things to look at (July 29th)
a few, tasty links (July 29th):
- The ?Banking? Concept - A neat and useful metaphor. And a scary discussion.
- Use gperf for efficient C/C command line processing - That’s neat. A perfect hash function that generates code for command line options.
- Atiz : World Leader in Digital Camera Scanning - This is a pretty promising design. It seems easy to make it cheap and DIY-able.
- How to Make a Full Auto Book Scanner - a scientist’s toy box - I’ve been looking for a solution to this problem. I’m not sure this is it. But it’s neat. And cheap.
- Professor pans ‘learning style’ teaching method - Telegraph - I was always a little surprised at how little Gardner’s work moved me.
- Stemming the Summer Slide - washingtonpost.com - I can’t believe what this acknowledges about the fragility of schooling.
- Why Don?t We Teach Children To Be Leaders? - Fearless Dreams - Hey! That was going to be my line.
- Redundancy testing - The Boston Globe - Oh man. So much anti-SAT. Is October too far away?
- Reading, Writing, Running a Company - EntrepreneurshipWeek USA - Kauffman Foundation - Entrepreneurship as an alternative default for livelihood is an exciting idea, for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is that I think it is synonymous with more freedom.
- Certain Degrees Now Cost More at Public Universities - New York Times - Commodifying education. Shop for a degree in your course catalogue.
- MIT duo see people-powered “Crowd Farm” - MIT News Office - Harnessing the energy of crowds.
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The last one is neat. Somehow I can’t imagine doing anything significant as a MArch candidate. Everytime I think of an idea like that I know it has already been brought up. But somehow these guys pushed it and actually got a prototype built. Usually students don’t get to take things past the stage of drawing.
Man, I didn’t think anyone read this.
Why don’t students get to take things past the stage of drawing?
I remember [when I still wanted to be a scientist] feeling that every idea I had had already been brought up and explored. But then when I began thinking more about education, I realized that education doesn’t need reform for lack of good ideas, just lack of implementation. And now I care a whole bunch less about the originality of my ideas. It makes work a lot more pleasant.