LOOK: Temple puts Twitter handles of players on football jerseys for spring game – CBSSports.com —I’m still finding it hard to believe this is real Instead of last names on the back of jerseys, the school put the Twitter user names of its players ahead of Saturday’s game. Experience: I was swallowed by a hippo | Life and style | The Guardian time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth. For years, Facebook has been secretly deleting Zuck’s messages from his correspondents’ inboxes / Boing Boing Facebook confirmed that starting in 2014, Facebook began covertly deleting the personal messages Zuckerberg had sent to Facebook users, allegedly in response to the hacking of Sony Pictures. Within hours of Techcrunch’s story, Facebook announced that it would extend this feature to other Facebook users. Even as Facebook was ensuring that its CEO could sanitize his public records, it was deceiving its users by claiming that when they deleted the private videos they’d uploaded, the videos would disappear — instead, Facebook permanently retained these videos. Some datasets for teaching data science · Simply Statistics This dataset includes gun murder data for US states in 2012. I use this dataset to introduce the basics of R program. The Eviction Lab The Eviction Lab at Princeton University has built the first nationwide database of […]

What’s Next for Hack EducationI am hoping that the shift away from compiling all the goings-on for that weekly news round-up will give me more time to think deeply and critically about education and technology, instead of perpetually being enraged by how many terrible and silly things are marketed as “solutions” by folks who just want to sell a product or service – some aware, some unaware that their very well-funded load of futurist bullshit is pretty damn dystopian. —best wishes to Audrey as I couldn’t do more than skim those weekly round-ups because I found them so deeply depressing The Chaos – Gerard Nolst Trenité classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Why Data Is Never Raw – The New Atlantis “Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea; to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.” “Raw” carries a sense of natural or untouched, while “cooked” suggests the result of cognitive processes. But data is always the product of cognitive, cultural, and institutional processes that determine what to collect and how to collect it. In this sense, “raw data” is indeed a contradiction in terms. In the ordinary use of the term “raw data,” “raw” signifies that no processing was performed following data collection, but the term […]

Of Course Westworld’s Costumes Are 3D-Printed, Too – Racked With the exception of some places in Italy or maybe England, you honestly can’t find beautiful, intricate fabrics anymore. It’s really sad! So we had to hire 3D printers in Los Angeles to reprint all our vintage fabrics so we could have more — and then beg them to work around our crazy TV schedules. Vine star Logan Paul profile – Business Insider A source close to the stars went so far as to say it’s a combination of living on Vine Street and the re-Vine tool — not necessarily talent — that keeps these stars on top. “You literally have the top 30 Viners creating what is nearly all of the content that is being viewed on Vine,” he said. “And all they do is just help each other get bigger and bigger. It’s not a democracy,” he adds. “Probably for a lot of people who want to do cool things on Vine, it’s discouraging.” Found Objects & Focus on the Details: A Look at Sculpture Artist Nemo Gould’s Upcoming Solo Show | SF Station – San Francisco’s City Guide Each piece is a feat of engineering with many moving parts, lights and little secret components—rewarding tidbits for observant viewers who are also willing to take their time and go in for a careful look. […]