ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Pretty cold out today on campus, why do you ask??

If the robin were a squirmer, wonder what kind of flow field it would produce... 🤔

Question/answer found on Quora:

Question:

"If I wanted to develop an operating system, where can I start?"

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Reply:

Young Composer: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing a symphony. How should I get started?"

Mozart: "A symphony is a very complex musical form and you are still young. Perhaps you should start with something simpler, like a concerto."

Young Composer: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."

Mozart: "Yes, but I never asked anyone how."

Generating chord progressions in F#

https://blog.emneb.dev/posts/02-generating-chord-progressions-in-fsharp.html

Self-correction in science: The effect of retraction on the frequency of citations

by Anton Kühberger, Daniel Streit, and Thomas Scherndl

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277814

Become a part of the GoTriple community!

GoTriple, the discovery platform for the social sciences and humanities has officially opened registration for users.

https://operas.hypotheses.org/5965

The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals

by Simon Linacre

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/1j92gb03n

Just completed my 6th term, 2 years and 2 cohorts of students with whom I engaged in ungrading with. This last term did not go as well as I had wanted it to. It was a reminder that to me at least, there is not "achieving" ungrading. There is a need for regular reflection, conversation with students, and refinement of practices and structures.
One central and ongoing tension is the balance between creating structures and scaffolds, and having open and amorphous tasks that provide students with more agency, but also may seem more opaque. Balancing and rebalancing this has been an ongoing exercise that feels a bit like a swinging pendulum.

#Ungrading #Edutoot #Edutooter

For all my new financial services analytics students, this episode is a fantastic window into data science in your world. It is so good. @Cmastication is a fascinating human being with gift for storytelling. Make sure you LISTEN!

https://vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/15

Ghost of a Tale is currently in a giveaway on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/ghost_of_a_tale

Neat! I was tempted to go for the Fanatical bundle with that game in it, guess I won't have to anymore! ;)
#Games #GOG #Giveaway

Here is list of #FOSS projects on #mastodon that are worthwhile to follow
- Inkscape;vector drawing; @inkscape
- Openproject;project management; @openproject
- ownCloud;content collaboration; @ownclouders
- Nextcloud;remote collaboration; @nextcloud
- Gimp;image editor; @GIMP
- Thunderbird;communications command center; @thunderbird
- LibreOffice;office suite; @libreoffice
- Joplin;notes and to;do; @joplinapp
- Rocket.Chat;chat app; @RocketChat
- Signal;end;to;end encrypted messaging; @signalapp

Mastodon and the Fediverse are at their best when you are following lots of people, not only because you see their posts, but because you also see the posts they share. Seeing lots of shares makes it much easier to discover stuff.

➡️ For tips on finding people to follow click here: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFindPeopleToFollow

Following people is how discovery works on here. There's no computer algorithm pushing stuff to you, instead there are millions of human beings manually sharing stuff they find interesting.

Solstice is coming, and you know what that means! #midjourney #AIArt

My suggestion if you want the Fediverse to work, follow and favorite and boost the absolute hell out of people. It’s not about dopamine or clout chasing, it’s about letting people know they’re not just typing into a void.

Found 2 new servers, 23,224 alive servers now with 8,479,112 total users, 3,074,121 active users this month. 2 servers died off this update. Check out the stats! fediverse.observer/stats

New #fediverse servers found:

#calckey server from Sweden calckey.fediverse.observer/an.…

#mastodon server from United States mastodon.fediverse.observer/ma…

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1602121344405180417/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1602121344405180417

Study reveals Native peoples were able to buffer the landscape from climate-related conflagrations.

“This is what Indigenous people have been telling us for a long time, but I don’t think Western science has always listened.”

#Wildfire #ClimateChange #Resilience #IndigenousKnowledge

https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-americans-broke-cycle-destructive-wildfires-here-s-how-they-did-it

Give her what she really wants this Christmas: an old rustic mirror with a mysterious back story from a small corner shop that you don't remmember ever seeing before.