An old friend, ex-IBM, ex-Wall Street, is working on a new Open Source APL which he and I intend to get into the Sugar education software for OLPC. I can't tell you any more than that until he puts code out for the public to test. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com> wrote:
An old friend, ex-IBM, ex-Wall Street, is working on a new Open Source APL which he and I intend to get into the Sugar education software for OLPC. I can't tell you any more than that until he puts code out for the public to test.
That's good news Ed. APL was the first computer language I fell in love with. FORTRAN was "grin and bear it" in contrast. Mike D. at Duke's Landing (a site for experimental events on my circuit) does much of his production work with an XO. I met up with him yesterday at our Laughing Horse Books & Videos collective.[1][2] Next I will post you something on the Global Warming thread on the Wikieducator list. Kirby [1] From my journal: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/12/portland-notes.html [2] http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/think-tank-techniques.html
-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
--
from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote: << SNIP >>
Next I will post you something on the Global Warming thread on the Wikieducator list.
Kirby
[1] From my journal: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/12/portland-notes.html [2] http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/think-tank-techniques.html
On second thought, I think I'll not stir the Wikieducator pot today. My next post had to do with Freeman Dyson's visit to Portland. http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/12/freeman-dyson-in-portland.html He's quite conservative, like NASA, about saying we know precious little how sunspot cycles impact global climate, wasn't jumping into that "Maunder Minimum" debate except to say we still aren't that sure how the sun works (relationship to Earth another set of issues). He also wondered if global warming means the Sahara might return to lushness, as per 6K years ago, but he wasn't pretending to know the answer. http://www.livescience.com/history/060720_sahara_rains.html edu-sig has been blissfully *not* about this topic. I only bring it up because of our crossing paths earlier (here in cyberia on that WE list) and because of the "Dutch engineer" meme, which relates to the Python work I'm doing, at least tangentially. Note how even the math-teachers are likewise obsessed (losing focus): http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2017705&tstart=0 whereas they *should* be talking about what *I* want to talk about (grin): http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-radical.html Kirby
-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
--
from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
--
from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
participants (2)
-
Edward Cherlin -
kirby urner