Meaning: Mentorship is a lifetime commitment that can span generations of students, and no matter how detached you are supposed to be, it's only human to feel the weight of that responsibility.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: Whether it's soldiers, scientists, or programmers, always bring more professionals than the competition.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: As the old master said, experience should fear the strength of youth, but so should it temper it. Also, in research, there comes a time when instinct is your best guide.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Poll #1308557 Computer Equipment Shopping Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

I buy computer equipment:

Does someone compel you to upgrade?

If so, who?

Does someone buy or give you SOME of your computer hardware or software?

Does someone buy or give you MOST of your computer hardware or software?

If so, who?

When do you regularly shop for computer equipment or software?

When do you MOST OFTEN shop for computer equipment or software?

Do you tend to computer buy hardware and software together?

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Banazir

Meaning: The recalcitrant student must be dealt with firmly, but always fairly and with calm and patience.

Also, as triestine's mother noted, all Chinese people can fly.

Edit, 23:15 CST Thu 04 Dec 2008 - The above is the English-dubbed version, featuring voice actors that aren't quite the equals of Chow Yun-Fat and Zhang Ziyi. I've used it mainly for comprehensibility. The English-subbed Chinese original is better, IMO, but it omits the "three moves" part of the scene.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: Sometimes your best writing is done when people are trying to interfere with you.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: A good educator opens his students' minds to new ideas and pushes them to do things they haven't done before.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis Center (MIAS) is concerned with researching technologies for extracting and tracking interesting events and entities from multimodal information sources. A further goal is to support intelligence analysis by facilitating the formulation and evaluation of hypotheses regarding these events and entities. Research directions include:

• Developing fundamental theories, computational models, algorithms, and tools for information access and synthesis


• Enabling intelligence analysts to access a variety of data formats, transforming raw data into useful and understandable information


• Integrating these technologies with existing resources

Another mission of the MIAS Center is to develop diverse human resources for the scientific research, educational, and governmental workforce communities through education and outreach. This goal is exemplified by the Data Science Summer Institute which develops lecture materials, tutorials, and research projects for information sciences.

The dssi_mias program is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science.

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Banazir

Meaning: When representing your group, it's important to be firm, but leave room for that win-win situation.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

Meaning: This is how semesters and academic years often begin. As long as this is not how they end, I'm happy.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

"The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world."
                - Thomas Robert Malthus

Wikipedia relates that:

The English political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) analyzed population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly, often faster than the food supply available to them. Commentators may refer to such a runaway scenario, as outlined in Malthus's treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, as a "Malthusian catastrophe"...

To give a mathematical perspective to his observations, Malthus proposed the idea that population, if unchecked, increases at a geometric rate (i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.), whereas the food-supply grows at an arithmetic rate (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.).

It's been suggested to me that much of the economic mismanagement, and even some opposition to population control measures that some people hold to be misguided in those they disagree with, stem from a fundamental lack of understanding of Malthusian theory. I find this a little oversimplistic, but I could be wrong. What's your take?

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Banazir

Greetings! In addition to trying to rid myself of browser woes, I seek solutions and/or commiseration for the following problems (in Windows):

• Thunderbird hogging the CPU or hanging. Have you ever had Mozilla Thunderbird just become unresponsive for no apparent reason, until you have to go into Task Manager and kill it? This doesn't seem to happen much in Linux, although I have had it happen once or twice (where I had to kill it from the command line).


• Trillian Pro spontaneously losing window dockings. I always attach all of my IM windows to a single container called "Multi-IM", but sometimes, when people send me messages, their window re-docks to "Away". I have Trillian Preferences set to Default Appearance -> Contact Windows -> Container: Multi-IM, so this shouldn't happen.


• Flash making Firefox unresponsive. Sometimes I will be watching something in YouTube, or just loading a Flash site, when suddenly I get an hourglass or spinning circle, and Firefox just locks up for a few seconds to a minute. There's nothing loading; it just becomes unresponsive. Occasionally the application will ask me if I want to disable scripts on that page (which I take to mean "in that tab for that page", but maybe it persists across tabs?

Anyway, has anyone ever encountered one of the above problems, or heard of them, and if so, do you know of any solutions? Thanks!

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Banazir

What is your favorite CMS, any why?

triestine and martinsamuel have suggested Joomla, and we have one of those, but currently, I'm still mainly using TikiWiki. I also had a MediaWiki installation, but at the moment, I don't even know where it resides.

Suggestions are welcome!

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Banazir

Meaning: It's important not to let your weaknesses define you.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

What is your favorite time travel story?

( Nanowrimo: The Stream of Memory )
( Time-travel and the Eldar )

So, how does time travel work in your favorite universe? Is it deterministic? One-way forward? One-way backward? Why do you like it that way?

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Banazir

No, I'm not really going to start an "Uncool Word of the Month". While we're on the subject, though: what's yours?

Mine is "webinar".

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Banazir

Meaning: OK, I admit, this is me sometimes.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir

XI. The Nine Situations

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground; (9) desperate ground.

( Types of terrain defined )
( Responses to different types of terrain )

What is death ground to you?

This is part of a series on The Art of War (孫子兵法) by Sun Zi (孫子).

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Banazir

Does anyone know where I can look up the premiere dates of various television commercials? Is there an online directory of them that might have this sort of information? Ideally, I'd like links to YouTube videos.

ETA, 11:05 CDT Wed 26 Nov 2008 - I found SplendAd, which even has a vertical search feature, but it doesn't seem complete.

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Banazir

Meaning: Sometimes students... dramatize.

This is part of the David E. Kelley School of Advising series.

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Banazir