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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 17 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 17 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
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: November 2002
Meatkeepers
Since the number of students actually in class has dropped off (see below), I’ve been trying to shift gears a bit into my favored project-oriented small-class format. That’s the way I’ll teach it next year in the fall, I hope, with both grads and undergrads in the class. One of the things we are talking [...]
Anti-democratic
We need to stop “Rocking the Vote,” and instead make an effort to educate our population. I recognize that basic knowledge and literacy exams were a proxy for African-American disenfranchisement. But how can democracy work when voters are stooopid? It’s embarrassing when other countries make fun of our citizens; it’s painful when they are right. [...]
Genetic hobbyists?
I’m all about tinkering. Although I don’t have time for it now, when I was younger, I was into personal robotics, and even assembled a HERO-1 at one point. Will my kids get to play with designing their own organisms? If creating a new organism is possible in the lab today, doesn’t it seem like [...]
Random web pages
Julia Hsu sent me the the URL for Mangle, a random link generator that produces random word queries to extract URLs from Google. I was working on something similar (using a larger dictionary), but now, given the virtue of laziness (easily confused with the principle of least effort), can leave off completing it. I might [...]
Attrition
I call this “why it’s not a good idea to assume students will come to a lecture without a grade directly attached to attendance.” (It’s not quite as bad as it looks, but almost :). Really, this has tugged at me. I deliberately designed the class the way it is assuming that 25% of folks [...]
Ferret for sale
If anyone out there is wondering what to get me for Christmas, I would love one of these.
Hu’s on China?