Saturday 16 January 2010

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Learning to quit

Last autumn I started a part-time Open University course, MST121 Using Mathematics. This week I decided to drop out, a decision that has left me thinking about education and making the best use of time.

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16 Jan 2010 at Twitter

  • 11:28am: @megpickard Can @annapickard explain it to the rest of us? I'm fed up of seeing lots of references I don't fully understand.
  • 11:49am: Speech recognition that doesn't attempt to match individual words, but tries to match every phrase you say to a well-known quote or saying.
  • 04:24pm: @cshirky What @tomcoates said. Shouldn't we be encouraging men to be less aggressive and to lie less rather than women to be more like them?
  • 04:25pm: @holgate Ha, I'm thinking of a t-shirt that just says "What @tomcoates said…"
  • 07:27pm: @tomcoates Yay, welcome back to blogging Tom! Don't forget to add two years to your bottom-of-page copyright notice :)

Music listened to most that week

  1. God Help the Girl (10)
  2. Ash (7)
  3. Stereolab (7)
  4. The Clash (5)
  5. The Velvet Underground (5)
  6. The Shins (4)
  7. Traxmen (4)
  8. Babybird (4)
  9. Pulp (4)
  10. Lou Reed (4)

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