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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
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2003
Super-expedited review
Graduate students quickly learn to loathe human subjects review. It’s not that they don’t see the need, nor that they would like to be doing intrusive research. It’s just that most of what we do, while it certainly has an effect on our subjects (how could it not?!), has an effect that is extremely small. [...]
Edublogging +
CogDogBlog has posted a presentation on “Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs”. A well done presentation (using Breeze), and a well-spent 20 minutes.
Traffic gods
Some cities (not Buffalo, AFAIK) have devices on their stoplights that allow for emergency vehicles to change them remotely. The trafic signal crack has always been something of a Grail for hackers. Phrack ran an article recently on possible ways to get at a city-wide grid. But what if you could just buy your own [...]
Open Journals
For future reference, a listing of open access journals in the social sciences generally, information science, communication/media, and sociology.
Smitten
Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, famously wrote that “God is dead.” He less famously wrote that he “should believe only in a god who understood how to dance.” I extend this generally to thinking that humor has a lot to do with being able to see multiple perspectives on things and that must give the [...]
Political blogs: DK
This from a Harvard Institute of Politics survey of 1200 undergraduate students (doc): 53. One of the newer uses of the Internet in this campaign season has been the blog – the online diary that details the day-to-day life of a campaign and also allows people to communicate with the campaign and each other. Does [...]
New scholar of Oz