .. verbally complaining at the time about never get rest.. and Oglebbie would inflate herself with water and climb out to travel across the top of tank to play.
After a sort time (few minutes) she would go back to the door and if I went over there she would shoot the water at my general direction, then dive in.
Tragic love.. She would dream of us romping across reefs, and having fun. I would want to go running through fields of flowers with her ...
One day she lost all her zing. My wife was away and I didn't keep the water level up.. the salt concentration went too high. She didn't die but she lingered, and didn't want to play - which was more torturous for me because she was there.. but not there. And it was my fault.
Thank you for sharing - I'm still getting over it.. (I really did feel terrible - and the way she seemed to haunt the tank - a fraction of her was left. It's like how your non-nerdy spouse see you when you are coding - but permanent.