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by lcuff 8y ago
Squeak, Alan Kay's environment for kids, evolved from Smalltalk, would be a very hot prospect if I were in your shoes.
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THE PROBLEM OF AUTOMATION: INAPPROPRIATE FEEDBACK AND INTERACTION [pdf](jnd.org)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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Ironies of Automation (1983)(bainbrdg.demon.co.uk)
54 points by lcuff 8y ago|3 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
Watching the SICP lectures, I had a moment of "I totally did not see that coming", with triple exclamation marks. The ability to do astonishing things with so little code justifies the word magic to me. Also magic as sleight-of-
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A laser revolution: How lidar is changing the way we see the world(csmonitor.com)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|0 comments
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God is a verb(wholeearth.com)
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Apple Tells Congress 'Nothing Was Ever Found'(macrumors.com)
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by lcuff 8y ago
It's a reasonable position, although a counter-argument is that for many people, a self-inflicted problem such as being overweight isn't all that amenable to conscious control. So, giving the advice: "you're overweight
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How not to say the wrong thing (2013)(articles.latimes.com)
171 points by lcuff 8y ago|47 comments
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Doing a Job (1982)(bebekim.wordpress.com)
73 points by lcuff 8y ago|15 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
I agree. Also, having a security guard inside the building all night long would have deterred this group. You'd think the insurers would do some oversight on the security.
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by lcuff 8y ago
It's a complex and emotionally charged issue. A others have said, even truly offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment. A case that went to the Supreme Court back in 2010, Snyder vs Phelps, allowed the Westboro Baptist chu
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Ironies of Automation (1983)(bainbrdg.demon.co.uk)
1 points by lcuff 8y ago|1 comments
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by lcuff 8y ago
When I was in high school, I read Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity". The thing I remember most about the book is it asking the question "What is important?" and suggesting that such a question might act
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by lcuff 8y ago
It won't take up a whole long flight, but one of the best TED talks ever is Jill Bolte Taylor's talk. She's a neuro-anatomist who had a stroke and reports from the inside about what goes on, with significant implications for
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by lcuff 8y ago
> My point is just that, not everyone is good at processing this kind of information. It's a really good point. One of the things that concerns me as I hear about people (not necessarily you) who have grown up with cell phones and a
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by lcuff 8y ago
> I don't agree with that. As someone who has communicated primarily online since childhood, I feel as though I > am much more attenuated to some group of people's emotional state through text, whereas in person, I fee >
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by lcuff 8y ago
The notion that affective empathy is present in any complete way in text-only communication is misguided at best. Affective empathy gets communicated f2f via voice quality, body posture, tonus et al. The lack of a medium for affective inf
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Jessica Livingston – Grow the Puzzle Around You(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
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Spigot Algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lcuff 8y ago
A fun story in the same vein, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, by H.L. Chace, can be found here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/files/exhibits/ladle/
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by lcuff 9y ago
The development of the scientific method, as advocated by Francis Bacon and other empiricists seems to me to underlie so many of the achievements that followed Bacon.
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by lcuff 9y ago
It is distressing to see the post flagged, and only get 36 upvotes as of 6 June, when the article on Alex Honnold is currently going through the roof (473 and counting). It makes me wonder if people have read the posting guidelines at all.
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by lcuff 9y ago
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. Gerald Weinberg. This book, now over 40 years old, addresses the 'core within the core' of the reality of systems. Unbelievably good, with a very light-hearted tone.
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Thunderbolting Your Video Card(blog.codinghorror.com)
4 points by lcuff 10y ago|0 comments
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Tanganyika laughter epidemic(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lcuff 10y ago|0 comments
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by lcuff 10y ago
This article was written before UTF-8 became the de-facto standard. According to Wikipedia, UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064 valid code points. Much more than Goundry's (the author's) 170,000. Goundry's only complaint a
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy(bakadesuyo.com)
2 points by lcuff 11y ago|0 comments
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Building a PC, Part VIII: Iterating(blog.codinghorror.com)
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Towards the crash-proof aeroplane(economist.com)
10 points by lcuff 11y ago|0 comments

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