Re: [FRIAM] Help with memory

This may be the article you're thinking of -- it's by Barry Commoner from 1976 (so your memory may not be quite as bad as you think). Unfortunately, you'll probably have to buy a subscription to the New Yorker archives to read it... or maybe see if one of those things called a "library" has it.

[FRIAM] Fwd: Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist

In reference to an earlier conversation: http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223 I doubt they got it all right, but food for thought. If I had a wish for the new year, it would be to have Dave West's 1-credit course curriculum succeed, starting at the Complex. -- O

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist

Owen, I used to say to applicants, "I have no idea whether there is a job at the end of this rainbow, but if you can live on meager salary we pay you, it is a chance to do what university professors do for 4 or 5 years. Make sure you enjoy it while you are doing it, because the pleasure of doing

Re: [FRIAM] guide to git using spatial analogies

I don't speak Italian, but that does sound like a classy option. I like PeepCode: http://peepcode.com/products/git GitHub has some good guides ( http://help.github.com/) but the big thing I used the most getting started was probably the cheat sheet: http://cheat.

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Re: Fwd: Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist

Nicely said. I suppose I would like best a very agile educational system, one that went beyond the typical university system. I'd like, for example, to see SFX become accredited, and to use something like Dave West's approach: "blitz" 1-credit courses that allow folks to be cutting edge withou

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist

http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2010/11/so_you_want_to_get_a_phd_in_th.php On 12/18/10 11:10 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Owen, I used to say to applicants, "I have no idea whether there is a job at the end of this rainbow, but if you can live on meager salary we pay you, it is a chance to

Re: [FRIAM] Support Wikileaks

Agree. Naturally it has a lot of value to know truth. Anyhow, many of the documents are no more than idle gossip and conjectures. Others are probably true but lack of value as proves and some guilties will continue walking free, cynically laughing at us and getting more powerful. At least some de