My cousin died this year. Pancratic cancer. 3 months from diagnosis to dead. Just long enough to complete the journey.
He was older, just enough older that he had solved the problems and confusions of whatever age I was at, yet close enough in age that I could see in him how I wanted to be. Distant enough that I could not see his faults. I always looked up to him. Then, as adults, we lost touch.
He is the first of my generation to go on. As always, he is a pathfinder. If there was another side, he would be there waiting for me, still smiling with his gentle strength. This though gives me peace.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Violence in books and movies
We have violence in books and movies because most of us will never kill, never find ourselves waking up one day with no memory of our past but discovering we are super-assassins trained at a CIA black-ops facility...
No, most of us experience this only vicariously, returning on Monday to our mundane jobs, filled with the vague dread that our hours and days are slipping away into mediocrity, never realizing that we of the day to day plodding are the real heros. The action stars may save civilization, but we are civilization, building it day by day, hour by hour, breath by breath
No, most of us experience this only vicariously, returning on Monday to our mundane jobs, filled with the vague dread that our hours and days are slipping away into mediocrity, never realizing that we of the day to day plodding are the real heros. The action stars may save civilization, but we are civilization, building it day by day, hour by hour, breath by breath
Thoughts from my sister
My sister sent the following, which she wrote after Katherine Jerrerts Schori visited her classroom:
K. Schori is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, and a Swede
Fri. June 24, 2011
Katherine Jefferts Schori (sp)
There are 2 Creation Stories. The first holds that Creation is good, and that after humans were created it was very good. The second tends to focus on what went wrong. Another Creation begins when Jesus is baptized and God pronounces, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. “ Then Jesus begins his ministry.
What if we were to hear those words spoken by God to us?
KJS invites us to hear the words, and meditate upon them.
“You are my Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.”
She invites us to close our eyes and receive that message. She joins us in meditation and it fills the room with blessing.
The group processes with partners. Some noteworthy comments:
Teaching style models that of inquiry method. Present lesson (use story), spend time working with the lesson, reflect in small groups, then as a whole group. Did Jesus use this same approach?
Find the essentiality of the lesson. This is reflected in the workshop style of teaching in Fountas and Pinnell.
She presents the question to the entire group: “What if we approached everyone we encounter with the belief that they are beloved? What would happen?”
Observer changes outcome,
Vision of future: from Isaiah, everyone eats, no war
Start at vision and work backwards.
Accept what you see.
K. Schori is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, and a Swede
Fri. June 24, 2011
Katherine Jefferts Schori (sp)
There are 2 Creation Stories. The first holds that Creation is good, and that after humans were created it was very good. The second tends to focus on what went wrong. Another Creation begins when Jesus is baptized and God pronounces, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. “ Then Jesus begins his ministry.
What if we were to hear those words spoken by God to us?
KJS invites us to hear the words, and meditate upon them.
“You are my Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.”
She invites us to close our eyes and receive that message. She joins us in meditation and it fills the room with blessing.
The group processes with partners. Some noteworthy comments:
Teaching style models that of inquiry method. Present lesson (use story), spend time working with the lesson, reflect in small groups, then as a whole group. Did Jesus use this same approach?
Find the essentiality of the lesson. This is reflected in the workshop style of teaching in Fountas and Pinnell.
She presents the question to the entire group: “What if we approached everyone we encounter with the belief that they are beloved? What would happen?”
Observer changes outcome,
Vision of future: from Isaiah, everyone eats, no war
Start at vision and work backwards.
Accept what you see.
Motivational coffee machine
Good morning, sir! You are our hero! We all look up to you! Here is your espresso!
--and other uses of AI.
See also this month's WIRED new vocab-- gladvertizing, mood-aware personal advertising. Now available with your morning cup of joe
--and other uses of AI.
See also this month's WIRED new vocab-- gladvertizing, mood-aware personal advertising. Now available with your morning cup of joe
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Finding different epochs in a DPM
A DPM is like a collection of poisson processes. We have data drawn from these processes which also contains covariates, such as case/control, age, date.
Use a random forest to fit the counting processes.
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