On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, David MacQuigg <macqu...@ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > I had no idea these little laptops could run Linux. Cool. > > -- Dave Future tell all journalism needed but there's a lot of RedHat under the hood, Python too slow for an operating system, an agile, needs an aquarium to play safe in, with other VHLL friends (high level life forms... like Squeak, yum). So yeah, those G1G1 toy-looking toyz are quite the thing to have if you're a North American, proves you're thinking ahead, some kind of genius maybe, or at least a blogger of high repute. You'll notice I milk mine for all its worth ("mooo" says the little xo), plus now I have two, thanks to Hong Kong connections. I nominated OLPC's Negroponte for Math Czar in DC, spoofing this tendency to have a "czar" for everything, starting with that general for drugs. Either him or Richard Stallman, truly innovative spirits, very remote from the corrupted text book industries and their fly-by-night traffic in dead trees (shudder), both pure as the driven snow. But then I'm really against stupid top-down curriculum regimes, like in old Europe. 50 states = 50 laboratories, designed to compete, vie for leadership, not all toe some party line set in some faraway swamplands (a wonderful city, spent many years there) -- better to anchor in Anchorage why not? More fun. Or Hawaii maybe? Here's da link: http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1889066&tstart=0 My Chicago slides contain pro XO PR, point out that OLPC.xo.pippy contains Fibonacci's and Pascal's both in its namespace, even if not in Py3K generator format (OK, so Portland's ahead, what we'd expect from an open source capital). A core focus of my talk is the purpose of "lore", not just as idle banter, but as glue for the technical stuff, an orthogonal axis. Here's that graph, consider fixed arrow length as representing an upper limit on bandwidth (in our human subject): http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3214428790/ (note: "Saxon" refers to this military guy who thought US math textbooks sucked, created his own, caught on with the home schoolers, gave 'em an edge on tests, entre to top schools, quite a story, remind me to say more). Kirby > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig