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It’s the thing that gets you to the thing.
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. There is a 40 episode show from AMC called Halt and Catch Fire. It’s a fictionalized few of the early computer revolution in the 80s up to the search engine wars and the…
Avoiding the bystander effect
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The bystander effect occurs when there is a group of people witnessing an emergency situation, and each person believes someone else will intervene. The chance of someone intervening goes down the more people…
Scheduling and getting things done
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On the school/work front, I’m trying a new productivity technique. I’ve always had a To Do list, and I would mark things with @today for items that needed to be completed that day….
Chesterton’s Fence
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In G. K. Chesterton.s 1929 book The Thing, he writes: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be…
The implications of Lee Sedol’s defeat by Google’s AlphaGo
The game of Go has been played for over 2,500 years, and it was believed at one time that the computer would never be able to play it competitively. Chess fell to the computer against strong human players in the 1980s, culminating with IBM’s Deep Blue win over world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997….