cproctor

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by cproctor 7y ago
I'm about to start as a professor in CS education, and am hoping we're getting close to the point where I can easily transcribe interviews and high-quality dialogue audio using open-sourced models running on machines in my lab. I&
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by cproctor 7y ago
I find ledger's timeclock format [1] to be helpful for tracking my time. I wrote a simple CLI tool to log into and out of nested accounts, effectively billing my time to different categories. I like this because it's simple, human
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by cproctor 7y ago
There's some argument that the limitations of this format (compared to open-ended parser games, or the very open-ended AI Dungeon posted here last week) are a benefit. Ian Bogost's piece in the Atlantic a couple of years ago, &q
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by cproctor 7y ago
I was grimly amused by a thought along the lines of Asimov's "Nightfall." Researchers started to piece together evidence of a million years of rain driven by CO2 emissions, just as the really big storms started...
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by cproctor 7y ago
Thanks and congratulations! This may be the project that finally gets me to invest in learning go.
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by cproctor 7y ago
Yeah, not that hard to do manually--I have a nice script for that. But I haven't looked into the logistics of hooking into the wifi connection process and doing this automatically :)
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by cproctor 7y ago
The problem with constantly shuffling MAC addresses is that they are used for device authentication on corporate/school/university networks. Does anyone know of a utility that generates MAC addresses as a hash of the SSID?
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by cproctor 7y ago
Also for the purpose of lawsuits against their customers. "In September, the website went after David Ollila, a serial entrepreneur who in 2010 created a short ski for climbing snowy hills he called the Marquette Backcountry Ski...Back
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by cproctor 7y ago
Can somebody please create a Babbage-style infinite scroll interface?
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by cproctor 7y ago
So much for education for democratic citizenship. Someday I will help lead a school whose software is written by students and whose policies are debated by student government, faculty senate, and the PTA.
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by cproctor 7y ago
I have been using this system for about a year, and it works great. I generally use the pattern yourdomain.com@accounts.mydomain.net. However, I have found from time to time that I never get account signup/confirmation emails to these
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by cproctor 7y ago
That's a cool idea! What resonates most with me is starting somewhere in the middle of the ladder of abstraction, low enough that a lot of the fundamental CS concepts are visible, but high enough that beginners can make something real,
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by cproctor 7y ago
No, Papert's constructionism is exactly what I'm pointing at. My phrase, "making with code," was meant to suggest that like maker education, this approach to introductory CS emphasizes personal relationships with powerfu
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by cproctor 7y ago
Sort of as a response, I'm currently developing/piloting a 9th grade CS curriculum designed around constructionism ("making with code"). The first unit spends a lot of time introducing students to Terminal. By the second
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by cproctor 7y ago
To a computer science teacher, this feels like trying to walk up a down escalator. First-year CS students (middle school or high school) with experience using Apple products don't have a concept of a filesystem. The shift to auto-savin
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by cproctor 7y ago
My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/ One thing I'm looking
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by cproctor 7y ago
You can make $42k teaching computer science at a private school in silicon valley.
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by cproctor 7y ago
Fun fact: there's no way to do logical grouping for head elements. (eg no divs allowed)
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by cproctor 7y ago
I miss ShitBegone ( http://www.shitbegone.com/ ), which we used to buy for our coop house.
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by cproctor 7y ago
I've wondered whether cash serial numbers are scanned at ATMS and bank deposits. The metadata could be quite informative.
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by cproctor 7y ago
It's so lovely! You can see your reflection in the water.
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by cproctor 7y ago
How do you jump?
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by cproctor 7y ago
I've been having trouble getting GitHub to send me a verification email (after adding a new email address) for over a week. Anybody else having this problem? I wonder if it's connected.
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by cproctor 7y ago
In these cases, I've had good luck just emailing them with a clear notice that I'm cancelling my account (and telling them I think it's rude not to support cancelling via the same media used to sign up). I'm not going to
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by cproctor 7y ago
Some big hospital chains are starting a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer, Civica Rx. This seems like a promising step forward. For those more inclined to direct-action, there's Four Thieves Vinegar [1]. [1] https://fourth
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by cproctor 7y ago
Dietary advice lives longer when it contains less processed food.
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by cproctor 7y ago
Right--it could work at the DNS level. Yuck.
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by cproctor 7y ago
Hmm, good point. Though it's not like we're headed in a particularly appealing direction as it is...
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by cproctor 7y ago
From a technical standpoint, I don't understand why the adtech companies don't just serve ads via APIs consumed by website owners, and served to clients via the primary domain. This seems like it would obviate current adblocking a
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by cproctor 8y ago
btw, my email to Fastmail: After reading GMail's announcement about dynamic email and your position statement on AMP, I am thankful to have switched to FastMail and looking forward to remaining your customer. I'm writing to ask y

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