tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494432024-08-27T22:56:47.845-07:00Tellio: Reflections of A Mid-Career TeacherWe teach ourselves and then share ourselves.telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]Blogger981125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-50727632085200677082023-01-31T05:56:00.001-08:002023-01-31T05:56:32.098-08:00Don't believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war ... - Salon news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/art…Don't believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war ... - Salon news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/art…: Don't believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war ... - Salon news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/art… telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-55422969147596375082023-01-31T05:45:00.001-08:002023-01-31T05:45:12.869-08:00A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers (Haomiao Huang/Ars Technica)A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers (Haomiao Huang/Ars Technica): Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers  —  A new telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-18839369000918372562022-11-12T03:09:00.001-08:002022-11-12T03:09:05.814-08:00Western propaganda Caitlin Johnstone retweeted: "Western propaganda means people always oppose the last war but not the war that's currently being pushed by the propaganda of today. The US provoking and sustaining its Ukraine proxy war is no more ethical than its invading of Iraq; it just looks that way due to propaganda." twitter.com/caitoz/status/… telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-18673985096852232822020-04-21T04:03:00.001-07:002020-04-21T04:03:27.084-07:00America isn't just a failing state, it is a failed experimentAmerican Narcissism. Read Johan Hari's "Lost Connections" for more. Comments telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-74007787135748643522019-12-12T05:19:00.001-08:002019-12-12T05:19:53.279-08:00Do the "Fruitcake" with Fred Schneider & The SuperionsFunsies for us all. This just now got on my radar, even though it was released way back in 2010. Whatever! You can't put a date on fun. Fred Schneider (of The B-52's, of course!) & the Superions made a kind-of-sexy, but also perfectly kitschy and weird, super low-budget music video for their song "Fruitcake." Yes, it's a song about fruitcake. I won't say another word, just watch it. New telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-63091995178660228572019-12-12T05:16:00.001-08:002019-12-12T05:16:44.572-08:00Why the Afghanistan papers are an eerie reminder of VietnamSo it goes...again and again and again. Why? Gotta feed the military-industrial complex. That is one screaming horror we must stand up to or die. Noam Chomsky’s "The Backroom Boys" was a warning telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-30600694845664990882019-12-12T05:05:00.001-08:002019-12-12T05:05:27.592-08:00Nancy Pelosi: if she ran for president, she'd beat Trump.Preposterous in every way. And written by noted Republican troll, David Gergen. Nancy Pelosi: if she ran for president, she'd beat Trump. telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-1462961748147789032019-12-11T05:17:00.001-08:002019-12-11T05:17:33.134-08:00A Symposium for John Perry BarlowQuite a collection, especially Benkler. John Perry Barlow, who passed away in 2018, penned two influential essays early in the web’s evolution A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net. It’s easy in retrospect to make fun of some of Barlow’s claims: Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-73934399041440373932019-10-26T03:47:00.001-07:002019-10-26T03:47:47.217-07:00Google is about to get a lot better at understanding your search queriesThis is a bit of a Halloween-spooky announcement. Google has announced its rolling out a major upgrade to its search engine, which should mean it gets better at understanding your queries in context – rather than just matching keywords, it'll actually figure out what you're trying to say. Thanks to a new machine learning process, Google says, you won't have to try and stuff your searches with telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-50774011756932737972019-10-24T07:41:00.001-07:002019-10-24T07:41:58.069-07:00A call to action: We need the right incentives to guide ethical innovation in neurotech and healthcareIndeed we do _______________ Ana Maiques, CEO and founder of neurotech company Neuroelectrics, writes up a compelling case in her recent article, summarized thus: “I strongly believe that Neurotech entrepreneurs can not afford not to be involved in neuroethics. It is simply not an option anymore.” I share that belief and would like to take it one step further: “I strongly believe that telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-62790623685162670482019-10-22T16:38:00.001-07:002019-10-22T16:38:53.614-07:00Journalist's Toolbox retweeted: The 7 types of mis- and disinformation help us to understand the complexity of information disorder. Read more: https://t.co/Gn7sJF46RJ First Draft @firstdraftnews Journalist's Toolbox retweeted: The 7 types of mis- and disinformation help us to understand the complexity of information disorder. Read more: https://t.co/Gn7sJF46RJ telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-66796950246537046362019-10-22T07:11:00.001-07:002019-10-22T07:11:57.177-07:00This Butterscotch Pudding Has a Secret Ingredient That’s 10/10 FallSugar free butterscotch? What manner of perilous magic is this? A Big Little Recipe has the smallest-possible ingredient list and big everything else: flavor, creativity, wow factor. Psst—we don't count water, salt, black pepper, and certain fats (specifically, 1/2 cup or less of olive oil, vegetable oil, and butter), since we're guessing you have those covered. Today, we’re making a new-classic telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-10461023184206981722019-10-22T06:49:00.001-07:002019-10-22T06:49:01.537-07:00An Appalachian Eden for apples thrives in North Carolina When Eve risked plucking that first apple, it didn't turn out so well. But when farmers in Henderson County, N.C., risked their livelihood on apples, they created a veritable Eden. telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-60896840940012265632019-10-22T05:14:00.001-07:002019-10-22T05:14:54.697-07:00New organelle discovered inside cells found to prevent cancer Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new organelle inside our cells that helps to prevent cancer by ensuring that genetic material is sorted correctly as cells divide. telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-33780019214830496432019-05-02T03:28:00.001-07:002019-05-02T03:28:01.769-07:00Poetry Out Loud Winner: Isabella CalleryAhhh, Chas. Lamb...marvelous sounds performed trippingly. The National Champion of this year's Poetry Out Loud competition was announced Wednesday. Isabella Callery recites "Thoughtless Cruelty" by Charles Lamb. telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-54549372243307691142019-04-02T04:54:00.001-07:002019-04-02T04:54:17.171-07:00jisun kim experiments with net and expanding foam to create unique furniture piecesAll shook up. Innovation defined. I love it. the designer's method presents everyone with the opportunity to create their own unique objects. The post jisun kim experiments with net and expanding foam to create unique furniture pieces appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-14297874855678759012019-03-30T05:08:00.001-07:002019-03-30T05:08:15.157-07:00gut microbiome; +18 new citationsWhat's new in research with the gut microbiome? Here is my alert from PubMed if you are interested. 18 new pubmed citations were retrieved for your search. Click on the search hyperlink below to display the complete search results: gut microbiome These pubmed results were generated on 2019/03/30 PubMed comprises more than millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-55264707475657376202019-03-30T04:51:00.001-07:002019-03-30T04:51:56.212-07:00Deadly skin-eating fungal disease wipes out 90 amphibian species in 50 yearsReading this, I worry about my spring peepers. If they grew quiet, ever, well, canary in the coal mine doesn't even approach what it would mean to me. The death of entire species of amphibians would be akin to pulling the keystone from the eco-arch. Gives new meaning to collapse. #smallstories Study reveals extent of chytrid fungus and how devastating it has been for frog, toad and salamander telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-48963158578496892282019-03-30T04:43:00.001-07:002019-03-30T04:43:29.318-07:00Scutoid: a geometric building block of lifeWow. I am helping my students write analysis papers right now. For me as a teacher, it is the most trying of all the thinking and writing skills to teach. This idea, the scutoid, is a classic analytical tool. It has been abstracted from mathematics and applied to biology. The article shows how. Lessons here for anyone who likes to "abstract and apply". BTW, this site, Chalkdust I (https://ift.tt/telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-88484966872355171792018-11-29T07:41:00.001-08:002018-11-29T07:41:05.743-08:00Parents Are Spending Twice as Much on Their Adult Kids as RetirementWho knew? There are some parents out there who have a hard time letting go of their adult children. If only they had similar difficulty letting go of their money. According to a new study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave, parents in the U.S. spend $500 billion annually on their 18- to 34-year-old adult children. That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t twice the amount they contribute each year to theirtelliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-11256676831243056342018-08-12T08:27:00.001-07:002018-08-12T08:27:24.248-07:00humans working sociallyAutomation is that jagged little pill you can't get down no matter how much water you drink. A lot of traditional human work is getting automated, by machines or software. I don’t know how much work will be automated or what sectors will be hit the hardest, as estimates by all experts vary widely. But I do know that people make bad computers and very unhappy robots. Therefore we should not telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-28943975243763158272018-08-10T20:33:00.001-07:002018-08-10T20:33:00.251-07:00Bunker Mentality: Start Preparing for Ecological & Economic Disaster Free Of Corporate OverlordsAuthored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Let’s face it: reading stories about the ongoing destruction of planet Earth, the life-sustaining blue marble that all of us – aside from maybe Elon Musk – are permanently trapped on, has got to be one of the least-favorite topics of all time. The reasons are understandable, but no longer feasible. In the realm of politics, replete telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-88904890132686274652018-08-08T10:14:00.001-07:002018-08-08T10:14:13.472-07:00Frank Zappa’s 1980s Appearances on The David Letterman ShowZappa. I want to be more like him than anyone. I’ve never been a huge fan of Frank Zappa’s music and gravitated more toward the bizarre yet bluesy sonic world of his sometime collaborator and lifelong frenemy Captain Beefheart. But I get the appeal of Zappa’s wildly virtuoso catalog and his sardonic, even caustic, personality. The phrase may have devolved into cliché, but it’s still worth telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-84034427010526722862018-07-31T10:01:00.001-07:002018-07-31T10:01:39.656-07:00A Sunny Toy Instrument Cover of the 1985 Huey Lewis and the News Single ‘The Power of Love’Love the tone. In a middle of the road departure from their usual revolutionary rock/heavy metal style, the incredible Wackids performed a sunny toy instrument cover of the 1985 Huey Lewis and the News single “The Power of Love” while standing in front of a highly distinctive DeLorean from that era. That’s the Power of Hair, An Old Spice Interactive Website With Hair That Plays Huey Lewis andtelliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049443.post-7411791685495582022018-07-31T09:56:00.001-07:002018-07-31T09:56:11.812-07:00Trump Comes Out Against 3-D Printed GunsSentence you will rarely, if ever, see: I agree with he who must not be names. I wonder how much the 3-D printing business will be boosted by these plans. President Trump appeared to voice his opposition to 3-D printed guns being sold to the public, in a tweet this morning, saying that he had already spoken to the National Rifle Association about the issue and that it did not appear to make much telliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864[email protected]0