Cynthia D'Angelo

@dapostrophe
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learning technology researcher, education professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, friend to dogs everywhere, #rstats

#t1d #insulin4all

Websitehttps://cynthiadangelo.com
Academics, please remember it's NOvember now. Time to finish up your "saying no" punchard for the year. 10 nos = ice cream (you provide your own ice cream)
@kottke this reminds me of a passage from David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" when two characters discuss this exact issue of freedom-from versus freedom-to. https://mbird.com/literature/not-all-compulsion-comes-from-without-a-wheelchair-assassin-argues-about-freedom/
A Wheelchair Assassin Argues About Freedom - Mockingbird

We promised there would be more excerpts from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest! This one […]

Mockingbird

Dahlias becoming a hotel for frogs.

Allison Lamb raises around 200 dahlias on her property and was delighted to discover that the blooms serve as a perfectly sized house for frogs.

@Rainmaker1973 #Dahlias #frogs #flowers

@bud_t not to mention that a chaptgpt type search takes 7-8x the energy usage of a Google search
We are hiring an open rank professor in Science Education this year. Let me know if you have any questions. Please share!
https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/11644?c=illinois
College of Education: Open-Rank, Science Education -- Curriculum & Instruction

Duties & Responsibilities

@glennf get well soon. Paxlovid was amazing for me two years ago.
Make a normal distribution.
1
5.4%
2
6.4%
3
12.2%
4
32%
5
16.8%
6
13.9%
7
13.4%
Poll ended at .

The same day I read about Google's expanded enthusiasm for AI with everything, here is their featured snippet at top of search for "gravity vs altitude".

Bring on the Idiocracy!