Link Dump 2015-11-15

2015-11-15

• College free speech everywhere.

• A really cool exercise in gender descriptions: using latent semantic analysis to identify equivalent descriptions of professors in student reviews.

• Google lies about where you can see the Hollywood sign.

• I have a thing for video games that partially play the player.

• I similarly enjoy phone apps that get you to try to destroy your phone.

• What happens if you die while staying in someone else's house through Airbnb?

• Social networks are bad for you... except stop saying that. It's interesting that the two articles actually agree on how social networks allow you to keep old connections alive.

• If you are interested in making new connections instead, maybe this adult dorm may help.

• Taylor Swift was interviewed by a reporter who suggests she has every reply and movement calculated. The interview itself fails to shake that idea.

• "I'm just not a Spanish person." - replacing what people say about math with other subjects. Some of these I feel might actually be negligence on the teacher's part though.

• Related: students should struggle to learn the command line because it teaches grit. There is something to be said for the command line being a safe place to do so, but I'm not convinced that students can't learn the same thing by doing more interesting projects.

• I use number 3 on this list all the time to appear smart. Wait, did I say that out loud?

• I'll believe that the common core is right and the student who wrote "53" instead of "35" is wrong when I hear a fifth grade teacher explain the commutative property to their class. Given the state of US education, I find it ironic that the posts ends on "Respect the Teachers. They are qualified experts on child education."