01 Aug 2009, 10:38 am
cut, cut. snip, snip. 
Please pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1W5lFW-vUY
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01 Aug 2009, 12:40 pm
SleepyDragon
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01 Aug 2009, 1:25 pm
01 Aug 2009, 1:51 pm
Hey SleepyDragon! 
Good to hear from you! Visiting Canadian relatives?
01 Aug 2009, 2:35 pm
(snipping the whinge.) Oooo look! Trippy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bl2exMIlw
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01 Aug 2009, 3:11 pm
Sorry about all these posts!
Lau - concerning the computer world: is anyone developing better search engines? Just having a vast sea of collated data is almost useless, even when it is gathered into one spot like PubMed. Are there any integrative search engines being developed? Analytic search engines? Filters for relevancy? Checks for accuracy, breadth, depth, precision, clarity? This is all so time consuming!
Gromit: How are students now being taught to learn? The emphasis must be off memorization now, ...but, on to what? Is the emphasis now on where to look for info? This wad of web info is going to be terribly unmanageable in another generation. Are they being taught how to connect their ideas with one another? How are they being taught to spend their time? I do not have time to check the sources of each and every article, research paper and book that I read - how are they being taught to do this?
Anyone with info is welcome to reply. I am asking for a lot here and apologize in advance. You don't have to cover every question, or in depth. I know you are all time crunched as well. Will appreciate any assistance.
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01 Aug 2009, 6:10 pm
Lau - concerning the computer world: is anyone developing better search engines? Just having a vast sea of collated data is almost useless, even when it is gathered into one spot like PubMed. Are there any integrative search engines being developed? Analytic search engines? Filters for relevancy? Checks for accuracy, breadth, depth, precision, clarity? This is all so time consuming!
Gromit: How are students now being taught to learn? The emphasis must be off memorization now, ...but, on to what? Is the emphasis now on where to look for info? This wad of web info is going to be terribly unmanageable in another generation. Are they being taught how to connect their ideas with one another? How are they being taught to spend their time? I do not have time to check the sources of each and every article, research paper and book that I read - how are they being taught to do this?
Anyone with info is welcome to reply. I am asking for a lot here and apologize in advance. You don't have to cover every question, or in depth. I know you are all time crunched as well. Will appreciate any assistance.
Before we used to stumble about in ignorant darkness now we have information "white out".
What we need is something to separate the wheat from all the chaff....
01 Aug 2009, 6:23 pm
01 Aug 2009, 7:05 pm
In 1980, Robert Heinlein stated that the increase in general knowledge at the time was going to require the development of a new sort of specialist, capable of integrating information from a wide variety of fields. He referred to such a person as a "generalist".
Of course, at the time, he could have no idea of the coming of the Internet (although fifteen years earlier he had predicted that there was a technology, known at the time but whose ramifications were not yet explored, that would have as profound and far-reaching an effect on society as had the automobile - in the 1980 update, he guessed that the technology might be the computer chip). Today, it's not the general specialist we need - it's better search engines for those generalists to use! 
01 Aug 2009, 9:41 pm
02 Aug 2009, 6:13 pm
...erm 
...
Ahhhhhhhhh! COLA!! !! !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgALTFzFbQ
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02 Aug 2009, 7:00 pm
snip! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60
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02 Aug 2009, 7:21 pm
Richie - data "white out" is right! 
Oy!
Veks: these leads look interesting - muchas gracias!
Jon: I've tried the specialty of "generalist". Too big for me!
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02 Aug 2009, 8:25 pm
editing, editing.....
nothing that a cool vid cannot fix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcsaUJTGcMk
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02 Aug 2009, 8:55 pm
Chuck - thanks for the moral support. And from everyone else. I may not say it, but I do appreciate it.
03 Aug 2009, 4:31 am
