This article, Poorer Reading Skills Following Changed Computer Habits of Children, discusses a study in which the reading abilities of children have deteriorated since 1970 in two countries in which children use computers more often in school and outside of school. That is, reading ability “has fallen rapidly since 1991 in both the US and … [Read more…]
[“Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, Gerd Gigerenzer, Oxford University Press, 2000] Professor Gigerenzer states in the introduction of Part I of his book (“Where Do New Ideas Come From?”): Computers and statistics have both been used to fulfill the timeless longing to replace judgment by the application of content-blind, mechanical rules.” [page 1] … [Read more…]
On the whole, it has been a smooth road to setting up a website, partly because I chose to use WordPress as a simple content management system as well as blogger software. The remaining problems to finalizing a simple website are not too bad. When I copy up some text from my local emacs to … [Read more…]
I decided to go through with it. I’m not going to spend a lot of time right now re-learning html and perl, let alone learning python, ruby, or php. My website will basically be a text-oriented set of writings, including some pages which will display samples of my unpublished books. So now I just want … [Read more…]
I kept at it and eventually found Jeffery Friedl’s plugin for WordPress that allows text to be inserted directed from a file — which can be edited by emacs, of course. Need a local directory for holding those files but it would be even better to have a local emacs. And Bluehost has a full … [Read more…]
Well, I might have found a way to use emacs to post to my WordPress blog, but it’ll be a little ugly until I write some code to do it smoothly. All I do is copy the text out of the file and paste it in the edit box on my WordPress installation. The annoying … [Read more…]