Peter Thiel book. (more)

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Scott Adams framing: my observation is that whenever humanity can see a slow-moving disaster coming, we find a way to avoid it. (more)

Roy F. Baumeister (born May 16, 1953) is a Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, Self Control, Self Esteem, Self Defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and Free Will. He has authored 500 publications and has written, co-written, or edited almost 30 books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Baumeister

subject to Positive Feedback? (more)

one place where Virtual Learning takes place (more)

opposite of Self Fulfilling? (more)

Richard Wiseman says he can teach people to be more Lucky. My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create Self Fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good... In the wake of these studies, I think there are three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune: Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches... Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives... Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune.

*Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.,[3] commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary[4] who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today's Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo.[5][6][7][8][9] (more)

Clive Thompson/Wired Mag has Khan Academy profile. I'm reminded a lot of Disrupting Class. (more)

Course that covers a wide range of related topics in a short period of time. (more)

Roger Schank realizes he left College Education professors out of his list of Stakeholder-s in the Network Of Learning. Universities dictate curricula to high schools to make professor's lives easier. If everyone takes Physics and Calculus and most never use it, well, professors claim it was good for the students anyway when in fact it was only good for making sure professors didn't have to teach it in college. As long as professors don't have to teach the basics it is okay that High School students are forced to study stuff they will never use in their whole lives. We have ruined an entire generation of high school students who don't like learning and think the subject matter is irrelevant because professors only want to teach the good stuff.

*Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning vector spaces and linear mappings between such spaces. It includes the study of lines, planes, and subspaces, but is also concerned with properties common to all vector spaces. (more)

*NumPy is the fundamental package for Scientific Computing with Python. It contains among other things: (more)

Calculus is the mathematical study of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations. It has two major branches, differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves),[1] and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves);[2] these two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. Both branches make use of the fundamental notions of convergence of infinite sequences and infinite series to a well-defined limit. Generally, modern calculus is considered to have been developed in the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Today, calculus has widespread uses in science, engineering and economics and can solve many problems that Algebra alone cannot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

Warren Henning is teaching himself Intermediate Mathematics. My dream is to learn the Statistics, probability, and Linear Algebra needed to really understand Machine Learning and Computer Vision, which has had a major spurt of activity in the past 5–7 years. To realize this goal, I need a solid foundation so that I can truly understand what’s going on: why something works, when it won’t work, and what to do differently if it doesn’t. (more)

Chris Phoenix extends Jane Jacobs' Systems Of Survival model. I have said that Guardian ethics are best for dealing with Zero-Sum or Negative Sum situations, and Commercial ethics are best for dealing with Positive Sum situations. The invention of computers has created Unlimited Sum situations. (Economics Of Abundance)

Civic Space, Citizen Agency, Citizen Space, BarCamp (more)

*Multiple choice is a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer (or answers) out of the choices from a list. The multiple choice format is most frequently used in educational testing, in market research, and in elections, when a person chooses between multiple candidates, parties, or policies. Multiple choice testing is particularly popular in the United States. If guessing an answer, there's usually a 25 percent chance of getting it correct on a 4 answer choice question.[1] (more)

Jazz Band leader, saxophonist (more)