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Filed under: Digital History Tags: teaching I met with my digital history graduate seminar for the first time this week. My substitute showed students how to do blogs, all the while saying she thought they were useless — perhaps I should have her read this article?

But even better, our HASTAC Scholars program began, in summer of , having 56 grad and few undergrad students blogging too, in forums and in topics of their choosing, and it is lively, popular, exciting, and helping a new generation make their learning public. If the humanities are going to flourish, this is what we need to do, claim our space in the world! In this piece, Cohen stresses the positive aspects for using blogs as an educational tool.

And […]. In addition, he showed […]. I am looking on my blog as a form of Family History writing to help my own family understand what makes me tick! I cheered what I thought was a great example of a professor blogging, until I hit this paragraph: For the record, he does not call this a blog, partly, he says, because […]. Okay, that should do it […].

Being a scholar is an affliction of which scholarship is a symptom. This entry was posted in Blogging, Blogging Humanities. Bookmark the […]. There has been another round of discussion on the internets on the issue of academic blogging. The value of blogging, as a graduate student and as a member of the […]. But I do need to spend some time in the day doing my actual, you know, job!

I will be posting some reviews and […]. Own your identity, start blogging, start sharing ideas, learn how to set up things on a server securely. Having a server of your own […]. I can thus only endorse Dan's Cohens classic piece: scholars should blog without […]. Who has the time? I was also worried that putting my ideas out […]. So that no one is lost while reading this post, the class was simply told to read a blog post written by Dan Cohen, an ex history Professor, and current blogger, and to respond to his claim of […].

The idea of blogs being written by professors is an interesting one, and when I look at it could […]. Nature Chemistry , 5. Cohen, D. Professors, Start Your Blogs. Conole, G. The nature of academic discourse. As Daniel Cohen points out, blogs allow academics with extremely limited technical skills to expand their reach and […].

Tutto il contrario del mondo accademico e della scienza, che sono luoghi dove si suppone tutto sia ben ordinato. Dan Cohen wrote an entry titled, Professors, Start Your Blogs, and in that entry he advocates for the blogging […].

This is not a new genre. People have been encouraging academics to blog for almost a decade now. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Not "choice" not "healthcare" or other euphemisms. The blog post goes on to assert that the graduate instructor was "just using a tactic typical among liberals now. Opinions with which they disagree are not merely wrong, and are not to be argued against on their merits, but are deemed 'offensive' and need to be shut up. To oppose it is nothing but bigotry, akin to racism. Opponents are to be similarly marginalized and shunned, destroyed personally and professionally. He adds, "only certain groups," like "gays, blacks, women," have "the privilege of shutting up debate," and that "it is a free fire zone where straight white males are concerned.

But this student is rather outspoken and assertive about his beliefs. That puts him among a small minority of Marquette students. How many students, especially in politically correct departments like Philosophy, simply stifle their disagreement, or worse yet get indoctrinated into the views of the instructor, since those are the only ideas allowed, and no alternative views are aired?

Like the rest of academia, Marquette is less and less a real university. And when gay marriage cannot be discussed, certainly not a Catholic university. What specifically about that blog post does Marquette University regard as just cause to strip a professor of tenure? One objection is that it named the graduate instructor. As a result of your unilateral, dishonorable and irresponsible decision to publicize the name of our graduate student, and your decision to publish information that was false and materially misleading about her and your University colleagues, that student received a series of hate-filled and despicable emails, including one suggesting that she had committed "treason and sedition" and as a result faced penalties such as "drawing, hanging, beheading, and quartering.

Your mother failed to make the right choice. You must abort yourself for the glory of inclusiveness and tolerance. In addition, as a result of your conduct and its consequences, Ms. Cheryl Abbate now has withdrawn from our graduate program and moved to another University to continue her academic career. As I noted above, Abbate did receive a lot of threats and hate email after her exchange with an undergraduate was publicized.

She deserved none of it, whatever one thinks of how she handled their after-class exchange. She's correct to argue that her online antagonists were engaged in an effort to intimidate and harass.

And perhaps nothing of value was gained by including her name in the blog post. But Holtz's decision to hold McAdams responsible for her harassment sets an alarming precedent: that faculty members will be held accountable not only for their words, but for any efforts to intimidate or harass those they publicly criticize.

By this logic, a professor who criticized a college football player accused of rape, or a fraternity member who chanted "No means yes, yes means anal," or a college Republican running an "affirmative-action bake sale" could be stripped of tenure based partly on whether that student got nasty emails. Only myopia can account for failure to see the threat to academic freedom. To endure, a scholar-teacher's academic freedom must be grounded on competence and integrity, including accuracy "at all times," a respect for others' opinions, and the exercise of appropriate restraint.

Without adherence to these standards, those such as yourself invested with tenure's power can carelessly and arrogantly intimidate and silence the less-powerful and then raise the shields of academic freedom and free expression against all attempts to stop such abuse.

Again, the precedent this suggests is sweeping. No academic who speaks or writes with any regularity, whether in the classroom or at conferences or in academic journals or blog posts, can possibly meet the standard of accuracy "at all times. An inaccuracy can always be documented. And the graduate instructor, along with many other members of the academy, would obviously fail the test of "a respect for others' opinions" if those others include, for example, people who believe that gay marriage should be illegal.

You posted this story on the Internet 1 without speaking with Ms. Abbate or getting her permission to use her name; 2 without contacting the Chair of Ms. Abbate discussed and addressed the student's objection without identifying him ; and 6 without even reporting fully or accurately what the student had disclosed to and concealed from others in the University about these events. As I see it, McAdams should've been more careful with the facts in his initial post, and more charitable to the graduate instructor, even granting that, measured against the non-scholarly speech of other academics, his blog post is hardly an outlier.

A more perspicacious man might've criticized parts of her behavior without trying to turn an inexperienced instructor who hasn't even earned her graduate degree into the personification of What's Wrong With Liberals in Academia. But that is beside the point. What say you, faculty members of America? Should the sanctity of your tenure depend partly on whether, before criticizing ideas expressed by someone on your campus, you first speak with that person Professor McAdams reportedly emailed the graduate instructor, but didn't hear back , their superiors, and various members of the campus administration?

Again, the standard the dean asserts is a clear threat to academic freedom. What say you, faculty members? Should your "value or utility" to the university be evaluated based on your years of scholarship and classroom instruction? Or should administrators have discretion to declare your value "impaired" if you write a single blog post that they perceive as "dishonorable" with no objective measure?

Consequently, faculty members have voiced concerns about how they could become targets in your blog based upon items they might choose to include in a class syllabus.

Your conduct thus impairs the very freedoms of teaching and expression that you vehemently purport to promote. In practice, it is typically worse: you load the whole huge file into memory. Then you allocate memory for an in-memory representation of the content. You then rescan the file and put it in your data structure, and then you scan again your data structure.

Your pipeline could be critically bounded because it is built out of slow software e. To be fair, if the rest of your pipeline runs in the megabytes per second, then memory allocation might as well be free from a speed point of view. That is why I qualify the big-load to be an anti-pattern for high-performance data engineering.

In a high-performance context, for efficiency, you should stream through the data as much as possible, reading it in chunks that are roughly the size of your CPU cache e. The best chunk size depends on many parameters, but it is typically not tiny kilobytes nor large gigabytes.

It is best to view the processor as a dot at the middle of a sequence of concentric circles. The processor is hard of hearing: they can only communicate with people in the inner circle. But there is limited room in each circle. The further you are from the processor, the more expensive it is for the processor to talk to you because you first need to move to the center, possibly pushing out some other folks.

The room close to the processor is crowded and precious. So if you can, you should have your guests come into the center once, and then exit forever. What a big load tends to do is to get people into the inner circle, and then out to some remote circle, and then back again into the inner circle.

It works well when there are few guests because everyone gets to stay in the inner circle or nearby, but as more and more people come in, it becomes less and less efficient. It does not matter how your code looks: if you need to fully deserialize all of a large data file before you process it, you have a case of big load. Whether you are using fancy techniques such as memory file mapping or not, does not change the equation.

Some parameters like the size of your pages may help, but they do not affect the core principles. Adding more memory to your system is likely to make the problem relatively worse. It means that their best achievable throughput is higher, and thus the big-load penalty relatively worse. Note : If you are an experienced data engineer, you might object that everything I wrote is obvious. I would agree. This post is not meant to be controversial. Skip to content My home page My papers My software.

Solver s. Damn it! Richard Startin describes my feeling in a couple of tweets: As the user, you are no longer in control. Thankfully some tools are still leaving you in control: Blogs are still out there. I had 50, visitors last month. You can still use RSS readers. You can subscribe to blogs like mine by email.

I have recently discovered the fantastic substack community. Telegram is pretty decent as a secured news aggregator. My blog has a telegram channel. Nobody needs to know what you are reading. Twitter has a hidden feature twitter list which lets you subscribe to specific individuals and only see content from these individuals. DuckDuckGo is a fantastic search engine which mostly gives me what I am looking for instead of what it thinks I should find.

Do not underestimate books. Contrary to what you may have heard, you can still order paper books. The great thing about a paper book is that nobody needs to know what you are reading and when. I have many recommendations on the sidebar of my blog. There are fantastic podcasts out there. Spotify has some great stuff, but you can find many others on other platforms. If you like programming, you might want to check corecursive. Joe Rogan is also fantastic. There are many others.

Be smarter! Related : The Social Dilemma. Though exoskeletons are exciting and they allow some of us to carry one with physical activities despite handicaps, they appear to require quite a bit of brain power. In effect, though they may help you move, they require a lot of mental effort which can be distracting.

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These longer studies are a significant net loss of their lifetime income. What is happening? It may then fail. Here is the current memory usage of a couple of processes on my laptop currently: process memory virtual memory real qemu 3. Of course, another argument is that the call to empty is shorter and cleaner.

Credit : This blog post was motivated by a tweet by Richard Startin. Apple announced new processors for its computers.

Here is a table with the transistor count of some recent Apple processors: processor release year transistors Apple A7 1 billions Apple A8 2 billions Apple A9 2 billions Apple A10 3. In x64, you might get the following: cvttsd2si rax , xmm0 pxor xmm1 , xmm1 mov edx , 0 cvtsi2sd xmm1 , rax mov QWORD PTR [ rdi ] , rax ucomisd xmm1 , xmm0 setnp al cmovne eax , edx Technically, the code might rely on undefined behaviour.

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Simply put, in a large field, with many researchers, a few papers and a few people are able to acquire a decisive advantage over newcomers.

Large fields allow more inequality. One can review their model critically. Would you not expect large fields to fragment into smaller fields? Keeping your iron stores low might be important to slow your aging. Sadly, much of what you eat has been supplemented with iron because a small fraction of the population needs iron supplementation.

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So far so good, right? Subtract a , b ; if Sse I had my wife take a picture: I used an old Oculus Quest. Here are my thoughts: It works. The hardware is really fantastic, as always, even though it is an old Quest 1. The software works.

I had minor issues, like the application somehow becoming irresponsive, but I could easily be productive all day long. Maybe because I need to wear glasses, the experience is not as great as it could be, I feel mild pressure on my nose, but it is reportedly possible to buy vision-adjusted glasses.

I am going to have to investigate. I was expecting that reading text in VR would prove difficult, but it is not. Importantly, because you can put as many gigantic windows as you want around you, having a slightly lesser-than-perfect resolution is ok.

The main difficulty is proving to be that I cannot see my keyboard. I rely on my peripheral vision to locate my fingers in relation with the keyboard. It is fine once I start typing and that I do not need to press uncommon keys. But if I need to do move my hands outside their usual typing position, I lose track of their exact position of the keyboard.

I end up frequently hitting the wrong key. As you can see in the picture, I am using a wireless keyboard and a wireless mice. Working directly on the laptop proved too annoying because it has a flat surface that makes it hard for me to locate the keyboard. At least, with a standalone keyboard, I can feel the exact location of the keyboard.

I suspect that changing the keyboard type could help. I tried with a gaming mechanical keyboard and it seemed to work better. There is a way to make a virtual version of your keyboard appear in virtual reality but, so far, it did not help me enough.

For now, I just put some stickers on the keyboard to help my fingers, but it only helps so much. Whenever I take off the Quest and put it back, my windows have moved. Since it also moves the virtual keyboard, it makes the virtual keyboard much less interesting. I ended up not using it. I try hard to avoid having to take off the goggles while I work. Power usage is a concern. The Quest is standalone but it has a small battery and limited autonomy. So I have a small power cable connected to it. The Quest takes a few seconds to boot up.

The application Immersed VR also takes a few seconds. You cannot just shut the Quest down and resume from your last work session.

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