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February 2019: Sorry for the downtime Tuesday, 12th February. It was caused by an attempt to fix a small database error that in turn sparked a much bigger error.
Chowdhury Sarker Jihan commented on a wiki page titled Week 12 - Looking Back- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 12 - Looking BackComments
- Laurie Milne published a blog post Montreal archaeologists uncover a cemetery for Irish immigrants fleeing the 1847 famine in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Charleen Stokes published a blog post Political Language: The Art of Communicating the Hidden Agenda“Regarding the phrase ‘political correctness,’ who said there was ever anything correct about the way in which many political figures speak?”
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Unit 11 Food for Thought Applications
- Richard Al commented on a wiki page titled Hardware Project with a Friend - Micro-controller for Solar Powered Chicken Coop
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Resilience and the Collapse of Civilizations in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 10 - Case Study on Windows Server
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Hardware Project with a Friend - Micro-controller for Solar Powered Chicken CoopComments
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Hi Philip,
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! As you have highlighted here it is amazing how much tech there is in farming today.
Keep up the good work!
Richard
Richard Al November 21, 2019 - 8:27pm
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- Philip Kirkbride uploaded the file Power Switch for Transformer and External Charging Plugs
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MDDE 610 Assignment #2: Learn Something with CAI or Mobile Apps
By Bhavik Patel June 4, 2019 - 10:53amLearning how to dribble with the use of the Mobile App "DribbleUp" it's a smart basketball app. - By David Scott April 5, 2019 - 1:05pmChrome Browser Bookmarking Extension for the Landing - https:/
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The Myth of 'Learning Styles'
By Jon Dron 18 May 2019 @ 12:47pmgetpocket.com - A straightforward journalistic article from the Atlantic that does a decent job of explaining how and why learning styles theories simply don't work, with a particular focus on VARK. The takeaways are that, yes, people do often prefer to learn in... -
Catch Up on Screen Time: Read This Dracula Critique
By Bev Schellenberg April 16, 2019 - 8:02pmMy parents felt a child’s time was best spent outside, on homework, and in extra-curricular pursuits, so my screen time was limited to one hour per week. The way I got to know any movie was through my father’s recounting the plot to me... -
Bringing Antagonists to their Knees… Or At Least to the Cereal Box
By Bev Schellenberg April 23, 2019 - 6:00pm Comments (2)Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and Darth Vader share something in common: thanks to pop culture, they've been reduced to bobbleheads, children’s playthings, and types of cereal. -
Art from Residential Schools
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 4, 2019 - 10:58am Comments (1)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupLooking forward to seeing this exhibit next month when I am in... -
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
By Janelle Baker in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group March 28, 2019 - 3:40pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupForced assimilation destroyed most nations’ diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives. -
Archaeology & International Women's Day
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group March 8, 2019 - 9:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIn celebration of International Women's Day, I'd like to recommend the following book: "Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure" by Amanda Adams Overview: "The first women archaeologists were Victorian era...
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Its official as of November 14, 2018 - CALL TO ACTION
By Steve Swettenham November 15, 2018 - 3:35am Comments (1)CDE non-rep -
Microsoft under GDPR microscope for Office 365 and OneDrive | Alphr
By Jon Dron 15 November 2018 @ 12:04pm Comments (4)www.alphr.com - No big surprises here to anyone that has ever so much as glanced at Microsoft's business model and historical abuse of its customers, but definitely a matter of concern for organizations (like Athabasca University) that rent their services from... -
Digging up the devil (Poorly Drawn Lines)
By Jon Dron 11 May 2018 @ 2:00pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Groupwww.poorlydrawnlines.com - I thought this might be of interest to this group... -
Tour of Alabama archaeological site
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group October 31, 2018 - 3:35pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupTo celebrate International Archaeology Day (Oct. 20th), AUs Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project released a video walking tour of the monumental core of the ancient Maya site of Alabama, in the Stann Creek District of Central Belize. Watch the... - By Mark A. McCutcheon August 27, 2018 - 9:32amMA-IS students can still enroll in this fall's zombie & vampire literature course: http:/
/ www.athabascau.ca/ syllabi/ mais/ mais752.php - By Terry Anderson January 18, 2016 - 12:46pmA grad student and a supervsor go into a bar. The supervsior orders a rough draft. Then 12 months of awkward silence.
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Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
By Jon Dron 3 July 2018 @ 6:13pm Comments (1)aeon.co - An article for Aeon by Jon Tennant on the heinous state of affairs that gives unscrupulous publishers profit margins that put Apple to shame while hiding publicly funded research from the public that pays for it. It is a shamefully broken system... -
When Whales and Humans Talk
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 6, 2018 - 2:56pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Group"Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking...
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Lets Focus!
By Jill Diachuk October 29, 2019 - 7:35pmQuite frankly I just need to throw my cellphone out the window and put on a focus playlist from Spotify. The internet isn’t as much of a distraction as my cellphone with Instagram, work emails, texts and Facebook there are way too many worm... -
Lidar use in archaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group October 22, 2019 - 10:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAre you interested in learning more about Lidar use in archaeology? Register for this webinar "Flights Into the Past - Archaeological Prospection Using Lidar," hosted by Lidar Magazine, which takes place TOMORROW (Oct 23, 11-12pm MST).... -
Internet Educational BBS Pioneers of Alberta - Part 3
By Steve Swettenham October 11, 2019 - 3:02amInternet Educational BBS Pioneers of Alberta - Part 3 -
Article on Pull-Up Resistors
By Darren Hurren September 23, 2019 - 10:08am Comments (1)Hey everyone, I found a great artice online about the importance of pull-up resistors that I thought I would share. This was useful for my project since I was using pushbuttons. I ended up using the internal 20kOhm pullups on the SparkFun RedBoard... -
Getting back to blogging
By Gerald Abshez July 29, 2019 - 6:28pmI haven't blogged in a while publicly, for a variety of reasons. I've been too distracted with work and school and just life in general. I've just finished a course and a short contract, so it's time to take a little breath and do some reflection.... -
AU Anthroplogy Student wins Award
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 25, 2019 - 10:38amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupCongratulations to Anthropology program student, A. Megan Williams, who has been awarded an OUTSTANDING GRADUATING ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT AWARD 2019 from the Canadian Anthropology Society. Megan graduated from the program this year and has been... -
World Heritage Committee Meeting (UNESCO)
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group June 28, 2019 - 10:59amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThe World Heritage Committee, an agency of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO), is meeting for its 43rd session June 30 to July 10 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Under consideration are 36 nominations...
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Twain
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a hearth to be lighted - Parlby
- We have a hunger of the mind, which asks for knowledge all around us - Mitchell
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Gandhi
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts
All the best in the AI course, Philip. I suppose I'll see you in January 2020 (enrolled in the same course). As a matter of fact, professor Dr. Chang is my supervisor for one of their ongoing game-based learning projects ongoing.
In respect to data science, most of the individuals I know professionally are not grounded in AI theoretical aspects. Unless you're looking into AI research shops, an employer will settle with software engineering skills. In my experience, engineering skills are more valued in this domain.
It is mostly learning a few Python/R libraries, SQL and gumption in domain knowledge. However, once you focus on the Deep Learning part then machine learning, linear algebra, differential calculus begin to percolate. In all fairness, most of the time in data science is actually spent in data cleansing (some prefer to say data wrangling). As a matter of fact, there is a growing debate lately whether or not the data science fad is dying.
I'm currently enrolled in Data Mining (COMP 682). Along with the AI course, I hope to gain valuable academic insights into that aspect of IS.
Chowdhury Sarker Jihan December 1, 2019 - 8:49pm