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family man, technology leader, outdoor enthusiast, indoor potter, guitar strummer, and systems architect @Unicon helping people teach and learn.

Boulder, CO
Joined February 2008
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Best music for taxes? English Beat!
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“Those who know do not speak. Those that speak do not know.” — Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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Teaching with emotional safety is always important, and in a world of online learning it has taken on more importance. Listen to Unicon’s @lindafeng and my new friend Sean Bo to learn more. (15m) #onlinelearning #EmotionalIntelligence
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One of my all time favorite kid’s books is the Mouse and the Motorcycle. RIP Beverly Cleary, and thanks for the many arm chair adventures.
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Ever since reading the Selfish Gene close to 20 years ago, I appreciate Dawkins perspectives. He’s like a scientific version of Alan Watts!
Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.
Really cool interactive AI and data landscape diagram - landscape.lfai.foundation/ #AI #DataAnalytics
Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation. And I thought John Horton Conway's Game of Life was mesmerizing! distill.pub/selforg/2021/tex…
Anyone else notice that with each @evernote upgrade, the free version has fewer and fewer features? To charge 25% more than the whole Google Suite makes it tough to justify. Someone recommended I should try @NotionHQ. Anyone else make this move?
Online Learning across K12, HED and workforce training is not easy. Check out our new podcast - "Conversations on Online Learning" to learn from Unicons over 25 years of experience transforming online teaching and learning.
Excited to share this new podcast series: the beginning of a series of conversations we will be having about #onlinelearning. Let me know what you think! #edtech #newhobby #letstalk 🎙👍
RIP Hammerin’ Hank and thanks for sharing your talents and gifts with generations of baseball fans!
Really great session on integration LTI 1.3 from @unicon @lindafeng to enable your applications to launch from any LMS (e.g. Canvas), securely and even exchange Grades, Deep-linking and more youtu.be/BdciB0HcoYQ #edtech
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Patty Limerick is an intellectual master on western US studies & gifted human-being. She’s also good at bringing people together around controversial topics. “What it means to disagree, admit a degree of uncertainty, and maintain a robust friendship.” centerwest.org/archives/2378…
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Many thanks to my Dad and the many veterans that served our great nation! #USA
We hold our veterans in reverence today. And every day.
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Back in '88, I worked for an AI quantitative trading start-up in LA, - Integrated Analytics (NYSE:ITG). We helped reduce transaction costs to near zero. In '20 at Unicon, we believe in the power of technology to expand access to education for all. Educate everyone! #highered
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For such a simple guitar chord, the Em7 has more variations than any other. @NeilYoung on Old Man, for example, I think uses 3 fingers (see pic) and it sounds better, though the Decade music book shows the more common 2 finger version. Which is it?
Bias journalism returned ubiquitously after an anonymous source Deep Throat shared the Watergate story. Sadly,social media amplifies this practice. Until we stop accepting anonymous sources,media will forever remain biased & deceiving dividing our nation. Educate & recognize bias
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Every problem is a data problem, and the current pandemic is no exception. I talked to @FortuneMagazine @JonathanVanian about how @splunk is rethinking forecasting and #ML models so we have the right data to take action. Read it here: splk.it/3cn1ezk #datasaveslives
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Wow! @SpringData JDBC is pretty cool. It's kinda like Spring Data JPA in that you only need to define methods in an interface. No implementation needed! @habuma droppin' some knowledge at @denverjug / @boulderjug. 🍃 spring.io/projects/spring-da… #springdata #jdbc
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