Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Single-loop and double-loop learning
For Argyris and Schön (1978: 2) learning involves the d ...

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

Scholarly impact has long been an intriguing research to... 2010; Sternberg, 2003) as well as a crucial factor in ma... decisions (e.g., hiring, tenure, promotion, research sup... honors).  As decision makers ramp up their reliance on ... (Abbott, Cy

github.com/citation-style-language/styles is the main re... 1.0 styles and is maintained by the Citation Style Langu... members. For more information, check out the project web... repository wiki.

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
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Climate change is creating problems for American citizen... and costing the economy billions of dollars, as extreme ... flooding, droughts and other disasters to every region o... federal advisory panel concluded in a report released Tu...
The congres

One of Guinness World Records’ more unusual awards was... National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne...
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The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, h... code. The compiler removes dead code and rewrites and mi... left so that it downloads and runs quickly. It also also... variable references, and types, and warns about common J... pitfalls. T

Scaling phenomena permeate modern communication networks... there is considerable data to support the hypothesis tha... exhibits multi-scalar behavior, with correlations at mul... There is even evidence that traffic may be self-similar ...
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* title  : Enchancing dd/mm/yyyy forms with unobtrusive ...
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If you site needs pop-ups to work properly, this little ...
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if (popWin) {
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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.

#!/usr/bin/python # MVC Howto - Introduction & code # Wh... stands for "Model", "View" & "Controller", a way of sepe... into # manageable and independent chunks that can be cha... use MVC? # Because code is independent from each other, ... for you to

Code snippets:File I/O
From MDC
This article describes local file input/output in chrome ...
You access the file system using Mozilla XPCOM component ...

Code snippets:Running applications
From MDC
This page describes how to run other programs from your ...

CodeMirror is a versatile text editor implemented in Jav... browser. It is specialized for editing code, and comes w... language modes and addons that implement more advanced e... functionality.
A rich programming API and a CSS theming system are avai

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into Jav... all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScr... a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an... the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

Problems of human-computer interaction become crucial wh... question is a potential purchaser trying to engage with ... an internet shopping site. These days customer interface...
Walk-through first referred to a physical tour of a faci ...
Its key asp

How Dreams And Memory May Be Related
Tarnow, Dr. Eugen (2003) How Dreams And Memory May Be Re ...
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... ty: the selection process of the Storage Transformation.

The Cognitive Basis of Material Engagement: Where Brain,... Conflate
Malafouris, Lambros (2004) The Cognitive Basis of Materi ...

Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T

The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd ...

The API: Color Scheme Designer for your web
The Color Scheme Designer 3 online application can be ea ...