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Jake Corkin

A counter example to Keynesian effectiveness - 0 views

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keynes economics

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  • Jake Corkin on 08 Nov 10
     
    Here is another political blog post arguing against keynesian economics. The author focuses mostly on the devaluation of the dollar due to over-printing of currency.
Braquel Burnett

President Monson Breaks Ground for Rome Italy Temple - LDS Newsroom - 1 views

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      Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10
       
      awesome example of the use of digital media in the church. seeing examples of what the temple in Rome is going to look like brings more excitement and inspiration about its construction.
Brad Twining

Game Theory scene from A Beautiful Mind - Mind Your Decisions - 0 views

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game theory digiciv

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  • Brad Twining on 09 Nov 10
     
    Blog about the Nash equilibrium with more examples
Morgan Wills

Landscapes: Volume One on Vimeo - 0 views

www.vimeo.com/16198274

time lapse

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  • Morgan Wills on 27 Oct 10
     
    My last blog was a lot about beauty. This, I think, is another example of how we can use technology to better record it. The guy puts his camera on a track and takes a bunch of pictures and he put them all together in After Effects
Brandon McCloskey

Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11437839

crowdsourcing digiciv economy

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  • "What we think is good for the consumer doesn't matter - it's what the consumer thinks is good that matters."
  • When you link the consumer to the manufacturer there are huge areas of opportunity
  • It's the internet, of course, that makes crowdsourcing possible - on a global scale.
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  • But there are pitfalls. "The biggest caveat is the issue of curation. It's great you opening the gates up to everybody - but all of a sudden you're going to get a lot more stuff."
  • "We later learned that it was this revolutionary business model. I think the reason it's so pure like that is the reason it's worked so well as a crowdsourcing company."
  • "I think that the way companies are seeing crowdsourcing is a lot different from the way we see it. They are looking at it as this new business model, as a way to outsource your work to an anonymous crowd of people. We're more about giving people something productive to do with their passions."
  • it's not so much the software that makes the company, it's the community
  • "It's an affordable way to be ahead. You're able to see what your customers are thinking and what they're dreaming of, and you're able to measure that against what you're doing."
  • His concern is that by "mining" the crowd in this way, the wealth that results from the work done remains concentrated in the hands of the people who put out the call - ultimately endangering jobs and the economy. Mr Lanier also believes that crowdsourcing threatens creativity.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    Examples of successful crowdsourcing
anonymous

Hacker Makes the 5th of November One to Remember - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...28076

hacker

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  • anonymous on 10 Nov 10
     
    Example of a hack. Pretty funny
  • Brandon McCloskey on 11 Nov 10
     
    That's great
kosmik

Java course in Hyderabad - 0 views

www.kosmiktechnologies.com/java-full-stack-developer

javacontentpdf java course syllabus Training

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  • kosmik on 01 Mar 23
     
    If you're looking to learn Java in Hyderabad, Kosmik Technologies is a great place to start. With a team of experienced trainers and state-of-the-art facilities, Kosmik offers a comprehensive Java course that covers all aspects of the programming language. The course starts with an introduction to Java, covering topics like data types, control structures, and arrays. From there, you'll learn about object-oriented programming concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism. You'll also cover more advanced topics like interfaces, collections, and exception handling. The course is designed to be hands-on, with plenty of practical exercises and real-world examples. You'll get to work on projects that simulate real-world scenarios, giving you the opportunity to apply your newfound skills in a practical setting. At Kosmik, the trainers are not only knowledgeable and experienced, but also passionate about teaching. They take the time to explain complex concepts in a way that is easy to understand, and are always available to answer your questions and provide guidance. Overall, if you're looking for a comprehensive Java course in Hyderabad, Kosmik Technologies is an excellent choice. With its experienced trainers, practical approach, and state-of-the-art facilities, you'll get the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in the world of Java programming.
Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

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lds priorities information

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  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
  • homely story
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
Gideon Burton

RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

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berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC

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      Gideon Burton on 30 Aug 12
       
      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified. HTML had been around since 1990. Berners-Lee formalized the standard and the process of revising it further through this informal request for comments.
Gideon Burton

Remix Culture: The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa - From Dali to Banksy - 1 views

lunaticadesnuda.blogspot.com/...incarnations-of-mona-lisa.html

remix example mona lisa

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  • Gideon Burton on 01 Sep 12
     
    Recommended by Jill Walker Rettberg
Erin Hamson

Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project - Map of the s... - 1 views

quod.lib.umich.edu/...tree.html

open science

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      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      This chart should look more like a web, showing the connections between the various areas. It is similar to getting an education, you can not get a complete education in one area, without dabbling in other areas. For example, the connections between theology, and religious history.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 25 Sep 10
       
      Sometimes before you can understand something you have to quantify it. These early natural philosophers were just organizing what they had learned so they could better understand it. How different is it from us today, trying to map the human genome?
Gideon Burton

New Media Studies Syllabus - Rutgers - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...63061

new media syllabus atlantic technology mcluhan syllabi

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  • Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10
     
    Christina Dunbar-Hester talks through her new media studies course outline at Rutgers
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10
     
    This is a good example of how social filters work. A former student sent me the link to this via Twitter, and the professor for this course has made a very solid outline of issues that compare to our Digital Civ themes. Good bibliography, too.
Brian Earley

Of Things That Matter Most - 0 views

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digiciv

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  • For example, it wasn’t long after astronauts and cosmonauts orbited the earth that they realized ballpoint pens would not work in space. And so some very smart people went to work solving the problem. It took thousands of hours and millions of dollars, but in the end, they developed a pen that could write anywhere, in any temperature, and on nearly any surface. But how did the astronauts and cosmonauts get along until the problem was solved? They simply used a pencil.
  • Let us simplify our lives a little. Let us make the changes necessary to refocus our lives on the sublime beauty of the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship—the path that leads always toward a life of meaning, gladness, and peace.
  • Brian Earley on 12 Oct 10
     
    Maybe we don't need to drop everything and live in the woods.  We need to take a look at life and prioritize.  We can have a Walden-like experience by simplifying.
Morgan Wills

Johanna Schmitt: 'Natural Selection in an Age of Global Change' | Today at Brown - 0 views

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natural selection Brown Schmitt global change

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  • A famous early example of natural selection in action was actually discovered right here in Providence by a Brown professor, Hermon Carey Bumpus. Passing by the Atheneum (just a few blocks from here on Benefit Street) after a severe blizzard in January 1898, Professor Bumpus found a flock of English house sparrows that had been knocked down by the storm. A typical scientist, he picked them all up and took them back to his lab, where some revived and some didn’t. When he measured them he discovered that the living were morphologically different from the dead. That was a case of natural selection acting in a single night!
  • Some of those experiments have already produced results — such as the rapid, pervasive, and dangerous evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
  • And a Gallup poll on Darwin’s birthday this February showed that only 39 percent of the American public overall “believes” in the theory of evolution.
  • Morgan Wills on 16 Oct 10
     
    I've always wondered if Natural Selection is different for humans in a day and age where debilitating physical characteristics don't always prevent humans from reproducing. I found this article and highlighted some interesting points.
Katherine Chipman

Mormon.org - 0 views

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lds technology

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  • Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10
     
    An excellent example of how the church is using technology to teach people around the world.
Katherine Chipman

Welcome to FamilySearch - 0 views

new.familysearch.org/...welcome

lds technology

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  • Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10
     
    New.FamilySearch.org helps members of the church around the world organize and find information about their ancestors and ensure that their temple work is done. This is an example of what Elder Ballard said. He said, "The Lord over the centuries has had a hand in inspiring people to invent tools that facilitate the spreading of the gospel. The Church has adopted and embraced those tools, including print, broadcast media, and now the Internet."
anonymous

The Aeron Chair - 0 views

www.smartfurniture.com/...popculture.html

aeron chair blink gladwell digiciv

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  • anonymous on 02 Nov 10
     
    This chair is an example of how important human interfaces are in not only the computer world, but with real projects as well
Daniel Zappala

Unbounded Tiling Problem - 0 views

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computability tiling problem

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  • Daniel Zappala on 03 Nov 10
     
    This short discussion of the tiling problem shows a good example of how switching two tiles yields a solution for a small area that can't be generalized to a larger one.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - The business of innovation: Steven Johnson - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11706476

digiciv economy business

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  • The lone genius, beavering away in the seclusion of his lab is how most of us imagine the great moments of innovation have come into being. But is this really the whole story?
  • "[Good ideas] come from crowds, they come from networks. You know we have this clichéd idea of the lone genius having the eureka moment.
  • "And so much of that is because it's wonderfully set up for other people to build on top of other people's ideas. In many cases without asking for permission.
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  • "One of the lessons I've learned is that so many of these great innovators, Darwin is a great example of this, one shared characteristic they all seem to have is a lot of hobbies."
  • So what should companies be doing to foster innovation in their workforces?
  • "I think there's this abiding belief that markets drive innovation, corporations drive innovation, entrepreneurs driven by financial reward drive innovation, and while that's certainly true in many cases there's also this very rich long history of important world-changing ideas coming out of the more or less intellectual commons of the universities.
  • "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent."
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How the progress of technology and the economy are affected by creativity. Also the importance of isolation vs collaboration
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