Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
Monday, December 1st, 2008
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APTBS are obviously influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus Mary Chain, and like these bands they are more than just noise merchants. Underneath the wall of sound there are lush pop songs, as evident on I Know I’ll See You which has the crowd singing and dancing along with glee.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
CS Videos
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A Place to Bury Strangers
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As was reported on NME.COM, the trio from New York will tour this winter following the release of their self-titled debut album on November 3.
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the Strangers have their napalm-death shoegaze, courtesy of frontman Oliver Ackermann’s army of guitar pedals, many of which the guy built himself
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Who needs an audience to absolutely rock it… not these guys… wow!!!!
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Reported Deaths: 4204
Confirmed Deaths: 4201
Pending Confirmation: 3
DoD Confirmation List
Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
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5.A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers: The New York City band’s debut album is one of the loudest you’ll hear, with its wall of guitars, like a Jesus and Mary Chain record turned up to 11. It’s a relentless sonic assault that also borrows from the best that many shoegaze bands had to offer. The swirling guitars help showcase the melodies, which are then beaten into submission by the sheer volume of it all on tracks like “Don’t Think Lover.” This one should be played extremely loud.
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A Place To Bury Strangers recently announced an intimate show at Mercury Lounge that night, while across the water in New Jersey, Yo La Tengo will headline the new venue Wellmont Theatre.
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In mathematical logic and computer science, lambda calculus, also written as λ-calculus, is a formal system designed to investigate function definition, function application and recursion. It was introduced by Alonzo Church and Stephen Cole Kleene in the 1930s as part of an investigation into the foundations of mathematics, but has emerged as a useful tool in the investigation of problems in computability or recursion theory, and forms the basis of a paradigm of computer programming called functional programming.
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Lambda calculus is a notation for describing mathematical functions and programs. It is a mathematical system for studying the interaction of functional abstraction and functional application. It captures some of the essential, common features of a wide variety of programming languages. Because it directly supports abstraction, it is a more natural model of universal computation than a Turing machine is.
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Most people have heard of the Turing machine, as it’s now tantamount to being the measuring stick by which computability is judged. If something is computable on a Turing machine, it is considered computable; if something isn’t computable on a Turing machine it’s considered uncomputable. There is however, another model, equally as powerful, that is quite different. It has no concept of Turing machine style “state”, and it has some very nice algebraic-like properties. It’s called the l-calculus.
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lambda logic y-combinator calculus functional Programming)
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I caught them again recently at the 930 Club here in DC and it was the same thing. Their stage presence is amazing. Like catch-your-breath, oh-my-god-are-you-watching-this amazing.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
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This book will help you to learn the Python programming language, whether you are new to computers or are an experienced programmer.
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Wrap up your holiday shopping without leaving the house! From flavored sugar and spiced oils to candied nuts and herbed salts, our crafty elves have cooked up tasty gift ideas for the foodies on your list.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Alan Turing
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Alan Turing (1912-1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature. It gave a fresh approach to the traditional mind-body problem, by relating it to the mathematical concept of computability he himself had introduced in his 1936-7 paper “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” His work can be regarded as the foundation of computer science and of the artificial intelligence program.
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For what this eccentric young Cambridge don did was to dream up an imaginary machine — a fairly simple typewriter-like contraption capable somehow of scanning, or reading, instructions encoded on a tape of theoretically infinite length. As the scanner moved from one square of the tape to the next — responding to the sequential commands and modifying its mechanical response if so ordered — the output of such a process, Turing demonstrated, could replicate logical human thought.
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The documents that form the historical record of the development of computing are scattered throughout various archives, libraries and museums around the world. Until now, to study these documents required a knowledge of where to look, and a fistful of air tickets. This Virtual Archive contains digital facsimiles of the documents. The Archive places the history of computing, as told by the original documents, onto your own computer screen.
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A Place to Bury Strangers
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ndeed the vocals from Oliver Ackermann are ghostly echoed and run over the consistent fuzz of guitars and the typical over compressed drums.
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In the two years it’s been operating, the Daytrotter Sessions, as it’s formally called, has built itself a massive and extraordinary library of exclusive performances from artists such as Vampire Weekend, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Walkmen, Tokyo Police Club, Okkervil River, Spoon, Times New Viking and hundreds more.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Inside Higher Ed - leaving teaching
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I got the job at the liberal arts college, where I received tenure, and even served as a department chair (a burden, not an honor, I tell you). I now want out.
Nature Conservancy e-cards
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You’re invited to send a free ecard from The Nature Conservancy. Every ecard features an image submitted by Conservancy members to our annual photo contest. When you choose to send a free nature image e-card, you’ll share your love of nature and save paper.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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A Place To Bury Strangers live at Zoe Club, Milan, 05/11/08
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero’s journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There were some really loud performances during KEXP’s live broadcast from Gibson Showroom during the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon — from bands like All The Saints, Johnny Foreigner, and Freshkills — but undoubtedly the loudest of all came from A Place to Bury Strangers, a group whose extreme decibel level had even caused the NYC police to shut down a CMJ club show earlier in the week!
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Eschewing any notions of revolution in favour of evolution, A Place To Bury Strangers have moved the scuzzed-up possibilities of 21st century rock’n’roll to where it should be – louder, brasher and with the ability to upset firmly in place. The album largely succeeds because of its honesty.
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“Screaming out of New York City at a million decibels an hour, A Place To Bury Strangers trade in unrelenting bursts of feedback, elliptical basslines and clinically brutal drum fills.” That’s how Rock Sound describes APTBS latest opus (which has finally been given a UK release through Rocket Girl) in this month’s issue and gives them 9/10 for it. Not bad, eh
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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Ackermann took a pull off a beer and scanned the crowd with large, whoa-dude eyes. And then the freakout began: With the band strobe-lit from below, the song exploded into astonishingly invigorating and still palatable noise as Ackermann went nuts with his guitar, flinging it and himself around until the instrument finally ended up on the floor, still squealing.
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