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- Stephen Green published a blog post On Interdisciplinary Work"You're not supposed to have your own theory in the academic world. You cannot theorize about literature and sociology, in the manner I do. The mimetic theory—they would tell you it's a gimmick, maybe."
- Stephen Green published a blog post Athabasca University Email Addresses For StudentsReviving the discussion for what other Universities have had for years: Student Email
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I second this. I want to apply for Amazon Prime Student, which asks for our university email address to verify, and I'm left hanging. Boo!
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- Stephen Green published a blog post Athabasca University Email Addresses For StudentsReviving the discussion for what other Universities have had for years: Student EmailComments
- Anonymous January 7, 2018 - 10:13am
I second this. I want to apply for Amazon Prime Student, which asks for our university email address to verify, and I'm left hanging. Boo!
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- Stephen Green published a blog post Athabasca University Email Addresses For StudentsReviving the discussion for what other Universities have had for years: Student EmailComments
- Anonymous January 7, 2018 - 10:13am
I second this. I want to apply for Amazon Prime Student, which asks for our university email address to verify, and I'm left hanging. Boo!
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- Stephen Green posted to the wire
- Peter Woodhead created a wiki page Unit 4 - Sensing
- Renattae Schmidt published a blog post Unit 0 - So it begins
- Mary McNabb posted to the wire
- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Reactions to Facebook's reactions
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- Jeffrey Pinto February 24, 2016 - 1:57pm
Interesting post, Jon.
Now FB's massive stream of data will be tagged with greater nuance.
I'm reminded of the Wired article, Don't Worry Facebook Still Have No Clue How You Feel from a couple years ago when FB tested whether their algorithm could affect users' posting behavior. The author's justification for his argument:
Setting aside the nuance lost by breaking down the human psyche to its barest possible binary—happy and sad—the Facebook study also relied on what sounds like a minimally viable approach to sentiment analysis. To determine whether posts were positive or negative, the study measured the “positive” and “negative” words in each post to determine what the study called its “emotionality.” Status updates don’t appear to have been weighed for shades of mood as determined by the context in which those words appear.
- Jon Dron February 24, 2016 - 2:24pm
Interesting connection, Jeff! Yes, the way Facebook simplifies, in almost every way, people, messages, emotions, relationships, interactions etc, seems quite pervasive in its culture. While I can see that averaging out over such large numbers, as they did in that paper, might smooth over the coarseness of the metric across different contexts to uncover broad patterns, it's telling that they chose to use (or at least chose to draw attention to the use of) a data-driven approach that see humans as averaged-out binary data points. Generously, one might observe that it lacks nuance. More realistically, it suggests an attitude to people not unlike that of a factory-chicken farmer to chickens.
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- Viorel Tabara September 1, 2016 - 7:13pm
Great article Jon! I was reminded of it while reading this Guido van Rossum interview:
What does a typical day of work at Dropbox look like for you?
There's a lot of email, a lot of code by other Dropboxers to review, and I also get to write a lot of code myself (which I then have to get reviewed by my coworkers). Fortunately I don't have too many meetings!
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