Phil Barker

@philbarker
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Trying to share in the open.
Metadata, resource description, open education for work; cycling, and random nonsense for play.

tbh, mostly random nonsense

About mehttps://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/
Work bloghttps://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/blog/
Pronounshe / him
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Spring time in Madrid.

I remember a stats book "Data reduction and error analysis in physical sciences".
That idea of data reduction always worried me.

https://xkcd.com/2582/

Data Trap

xkcd

Edinburgh in August. Not quite what it used to be, but this cheered me.

Saw the same act with friends several years ago. Today I met up with the same friends, and there he was again. In his underwear, balancing on a ladder, juggling machetes. As you do.

Arrived today, the book I've been waiting all summer to read.

Just from a skim through and the reviews, if you're interested in technology to enhance learning you could do worse than read this book.

Many thanks to Audrey for her time and dedication in producing this.

What I have been working on in the last two weeks
blogs.pjjk.net/phil/weeknotes…
with
- good progress describing the structure of curriculum content using ideas from @[email protected] ;
- a possible new project describing jobs in schema.org;
- a trip to Paris for a UNESCO meeting
- incremental progress on a semantic index for my edition of Omniana on Pressbooks
- a new 'guin from @Patlockley
Last year we grew some really nice pumpkins.
So we kept the seed to grow again this year.
But we also grow courgettes (zucchini). Apparently pumpkins and courgettes can cross pollinate.
Here's our courkin. (Pen for scale)