January, 2009
Slashdot | Teachers Need an Open Source Education
Slashdot | Teachers Need an Open Source Education. A rather good set of readings showed up on Slashdot today; I was especially interested in this one concerning Apathy, Lies and Fear. In the articles listed above, the issues arise when teachers do not have the knowledge of what something does. It’s a situation of brand [...]
Tags: browsers, education, educational technology, magic box, MS, Open Source, pebkac, Ubuntu
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Ontology brief
Well, I’ve gotten myself a way to make money this year – I’m working on some research for one of my professors. We’re designing a knowledge base/data mining tool for HIV research, and we’ll be using a product called protege (http://protege.stanford.edu) to handle the similarities in the data and the operations on them. I’ve got [...]
Tags: data mining, development, ontology, quick
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Human Stupidity, Part I
Sometimes, there’s a story that causes people to stand up and say something. This is one of those moments. I caught this article when I was looking at my news stories in the morning on Slashdot (http:/slashdot.org): Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes stonedcat writes “A Wisconsin woman has claimed that Dell computers [...]
Tags: human stupidity, magic box, MS, Office, pebkac, Ubuntu, Verizon
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Still Alive
Yes, I actually am still here, it’s just been an interesting past few weeks as I got things organized and moved about. I’ll have more on it here in a bit.
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