Isn't Sesame Street the original, and most successful, MOOC?
For another point of view
This week, Russ Roberts chatted with former Stanford professor and Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller about the present and future of online education.
http://www.econtalk.org/archiv...
Interestingly, six of Code.org's ten biggest donors are also Founders of Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us tech immigration reform PAC.
Why is this interesting?
Famous last words.
The rebar thing is important because the material being printed is great in compression but not so great in tension.
This post and the linked article say, "Because of the bug's severity, Microsoft is recommending that anyone who updated go and uninstall a couple of the specific updates, or rollback using Windows Restore."
I note that neither this post nor the linked article reference or link to a specific instruction from Microsoft. Is this a joke?
And all those great new Tesla batteries will cut the cost of producing steel in electric arc and induction furnaces. And then there's converting bauxite into aluminum.
Cars will be (almost) free. Bridges will be cheap. There will be an airplane in every garage. I can't wait.
It's really about Xbox. From the linked article
Microsoft is getting some free TV advertising by outfitting the tablets with sky-blue cases clearly labeled "Surface." But Microsoft's main motivation is what the Redmond, Wash., company receives from its partnership with the NFL: a reported $400 million, five-year deal. That includes interactive content to help sell Xbox home video game consoles.
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... ] When the regular season starts, Microsoft's Xbox Live network will offer services that include video feeds of game highlights and fantasy football data. Xbox owners will also gain access to NFL Sunday Ticket, the league's package of out-of-market game telecasts that was previously available only to DirecTV satellite service subscribers.
The reasons why are varied, but most come down to the perverse incentives driving research. Scientific journals typically view "positive" findings that announce a novel relationship or support a theoretical claim as more interesting than "negative" findings
This applies to all science, not just psychology.
The Martin JRM Mars has more impressive specs
General characteristics
o Crew: four (with accommodations for a second relief crew)
o Capacity: 133 troops, or 84 litter patients and 25 attendants
o Payload: 32,000 lb (15,000 kg) of cargo, including up to seven jeeps
o Length: 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m)
o Wingspan: 200 ft 0 in (60.96 m)
o Height: 38 ft 5 in (11.71 m)
o Wing area: 3,686 ft (342.4 mÂ)
o Empty weight: 75,573 lb (34,279 kg)
o Loaded weight: 90,000 lb (40,820 kg)
o Max. takeoff weight: 165,000 lb (74,800 kg)
o Powerplant: 4 x Wright R-3350-24WA Duplex Cyclone 18-cylinder radial engines, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) each
Performance
o Maximum speed: 192 knots (221 mph, 356 km/h)
o Cruise speed: 165 knots (190 mph, 305 km/h)
o Range: 4,300 nautical miles (5,000 mi, 8,000 km)
o Service ceiling: 14,600 ft (4,450 m)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Still at work.
http://www.martinmars.com/airc...
No.
Nor will the following:
Boeing 777x
Airbus 330neo
Bombardier C Series
Tesla Model 3
Any Ferrari
Any Jaguar
Any BMW
Any Mercedes
Tech workers (and workers in general) are not fungible.
What does McDonalds have that our schools don't have?
1. Affordable food that students will eat.
2. Free WiFi.
A "smart watch" is as much a watch as a "smart phone" is a phone. And many people have quit wearing a watch because
The question should be, can a smart watch replace your smart phone?
You can see through
Your rose coloured glasses
In a world that seems
Like glamour to you
You've got opinions and judgments about
All kind of things
That you don't know anything about
Ivory Tower, Van Morrison
Some academic with a model in an ivory tower with a million dollar grant or the lyin' eyes of a farmer who spends his life outside dealing with the real climate?
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
