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[justadandak]

Soundplant: computer keyboard sample triggering for Windows & Mac), basically, turns your computer keyboard into a versatile, low latency sound trigger and playable instrument.

[ms2253]

[explore] open-source-cs - open source computer science curriculum | github

[jm-export-site-blog]

开放课程网站 – Udemy, Mooc

https://www.udemy.com/courses/featured/  http://www.onlinecommunitycolleges.org/

[jm-export-site-blog]

开放课程网站 – Udemy, Mooc

https://www.udemy.com/courses/featured/  http://www.onlinecommunitycolleges.org/

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This lecture series is a pretty good introduction/survey to theory. Topics include Freud, the Frankfurt School of Theory, politics, feminism and gender.

The book for the class is Richter, David, ed. The Critical Tradition, 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2006.

The book is textbook price at Amazon right now for about $81 USD.

It also looks available on Scribd, but I don’t know much about their service.

[rubymolotov]

Data Reasoning for the Digital Age

The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit — and take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with bullshit of the second order. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of bullshit.

We're sick of it. It's time to do something, and as educators, one constructive thing we know how to do is to teach people. So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the bullshit-rich modern environment by identifying bullshit, seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument.

What do we mean, exactly, by bullshit and calling bullshit? As a first approximation:

Bullshit involves language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.

Calling bullshit is a performative utterance, a speech act in which one publicly repudiates something objectionable. The scope of targets is broader than bullshit alone. You can call bullshit on bullshit, but you can also call bullshit on lies, treachery, trickery, or injustice.

In this course we will teach you how to spot the former and effectively perform the latter.

While bullshit may reach its apogee in the political domain, this is not a course on political bullshit. Instead, we will focus on bullshit that comes clad in the trappings of scholarly discourse. Traditionally, such highbrow nonsense has come couched in big words and fancy rhetoric, but more and more we see it presented instead in the guise of big data and fancy algorithms — and these quantitative, statistical, and computational forms of bullshit are those that we will be addressing in the present course.

Of course an advertisement is trying to sell you something, but do you know whether the TED talk you watched last night is also bullshit — and if so, can you explain why? Can you see the problem with the latest New York Times or Washington Post article fawning over some startup's big data analytics? Can you tell when a clinical trial reported in the New England Journal or JAMA is trustworthy, and when it is just a veiled press release for some big pharma company?

Our aim in this course is to teach you how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences.

Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Seattle, WA.

[absurdceltrixawou]

Project Representation offers an open course on effective project be-all and end-all

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About Project Agency <\p>

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Its consultants also provide professional speaking inurement and coaching.<\p>

Formed in 1995, Project Agency gest wherewith a rage of clients drawn from the following sectors: financial services; communication technology and publishing; professional bodies and charities; universities and higher education; retail and service industries; industry and technology; pharmaceuticals, and the patronage sector.<\p>

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[yiranjiaelena]

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