Great book about doing statistics with R
«The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They [...]
View ArticleWell, teaching face-to-face was fun while it lasted
«You’re buying an environment, not an education. The education is something you build for yourself.» Victor Zen about college After a summer semester of pure [...]
View ArticleScrew Optimists and Pessimists, be a Possibilist
I agree. Everything is not fine. We should still be very concerned. As long as there are plane crashes, preventable child deaths, endangered species, climate [...]
View ArticleRecommendation: No Safe Spaces
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein “No [...]
View Article«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»
«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.» John Aikin We don’t have official censors like the Catholic Church anymore. But there [...]
View ArticleGetting yourself an Education
I marked eleven inches on the floor with two pennies. It turns out that a dollar bill is two and a half inches wide and [...]
View ArticleExample Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)
Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller Looking at the last conference submission I did write, I think my writing workflow for academic [...]
View ArticleDie Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche...
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. [...]
View ArticleMaking managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)
‘Students?’ barked the Archchancellor. ‘Yes, Master. You know? They’re the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we’re a university? They come with the whole [...]
View ArticleUniversities under Covid-19 Regulations
«Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been in the private sector. They [...]
View ArticleScaling Ideas: Apps vs Books
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is [...]
View ArticleEstablishing a working infrastructure/meetings/etc vs Entropy
Engineering: «Instruct the children not to dream of toys or sweets. Instruct them to dream of infrastructure.» Vadim Kozlov, Axioms from the Minutes of the [...]
View ArticleThe Reality of Sex (in medicine)
«Much of the history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.» [...]
View ArticleA fast-beating heart (dealing with psychophysiological reactions, incl. fear)
You’re a fool, said the internal editor. Some people have tried to kill you. You’re concealing information from the Watch. You’re mixing with strange people. [...]
View ArticleCreative Solutions during Covid Teaching Regulations
«We all did what we had to do. And in those circumstances, we did the best we could.» V for Vendetta Strange how things develop. [...]
View ArticleMinority Perspectives
«That meeting, you should have seen it, Radl. There was Hitler, first ranting, then cajoling, then perfectly rational … then raging and stamping like a– [...]
View ArticlePresentation about Technology as Tool or Trap (in German)
«I have no liking for prisons, Master Li. Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the [...]
View ArticleIt’s time to say ‹enough›
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break [...]
View ArticleRecommendation: Article “On Pleasurable Beliefs” by Thomas Harper
Because we no longer need to make much effort to stay alive and safe, we formulate beliefs not because they correspond to reality, nor even [...]
View ArticleSide-effects/Long-term effects of doing a Covid-vaccine-adherence-Purge
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re [...]
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