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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> teaching is nothing, research is everything Teaching is nothing, research is nothing; grants, tuition, and donations are everything. I don't know what's sadder, how far universities have fallen, or the fact that there's
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I see the mechanism you're talking about, but as I said, this doesn't seem to happen with technical information. For example, if some one writes an intro to AsyncIO, there are basically never comments like "this should be obv
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Top Comment Paraphrase: "I knew about this before it was cool." When someone posts a new python/lua/lisp feature intro, no one says "I knew that already!" or "No new info here!" But if it's about
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5 game design rules to unlearn when working in VR(gamasutra.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I want more people working on building T he F uture. That means we need more people getting STEM training. This undergrad-level analysis of the labor market is a side show compared to that.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Many social platforms exist because of the power of their restrictions (twitter, snapchat, etc). I wouldn't be surprised to see this trend spread to rest of technology. I don't want technology that can make me anyone/anything
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I think that probably only one of them is the enemy. Stuxnet, for example, hit computers in half a dozen countries but only deeply penetrated in Iran (by design). So two of the countries might be collateral or they might be deliberate misdi
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Knowing who's been targeted can help you figure out who's doing the targeting.
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The World Really Could Go Nuclear(scientificamerican.com)
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A mol of THC is worth a lot more than a mol of octane.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
You could maybe bootstrap it with a stackoverflow-like point system and by allowing people to ask questions across campuses. There's a lot to like about the Yammer strategy, but the key is (1) bootstrapping it (2) error checking and (3
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
So I think of this as "the Yammer strategy." But I don't know what academic activity students would want to engage in when they are not being forced to do so. What activity would students be voluntarily engaging in on your Ya
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I think that it has a lot to do with embodied cognition [0]. But every mathematician I've explained that too find the idea repugnant. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Come-From-Embodied/d...
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I spent a lot of time a few years ago trying to build a BB replacement [0] that we ended up abandoning. Here's what I learned: The LMS (learning management system) sales decision in made by either the university administration or the
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Top of the page https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It sounds like a tool for CVD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_vapor_deposition
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Proto-'philes' a la "The Diamond Age"
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This is easy to say from Britain, since they cut all the trees down more than 100 years ago.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
How does the ethos of "I can do what I want with my tech" interact with this problem? I guess it's analogous to saying "it's your stereo. Play what you like, but keep it down after 10PM or your neighbors will report
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Even with these sorts of optimizations, bandwidth is finite.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Can you do that without moving parts?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The lack of discoverability in these new interfaces is alarming. Maybe they're just for super-users, but still.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> What happened to Apple revolutionizing the way people pay for/consume content? I was really hoping to hear about a deal with ESPN to bring ESPN directly to viewers without a cable subscription.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Custom built photolithography hardware. Even with design documents of a 10nm chip and 20 people that understood them, I would need to spend a few billion dollars to build the manufacturing facility. However, if 28nm becomes something of an
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It looks like the business of chips is transitioning from a capital intensive industry to a design intensive industry. That could Harold a new wave of silicon startups in the valley.
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Moore’s law may be running out of steam, but chip costs will continue to fall(economist.com)
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Hardware Things: Killing, Reviving, and Owning an Amazon Dash Button(scottvanderlind.com)
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The Star Wars BB-8 droid can now patrol your home(youtube.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
That's probably not a good thing to tell students. A belief in fixed abilities ("either I have this skill or I don't") causes students to try less and encourages people to believe that people that are superficially simil
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
How should the car have responded to the cyclist? In ambiguous stops like this I find non-verbal social cues like nods, facial expressions, and hand waves are the only way to break the impasse.

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