Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

My university recently switched its Learning Management System (or Virtual Learning Environment) and we had a party to celebrate successful launch of the new one and decommissioning of the old.

Complete with an ax in the server for the old one.

Kidding...it’s a cake.

Extremely hot take

I was wondering why I feel intense emotions in my chest and found this fantastic map of where different emotions are felt on the body.

Article: Bodily sensations of emotion - heartache, shivers down one's spine - aren't bound by culture (🇫🇮🇸🇪🇹🇼sample). #PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/646.full

The sound of an expertly played electric guitar without a PA continues to amaze me.

It's just something you don't get to hear live very often.

Does anyone else end up re-doing a load of their data analysis when they're writing something up, or is it just me?

@bthall @gzt @bgcarlisle If you've published and have an implementation somewhere, I'm pretty sure that counts as "prior art" and would invalidate a subsequent patent by someone else, if it was basically identical to your work.

Note that I am not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice. It's just based on my layman's understanding after the copyright/free software/free culture scene for about 20 years.

this little one right here did a good job...I'm proud of her

Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse

Image Credit & Copyright: Nicolas Lefaudeux

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190130.html #APoD

Two days ago I watched a colleague of mine teaching middle schoolers about Geogebra, I am so proud of her!

Interesting read:
Inferential statistics as descriptive statistics: there is no replication crisis if we don't expect replication
https://peerj.com/preprints/26857/