They're called enterprise schools in my district, but the one that I was involved in was a big success. We had a plan, which was to bring E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum to middle school students, to prepare them for high school and beyond. We wanted the entire school to be an honors school. Students had to have a B average to get in. The school district went along with the plan, and we opened the school in 1998, and my daughter was in the first class. The NAACP warned us that they would be watching us closely because they suspected that we were creating the school only for middle class white kids. What happened surprised them and us. Middle class white kids ended up being a minority in the school. The biggest ethnic group came from lower class hispanic families who saw the school as an opportunity for their children with good grades to get ahead. We also had a number of black and asian kids from poorer neighborhoods. The district was more than happy to bus the kids from all over the city to the school. The NAACP quietly shuffled off. I think they were actually disappointed.
The school was a success, but it required the interest of parents, administrators and teachers who agreed with the vision, diligent oversight, and a district that entusiastically cooperated. If any of the above elements are missing you have a potential disaster on your hands.
That comment is more stupid than evil. It's a real pointy-haired-boss sort of thing to say. In reality, all he can really say is, "We know when you're speeding... sometimes." GPS doesn't tell them the speed limit of every road you're driving on; or whether or not there is a stop sign or stop light at an intersection; or the precise moment the light changes; or the location of every vehicle around you and whether you are following too closely for conditions; or if you're in a school zone; or if there is construction going on in that area; or if you just robbed a liquor store; or even if you are the one actually driving the car. Let's not make too much of this.
I don't know, I don't know I don't know where I'm-a gonna go when de volcano blow
But I don' wanna land in New York City I don' wanna land in-a Mexico Don' wanna land on no Three Mile Island Don' wanna see my skin aglow. Don' wanna land in Comanche Skypark Or in Nashville Tennessee Don' wanna land in no San Juan Airport Or in de Yukon-a-Territory Don' wanna land no San Diego Don' wanna land in no Buzzard Bay Don' wanna land on no Ayatollah I got nothin' more to say.
You mean that up til now it has been widely believed that a super volcano required an external "trigger" before it erupted? I'm no vulcanologist, but I've been intrigued with super volcanoes for over ten years now, and in everything I've read or seen I don't recall anyone saying that some sort of external trigger was needed to "light the fuse", so to speak.
I hate the title too, for the same reason. It did get me to read the article, so I guess it served its purpose. I have trouble believing that printed parts can be as strong as traditionally manufactured parts, so I too would be surprised if any critical parts were manufactured this way.
One of the articles (the last one linked to) says, "Brutal conditions are expected in Detroit, which has had only five days in living memory when temperatures stayed below freezing all day." I find that hard to believe. I live quite a bit further south than Detroit, and we probably have at least two or three days a year where that is the case. Looking at the forecast for Detroit, I suspect it is a conversion problem. If someone in America says, "There have been only five days in living memory that the temp in Detroit has not gotten above zero", someone outside of the U.S. might read that and think zero Celcius, which is freezing, and not -18 Celcius, which is what is meant.
Well, it's not quite that simple (I'm a type 1 who was erroneously diagnosed as a type 2 for years), but you're on the right track. I know a lot of type 2s and some are very good at controlling their disease, while some take a very cavalier attitude towards it. One of my acquaintenances didn't start to take things seriously until he lost a toe. So, yes, some type 2s can be really bad about this sort of thing, and I don't think an app is going to help one bit.
That's interesting. On a side note, I've always wondered how they do a control group in such a study. Do they fill the pens (or vials) of the new insulin with a known, working, bolus insulin (like the Novolog that I use)? They sure as hell can't let you inject a placebo. That's not gonna work.
I don't know about Asimov being that inaccurate. Keep in mind that a lot of what he is describing are exhibits at the 2014 World's fair. These would still be futuristic things even in 2014, but technologically possible. Many of the things he describes are devices or systems that are technically possible, but still not quite reasonable from an economic perspective. Obviously he is way off on some things, but that just goes to show how difficult it is to predict future developments.
I am also diabetic, and I agree with you. Adjusting your diet and dosages is not that difficult to achieve good control. After a while it almost becomes second nature. Anyone who is too lazy to do it on their own is going to be too lazy to input data into an app which tells them what to do. And, as you say, the tracking component is highly undesireable. I don't need some faceless company nagging me about what I should or shouldn't be doing. Life's hard enough when you have to be your own pancreas.
I could see a future where insurance companies will require this sort of app, though. I hope they find a cure, or that I'm dead, by then.
The NSA deserves a lot of criticism for some of the things they've been doing. However, this is the kind of thing they should be working on. It's not the tools they have that bothers me. It is how they use them that is the problem.
Great Books of the Western World. My ex-wife had a collection of these. Neither she nor I managed to get through all of them. I think it is still available as a collection via Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't know if it's necessary to read every title. I will let others debate that. I do think it is a good starting place if you're wanting a list of books that educated people should read.
Oh! These joke sites like The Onion, and Satirewire are so funny. Imagine an efficiently-run post office with friendly attendents employing modern technology. LOL.
I'm a programmer, a former Protestant, and now an Orthodox Clergyman. I found this article to be very entertaining. Now I know why I've always liked BSD and OS X.
I'm inspired to read one of Charlie Stross' books.
So, in other words, the machine will tell you, "Hey dude, you might as well talk to this homely girl, because we've analyzed your interests and your apparent attractiveness and you're not going to do any better than this".
And we laugh at our forebears for believing myths
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For years, traditional news outlets have headed in the direction of airing or printing stories designed solely to elicit a reaction from the audience. The pattern has become, 1) Say something provacative. 2) Invite a reaction (tell us what YOU think). It's all designed to sell more ads. What is happening now is the logical, inevitable conclusion of this pattern. The old saying still appies, however. If something is too good to be true, it probably isn't. And I would extend that to say that if something is too bad to be true, it probably isn't. It will get worse before it gets better. After years of being essentially lied to from every direction we will, out of desperation, start to believe only what we want to believe, and assume that everything else is a lie.
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They're called enterprise schools in my district, but the one that I was involved in was a big success. We had a plan, which was to bring E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum to middle school students, to prepare them for high school and beyond. We wanted the entire school to be an honors school. Students had to have a B average to get in. The school district went along with the plan, and we opened the school in 1998, and my daughter was in the first class. The NAACP warned us that they would be watching us closely because they suspected that we were creating the school only for middle class white kids. What happened surprised them and us. Middle class white kids ended up being a minority in the school. The biggest ethnic group came from lower class hispanic families who saw the school as an opportunity for their children with good grades to get ahead. We also had a number of black and asian kids from poorer neighborhoods. The district was more than happy to bus the kids from all over the city to the school. The NAACP quietly shuffled off. I think they were actually disappointed.
The school was a success, but it required the interest of parents, administrators and teachers who agreed with the vision, diligent oversight, and a district that entusiastically cooperated. If any of the above elements are missing you have a potential disaster on your hands.
...after Google's '30-day trial'...
Good grief. Even their boat chartering is in beta.
That comment is more stupid than evil. It's a real pointy-haired-boss sort of thing to say. In reality, all he can really say is, "We know when you're speeding... sometimes." GPS doesn't tell them the speed limit of every road you're driving on; or whether or not there is a stop sign or stop light at an intersection; or the precise moment the light changes; or the location of every vehicle around you and whether you are following too closely for conditions; or if you're in a school zone; or if there is construction going on in that area; or if you just robbed a liquor store; or even if you are the one actually driving the car. Let's not make too much of this.
I cracked a tooth and got a crown a couple of years ago, and this is how the crown was attached, using a light-activated adhesive.
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know where I'm-a gonna go when de volcano blow
But I don' wanna land in New York City
I don' wanna land in-a Mexico
Don' wanna land on no Three Mile Island
Don' wanna see my skin aglow.
Don' wanna land in Comanche Skypark
Or in Nashville Tennessee
Don' wanna land in no San Juan Airport
Or in de Yukon-a-Territory
Don' wanna land no San Diego
Don' wanna land in no Buzzard Bay
Don' wanna land on no Ayatollah
I got nothin' more to say.
Volcano - Jimmy Buffet song
You mean that up til now it has been widely believed that a super volcano required an external "trigger" before it erupted? I'm no vulcanologist, but I've been intrigued with super volcanoes for over ten years now, and in everything I've read or seen I don't recall anyone saying that some sort of external trigger was needed to "light the fuse", so to speak.
I hate the title too, for the same reason. It did get me to read the article, so I guess it served its purpose. I have trouble believing that printed parts can be as strong as traditionally manufactured parts, so I too would be surprised if any critical parts were manufactured this way.
One of the articles (the last one linked to) says, "Brutal conditions are expected in Detroit, which has had only five days in living memory when temperatures stayed below freezing all day." I find that hard to believe. I live quite a bit further south than Detroit, and we probably have at least two or three days a year where that is the case. Looking at the forecast for Detroit, I suspect it is a conversion problem. If someone in America says, "There have been only five days in living memory that the temp in Detroit has not gotten above zero", someone outside of the U.S. might read that and think zero Celcius, which is freezing, and not -18 Celcius, which is what is meant.
Nobody is going to want to go through an interrogation every time they log in.
Well, it's not quite that simple (I'm a type 1 who was erroneously diagnosed as a type 2 for years), but you're on the right track. I know a lot of type 2s and some are very good at controlling their disease, while some take a very cavalier attitude towards it. One of my acquaintenances didn't start to take things seriously until he lost a toe. So, yes, some type 2s can be really bad about this sort of thing, and I don't think an app is going to help one bit.
That's interesting. On a side note, I've always wondered how they do a control group in such a study. Do they fill the pens (or vials) of the new insulin with a known, working, bolus insulin (like the Novolog that I use)? They sure as hell can't let you inject a placebo. That's not gonna work.
I don't know about Asimov being that inaccurate. Keep in mind that a lot of what he is describing are exhibits at the 2014 World's fair. These would still be futuristic things even in 2014, but technologically possible. Many of the things he describes are devices or systems that are technically possible, but still not quite reasonable from an economic perspective. Obviously he is way off on some things, but that just goes to show how difficult it is to predict future developments.
I am also diabetic, and I agree with you. Adjusting your diet and dosages is not that difficult to achieve good control. After a while it almost becomes second nature. Anyone who is too lazy to do it on their own is going to be too lazy to input data into an app which tells them what to do. And, as you say, the tracking component is highly undesireable. I don't need some faceless company nagging me about what I should or shouldn't be doing. Life's hard enough when you have to be your own pancreas.
I could see a future where insurance companies will require this sort of app, though. I hope they find a cure, or that I'm dead, by then.
there are idiots on both sides of the isle...
So, is that Gilligan's Isle you're talking about?
The NSA deserves a lot of criticism for some of the things they've been doing. However, this is the kind of thing they should be working on. It's not the tools they have that bothers me. It is how they use them that is the problem.
10. Modern Operating Systems - Andrew Tanenbaum - to understand how your computer really works
I do wish more young developers understood how computers work. I don't think all the schools are teaching this any longer.
I could not agree more.
Great Books of the Western World. My ex-wife had a collection of these. Neither she nor I managed to get through all of them. I think it is still available as a collection via Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't know if it's necessary to read every title. I will let others debate that. I do think it is a good starting place if you're wanting a list of books that educated people should read.
Oh! These joke sites like The Onion, and Satirewire are so funny. Imagine an efficiently-run post office with friendly attendents employing modern technology. LOL.
I'm a programmer, a former Protestant, and now an Orthodox Clergyman. I found this article to be very entertaining. Now I know why I've always liked BSD and OS X.
I'm inspired to read one of Charlie Stross' books.
So, in other words, the machine will tell you, "Hey dude, you might as well talk to this homely girl, because we've analyzed your interests and your apparent attractiveness and you're not going to do any better than this".
For years, traditional news outlets have headed in the direction of airing or printing stories designed solely to elicit a reaction from the audience. The pattern has become, 1) Say something provacative. 2) Invite a reaction (tell us what YOU think). It's all designed to sell more ads. What is happening now is the logical, inevitable conclusion of this pattern. The old saying still appies, however. If something is too good to be true, it probably isn't. And I would extend that to say that if something is too bad to be true, it probably isn't. It will get worse before it gets better. After years of being essentially lied to from every direction we will, out of desperation, start to believe only what we want to believe, and assume that everything else is a lie.
That is PRECISELY the first thing I thought of, and you beat me to the post. Man, that show freaked me out the first time I saw it, when I was a kid.
Hmmm. It might be worth the 200-mile trip I would have to make to get some.
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought when I saw this story this morning. Wish I could mod you up.