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New Programming Jargon
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Programming and human factors. Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sneezes and coughs with the occasional meningitis outbreak. It isn't always a pleasant process, but it is, unfortunately, a necessary one if you want to survive. Is this even a question.
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Life Artificial Blog: September 2011
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Sunday, September 4, 2011. Delays and Damned Delays. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Where to get the novel. Delays and Damned Delays.
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Higher Ed/: OK Trends
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014. If you're not familiar with the OKCupid blog, check out it out here. Christian Rudder slices and dices data from the dating site to try to reveal human nature. I find it great fun to follow along with his train of thought, which he presents engagingly and well-illustrated with graphics. The articles could serve as examples to students of what 'critical thinking' might be. And the resulting media fiasco. See also: " okcupid is the new facebook? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Life Artificial Blog: April 2011
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Friday, April 15, 2011. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Where to get the novel.
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Life Artificial Blog: Proposed Nova cover
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Sunday, May 20, 2012. I changed the font to one called "System," which was too good to pass up. I will edit Jacob to be the same. Here's the 25% image- one of the first macro photos I took. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Where to get the novel. Cover Art for Jacob.
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Life Artificial Blog: August 2012
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Where to get the novel.
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Life Artificial Blog: Binsects
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Friday, May 3, 2013. It's really hard to write near-future sci-fi without being overtaken by events. Apparently robotic insects can already fly:. Http:/ news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/robotic-insects-make-first-controlled-flight/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Where to get the novel.
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Life Artificial Blog: January 2012
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This is the blog to go with the novel at lifeartificial.com. Sunday, January 29, 2012. Music in Life Artificial. The musician character in the novel (Gloves) composes in micro-tuned scales, and uses other sorts of composition techniques that we might find odd to listen to. In fact, there are hints in the novel that his music is more popular with artificials than with humans. The inspiration for Gloves' music comes largely from Daniel Thompson's blog. Maybe he's pulling my leg. You describe an interesting...
