#video: Why you need your own website in advance of Homebrew Website Club on 5/4/16 http:/
My answer to Is there an institution similar to perimeter institute but for mathematics? https:/
There are dozens and dozens of mathematics institutes most of which specialize in one or more particular sub-area of mathematics. Examples include:
* Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA (IPAM (http:/
* National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (http:/
many more can be found by googling the phrase "math institute" (along with any particular sub-disciplines one might be interested in).
Slightly larger than these and potentially more similar to the Perimeter are
* the Banff International Research Station (http:/
* The Clay Mathematics Institute (http:/
* NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes (https:/
* MSRI (http:/
Surely there are plenty of others if you look around a bit.
Georg, I'm having the same problem with the Video plugin as well. Oddly, it's acting like it's the Comics plugin on my self-installation. I'll have to dig into some of the code to see what's actually happening here.
#indieweb Installed great plugins into my @withknown site: Recipes, Reviews, Reactions, Video via http:/
LA Times Real Estate features one-time home of @JohnsHopkins alum ('39) & noted screenwriter Millard Kaufman
In the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-home-20151213-story.html" target="_blank">Sunday section of the Los Angeles Times, this week's "Home of the Week"</a> is that of noted screenwriter and Johns Hopkins alum Millard Kaufman (class of 1939). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/movies/19kaufman.html" target="_blank">Kaufman passed away in 2009</a> just two years after publishing his<a href="http://amzn.to/1mfobJP" target="_blank"> debut novel</a>.
Kaufman is often best known as the co-creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo as well as for his Academy Award nominated screenplays for <em>Take the High Ground</em> (1953) and <em>Bad Day at Black Rock</em> (1955). He's also known for having <a href="http://boffosocko.com/2015/11/11/in-memoriam-millard-kaufman-wwii-veteran-and-front-for-dalton-trumbo/" target="_blank">fronted the screenplay for Gun Crazy on behalf of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo</a> who was the subject of the recent film Trumbo.
<img class="wp-image-237 size-full" src="http://media.johnshopkinsuniversity.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/la-fi-home-of-the-week-hollywood-hills-20151213-banner.jpg" alt="Millard Kaufman Residence" width="750" height="422" />
The Modernist home at 3574 Multiview Drive, Los Angeles, is listed at $2.495 million. (BelAirPhotography.com)
Click through to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-home-20151213-story.html" target="_blank">article</a> which features a gallery of 21 fantastic photos of the interior of the Millard Kaufman residence.
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<h3>Three noted architects shaped a Midcentury Modern in Hollywood Hills</h3>
This Midcentury Modern house in Hollywood Hills is named the Millard Kaufman residence for its one-time owner, who was a screenwriter, an author and the co-creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo. A trio of notable architects left their marks on the two-story post-and-beam house, which features exposed wood ceilings, walls of glass and original paneling.
<strong>Location:</strong> 3574 Multiview Drive, Los Angeles 90068
<strong>Asking price:</strong> $2.495 million</blockquote>
-- Source: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-home-20151213-story.html" target="_blank">Lauren Beale writing for the Los Angeles Times</a>
The home has also been featured before in Curbed [<a href="http://la.curbed.com/tags/millard-kaufman" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2014/10/30/millard-kaufman-residence-neutra-addition-for-sale.php" target="_blank">here</a>] when it was previously for sale. There's also a video walk through on YouTube (see below.)
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I haven't seen anything about "mobile being dead" as most are still saying it's the next big thing (see Mary Meeker's annual 'deck' for the past 8 years.) On the other hand, many are still shouting that RSS is dead... meanwhile, I thought your solution for a shared feedly collection for following a whole classes' worth of blogs was fantastic, and that was only available courtesy of RSS!
On the topic of your annotated bibliography, you might consider looking at the www.genius.com platform. Formerly more music focused and named RapGenius, A while back I wrote about some of their functionality here http:/
As an aside, on general technology related issues, if you're not already following them, some of my favorite sources for ed tech include:
ProfHacker Blog via The Chronicle of Higher Education http:/
This Week in Google (TWiG) Podcast via Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis https:/
Gillmor Gang (Podcast) http:/
Paul, thanks for the provocative piece, though the state of the art is certain much further along that your piece intimates. For the general reader, I would suggest reading MIT professor Cesar Hidalgo's recent book Why Information Grows (MIT Press, 2015) for some general structure and philosophy.
One of the best definitions and frameworks I've seen thus far has to be that of Christoph Adami. To start, and depending on your level of sophistication, take a look at his recent arXiv paper (Information-theoretic considerations concerning the origin of life - http:/
For further references, I maintain a nice list of resources at Information Theory and Biology Resources [http:/
For those who like to watch video material, I'll refer them to some videos from the NIMBioS Workshop on Information and Entropy in Biological Systems [http:/
I recall a few other resources in the same category as this. Here are a few links for meta-coverage on them, which may provide more beneficial than spending hours trying to delve into how to use them:
VidBolt: http:/
Socialbook: http:/
Other tools of interest, which you'll see notes on in the comments to the two above articles:
VideoAnt: http:/
ULBPodcast: https:/
Genius.com: http:/
#BigHistory
#IndieWeb I've always loved @huffduffer! @weegee asked a question that I've always struggled with. @schnarfed has already built the answer - naturally.
Kevin's (happy birthday by the way) question: "So recently I've been using the "Interview" and "lecture" subreddits to find all sorts of great interviews and profiles. However, many of them are in video form on Youtube/Vimeo and the like. Is there any way to huffduff a video to "listen" to? I don't feel I need to see a lecturer at a podium or interview subject on a couch to get what I'm looking for."
I'm not sure why I'm surprised anymore, but it seems like every time I find some really useful bit of web technology, it's coming out of the extended IndieWeb "Camp" (pun moderately intended). Thanks @adactio and @schnarfed for making my life easier and better.
I do feel a bit cheated that I didn't actually find the functionality directly on Huffduffer (or just noticed that it now somehow works with my long-loved Huffduffer bookmarklet). I wonder what other goodness I'm somehow missing out on... (Anyone can feel free to send me a list of their favorite services and other bookmarklets.)
#WhatIUse #FTW #Podcasting
I've also just run across a cultural related vocabulary-based speech "generator" with a relatively small vocabulary that could also particularly be used for an exercise similar to Chris Scaturo's. https:/
It takes its vocabulary list and allows the user to pick and choose from the short list of words to create their own sentences. These sentences are then "played" by way of short video clips from relatively popular movies/television shows that are strung together in a near natural way. Meant in some ways as a possible internet meme generator, some may find it an interesting/entertaining tool for such an exercise. They have other alternate "vocabularies", for example a Homer Simpson version in which all of the vocabulary is comprised of video clips taken from Homer Simpson scenes of the cartoon "The Simpsons."
(Do skim through the vocabulary as some may find a few words racier than some classrooms may tolerate.)
#Crumbles #BigHistory #Linguistics
I have the same thought several times a year myself. It would certainly be a difficult task, if not only just for the data input, much less the platform, though I know that a few have made some attempts.
It's in video form, but here's one of the best examples I've seen recently in the form of a Timelapse of European borders: https:/
Perhaps the idea is endemic to physicists?
Interview with creator: http:/
Software site: http:/
21st Century Cities Inititiative @JohnsHopkins http:/
#BigHistory @TheEconomist on Gangnam Style and Productivity
http:/
Often giving students a good idea of the size and scope of historical events can be difficult.
The Economist has a lovely graphic today that equates the number of man hours used ("wasted"?) in watching the music video Gangnam Style on YouTube to the man hours required to build various historical structures like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, or Burj Khalifa. Hopefully for many, it will put into high relief something from their daily lives in comparison with societies and cultures far distant in time from their own while also exercising some critical reasoning skills.
The Economist usually has some interesting daily charts that can be interesting to take apart and ask additional questions about. For instance on this one, how might man hours translate into direct cost across each of these disparate time periods? What does this say about the freedoms different societies either enjoyed or didn't? What might this indicate about the "next" potential threshold we reach? Are we possibly not getting to it as quickly as we otherwise might because of base entertainment?
On a smaller time scale, what is the equivalent if an individual student gave up something in their life (texting, video games, television) and instead spent it on something else (studying, for example)? How could one calculate the amount of time it takes to get a Ph.D., for example, and convert that into video gaming time? If one then gave up videogaming, how many Ph.D.s could one earn?
NIMBios is hosting a workshop on Information Theory and Entropy in Biological Systems this week (with streaming video) http:/
Perhaps you might also find further answers/information through the Mendeley Group for Information Theory and neuroscience: https:/