[Edu-sig] Update from Silicon Forest

2023-04-05 Thread kirby urner
Originally from Math4Wisdom public listserv, hosted by Andrius Kulikauskas, PhD. https://www.freelists.org/list/math4wisdom From: kirby urner Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [math4wisdom] Re: What is algebra? How do we describe adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing? To: M4W c

Re: [Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest (follow-up)

2017-02-03 Thread kirby urner
> > OK, back to my day. Codesters, then meetup with Steve Holden, former PSF > chairman and Pycon instigator (younger the EuroPython, that institution). > He's just breezing through PDX on a lark. First, apologies for my prior post of this month appearing twice in the archives, some kind of fail

Re: [Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest

2017-02-01 Thread kirby urner
Thank you Wes, very much, for all those excellent bookmarks, reminded me of when the Web was little more than personal pages, by those knowing enough HTML to hand code, and giving bookmarks (links) to other favorite places. Great addition to the Python.org mailman archives for future reference for

Re: [Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest

2017-02-01 Thread kirby urner
Thank you Wes for all those excellent bookmarks, reminded me of when the Web was little more than personal pages, by those knowing enough HTML to hand code, and giving bookmarks (links) to other favorite places. That's value added for sure. This was pre search engine of any real power, so all the

Re: [Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest

2017-01-20 Thread Wes Turner
On Friday, January 20, 2017, kirby urner wrote: > > Greetings from Silicon Forest to this mostly-quiet list. Perhaps listservs > in general have been overtaken in many cases, by technology with a higher > bling factor. > https://medium.com/tag/edtech https://medium.com/tag/python https://hypoth

[Edu-sig] update from Silicon Forest

2017-01-20 Thread kirby urner
Greetings from Silicon Forest to this mostly-quiet list. Perhaps listservs in general have been overtaken in many cases, by technology with a higher bling factor. Or maybe it's that listservs (mail lists) are not an obvious vehicle for blatant advertising whereas Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and