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From: Jimmy Tang jt...@tchpc.tcd.ie
Subject: HydraCamp 2013 April 8-12, hosted by TCD and DRI
Date: 27 February 2013 12:20:53 GMT
To:
I think math is essential, but what they teach in schools these days isn't
math. It's arithmetic. Some intro philosophy courses teach math. I'll
stop before I start ranting.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Kelly Lucas klu...@isovera.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Thomas
What both Kelly and David say is true here:
David: programming needs math, not arithmetic.
Kelly: computers are good at arithmetic on their own.
To which I'll add: the related skill that I see as necessary here is
quantitative reasoning - not the crunching of numbers but the correct assembly
You mean discrete mathematics?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics
I always kicked myself for not taking that course at high school (UK readers, I
mean secondary school) but at least I picked up the basics during my physics
MSci (a lot of physics these days is coding).
Cheers,
+1 mostly to the thread
Programming seems to me -- just me here -- stratified like any other
profession, in particular by access or lack of access to computer science
within software dev.
There are other factors. But computer science seems now heavily invested
in math.
--
Al Matthews
Software
From a physics point of view, computer science looks about 50% discrete
math, and 50% engineering (since computers, fancy as they may be, are simply
machines, and have specific physical constraints that it may be helpful to
understand).
Actual coding nowadays, I assume, may sometimes actually
As a math person who later studied some grad-level computer science, my
personal experience was that the stuff I found easy in CS was exactly what
the CS students got hung up on. So the aspects of CS involving higher
math (Hi Cary!) can definitely be challenging for those who don't already
have a
Probably it was the wrong course. I think coding should start with
building web pages. A calculator can't do that.
HTML is called markup language, but does anyone here really think it's a
programming language? Even though is gets more complicated over time, it
pretty much doesn't have variables
Given the discussion of how github is not really so accessible to non-coders, I
thought I'd mention these attempts to put version control into the mainstream.
Github for writers: It sounds like that's what Blaine Cook is doing with
Poetica.com
Github for legal agreements: We've started using
I think Wilhelmina has touched on an very important point that, for some, in
order to learn--or want to learn--something, the material has to be relevant to
them. Some folks can get through the boring, calculators can do this parts of
because they anticipate the long-term benefit while others
Christina George, hello! and welcome.
WR, idly, I wonder whether this intro to programming
but-not-for-programmers course might be taught by an underqualified or
overworked adjunct or grad student slave, or if not, whether instead by a
bored research professor. It doesn't sound like fun.
I'm involved in a migration project that requires identification of local
information in millions of MARC records.
The master records I need to compare with are 14GB total. I don't know what
the others will be, but since the masters are deduped and the source files
aren't (plus they contain loads
Reporting to the Director of Information Technology at the Yale University Art
Gallery, the Data and Database Specialist develops, implements, and maintains
policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the
Gallery's collection database while actively ensuring adherence to
Kyle -- if this was me -- I'd break the file into a database. You have a lot
of different options, but the last time I had to do something like this -- I
broke the data into 10 tables -- a control table with a primary key and oclc
number, a table for 0xx fields, a table for 1xx, 2xx, etc.
OMG. I used to tell everyone that arithmetic is not math. Amazingly nobody
(who is not into math) cares. Just ask my wife.
Cary
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:43 AM, David Faler dfa...@tlcdelivers.com wrote:
I think math is essential, but what they teach in schools these days isn't
math. It's
I think that the programming / scripting / markup language discussion is
not helpful. Any time you key in something, run it on a computer, and
something else comes out (hopefully what is expected), to me, that
qualifies as programming.
Why not?
Cary
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Wilhelmina
Hi Everyone,
I am running a wordpress-powered web site and use Google Analytics to measure
our traffic. I would like to set up Analytics so that it measures traffic
coming from Twitter and Facebook. I see that Google Analytics can be set up to
track social interactions, but I'm feeling
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*Sorry for cross-posting*
Dear Colleagues,
We are interested in to know which software/system are you using to manage
the digital preservation of your digitized contents? And if you're
satisfied with it.
Here at
I'm forced to agree that arithmetic isn't math. In fact, I'd go further and
say that arithmetic isn't even arithmetic. At best it's accounting.
(Accounting, on the other hand, is way more than accounting, so please
don't take offense if you're an accountant.)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM,
Salve!
I'm forced to agree that arithmetic isn't math. In fact, I'd go
further and
say that arithmetic isn't even arithmetic. At best it's accounting.
(Accounting, on the other hand, is way more than accounting, so please
don't take offense if you're an accountant.)
Hello All,
We are considering an image host for a special collection.
The collection would be private and only viewable via links added to and
searched through our online catalog (InMagic)
Has anyone used either of the following and had a positive experience:
- ImageShack
- Flickr Pro or
We've only used archive.org for this type of service. We've had a good
experience with them.
Genny Engel
Sonoma County Library
gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us
707 545-0831 x1581
www.sonomalibrary.org
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
You shouldn't have to do any setup for basic counts to show up. Traffic coming
directly from Twitter or Facebook ought to be appearing under
Traffic Sources - Social - Overview
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Kimberly
I agree with Terry: use a database. Since you're doing multiple queries,
invest the time up front to import your data in a queryable format, with
indexes, instead of repeatedly building comparison files.
But of course, it depends... dealing with large amounts of data efficiently
is often best
Hi Kim,
If I am reading your question correctly, just setting up an advanced/custom
segment in Google Analytics that tracks traffic coming from fb and twitter
should do the trick.
Create an advanced segment, name it and then set it to include source then
use Matching RegExp and fill in the
I'd also consider using a document db (e.g. MongoDb) with the marc-in-JSON
format for this.
You could run jsonpath queries or map/reduce to get your answers.
Mongo runs best in memory, but I think you'll be fine since you don't need
immediate answers.
-Ross.
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:39:46PM -0500, DYV wrote:
Hello All,
We are considering an image host for a special collection.
The collection would be private and only viewable via links added to and
searched through our online catalog (InMagic)
Has anyone used either of the following and had
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