Tag: education

Guess I’ll repeat the obvious – this national security panopticon thing is a problem
June 10, 2013 0

Guess I’ll repeat the obvious – this national security panopticon thing is a problem

By News Desk

Even though I trust Obama far more than Bush, I don’t trust him or the hundreds of other people with access to total information about everything (slight exaggeration) to use it sparingly and only for good. And while I don’t like to assume facts for which we have no evidence, the recent disclosures of government spying seem unlikely to be the only spying that’s done on the general public. No abuses of the information have been disclosed, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, and given enough time and enough people with access to the information, we can assume it will happen at some point

Get A Job
June 10, 2013 0

Get A Job

By News Desk

Sunday, June 09, 2013 Posted by EliRabett Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Fascinating
June 5, 2013 0

All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Fascinating

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

Portland fluoride vote makes sense given limited information and time
May 30, 2013 0

Portland fluoride vote makes sense given limited information and time

By News Desk

Tweet Voters in Portland have for the umpteenth time stopped fluoridation of their water , not long after my water district voted to fund it here in Santa Clara County. I used to live in Portland and still visit regularly. The city relies on a famous-to-Portland protected watershed for its water supply, the Bull Run watershed near Mount Hood.

Steal this tactic
May 29, 2013 0

Steal this tactic

By News Desk

On opposing the National Rifle Association : What Bloomberg has embarked upon now is nothing less than the construction of a mirror image to the NRA.

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr
May 25, 2013 0

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr

By News Desk

Saturday, May 25, 2013 Posted by Brian Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

Memorial Day Puzzler
May 24, 2013 0

Memorial Day Puzzler

By News Desk

So Eli and Ms. Eli are bundling up for the end of May holiday here in the US and Ethon thought he would take a whack or a peck as the case may be.  This one starts with the set to between Richard Tol (boo, hiss) and Dana Nuccetelli (yea) covered at places which are dangerous but it really is about reading carefully.  You can see their tweets at Twitter , but Eli’s friend @Ethon Raptor wants to point to two of them Richard Tol ‏ @ RichardTol Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly.