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by dougmccune 10y ago
Even if there are people like yourself who actually want to work 17 hour days for 7 days in a row (!), shouldn't we as patients be able to have doctors who are not allowed to do that insanity? Medical error is the #3 cause of death in
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by dougmccune 10y ago
This rings incredibly true for me. I'm certainly the type of parent that lets my kids wander farther than normal (by today's ridiculous standard of normal anyway, which means within 5 feet) and I see constant looks of concern from
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by dougmccune 10y ago
As a lover of maps I also instinctively thought of USA Today. I can't locate a source right now, but I remember reading that USA Today's multi-color, full page weather map on the back was way ahead of its time, before any other pu
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Really cool to hear about the OER adoption, I'd love to hear more about the decision process. From another comment in this thread it sounds like people in your dept actually wrote/revised significant content of the text. That&#x27
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by dougmccune 10y ago
And also it sounds like you have worked with good professors who actually care about teaching, which is always really good to hear. Sometimes hearing about the more cynical side of how higher ed is delivered gets depressing. So keep doing w
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I honestly hope you're right. And if so things like OpenStax might really work in higher ed. We'll definitely respond accordingly if the market tells us they want a cheaper simpler textbook.
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by dougmccune 10y ago
The professors still choose the textbook. They dictate what the student needs to buy (or rent or acquire through other means). That part of the equation hasn't changed in decades, as far as I am aware. But they're entirely disconn
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I have a number of psychologist FB friends and every one that I know of has changed their name on FB to make it harder for patients to find them. Many go with FirstName MiddleName, some make up a last name, etc. That's not to say that
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by dougmccune 10y ago
One point that is often undiscussed: what defines a textbook has expanded greatly. It used to be that a textbook was just a book. But now a textbook is the book plus a huge collection of other resources, most of which the student never sees
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I sort of wondered about that thinking maybe there's only one logical way to design a git GUI on osx, but then even within this thread people brought up a few other examples that look totally different: http://gitup.co/
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Yeah, I had to do a double take because it's almost screen for screen the UI of sourcetree.
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Another thing you'll notice in that image is that sex offenses get treated differently than other crimes. My understanding is that in an effort to protect the privacy of the victims, those crimes never have accurate geolocations, and i
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by dougmccune 10y ago
The major clusters in the TL and Mission are real, for sure. But as one example, the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant still sticks out in a lot of these. You can see it in the version by crime type where plotting the points. It's the spot
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Almost all the weird spikes in the SF crime data are data issues, not real crime trends. If you're naive about it you'll get to the conclusion that one spot in SOMA along Bryant is the crime capital of SF, except that's just
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by dougmccune 10y ago
It's worth noting the study was specifically about CBT for depression, which may not indicate similar effects for CBT for other disorders. As always it's worth reading the actual study and not just the headlines. From the study: &
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I'm married to a psychologist specializing in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for treating anxiety and insomnia. There are ways to deal with these problems without medication. And these methods are backed up by peer reviewe
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by dougmccune 10y ago
The irony of a rich white male bay-area programmer using a 3D printer and data viz to explore/comment on housing prices in SF does not escape me.
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by dougmccune 10y ago
good call, will do!
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by dougmccune 10y ago
You're right, but I was talking about the steady increase in price as you move from the Inner Richmond southeast toward Noe Valley on the sculpture. That cuts through the Haight, Cole Valley, Castro, etc. In terms of how I binned the d
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I've had several offers for $100,000. I'd certainly consider your offer if you can beat that. Paypal my email address :)
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by dougmccune 10y ago
I moved to Oakland
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. It's not the website aspect of selling stuff that's the blocker. It's more the figuring out how to do pricing, shipping, networking in the art world, etc. And I'm still working up the self conf
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by dougmccune 10y ago
It does if you can get far enough away to take a photo without the perspective distortion being too great. Here's the model with a few shots going from looking directly straight down and then slowly rotating the perspective: http:&#x2
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Yeah, it was up and down for a bit. If it's down again and people want to see the visuals, here's the post as one large image: http://imgur.com/a/cIk1h
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Also, in case that doesn't work for some reason, here's the post as one big image: http://imgur.com/a/cIk1h
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Can the answer be both? If you're trying to use it as a chart to figure out home prices it doesn't provide enough information and it's misleading when it comes to determining the numeric relationship between regions. But if y
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Very good point! Yeah, please be advised there's artistic license taken and the Z-axis scale is arbitrary (well, not arbitrary, it's linear but stretched and certainly doesn't start at 0). You're totally right that the d
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by dougmccune 10y ago
If you come pick it up it can be yours for the low low price of a cool half mil. But seriously, I'm just dipping my toes into this whole artist thing, I definitely don't know how to navigate the gallery/sales world. Right now
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Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart(dougmccune.com)
389 points by dougmccune 10y ago|207 comments
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Academic clickbait: articles with positively-framed titles get more attention(thewinnower.com)
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