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TED Talk: Robot Lessons On Being Human
Four lessons on how to be more human learned from robotics. If the video below does not work, then try Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human.
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Restore Line Breaks
File this under external brain notes. I figure I will need to do this again or explain it to someone else. Outlook removes line breaks. This probably works fine for people who work in a normal job. As I work in computers, removing these often breaks the formatting and makes the message unintelligible. For example,…
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Gracie Died
It has not been a very good six weeks for my mother. Her mother and one of her three cats died during this period. Way back in 1995, I had just moved from Mom’s house to Dad’s. Mom decided to get another cat. I guess Winnie needed company or something like that? William was still…
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Deletions
I may have blogger’s block. Over the past three weeks I have deleted thirteen posts. I really want to blog about our new vendor, Desire2Learn. At the same time I do not want to be perceived as hurting the growing relationship we have with this company. None of the posts are about them. I just…
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TED Talk: How I beat a patent troll
Patents are annoying. My field watched the train wreck of lawsuits a few years ago. So it makes me happy to watch a video where someone beat a patent troll. If the below video does not work, then try Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll.
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TED Talk: Optimism Bias
I tend to think things are going to be worse than they actually will be. That new restaurant will suck. Somehow I will manage to total my car on the trip I have taken 27 times in the past 5 years. I knew I failed every test I took in school until I get it…
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TED Talk: You Fell Through the Cracks
There was a time when my secret project, the thing that brought me in to work ever day and probably why I stayed till 8pm, was attempting to end the error_log from have anyone ever hitting the 404 page. It was after making the 404 page funny. Only no one got the joke. If the below…
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Interactive Archives
My jaw dropped at the end of this blog post Cloud Hosting and Academic Research. There is a value in keeping significant old systems around, even if they no longer have active user bases. A cloud hosting model seems so right to me–it’s scalable and robust. It just makes sense. But the hosting costs are…