CB expounds
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Chris Brown on CS in a liberal arts education.
I've TA'ed for Chris a number of times, both as a grad and back when he was my undergraduate advisor. His gist is that college in the US should be about thinking, not about training. This is a perspective shared by many, but unfortunately one that seems to often be acquired only after the fact, coupled with a healthy dose of regret.
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Software KVM
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A how-to on setting up a wireless KVM between a laptop and desktop.
Alternatively, think about it as multi-machine, dual display.
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Setting up ssh keys
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A how-to on setting up ssh keys such that you need not type in passwords when connecting from one machine to another.
This is especially useful if you are doing regular work on a cluster of machines and are constantly bouncing across the nodes to check/run experiments.
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A comment on Wikipedia
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An interesting article written by a past editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica on the merits (or lack there-of) of Wikipedia.
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Solution to Wikipedia vandalism
By the author of the dinosaur comics; this fix
can't fail. More seriously, it is exciting to see epistemological discussions in
'popular' media. The ongoing debate on the goodness of Wikipedia has made a lot
of people give at least a passing thought to what the word 'knowledge' really
means.
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Not Exploited
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While academia for the Computer Scientist is certainly still more viable than it is for this guy, the tone set in the article is a good one. As someone who left a lucrative software engineering position, and is in the middle of a second graduate program, I tend to agree with his points (as compared to alternative views) .
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