In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:21:22 EDT, Arthur writes:
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From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Arthur
Cc: 'Laura Creighton'; 'Radenski, Atanas'; 'Chuck Allison'; edu-
I think that only people who thrive on playing with their
mathematical
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From: Laura Creighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This isn't a problem for men to solve as men. It is a problem for
educators to solve, as educators.
Well - let me be the reactionary, again.
With some reference back to David's point about social engineering
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From: Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:40 AM
To: 'Laura Creighton'; 'Arthur'
Well - let me be the reactionary, again.
Only because this subject is *so* significant to me, and I understand that I
am subverting that seriousness
But will settle for a moratorium.
A good, long moratorium.
Art
Just trying to get clear what there's a moratorium on. Educators doing
something to right an imbalance of some kind? Sounds like we might want to
be doing that, not slamming a door shut on. And your objection is something
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:38 AM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
But will settle for a moratorium.
A good, long moratorium.
Art
Just trying to get clear what there's a moratorium on. Educators
This is part of the chemistry story. it attracts women who say the only
important reason for them to become chemists is that 'there were a lot
of women in it'. Which is rather hard on those of us who would like to
spread the succcess elsewhere. It means that if we could get even
moderately
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:55 AM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
Cc: edu-sig@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
As a boy, I'm looking at a different rebalancing act: CS
I would appreciate it if you resisted.
I *am* resisting. It sounds to me like you want to block important
processing among expert educators by raising irrelevant specters, or rather,
relevant specters in an irrelevant fashion.
It is you who bring in Marxism as a key word, without context,
I have no place for GPS in my program.
Art
That's perfectly fine, and so we compete, counter-recruit. You fill your
school, I'll fill mine, and like that.
GPS is important when driving a [Google?] bizmo to a point of interest. We
train faculty in that skill, starting at a young age.
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:21 PM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
Cc: edu-sig@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
knowing what time it is in Tokyo, when it's midnight in New York
Heh - I should to leave something on the table for my great granddaughter
to get to work on.
Art
This work is too primal to just leave undone for another 100 years. What
were we proposing to do in the meantime, just sit back and make money, watch
people starve? They'd never forgive us,
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:49 PM
This work is too primal to just leave undone for another 100 years. What
were we proposing to do in the meantime, just sit back and make money,
watch
people starve? They'd
The beautiful things that we are actually more than equipped to do now, as
I have said, and as you pass over.
Art
We're equipped to rescue people from disaster now. There's nothing
beautiful in not doing that. I'm not interested in your curriculum at this
point. Nuff said.
Kirby
My answer to your moral activist concerns, which I like to think I share
in my way, is mindfulness.
Mindfulness depends on an appreciation of the evolution of things.
I can't help but translate this into some Buddhist namespace -- several are
familiar to me.
The Empires of Time
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:10 PM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
It is you who bring in Marxism as a key word, without context, and expect
that to mean something to others. You presume a shared namespace. I
Just some intellectual honesty.
Art
Yes, and all highly ethnographic and not necessarily relevant history to
others on this list, either.
And me?
I grew up in Rome, with the Communist Party just another decal, with
candidates, rhetoric and so on, along with whatever exotic
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 2:31 PM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
In Fuller's (RBF's) lexicon, some of which I've adopted, per Synergetics
Dictionary (EJA), we speak of the East India Company
Yeah those folks
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:36 PM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
Cc: edu-sig@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
Just some intellectual honesty.
Art
Yes, and all
I toss it off to the fact that I have not made enough of an effort to
study the man's thought to be in a position to say much, and my definite
impressions - though there - are not been worthy of mention.
Take a clue.
Art
But I'm a walking prickly pear of clues, so if you'd wanted to
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 4:09 PM
To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
In Fuller's (RBF's) lexicon, some of which I've adopted, per
Synergetics
Dictionary (EJA), we speak of the East India Company
Yeah those
Kirby Urner wrote:
Talk about fishing for expert help!
Thanks Guido.
It's a pruning algorithm where I strip way pieces that don't meet up at
(x,y,z) bridge points. Lots of symmetry about the origin so just pure
distance won't work (not unique enough).
I think might still get away
Beware:
1.999 and 2.0001 likely won't lie in the same
bin. You'll need to check neighbors for candidates, unless your fixed
point stuff reflects an underlying granularity.
-- Scott David Daniels
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Thanks for the heads up Scott.
I'm translating a
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From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speaking of ISEPP, I've got a boat meeting set up with the Wanderers CEO,
Don Wardwell (wwwanderers.org).
Maybe you should invite Dave and Lloyd to the Wanderers homepage as well:
Science would be ruined if it
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