Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm – The Santa Barbara Independent McFadden disagreed sharply with what the university has described as “Charlie’s Vision” for the benefits of a “close-knit” living experience. “An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the […]
TAPoR Create and search a text corpus | Sketch Engine Sketch Engine is the ultimate tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis […]
Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow The problem with solutionism isn’t that technology is irrelevant to problem solving – it’s that technology developed in a vacuum by people who will never have to use it will only ever make problems worse. The Rent Versus Buy of Career Growth – Accidentally […]
I love the part of designing a website where you’re exploring initial ideas. You’ve got a general direction and it’s time to think through interesting things that might play into the visual design and the functional aspects of this thing that doesn’t yet exist. Somewhere around Rasmus Lerdof’s quote – “I actually hate programming, but […]
The goal of this project was to have students logging their practice on translation and a separate non-translation activity.1 It’s a neat idea and I proposed doing it via Google Forms/sheets because it was a really short timeline. Here’s a walkthrough of how it ended up with version two. It’s likely we’ll have a more […]
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Criticalcommons.org h/t Luke Phelan Event Delegation Such a nice simple way to deal with dynamically generated elements. Easy and obvious if you know it, otherwise you do some really messy, stupid, complex things that still haunt you to this day. Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps Obviously I don’t actually think it’s bad to make […]
Steampipe | select * from cloud; Forrest Fleischman on Twitter: “In the last week I’ve started to receive inquiries from people running tree planting programs wanting my help. I am suggesting that they shut down their programs. Here I will explain why:” / Twitter Nice exploration of all kinds of things that frequently happen between […]
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever – The Verge —Gets a bit hyperbolic (you can’t understand instagram? really?) but does get at some of the tension between skills/understandings that are needed vs patterns that might be changed Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student […]
Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages | Scientific Reports The research described herein is motivated by a conceptual paradigm shift, namely, that learning to use modern programming languages resembles learning a natural language, such as French or Chinese, in adulthood. Specifically, we argue that research on the neurocognitive bases of […]
Kim Moran-Jones on Twitter: “And done! A year of temperature minima and maxima, and UK COVID deaths, recorded in fabric. Data visualisation has a new medium? https://t.co/6EyMsHec6S” / Twitter […]