June 2008
7 posts
I Like Junk
I’m slowly unteaching myself to fear junk. When it comes to advanced processing, unneccessary cycles aren’t a problem. In fact, when I’m
inclusive toward outliers, I’m always surprised by results I didn’t anticipate.
This would just be another ordinary entry to my modelling practices, except that my junkie behavior has gotten me thinking about so-called “junk...
The Starting Offer
Shlang writes,
If you think the coming nuclear winter will make job market tough for employees, you need to hear about the job offer my daughter got recently:
* $0 salary and no equity (you’re supposed to be compensated in experience)
* no benefits other than vacation and sick time: no insurance, for example
* no possibility of promotion or raise, ever
* no job description: just do what you’re...
Omar Khan Has Been Failed
News YC is abuzz this morning over the following story:
“Between Jan. 23, 2008, and May 20, 2008, Omar Kahn is accused of unlawfully breaking and entering into locked rooms at Tesoro High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, where he was a senior, on several occasions late at night and on weekends to access school computers to change his grades. He is accused of altering current test...
Watch
Shout out from Freebase!
Solving School, Part #1: Personalization and...
Last week, the New York Times reported on a trend that deserves attention: there is an increasing resistance toward the inclusion of SAT and ACT scores among colleges:
“The number of colleges and universities where such tests are now optional — mostly small liberal-arts colleges — has been growing steadily as more institutions have become concerned about the validity of standardized tests...
Medill's Sunlight Opportunity
Update: Jeff Jarvis says “linkboxing” would be a good buzzword for journalistic transparency.
Like the BAE, the newspaper industry is reacting as if it is under attack. And like the book publishers, newspapers are under attack.
We’ve seen a largely reactionary response, focused on restoring the declining financials. The changes I’ve seen in journalism instruction...