I’ve been slowly working on my MSc research proposal. Still far to early to post any of it online, but it’s starting to take shape. I’m using Papers to gather journal articles for reference as I’m working. Today, I added 33 articles to the stack, on top of the 63 I’ve already gathered. That’s not manageable. But Papers has some great tools to help cut through stuff quickly. I can sort the articles by the number of citations they have, which pushes “important” articles up to the top of the list. Then I can work through them all more effectively, without worrying about missing anything important.
a surprisingly strong system just blew through the city. tornado warnings. severe thunderstorm warnings. flooding. 2-inch-wide chunks of ice falling from the sky. It’ll be a fun ride home…
Update: The U of C rooftop greenhouse was pretty much destroyed by the storm. yikes!
I don’t have any footage of unicorns to serve as a proper chaser for driving the depressing funk away after the last few posts. This will have to do. Not much more fun than bumper cars. Even more fun, now that The Boy™ is old enough to handle his own car…
The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.
The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble
Lots of scary tidbits in an article on a planetary extinction apocalypse event - although with questionable reliability - and then this:
After yesterday’s big announcement, I thought I should give BigBlueButton another look. An open source alternative is pretty attractive, now that the others are all absorbed into the Bborg.
I’ve bought 2 ebooks. One for Kindle, one for iBooks. I can’t seem to force myself to use the kindle app long enough to finish DIYU. On the other hand, I’m really enjoying Medium Raw in iBooks.
But I can’t imagine I’ll be “buying” another ebook for a long time. They’re awkward. The digital tools that would make digital books worth the hassle, most notably copy and paste, are disabled via DRM.
Looks like most of the official shots were taken near the end of the pack, with the photographer hitching a ride with the support cars, and occasionally from the front group. I was somewhere in between, so managed to avoid photography for most of the ride :-)
It’s a new open source project, so I have no idea if it has any legs (the last Big Project That Would Change Blogging Forever was StructuredBlogging and the StructuredBlogging project and site went dark long ago…)
> SocialRiver is based on open source libraries and the OStatus specification, which includes direct support for Webfinger, ActivityStreams, Salmon, and PubSubHubBub (PuSH). We also support OpenID and will add support for OAuth and other technologies, including Websockets.
I’ve received emails from people I’d never heard from before, asking questions about posts, etc…
I’ve received messages from people I know and trust, lamenting their inability to post comments
I get that people do read this blog, although in fewer numbers since the Big Comment Disabling of Aught Ten (for whatever reason). But, disabling comments *still* feels like the right thing for me. I’m having fun with the blog again. It’s been a long time since it felt *fun*. I don’t really give a shit if anyone reads it (or still reads it). It’s for me. Comments distract from that.
If we were trying to build a true, general AI, we would first need to create a way for it to get around and interact with the larger world. And we would need a system for rapid knowledge acquisition, so that we wouldn’t have to manually explain every detail of how the world works.
Which, of course, is precisely what we’re building.
Edupunk isn’t real, in and of itself. It exists only as a concept for people to use as scaffolding when discussing priorities and alternatives in education.
It doesn’t matter what’s inside the suitcase, only that it exists, and that we chase it relentlessly.
