Script Statistics and Methods for User Research (in German)
When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on [...]
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#Industrial Base, #TECH1 Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right [...]
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«There is time for everything.» Thomas A. Edison Ah, being able to do presentations, it’s like extreme sports for the introverted and shy. This time [...]
View ArticleDissertation Time — It’s a marathon, not interval training
Rome wasn’t built in a day but they worked on it every single day. Unknown In a recent meeting of PhD students and professors (hmm, [...]
View ArticleBetter than the worst
Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem. [It is not goodness to be better than the worst.] Seneca There’s this old saying that one crow will [...]
View ArticleA few early-2023 thoughts on Covid
The trouble with lessons from history is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins. Unknown Well, how did the pandemic [...]
View ArticleChanging Work-Life Balance and Calendar Time Management
Never mind. I do enjoy my work, but I’m afraid I’ve used it as an excuse to avoid the rest of my life. Odo in [...]
View ArticleIntellectual Humility in Science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Henry Huxley During my atheist phase I stumbled upon this cartoon (source unknown): and yeah, it’s [...]
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He extended a packet of cigarettes. They were Greentips. I said automatically: «No, thanks. I smoke Starrs; they’re tastier.» And automatically I lit one, of [...]
View ArticleUniversities as Gyms
It was the way in that college not to use the high table every day; instead, the Scholars were encouraged to sit among the students, [...]
View ArticleUniversity Research and Commercial Use
#Applied Relativity, #TECH9 You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world of industrial growth and hard currency. It is all very well [...]
View ArticleGiving Feedback to Student Texts with R and Obsidian Templates
This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist’s paper Part of the job is giving feedback to student [...]
View ArticleChatGPTs Essay on «I am a scientist because science brings me closer to...
«But I am a scientist because science brings me closer to something greater than myself.» Suvi in «Mass Effect: Andromeda» There is a beautiful quotation [...]
View ArticleChatGPT as Counsellor
Castle: «How does somebody put something like that behind them? He’s gonna need therapy.» Kate: «It helps. First he won’t even be able to deal [...]
View ArticleOnce bitten, twice shy
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like [...]
View ArticleRecommendation Tucker Carlson Interview with Mike Benz
«… all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.» Matthew 26, 26:52 The interview of Trucker Carlson with Mike Benz is very [...]
View ArticleEducation Standards in TV
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. Unknown A while ago I probably saw the most depressing tweet regarding [...]
View ArticleSimple Solutions
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View ArticleChatGPT for Writing Feedback
This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist’s paper I tried out using ChatGPT 3.5 ( https://chat.openai.com ) [...]
View ArticleExample of ChatGPT Writing Feedback
«I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.» Michael J. Fox I have written about [...]
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