Cheezy Lines by a BioStatistician
from Biostatistics Ryan Gosling Including my favorite: Thanks to my friend Bob Rudis for the headsup.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04
New School blog "'Its Time to Learn Like Experts' by @jayjacobs" http://t.co/lnXTqyp8 # RT @dmolnar Help me shop for furniture http://t.co/rXxLrB4O # RT @moxie__ WhisperSystems has been acquired! http://t.co/M5i1g6D0 < Congratulations! I hope it leads to great things for Twitter privacy # RT @tsastatus A few new features, and a bunch of status updates, at…
Read More Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04Gävle Goat Gambit Goes Astray
It’s a bit of a Christmas tradition here at Emergent Chaos to keep you informed about the Gävle Goat. Ok, technically, our traditions seem hit and miss, but whaddaya want from a site with Chaos in the name? You want precision, read a project management blog. Project management blogs probably set calendar reminders to kick…
Read More Gävle Goat Gambit Goes AstrayPaper: "The Future of Work is Play"
My colleague Ross Smith has just presented an important new paper, “The Future of Work is Play” at the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference. There’s a couple of very useful lessons in this paper. One is the title, and the mega-trends driving games into the workplace. Another is Ross’s lessons of when games work: Over…
Read More Paper: "The Future of Work is Play"Big Brother Watch report on breaches
Over at the Office of Inadequate Security, Dissent says everything you need to know about a new report from the UK’s Big Brother Watch: Extrapolating from what we have seen in this country, what the ICO learns about is clearly only the tip of the iceberg there. I view the numbers in the BBW report…
Read More Big Brother Watch report on breachesWe Robot: The Conference
This looks like it has the potential to be a very interesting event: The University of Miami School of Law seeks submissions for “We Robot” – an inaugural conference on legal and policy issues relating to robotics to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on April 21 & 22, 2012. We invite contributions by academics,…
Read More We Robot: The ConferenceTelephones and privacy
Three stories, related by the telephone, and their impact on privacy: CNN reports that your cell phone is being tracked in malls: Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year’s Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. — will track guests’ movements by…
Read More Telephones and privacy"It's Time to Learn Like Experts" by Jay Jacobs
I want to call attention to a new, important and short article by Jay Jacobs. This article is a call to action to break the reliance on unvalidated expert opinions by raising awareness of our decision environment and the development of context-specific feedback loops. Everyone in the New School is a fan of feedback loops…
Read More "It's Time to Learn Like Experts" by Jay JacobsTwitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
MT @attractr Bejtlich: SEC Guidance Emphasizes Materiality for disclosing sec incidents: "new audience: shareholders" http://t.co/mlMts2Wd # RT @doctorow Just got to Occupy New School http://t.co/VjfVhFcN << I think Cory means something other than I would mean by this statement 🙂 # NYTimes reports man bites dog, I mean "Screening Still a Pain at Airports, Fliers…
Read More Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27Relentless navel gazing, part MCXII
Two changes here at Emergent Chaos this weekend: first, a new, variable width theme which is a little tighter, so there’s more on a screen. Second, I’ve moved the twitter summary to weekly, as comments were running about 50-50 on the post asking for opinion. I think that may be a better balance. And a…
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