mcburton

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by mcburton 10y ago
You are correct that CMU and Pitt are not on the same level, but you have your dirctionality flip. Pitt is in top 10 in research expenditures nationally[1], I don't think CMU is even in the top 50. Don't ignore the significance of
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by mcburton 11y ago
+1 for digital humanities folks. Your emphasis on well written documentation is a strong argument for agate over more powerful, but more confusing, data processing libraries. I'm already thinking about using agate in my digital humanit
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by mcburton 13y ago
The SAXON XSLT processor implements basic XPATH 2.0 http://saxon.sourceforge.net/
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by mcburton 13y ago
Video games and programming languages ARE being studied in the humanities [1]. This is, in part, what the Digital Humanities doing, engaging with digital modes of cultural expression [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by mcburton 13y ago
It should be noted that the IPython Notebook is being developed to support multiple backends. People are working on backends for Haskell[1], Scala [2], and Julia[3]. I'd love to see a Clojure backend. All of this does not obviate the c
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by mcburton 13y ago
The IPython Notebook is part of the IPython interactive computing environment[1]. You must to install IPython locally(or in the cloud) and run the notebook web server to load and execute the notebook's code live in the browser. These a
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by mcburton 13y ago
asciidoc support would require an ansciidoc renderer written in javascript, which does seem to exist[1](although I haven't used it). This also highlights some of the problems with markdown because it is an insufficiently rich language
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by mcburton 13y ago
I haven't started meaningfully playing with nbconvert yet, but I think one of the really promising features are the nbconvert templates[1]. From what I gather you can make custom templates with jinja and invoke them on the command line
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by mcburton 13y ago
YES! I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.
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by mcburton 13y ago
I see this degree as a huge boon for folks in the technology sector who are already working, but want to pick up a masters degree (for professional development or promotion). This isn't a replacement for the face to face college experi
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by mcburton 14y ago
"My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting" That was my thought exactly. The CC system is quite good at educating people, yet, I feel like many folks pontificating about the "future of education
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by mcburton 15y ago
ugh. I'm still using (and loving) my nexus one but app bloat and the small about of disk space is increasingly making it impossible to use.
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by mcburton 15y ago
You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.
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by mcburton 15y ago
I guess the dream of a fully EPUB 3 standards compliant authoring tool was too good to be true. The devil is in the CSS.
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New study by Facebook puts the web as "echo chamber" theory in doubt(slate.com)
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by mcburton 15y ago
Funny, I remember meeting these guys at an RSA conference years ago, must have been in 2004, and thinking "this is the only innovative thing I've seen here." It was pretty cool tech at the time, interesting to see them branch out from infor
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by mcburton 15y ago
I would have gone too, but I decided to get married this weekend instead.
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by mcburton 15y ago
now that the spec has been released and (somewhat) settled, I wonder if Kobo will support epub3.
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by mcburton 15y ago
excellent. Maybe now there well be an elegant way to go from .markdown to .docx
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by mcburton 15y ago
I'd like to share my SCSI joke, but I already told it 7 times.
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by mcburton 15y ago
I struggled reading past the "Netflix is a better librarian" comment. Netflix is not a librarian, it is a library-like PLACE. Netflix probably hires librarians or information professionals trained in librarianship to organize their data and
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by mcburton 15y ago
When dealing with failed replicability it is important not to conflate a poorly designed experiment with a poorly written methods section. Often there is tacit or socially negotiated knowledge required to properly replicate an experiment. T
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by mcburton 15y ago
These would be amazing to build with a 3D printer. If I had the time I'd try building one by hand using legos.
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by mcburton 16y ago
Please forgive me, but I feel the need to say: "this is a shop i can tell from the pixels"
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by mcburton 16y ago
Barnes and Noble has indicated they are launching an Android App store of their own [1]. Although, judging by that discussion, I think they see the opportunity they've created with the NookColor but they are still trying to figure out how t
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by mcburton 16y ago
You are on the right track IMHO. What is key is that 'best friends' or 'school friends' are highly contingent and ambiguous constructs. They are not fixed, but rather are dynamic through time–people flow in & out of circles for a multit
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by mcburton 16y ago
I'm pretty sure at any given RSA conference there are multiple folks who might personally/privately identify as members of anonymous, ie. they wouldn't need to "sneak in" to the conference b/c they are already there as legitimate members of
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by mcburton 16y ago
That was fun. My screen dimmed after 30sec and shut off right at the 2min mark. I even resisted clicking the FlashBlock icon so I had no sound. Would this work with the <audio> tag?
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by mcburton 16y ago
Comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN...at the expense of my productivity ;)
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by mcburton 16y ago
There is a growing population of urban farmer's moving to Detroit, precisely because of the abundance of abandoned cheap land. Perhaps most significant is Hantz Farm: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit... Althoug

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