David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
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An Unmapped Ponderocity:
To say: '"He is a man of truth," is to say nothing; to say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.'
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to The Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. Ask prayers for recovery; thanks for his brilliance and music.
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Environment, History, UncommonSenseVsCommononsense
Professor Thrun, formerly from Stanford, has begun a trajectory offering ‘free’ education in AI and programming. His insight that Universities have been one of the slowest to advance in the 1000 years since U. of Heidelberg first began the ‘lecture’. His confession that courses are designed to ‘weed’ or make students fail is absolutely true (Ms. Butcher in 1967 Calculus was a horror story as she expected her thereom variants to be memorized and regurgitated on tests, and those included about 90 x 5 or 450 sq. ft per class of written statements three times per week. Hauntingly, I returned in 2006 and she appeared in the front row, acknowledged as helping with the investments of the college by the new president. Oh the Divine Irony, that would steam that ivory cloth tower smooth every time.
Hat’s off to Stanford, founded by a wealthy man, who tried to give his money to Harvard, but dressed as an ‘ordinary’ was dismissed. But it is Prof. Thrun, who has given up his tenured status and started Udacity, a free education who deserves the cudos, because he is designing it to enable those willing to venture into his classes. And here’s to MIT, who with OCW (open course ware) and now also plans MITx courses, more tailored to the internet have begun to challenge all of us to increase ourselves, or Freedom, and our g-d given Individuality.
