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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...
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Monthly Archives: June 2004
Idea Browsing
I sat at the back of one of plenary presentations yesterday at the MEA conference. It’s rare that I get to be behind students instead of in front of them. I am pretty used to the idea of students checking email during a lecture. It doesn’t bother me as much as it does some people. [...]
MEA Conference
I’m off (and late) to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention. Since I am going computer-free, I won’t be blogging it. Kind of ironic, given that part of what I’ll be talking about is the intersection of conferences and blogs. If I use slides, I’ll use these. Not much there to go on, I know, [...]
Status Quo Ante
At this point, many have already read Elena Lappin’s stomach-turning tale of being detained and deported for a criminal act of journalism. It seems that the Department of Homeland Security now considers British journalists dangerous. So, to recap: we are detaining journalists, professors, and clergy. War on terror, my ass! *We have declared a war [...]
Group predictions
I already made my prediction, but I guess the October Surprise is still up for grabs. Go and vote, it’s your civic duty. We can see whether collectivities do any good at predicting the future. (I could add something silly here about the recent success rate of mass polling predicting the incoming president, but I [...]
There are times
“I’ve been studying history,” Peter said. “I’ve been learning things about patterns in human behavior. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world…” - Peter Wiggin in Ender’s Game, on why he is beginning to blog.
Remaindered Links
* Short but delightful flash narrative puzzle. * While we’re at it: flash mini-golf, and flash railroad. * House fabbing allows for the roboticized construction of concrete homes from an architect’s drawings. * Creating agent-based -secre- administrative assistants.
The Pirate with a Ph.D.