Lakoff said the president manipulates language to control the public narrative.
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👓 EdX introduces support fee for free online courses | Inside Higher Ed
In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable.
👓 Ed-Tech That Makes Me Want to Scream | Inside Higher Ed
I'm not losing my mind yet, but it's close.
This makes me want to write out a full thesis of the fact that there’s a limit to individual human knowledge. Perhaps I could call it the Aldrich limit as a corollary to Shannon’s limit? I suspect it could be a part of a larger thesis about the various levels of knowledge and how to protect freedom.
👓 Andrew Jordan reviews Peter Woit’s Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations and finds much to admire. | Inference
Andrew Jordan reviews Peter Woit's Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations and finds much to admire.
For the tourists, I’ve noted before that Peter maintains a free copy of his new textbook on his website.
I also don’t think I’ve ever come across the journal Inference before, but it looks quite nice in terms of content and editorial.
👓 a note by Brett Simmons
Here’s a provisional thought (all thoughts on a blog are provisional) — to read a good blog is to watch a writer get a little bit better, day after day, at writing the truth.
👓 About Kownter | Kownter
I’m going on the journey of building a simple, private, self-hosted, cookie-free analytics tool that I’m calling Kownter. I may fail. But it will be fun and interesting! Come along!
Hi, My name is Ross. I’ve been thinking a lot about GDPR lately and considering how I will become compliant with it as I run my business and projects, so I’m looking to slim down the data that I capture about people.
The topics of both analytics and server logs have come up several times. It’s not entirely clear to me that either fall into the category of personal data, but I’ve been considering my use of them anyway.
I use Google Analytics on most sites/projects that I create, but I’m not that sophisticated in my use of it. I’m mostly interested in:
and it occurred to me that I can collect this data without using cookies and without collecting anything that would personally identify someone.
- how many visitors I’m getting and when
- which pages are popular
- where people are coming from
I would also be happier if my analytics were stored on a server in the EU rather than in the US – I can’t find any guarantee that my Google Analytics data is and remains EU-based.
I’m aware that there are self-hosted, open-source analytics solutions like Matomo (previously Piwik) and Open Web Analytics. But they always seem very large and clunky. I’ve tried them and never got to grips with them.
So I wondered: how hard would it be to build my own, simple, high-privacy, cookie-free analytics tool?
👓 Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts | New York Times
A study of 10,000 school districts shows how local norms help grow or shrink gender achievement gaps.
👓 How to Lose the Midterms and Re-elect Trump | New York Times | Opinion
Robert De Niro and Samantha Bee model the wrong way to resist a dangerous president.
👓 The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation | LawFare Blog
There is no serious argument that Robert Mueller’s appointment violates the Constitution.
👓 McGill music student awarded $350,000 after girlfriend stalls career | Montreal Gazette
She wrote an email posing as him, turning down a $50,000-a-year scholarship so that he wouldn’t leave
An insane little story of love and music…
👓 A Marketing Site Deleted Over 7,000 Articles After It Was Caught Stealing Fact-Checks And Plagiarizing | BuzzFeed
They messed with the wrong fact checker.
Who knew that clicks really meant so much…
👓 After decades of triumph, democracy is losing ground | The Economist
What is behind the reversal?
I’m just hoping our institutions aren’t so heavily weakened that there’s no turning back for us.
👓 Node.JS comes to Reclaim Hosting | Tim Owens
I'm very excited to announce that starting today it is now possible to build and run Node.JS applications on Reclaim Hosting. Similar to the Python and Ruby features that make running Django and Jekyll possible, Node.JS is a third party plugin integrated into the Software area of cPanel.
👓 Francis Su’s Favorite Theorem | Scientific American Blog Network | Roots of Unity
The Harvey Mudd College mathematician tells us why he loves playing with Brouwer's fixed-point theorem
I need to remember to subscribe to this podcast…
👓 Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State | Foreign Policy
Mari Stull’s arrival at the State Department’s International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers.
It’s just this type of insidious institution destruction that is heavily eroding our government and our society. Regardless of which administration takes over next, it just means a whole lot more work and effort to rebuild.