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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: December 2003
It’s not plagiarism if…
… you are not caught? Of course, this isn’t true, is it. It’s plagiarism because we know when plagiarism occurs. It happens when we take ideas or the embodiment of those ideas without giving credit. But, as academics we do that every day. We give lectures without footnotes, we entertain ideas in our everyday conversations [...]
I am Tesla
Which historical madman were you? Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. Precisely. Tesla and Britany Spears were the two mascots of the comm theory class this semester.
More on selling
I recently posted on Abercrombie’s soft porn catalog, and was somewhat critical of it. Now I want to backtrack firmly to the top of the fence. I am not really down on advertising. In fact, I *enjoy* many ads when they are done well. Advertising is persuasion, but it is also art. If A&F decides [...]
Class in jeopardy
When I was a teaching assistant, and it came time to do an exam review, I knew I always had a fallback: Jeopardy! But if you had told me I’d be playing Jeopardy with a graduate class, I’d have thought you were crazy. Nonetheless, by request, I played Jeopardy during the last meeting of my [...]
Designing a Robot
Tim Bray has a great entry on building web robots–or at least robots intended for search engines. I may assign this, along with his paper for WWW, for my class in the spring.
Future Wireless
Got a half column-inch in the Buffalo News this morning: Wireless Internet will insinuate the computer even more deeply into our lives, said Alex Halavais, an assistant professor in UB’s School of Informatics who studies new communication technologies. People, for example, most likely will use their computers more often, for shorter periods of time, much [...]
Shrinking news