Tag: learning
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My delicious.com bookmarks for October 20th through October 24th
Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so [a rant] – "Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year. Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here." Wholeheartedly agree with this post. Not knowing stuff is fine. Being proud of not knowing stuff? Not…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for February 17th through February 24th
These are my links for February 17th through February 24th: Does University Challenge really test intelligence? – No. Knowing a bunch of obscure facts isn't intelligence. If that's the measure, then Wikipedia is way smarter than Einstein or Newton or Gauss or Darwin. Review: Canon EOS 5D Mark II – If anyone wants to buy…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for January 28th through February 3rd
These are my links for January 28th through February 3rd: Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge – "A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases." The Palm Pre's possible Achilles heel: battery life…