Category: College
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business school sucks
Yesterday, I read how the business school had a security breach with 197,000 files were exposed to the attacker. I didn’t think much of it, as never being attached to…
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another 1 on the tower
Everyone close to campus remembers the crazy mob of people who visited The University of Texas following our football National Championship win at the Rose Bowl. The Tower was lit…
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tokens and the creation of writing
The use of tokens in the early Mespoptamian region as a precussor to the written symbol is a plausible and interesting idea. It makes the transition from speech to writing…
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turing machine
It is funny to think how much we take Turing and his work for granted today. My roommate is an electrical engineer and I’ve tinkered in programming since 1990 (I…
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butterfly ballot
We all remember the butterfly ballot that led to so much talk about the validity of the 2000 Election. This is a very good example of poor information design. A…
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envisioning information: multiples and colors
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.” An interesting point made by Tufte is that “comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan”. For those…