…me a lot about work that has already been done on accountability within communities. In particular, I want to highlight the book The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna...
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…ehavior composed of unknown molecular mechanisms. Ideas about entropy grew out of William Thomson's (a.k.a Lord Kelvin) thermodynamic laws about energy conservation and its allowable transformations. Later Clausius decomposed the energy into that which was available for mechanica...
TED2017: The future you https://ted2017.ted.com/program 4/20/17, 12:07 PM Martin Ford Futurist Martin Ford imagines what the accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence may mean for the economy, job market and society of the future. Martin Ford was one of t...
10 Teaching Minds I often have used the Department of Motor Vehicles (the DMV) as an example of the best there is in testing. They have two tests. Dumb multiple choice questions that make no sense and a real test that tests to see whether you can drive. Schools typically don’t h...
…nalogies; our brains are closer to a system of canals and locks, with signals traveling like water from one state to another. As I sit here typing, I’m actually seeking equilibrium states in an n-dimensional topology of gradients. Take just one: heat. My body temperature is high...
there is a constant structure with some activity going on inside it. When von Neumann’s abstract machine reproduced, it made a copy of itself in another region of the plane. Within the “machine” was a horizontal line of squares which acted as a finite linear tape, using a subset...
…sign is littered with what appeared to be good insights that have had bad consequences. Declarative design rests on all the advances in AI, plus the improving fidelity of simulations to virtually test designs. The mother of all design problems is the one that resulted in us. The...
Chapter Eight: “MapReduce”: The Compression of Space and Time In which we learn what networks are really, rather wonderfully, meant for. 1. Starting in the springtime of 1997, the American scientist and inventor Danny Hillis began what has since become an every-few-months sort...
…hat. Here is just one revenue stream: 1. A prospective customer sees his Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising on Google or other search engines and clicks through to his site, www.prosoundeffects.com. 2. The prospect orders a product for $325 (the average purchase price, though pric...
166 Teaching Minds Planning. What I said about diagnosis is also true of planning. We plan in everything we do. There are economic plans, architectural plans, medical treatment plans, business plans, and so on. A computer program is a type of plan, and research plans are everywh...
guess you wanted to save money. ? The audit has brought to the fore the lack of your office quality that i have been violently squawking about. ie . children playing with works of art. . It is inconceivable to me that John castrucci is still there , joslin part time, but relied o...
emotionally intense and challenging, a job that can be bad for many people at many times in their lives -- without letting go of the fact that some people can and do freely consent to the job. (The sex worker Mistress Matisse has written a fair bit on sex work and emotional labor...
270 Teaching Minds They must be learn-by-doing curricula consisting of series of projects inside coherent stories about life in some aspect of the real world. They must be delivered on the web. Students should work on projects where the background and help are web delivered. T...
eased management strategies. The thing is, I don't feel attacked or diminished or anything else by this article. Despite the fact that I'm a guy, I have insecurities and I can in some places see a stupid, obnoxious mirror of myself in Clarisse's dumb ex boyfriends -- that isn't...
…: Masha Drokova < Date: August 7, 2017 at 12:28:08 AM PDT Subject: Re: Hi Martin, Just wanted to check if you've seen the previous email. If it's more convenient for you to discuss it by Skype, let me know. If you want to skip any of them it's not a problem. On Aug 2, 2017, a...