Is it possible to identify an individual’s romantic partner on the basis of his/her social networks alone? That’s the question Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist at Cornell University and Eric Bakstrom, a senior engineer from Facebook, teamed up to answer. After analyzing millions of Facebook data points, they came up with an affirmative response in Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties: A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook -- they assert the answer is yes with a 60% probability.
Read more in Your Romantic Attachments as Predicted by Metadata
Monday, December 16, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Students on camera -- not for security
We have technology that can use cCameras in Class: Insight vs. Privacy
ameras in the classroom for analysis of lessons. What do you think? Learn more about the concept of EngageSense in
Sunday, December 1, 2013
the use of @ and # before Twitter
Grawlixes, AKA obscenicons are the short strings of symbols that take the place of profanity. It seems positively quaint in today's world when just about everything is considered fit for print, though you may still see it on rare occasion. I was reminded of the device recently when I read The Pigman. (I checked it out of the library after seeing it among the books on display at the New York Public Library's The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter).
The 1968 novel has two narrators, and the teen boy says that to abstain from using curse words, he will type “@#$%” or“3@#$%.” I'm not certain I've ever seen the use of grawlixes in books before, though I have seen the oblique reference, something along the lines of "He called her something I cannot repeat," that you can find in a book lie The Forsyte Sage or the dashes following a letter like "d___ " that you can find in books by the Brontes.
I have the impression that language in print really loosened up in the 1990s, and this fits with what I found in a 2000 article about the shifting standard for newspapers: "He spent 10 years at the San Antonio Express-News, where he watched 'damn' go from being bleeped out to containing dashes to being fully spelled out. "
BTW If you want to hear grawlixes in a song, there is one here:
Related post http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/08/blame-ship-logs-for-this-word.html
The 1968 novel has two narrators, and the teen boy says that to abstain from using curse words, he will type “@#$%” or“3@#$%.” I'm not certain I've ever seen the use of grawlixes in books before, though I have seen the oblique reference, something along the lines of "He called her something I cannot repeat," that you can find in a book lie The Forsyte Sage or the dashes following a letter like "d___ " that you can find in books by the Brontes.
I have the impression that language in print really loosened up in the 1990s, and this fits with what I found in a 2000 article about the shifting standard for newspapers: "He spent 10 years at the San Antonio Express-News, where he watched 'damn' go from being bleeped out to containing dashes to being fully spelled out. "
BTW If you want to hear grawlixes in a song, there is one here:
Related post http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/2013/08/blame-ship-logs-for-this-word.html
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