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Boomerang: All-In-One iPad Smart Stand and Mounting System — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:44:22 +0000

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Comment on Prediction Accountability by Accounting Predictions | Ezra S F

Accounting Predictions | Ezra S F — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:23:46 +0000

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Comment on Prediction Accountability by Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 · Accounting Predictions

Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 · Accounting Predictions — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:02:44 +0000

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Comment on Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:41:00 +0000

I mostly operate in the shades of gray realm. Beliefs I hold adjust based on the available information. My position today on anything controversial will change slightly or drastically depending on new facts. But I also pay attention closely to sources and consider whether I can or cannot trust many of them.

In writing this response, I realized there are lots of potential contexts where this applies. For me, I try to avoid political and religious conversations precisely because they go negative when people disagree. But also because my positions in those conversations usually come from a perspective totally alien to others.

Comment on Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation by Diana Ani Stokely

Diana Ani Stokely — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:37:00 +0000

One FBer I corrected with a snopes.com link said, “I don’t want to know if it is true or not. I don’t believe in reading snopes.” Needless to say, we are no longer FB friends, and that’s fine by me. Posting lies because it “supports” one’s agenda is the worst kind of proselytizing.

Comment on Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation by Brodie Reichel

Brodie Reichel — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:33:00 +0000

Keep up the good work.. And the good fight.. Disinformation is a leading cause of confusion and conspiracy. The need to share a touching story as fiction should be labeled as such. I would find no harm in such communication, otherwise it is more akin to gossip.

Comment on Do I Use Pinterest by Pinteresting | Thrifty Finn

Pinteresting | Thrifty Finn — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:42:54 +0000

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Comment on Do I Use Pinterest by Lacey Gerard

Lacey Gerard — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:20:00 +0000

And that’s really just in your demographic. There are a ton of dudes using Pinterest. Just because there’s a glut of ladies using it for pretty pictures and outfit ideas (myself included) doesn’t mean it’s not good for a ton of other stuff.

Comment on TED Talk: Jennings v Watson by Joseph M. Searcy

Joseph M. Searcy — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:39:00 +0000

I have to say after meeting some of the team that created Watson, and actually getting a chance to compete against Watson, it’s an extremely impressive effort. From the core design of the cluster of 90 IBM Power 750′s to research involved in building the data set, to the analytics behind deciphering natural language to the debugging tools that allowed researchers to visualize Watson’s thought process. What’s even more impressive, and most people don’t know, is that Watson wasn’t searching the web (it had no I teensy access), or analyzing terabytes of data on disks…..all information was found within 512GB of data stored in RAM for the competition. Prior to the competition analytics were done across every episode of Jeopardy to date and statistics were used to limit the data set used to the most frequent categories chosen. That’s just the tip of the iceberg too! Lots of cool things to come from this tech. I’ll also note that Jennings, along with a ha Ful of others have beaten Watson ingesting, but all that matters is the one time that was televised

Comment on Goodreads Context Menu Search by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:28:00 +0000

Someone actually made it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goodreads-right-click/fbicpmopjallgdpklipffmihodimmcbe?hl=en-US

Comment on LMS Brackets by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Dr. Chuck posted on the same topic. http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2013/03/learning-management-system-march-madness/

He also used a bracket maker. http://www.dr-chuck.com/bracket/

Comment on LMS Brackets by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:54:00 +0000

Thanks. It is encouraging when people like something enough to leave a positive comment.

We reached the recommendation about 2 years ago. We started the migration Dec 2011. The first schools went live August 2012. Most schools went live January 2013. We still have a few stragglers who will join us over the next year or so.

If you do go D2L and go the self-hosting route, then get your DB/OS admins in touch with me. We have some lessons learned.

Comment on LMS Brackets by Kenneth Mayer

Kenneth Mayer — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:08:00 +0000

Thanks for this–we are considering switching from Blackboard to D2L and I came upon your blog. Actually came across it looking for help in crafting calls to BB api, but saw you switched from bb to d2l. Great post!

Comment on Protected: Never Wrong by Andy Fore

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Comment on American Chinese by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:50:33 +0000

And I guess it is the Chinese New Year?

Comment on Goodreads Reading Challenge by You think THAT is a great book? Oh Honey, we need to talk. | The Edmonton Tourist

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Comment on TED Talk: How common threats can make common (political) ground by The 4 ways sound affects us – [TED Talks] « mostly music

The 4 ways sound affects us – [TED Talks] « mostly music — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:40:00 +0000

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Comment on Rep John Lewis on Peaceful Protest by Ezra S F

Ezra S F — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:20:26 +0000

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Martin Luther King, Jr