Sunday, May 19, 2013
Well, no. Thanks nVidia.
My mac hasn't kernel-panicked in 3 whole hours. Is this the dawn of a new era?
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Arguably the most important graphic ever made: http://t.co/MqJE1iwFIE
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
.@udacity and Georgia Tech team up to offer an affordable MS degree online: http://t.co/T2AEEZyF6V I wish I was a young student today.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Stumbled across this goldmine: http://t.co/TVvAhF2mbp Pardon me while I take a break from the world and immerse myself in science.
@lantiga Ooh, super exciting! We should definitely talk. You can find my contact details on my website: http://t.co/tcN1wnH5yQ
@Memorylanes_no Let me know if you need me to make changes before tomorrow, such as a new story and pictures, or translating to Norwegian.
Monday, May 13, 2013
@Memorylanes_no You guys are more than welcome! I learnt a lot and had fun too. Good luck for Wednesday.
Slowly starting to recover after a fun-filled weekend with the victorious @Memorylanes_no: http://t.co/foIP2jC1ER #sicampno
Friday, May 10, 2013
@MITOCW This is extremely interesting! Thank you guys for sharing.
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Another addition to the family! http://t.co/03H380gZwR
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The highlight of my day was upgrading the firmware on my camera without ruining it. Aren't you happy you're you?
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Imitation is the sincerest form of creative bankruptcy.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The only time I make significant progress on my web-based class is when I have shoddy internet access.
Friday, April 19, 2013
"Check pajamas for intent" ‒ Huh? I really need to improve my shopping list handwriting.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
After some experimentation, I've arrived at the color sceme for the lectures I'm planning to record. What say you? http://t.co/wHHC5PTzmB
Monday, April 15, 2013
It's a good thing I traded in all my bitcoins for the one true investment, gold.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Yes, fascism, communism, and socialism are totally interchangeable… if you don't know what those words mean.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
@ginatrapani: So, @kevinpurdy is an analog analog of Google Reader's unread count? :)
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
With enough volumizing conditioner and subtle combing-over, you can convince most people you're not balding. I wish.
@aterrel @pwang Well played, sir.
@pwang @aterrel I've been burnt by this more times than I care to admit.
Monday, April 08, 2013
I've started work on a few XBlocks which will allow anyone to offer numerical simulations as part of courses on edX: http://t.co/iaGQjeC3ig
Friday, April 05, 2013
They say that the more trees you kill, the better your product is going to be. http://t.co/557qwd1SBI
Thursday, April 04, 2013
@danbenjamin Thank you, Dan!
This afternoon's rebuild of my entire user-land from scratch brought to you by nVidia, Apple and Sqlite3. Don't you love kernel panics?
Class2Go is dead, long live edX! http://t.co/kah7XbM3tF A geek's take on @StanfordC2G joining @edXOnline's platform effort. /cc: @MITOCW
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Seriously. Phones finally started getting decent at taking pictures, and now people run filters to make them look like faded polaroids.
Monday, April 01, 2013
I think I burnt enough calories beating the batter for this delicious marble cake to deserve a substantial slice. http://t.co/BrXtt425Ob
Saturday, March 30, 2013
@semenko @MITOCW It doesn't work for me, but the following link does: http://t.co/Gyo5JZBotJ
Friday, March 29, 2013
… allowing for scientific computing demos and exercises
I think I'm starting to understand @edXOnline's Xblocks and see how I'll be able to wire one up to thinkbot ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
@goXTK Thanks! And is there an easy way to send XTK a scalar field in 2D/3D and have it render it to a colour palette?
Application-relevant simulations can now be used to motivate and test learners! (Can't express via Twitter how excited this makes me.)
Mechanics Academy can now pull-in simulation results from thinkbot! http://t.co/Gnke2BIaNG
Monday, March 25, 2013
thinkbot now actually returns the results you ask for! http://t.co/qiavGr0SfO Non nerds: I'll soon clarify how this relates to education.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Mmm… crumpets and tea. So this is what it's like being the Queen.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
I just bought 2 Scoops of Django by @pydanny and @audreyr. One wouldn't guess from the cover it's a nerdy book. :) https://t.co/D8WWWGAoue
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
You know you're getting older when you up your default font size everywhere to 18 pt.
I've separated Mechanics Academy's compute server into its own service with a clean API: http://t.co/Ai0CcPvvXS Details coming soon.™
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
As a wise man once said on YouTube, "we need to move to England before we have children" http://t.co/XYkKpQDEc0
Sunday, March 17, 2013
@goXTK: I'm interested in extending XTK's file format support to include VTK UnstructuredGrids. Could you please tell me how I should start?
Ice cream makes you skinny.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Hi, I'm Harish and I'm addicted to domain names. I thought I'd kicked the habit, but along came the mighty @5by5 and @hover partnership.
Friday, March 15, 2013
.@edXOnline is starting to open source (AGPL) its technology platform: https://t.co/sMeJP7cFle I'm giddy with excitement!
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
We were so excited to sign up for HBO outside the states. And then we watched Season 2 of #Girls.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Drawing inspiration from other learning sites as I continue to design the experience for Mechanics Academy. http://t.co/lFLa8qPSlc
Sunday, March 03, 2013
@Kristinsvendsen And that's what makes it so cool!
.@Kristinsvendsen This was a wonderful find. Asimov is one of my favorite authors and it's amazing to see how much foresight he had.
@Kristinsvendsen Finally returning to twitter after such a hectic weekend. Congratulations Soul Sisters!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
I finally got my hair cut and I can see again! I am not sure I like what I see… but I can see!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Created a simple projectile simulation to demonstrate that Mechanics Academy isn't just for college-age kids: http://t.co/6rKp6vn2q8
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Prototyping this iteration of Mechanics Academy is going surprisingly quickly with @middlemanapp and @twbootstrap: http://t.co/OdYZCmLRR8
Saturday, February 23, 2013
I'm taking all that I've learnt so far for Mechanics Academy and creating a fresh new prototype. So much work to do! http://t.co/onm9orYItp
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
It's official, Google has won technology: http://t.co/OX6zS27N #materialwants
Monday, February 18, 2013
I've spent weeks developing what I now realize is a rudimentary version of @PiCloud. (Scrapping my efforts for now because @PiCloud rocks!)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
"Idleness is not just an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body" http://t.co/p2FIM60w
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
... I'll send a handwritten thank-you card to anyone who finds a typo, broken link, interesting suggestion for improvement.
I've made a lot of updates to my personal website: http://t.co/Nn74ONDm Please take a look at it ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Went to a late night screening of Django Unchained. It was wunderbar—pure unadulterated squalid pleasure.
Friday, February 08, 2013
Mailbox leads me to believe that Gmail has done to IMAP what Twitter did to RSS. Is anyone else still using plain old IMAP?
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Trying to write an automated system that intelligently builds a long CV and a short resumé from the same data store is surprisingly tricky.
@designedlearnin I will write about it on http://t.co/LVgWp8GC
@designedlearnin I will take a look at FutureLearn, but I am currently only looking at open source platforms that I can fetch and extend.
@designedlearnin Are any of these open source?
Please suggest others if you'd like me to consider them.
I'm starting a thorough evaluation of three modern, open source MOOC platforms: Class2Go, Course Builder, OpenMOOC.
Monday, February 04, 2013
The independent kid leaves the pack to go off exploring on his own... only to get eaten by a bear.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Another fun‒and yummy!‒weekend project. https://t.co/N8ptHgkb
Saturday, February 02, 2013
Watering them every time you feel thirsty: One way to keep your silly little plants from dying on you.
Friday, February 01, 2013
@Kristinsvendsen Wonderful! I had a good evening as well, and we should do this again sometime.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
And after ~1 hour of being down, everything seems to be back to normal again. Yay!
After years of reliable service, all my sites hosted on @1and1 are down right now. I hope things get resolved soon!
@writemels Has your account been compromised?
DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT I SAY, JUST DO WHAT I MEAN. Computers, sheesh. http://t.co/kv7qDcxS
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
After working for 12 hours straight on Mechanics Academy, I believe the time is now to start evangelizing Tea-Driven Development.
I believe I've discovered (possibly rediscovered) a design process while working hard on designing Mechanics Academy. http://t.co/gtkHcyG0
Winter clothing is for wimps. Body fat has all the insulation anyone would ever need.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Just found out that Apple actually acknowledges this issue, so let's see what a call to AppleCare gets me. http://t.co/AQzZtoIp
The Nvidia graphics-related crashes on my Mac are getting worse. This plus the OS' insistence on autosaves makes my life just dandy.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A web site pointing to the funding campaign is live as well. Please help spread the word! #fundlab2013 http://t.co/Etd9I4Xe
The #fundlab2013 project we were working on, a crowd funding campaign for the Wilderness Embasy is now live! http://t.co/mF6vSW7B
Sunday, January 20, 2013
@Kristinsvendsen And you're welcome! It was good to meet you at the weekend.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
The most attractive bunch at #fundlab2013: https://t.co/F4M79Jrg http://t.co/NXn3pSos
I imagine being at #fundlab2013 is kinda like being on Project Runway. Without the pretty clothes.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Oftentimes, correlation _does_ imply causation. There, I said it.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY THE FIRST TURN ON EACH @letterpressapp GAME?
Friday, December 21, 2012
I also received my certificate from BerkeleyX for completing their Foundations of Computer Graphics class (#CS184.1x)! http://t.co/PWIxynO3
I received my certificate from BerkeleyX for completing their Advanced SaaS class (CS169.2x) with a perfect score! http://t.co/qJ0Mw0Uv
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Time to go put all this new knowledge to good use!
Just completed the second half of the SaaS course (#CS169.2x) on @edXOnline with a perfect score! http://t.co/wcFFFZ19
Monday, December 10, 2012
The inconsistent nav bar across different Google apps should've annoyed someone important enough to force a fix by now. http://t.co/PUbCYGDC
Sunday, December 09, 2012
$ mv parser.cc Parser.cc mv: ‘parser.cc’ and ‘Parser.cc’ are the same file Oh OS X, you so funny.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
it was like experiencing a cheesy, poorly-motivated knockoff of Asimov's Foundation Series.
Finally ended up watching the Star Wars episodes. Filled a huge gap in my cultural knowledge I have.
Friday, December 07, 2012
It's officially nippy. So say my nips.
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Not me, it's the iPad Mini for me.
Stumbled upon $400 stashed away in an old suitcase I was cleaning out to throw away! Guess who's getting a Microsoft Surface for Christmas?
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
@ginatrapani Thank you. Just, thank you for your wonderfully moving piece.
Saturday, December 01, 2012
"Slides" from my talk yesterday at the Computing in Science Education seminar at the University of Oslo: http://t.co/2eMZgIVM
Friday, November 30, 2012
… A really perfect university where I can learn exactly what I want, when I want and from the best teachers.
I just finished the superb #hci course on @coursera! http://t.co/NEUlCsgd All these MOOCs are making me feel like I am at university again.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
I was delighted to find upon googling myself that Google now understands the structure of my personal site. Yipee! http://t.co/NdHgrdte
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
"You there, Indian boy! Are you from India or are you from Pakistan?"
One day, I'll actually be organized enough to read my copy of "Getting things Done" (® David Allen & Co.) / cc: @hotdogsladies
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
@LetterpressFan Exactly.
@LetterpressFan Because victory tastes so much sweeter than surrender?
Is it just me, or is the number of people resigning #Letterpress games instead of taking their defeat like real men/women slowly growing?
@greggpollack I found the Stanford iOS course interesting and quite challenging.
The skip-forward 15 seconds button on the iPhone Music app is like manual AdBlock for podcasts.
Monday, November 26, 2012
@siracusa Feedback on Hypercritical 95: http://t.co/naCL5JxG is a fun course that builds up to a modern computer from first principles.
Friday, November 23, 2012
The second part of the #SaaS course on @Edxonline has upped the difficulty level significantly. Battle-scarred learning at its finest!
Monday, November 19, 2012
@danbenjamin How do you plan on coping with all the free time you'll have when @marcoarment and @siracusa end their shows on @5by5?
Friday, November 16, 2012
After weeks of writing proposals and giving talks, I finally got the time to sit down and work on Mechanics Academy. http://t.co/CjTOueVd
I returned to a Bazaar repository after a week of Git and boy do things feel ridiculously sluggish.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Been playing with @goXTK for much of the afternoon I believe the solution visualization library for Mechanics Academy has been found!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
@eduo I agree. My point was just that it's not just Mosh that needs to be relicensed, but also its dependencies shouldn't be GPL. @ducasi
@eduo I checked, and what you're saying is only true if mosh has no dependencies that are GPL / @ducasi @siracusa
@eduo @ducasi @siracusa Not really. The terms of the GPL are incompatible with the distribution terms of the App Store.
Monday, November 12, 2012
What is OS X trying to tell me when it claims to be deleting a negative number of files? #lazyweb http://t.co/pzsVhkUB
If there's one tenet I've picked up from my father, it's this: Why know when you can assume?
Saturday, November 10, 2012
I received my certificate from BerkeleyX for completing their CS169.1x Software as a Service class with a score of 96%! http://t.co/lbw1ufsV
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Something tells me I'm going to try test-driven development for my next project. #saasclass-style!
My entire evening was spent debugging five lines of dense code from a few months ago. Couldn't figure it out and ended up rewriting it.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
My nerdy birthday gift was so much fun! http://t.co/LikXtAWw
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
@palavalli Thanks!
@palavalli Where did you read that Apple is moving away from Intel to ARM?
I earned 100% in Computing for Data Analysis on @Coursera! http://t.co/TSywZjP0 #compdata
Sunday, November 04, 2012
With each passing day, @danbenjamin's laugh gets closer to @haddiebird's.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
If only I had an iPhone 5, I'd be able to see more @5by5 goodness at one time. http://t.co/XovGU4WL
Did @arstechnica recently change their entry page header to look a lot more like the @verge? Or has it been this way for a while?
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
My fiancé is submitting her PhD thesis tomorrow and I'm the one who's gained 3 kg over the past few weeks.
When did blogs go from being places where you shared your feelings to places where professional-sounding people do whatever it is they do?
Monday, October 29, 2012
@neiltyson Could you point to literature that explains how that number is estimated?
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Just finished the first SaaS course on @EdxOnline! Oddly affected by the fact that I didn't score 100%, but I'll live. http://t.co/t5pxLnCG
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Final homework on @edXOnline CS169.1x has upped the challenge level once again. There goes my weekend… and all of next week! :)
Can a communications technology profoundly change the way we learn in the future? Experts and educators weigh in: http://t.co/183s6Q15
Dear #lazyweb: What do you think the best RSS reader for OS X is? You know, now that RSS is dead and all.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Remember when people were genuinely excited about windows? http://t.co/mYIEQjAC I feel so old. cc: @danbenjamin
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
I tripped on my power cord and ended up dropping my MacBook Pro hard on the floor. The MagSafe connector is still safe.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Every once in a while AWS goes down and it seems like the whole internet is down. People need to start running their own servers.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
And conflate this with a move from Thunderbird to Mail.app. Scary times.
After years of dilly-dallying, I think I'm going to move from multiple e-mail addresses on Gmail etc. to one canonical one on my own domain.
@Jim_Minch @davidblake @hackingedu You're welcome!
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Stumbled upon "Designing a New Learning Environment" on Stanford's Venture Lab and signed-up posthaste. Finally, I have found my crowd. :)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
@edXOnline #SaaS has been the most rewarding online learning experience I've had so far. Engaging, polished, challenging.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I think I've completed all the requirements for the Computing for Data Analysis course on @coursera. Now, need to get back to HCI and SaaS!
@gsiemens @gotowebinar Yes please!
Monday, October 15, 2012
I'm thinking of doing a Kickstarter pitch to get enough resources to create a higher quality Kickstarter pitch for my actual project.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Been engrossed with CS169x homework this weekend. It's been fun, challenging and super rewarding: http://t.co/CzunQbAp Onto the next week!
Saturday, October 13, 2012
@shwetika Like you said, weird can be good. :)
@shwetika I think it's just that we're too worn out to hold the weird in.
Friday, October 12, 2012
@audreywatters Is there someway we can help as a community?
Thursday, October 11, 2012
It's reinforced my belief that an online class, when done well, can rival the best in-classroom experiences out there. Viva la revolucion.
A few delightful weeks with CS169.1x on @edxonline have gotten me obsessed with Ruby, Rails, and modern software engineering paradigms.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
@AJCann Intriguing. Thanks for the primer. And, hmm...
@AJCann So the plan is to 1. introduce a hashtag 2. have people blog and tweet using it 3. follow this hashtag... and learn?
@AJCann Now I'm not completely sure if you're being serious or pulling my leg. Hmm.
@AJCann I can sort of get that, but how is one supposed to discern reasonable quality writing from all the noise?
Am I the only one who doesn't understand what's going on with #CFHE12? Completely disoriented. Miss appealing to authority.
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Supporting your girlfriend during the last weeks of her PhD _is_ a full-time job, you insensitive clod. #phdchat
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Does anyone know where @edXOnline hosts their software repositories for their open source technology platform?
¡Breaking news! I'm no longer a biomedical researcher. I've chosen instead to focus full time on online education (mechanics in particular).
Friday, September 21, 2012
15 hours into Skyward Sword, I can see that it comes nowhere close to unseating Wind Waker as the greatest Zelda game of all time.
iOS 6 is a lot like iOS 5, but the new colored status bars on top look alarming. (And maps look silly.)
Mountain Lion is a lot like Lion, but you can tweet from within it! (And you lose RSS feed support in Apple Mail.)
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Upgraded my phone to iOS 6 and my computers to Mountain Lion on the same day. Living dangerously!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
For the 93rd time, I overheard today: "I use FaceBook, but the way I do it, it's really secure."
I just realised now that the thing that made Apple events so thrilling was Jobsian secrecy. This one is bordering on boring.
Friday, September 07, 2012
@rayschroeder http://t.co/blieRCKu
Spent the past two weeks off the internet holidaying around my little brother's wedding. Here's a gallery of images: http://t.co/mgvrMCTT
Thursday, September 06, 2012
@davidblake You're welcome!
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Today, my twitter follower to followed ratio crossed 1.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I'm in India for a small vacation around attending my brother's wedding. Be prepared for big news when I return.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Hmm. Upgrades. #5dmarkiii http://t.co/y8Xvb8Kk
@siracusa Maybe everyone who replied is on a third-party client.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
@arnek @Norgesuniv … This can be used alongside Khan Academy-style mathematics lectures to teach students.
@arnek @Norgesuniv Khan Academy's framework for creating exercises and testing students is available open source: http://t.co/shm7RZqo …
@tor @adeoressi On the one hand he says don't give up; on the other, he says most startups tend to not go anywhere meaningful. Hmm.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
@Startup_Norway That sounds great. How frequent are the open coffee events? I'm traveling a bit for now, but should be free in a few weeks.
Started browsing @Startup_Norway's site after few recent tweets about it. Hope to make the next event or open coffee when I'm back in town!
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Wisdemy was spawned as a place for me to catalogue refs. and notes to aid in my research. Today, I used it in that way for the first time.
Turns out you need to go into Safari Preferences > Advanced and enable the "Develop Menu." No learning web tech for you, casual surfer.
Did the new #Safari just remove view-source? Between this and Mail.app removing RSS feed support, Mountain Lion is looking like a winner!
Monday, August 06, 2012
Is poetry necessary? What about history? Algebra? Who's the arbiter of what is "necessary" for students? http://t.co/WosBEnBx
Sunday, August 05, 2012
. @khanacademy goes offline, and it sounds like so much fun! http://t.co/IZM5UUrN
Apple now lets any teacher publish to iTunes U: http://t.co/IAlq3JOT
Students gain skills, confidence, and career advancement through @Udacity! http://t.co/gJAPnSfx #heartwarming
@wisdemy Found and reported the offending changeset, and it got fixed ridiculously quickly. Thanks @WordPress hackers!
UC Berkeley joins edX (http://t.co/xa6fj3d7), contributing an open source platform, two new courses and chairing the X University consortium
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Is anyone else having problems with setting a 'featured image' from the Media Library with @WordPress trunk? Stopped working earlier today.
How does @coursera plan on making money from free courses? http://t.co/ueicfKQO
. @learn's redesign is beautiful, easy to use and powerful: http://t.co/c2ZlFyq3