Yesterday’s post regarding the adoption of Perl and RegEx in early childhood has raised some questions as per to which degree we should expose our kids to potentially questionable content.
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Perl’s for Kids (and Regular Expressions, too)
We’ve just finished a field study looking at the ability of less than two-year olds starting to learn Perl and Regular Expressions. To avoid any gender bias, we have focused on the female population. From a statistical point of view, we have been able to get 100 % participation...
Continue reading...Experiencing random, but predictable crashes with VirtualBox running SuSE SLES 11.3 (solved)
This one was not easy to solve. Running SuSE SLES 11.3 as guest in VirtualBox 4.2.18 on an otherwise entirely stable host (Linux 3.11.0 running Ubuntu 13.10), my 64 bit SLES VMs would randomly just “stuck”, consuming full CPU usage on the host system for the cores I had...
Continue reading...Still need an argument against nuclear fuel? As a father, this truly pisses me off…
We’re responsible for our children. So when suddenly, for someone happens to note a “smoking gun” like here, for severe birth defects, and the official position is to advise people to “take your folic acid” – while there is a very much smoking gun in the vicinity, in this...
Continue reading...Linksys WRT120N hacked.
This is amazing: A simple URL call allows you to bypass the login. What’s more interesting is how he got there.
Continue reading...Visual Feedback from Apple Scripts
I am probably overly abusing Better Touch Tool. As an example, while reading a book in Full Screen mode with Skim, I want to create different types of annotations but I do not want to use the menu or even the keyboard to switch annotation types. I want to...
Continue reading...Innovate or Exploit? Some thoughts on Rigidity vs. Flexibility, and Myopic Measurement
I’m just reading Schermerhorn et al. There’s an interesting chapter on innovation which captures the topic of flexibility vs. rigidity, or exploration vs. exploitation, that I’ve recently discussed with a group of research fellows in the context of the dichotomy of exploration vs. exploitation: “too much emphasis on exploration...
Continue reading...Innovation Culture: Thoughts about allowing for more flexibility.
For a well-formatted version, see here . 1 Introduction What is required—and why—to establish a balance between flexibility and stringent order to enable a company to be receptive to innovation? And what focus areas should be considered for implementing such change? This paper is organized as follows: section 2...
Continue reading...Automate copying the Citation from BibDesk
Even though BibDesk has a very useful “Cite Tray” from which you can drag and drop your citations to the document you’re writing, what I consistently end up doing is to use, always, mostly the same format. As an example, I may be saying something like as \citeauthor{Nott:2014} said...
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