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plotbot2015 (62)in #science • 7 years ago
PlotBot: Year 3 Review
Once again, life got in the way of Steemit. My wife had a heart attack in February, and that put quite a damper on blogging. Most of the difficulty came not from the event…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #politics • 7 years ago
Hybrid Forecasting -- the Legal Stuff
This is the consent form I had to sign to enter the study on hybrid forecasting, which I originally described here. Note that they do not promise to protect my identity, and…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #steemit • 7 years ago
Crowdsourced metadata via cryptocurrency
I've been reading this book: [image link] A full review will have to wait, but the essence of the book is that markets run on information. Importantly, money is only one form…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #life • 7 years ago
In MY day ...
We didn't have school shootings. We had bomb threats, and we liked it that way. [image link to nbc.com] I'm not kidding, either. Several times a year, never on a rainy…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #business • 7 years ago
Capital Connects 2018 [contest]
This 15-year old business pitch competition is probably the oldest one in the Triad. According to WRAL's TechWire. Capital Connects provides education opportunities for…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #politics • 7 years ago
Hybrid Forecasting of GeoPolitical Events
This is a project by IARPA (like DARPA but for the intelligence community) where they are attempting to combine crowdsourcing with machine learning. I signed up and took the…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #politics • 7 years ago
March for Science Triad fundraising series
"In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history. In 2018, we unite again to hold our elected and…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #democracy • 7 years ago
Our aging election infrastructure
I'm helping to organize our local March for Science (in fact later this week I'm going to launch a Steemit fundraising page for that nonpartisan event). Yesterday's post about…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #tv • 7 years ago
Trek-nicolor
I grew up with a black and white television set, so I was completely oblivious to that famous switch in The Wizard of Oz between sepia Kansas and the Technicolor dream world.…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #politics • 7 years ago
What if high schoolers could VOTE?
After this post on the minor moral panic at my kid's school a couple days ago, I noticed this action being planned. A year ago I wrote a column for IGMS about experimental…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #life • 7 years ago
While I was not looking, 400+ followers
There's no cute numerical graphic to go with this post, as seems to be traditional on Steemit. I was not paying attention today, because I was too busy witnessing future shock…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #technology • 7 years ago
Technological Humanism with Dan Hon
This is one of the best essays I've read recently, especially in the wake of yet another mass shooting. It's based on a lightning talk from one of the Friends of O'Reilly…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #movies • 7 years ago
"Four Twats in a Forest" -- a quick review of The Ritual
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned having re-read Iron John: a Book about Men. Today, a pair of what Jung would call synchronicities: I happened across this call for submissions…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #books • 7 years ago
The Cult of Alien Gods [review]
On our way home from a trip to Boston last summer, we stopped in Providence, Rhode Island, the former home of one Howard Philips Lovecraft. Now that his literary legacy is a…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #science • 7 years ago
Thank You Science Podcast, episode #1
I was at a business networking event last night when I met two of the people hosting this podcast. My wife assumed the title is a pun on "Thank you Jesus," and their focus on…
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mudcat36 (65)in #newbieresteemday • 7 years ago
Newbie Resteem Initiative Conspiracy Theory Writing Contest. Guaranteed Up Vote And Resteem For Newbies Entries!
Right, so one thing that is quite common place in the blogging world is conspiracy theories. Now these can be immense fun to read through, and even more fun to fact check. But I…
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thewritersblock (65)in #fiction • 7 years ago
The Writers' Block Sci-Fi Contest WINNERS!
source At last, we’ve made a decision. It wasn’t easy. These were, by far, some of the strongest pieces of writing we’ve seen in our workshops. More than that, their authors…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #technology • 7 years ago
Kialo, a social tool for argument mapping
Argument mapping is a way of laying out complex arguments spatially, allowing us to leverage our advanced primate visual systems to help us with logical reasoning. [image link…
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plotbot2015 (62)in #life • 7 years ago
My Asheville Tick-sperience
During the second weekend of my hypnosis course, the weather was a lot nicer. [image link] A fossilized tick in amber from the Dominican Republic, shown to be carrying…
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kennyskitchen (76)in #steemit • 7 years ago
Hive Post Deleted - I No Longer Support This Blockchain
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