Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Most researchers and many engineers teach. Some take teaching as a chore; some actually like teaching; and some researchers like teaching so much as to do research about teaching, ... What I do want to talk about is an article which influe...

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

My mom’s never written a line of software in her life,... how to program. She taught me arithmetic and fractions t... structures through laundry, and programming and algorith... Does that sound crazy? Let me explain.

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food.
The first experiment trained the birds to use a tool to ...

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

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In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-... new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies,... problem of needlessly complex writing—sometimes referr... “opaque writing style”—has been explored in fields... to science.

The issue of co-author relationships on medical sciences... publications has become more pronounced as advances in t... enabled collaboration across countries and institutions ... efficiently. These relationships often have underlying p... motivations

Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participat... class once a week over the course of a year significantl... math and literacy skills, with disadvantaged students sh... significant gains

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

This week, the prestigious Journal of Political Philosop... series of articles under the heading “Black Lives Matt... All the authors published in the series are white.

The API gives you access to 6 different collections of d...
Books (two endpoints, /book and /books)
Authors (two endpoints, /author and /authors)
Publishers (two endpoints, /publisher and /publishers)
... Prices (single endpoint, /prices)

Find the essential details you need to use our web servi... eligibility to authentication patterns and technical doc... build enhanced services and solutions to everyday problems.

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Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to searc... and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM p... geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

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“So that’s it. Humans have been pouring metal in mol... Fuck molds. The digital age transformed every other indu... – music, photography, writing, telecom, email, the int... makes cars largely the same way they did in the 50’s. ...
In short he

The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time.

The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden...
Reality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on ...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides hi... family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildr... U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns.
Hinshaw, who got into programming in the 1960s when comp ...

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the