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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2002
Googlismo
Just when you thought you could have no more fun with Google, along comes Googlism. I like what it says about me, even if it’s a little dated… :) (via Brad Choate‘s blog.)
Dead Grandmothers
When I first became a TA, I noticed there was a grandmother problem. Despite claims that our society was aging, it quickly became clear to me that within a few years, our grandmothers would die out. During a period of one year, I recorded the number of students who had lost a grandparent (almost always [...]
Porn
Talking about porn in the “Media in the Information Age” class this week. I was planning on only showing the first half of the excellent Frontline episode called “American Porn,” but students wanted to see the whole thing. It’s shocking to me that we don’t spend more time on pornography in media and communication classes, [...]
Wired News
I know where I go to get news. There’s the stuff on the left, mostly, with a handful of other sites now and again. That and public radio in the car make up pretty much everything. It’s natural to wonder where the digerati get theirs. Luckily JD Lasica was astute enough to ask. Check out [...]
BioPython
I made a case for Python being the language of choice for teaching undergrads in the new Informatics major. Maybe I can get folks in the department to read this essay on Python in bioinformatics. Along with a project to extend the use of Python in bioinformatics, maybe the language will make the same kinds [...]
Meet Ups
It seems clear that in the case of social activism one of the primary roles played by the net is simplifying logistics. Heard a report on NPR the other day that suggested that the internet has changed the process of peace protest among students because they can get the word out so quickly and effectively. [...]
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