Education

I really wish this had made me feel better than it did. It’s been about ten years since I was able to drive around the the US seeing the reality. All of my travel has been, whether business or family, to metropolitan areas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and most recently Philadelphia. The latter was vibrant and completely different than I remember…

A nasty turn of events

A nasty turn of events. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Or is it a Pyrrhic victory? We are completely immersed and depressed by the size of the screwing that we have delivered to ourselves. Yes, it’s real bad. And the path to better is increasingly complex in a world already…

While this is interesting, I’m in need of some clarification. Granting that the goal is to understand religion as a characteristic of our species, what are the objectives? Neurology? Cognitive science? How is religion defined? If you are not dealing with subjective content then you are dealing with the neurological structure of belief systems. How is…

The moral conundrum

Yes, I keep coming back to the need to ignore the willfully ignorant. But there’s a moral conundrum there. That becomes an act of removing them from consideration which is what they do, are doing, to whole groups of people arbitrarily. When does that cross the moral line from “justified” to…

It’s probably a good thing I’ve been too busy to pick up on the first article in this thread. College is the new high school and community colleges are remedial middle school. The great majority of kids in the community colleges come in screwed and, if they succeed, are able to leave for a more serious screwing. The resources are there but they are…

If I may cut to the chase. . . This excellent paper may already have put you at risk. But this is probably the best way to deal with the warp speed development of MADCOM. We need massive visibility and, as you make clear at the end, humans are already being overwhelmed. For all of us in the IT/AI community action needs to be taken. I try to bring…

You have done a very nice job of highlighting the revelations of, as DJB said, what most of us knew Trump to be. Interesting that the steady collapse of our political system completely accepted loudness, ignorance, and bombastic bullshit as qualifications for leadership. And, yes, he has proven incompetence but I suspect he will continue to hold 20%…

A very good position on the integration of online content and learning. This is now available through PowerPoint 2013/16 and Mix moving PowerPoint presentations into full narrated video with interactive components automatically returned to the instructor. This works very well within Office 365 educational environments and does not require ownership or access to anything other than the Internet for students.

Probably Not the True Face of Trumpistan . . .

You are right that this is appalling but, of course, that is the intent. While most people who voted for Trump don’t actually think this way they have shown a willingness to go along. The danger is that we allow this to go unchallenged. As I’ve…