835 Matching Annotations
  1. Apr 2020
    1. Devoto Jailhouse

      The only prison still working inside the city of Buenos Aires. Also in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the city, "Devoto": It is currently in the process of being moved out. Picture by Mario Quinteros.

    2. General Paz Av.

      Highway that surrounds most of the City of Buenos Aires, and separates it from the parts of the metropolis which belong to the surrounding Province of Buenos Aires (aka. "Conurbano"). Source: Wikipedia.

    1. ThirdVoice is now a “defunct” system

      It was taken down because they couldn't find a way to make it sustainable. In addition, it suffered pressure from a group of independent web hosts which likened the service to "web graffiti". See Wikipedia's article on Web Annotation.

    Annotators

    1. drain more of our mental resources while we are reading

      In the abstract, the study cited points to "dual-task effects of fulfilling the assignment and working with the computer resulting in a higher cognitive workload".

      Although this load may decrease with people getting more and more familiar with computers (and computers getting more and more intuitive), it is also the case that more distractors are available too.

      This reminds me of a webinar hosted by Hypothesis in which Amanda Licastro mentioned Cathy Davidson's book "Now you see it" to talk about "Productive Multitasking". In the view that Amanda presented (at least what I understood of what she said), multitasking and distractions are unavoidable, but we can canalize them productively through web annotation, for example -instead of switching to Facebook and disconnect from what we were reading.

    1. HASTAC

      HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn.

    1. anotar, subrayar, compartir y comentar lo que otros comparten.

      Intenté dejar este comentario, pero no aparece, y no sé si quizá el autor tenga que autorizarlo, o tal vez el formulario no funcione correctamente.

      Es interesante, pero una pena que no tenga opción para exportar las anotaciones contribuidas. Estos modelos de software dependen en parte del hecho que sus usuarios son cautivos. Es decir, si un producto mejor surgiera, muchos usuarios dudarían en migrar, porque ya han invertido mucho en la plataforma cerrada, y no pueden recuperar lo que les pertenece y llevarlo a la nueva plataforma. Lo único que se menciona en los términos y condiciones de Glose es que si uno tiene una cuenta en Glose Education y quiere transferir sus contribuciones a una cuenta estándar, ellos harán "su mejor esfuerzo" para hacerlo (?).

      Este tipo de trampas son viejas y como usuarios creo que debemos evitarlas y hacerlas caer (o, idealmente, cambiar). Qué pasaría si un día Glose decidiera (o se viera obligada a) cerrar? Es inadmisible perder tanto trabajo de tantos lectores.

    Annotators

    1. moderating entities.

      But do this entities have to be central, monolithic? Can't they be distributed, collaborative?

      I usually like to think of the reddit model as a proposal for moderation of web annotation. Reddit is quite flexible as of what it is allowed and what it is not (this has, of course, brought heated debates in the past). But reddit has multiple reddits (as web annotation may have multiple groups or sublayers), each with a set of rules, administered and moderated by one or more people.

      Do you like the moderation rules of one subreddit? You can join and even help with moderation. You don't like them? Then don't join and find another one you feel more comfortable with.

    2. a script

      This script can be easily circumvented with uBlock or similar. Just add a rule that forbids this script from loading. One simple rule is as follows (I guess there must be neater ways to doing it):

      ||*/genius-blocker.js

    1. digital redlining,

      The practice of creating and perpetuating inequities between already marginalized groups specifically through the use of digital technologies, digital content, and the internet (Wikipedia).

    2. retains credit for their intellectual property.

      As far as I know, the CC0 Public Domain Dedication under which public annotations in Hypothesis are released, does not enforce attribution. Although Hypothesis supports Creative Commons' Public Domain Guidelines, which suggest that credit should be given when the author is known, these guidelines are voluntary and non binding. Do you know why Hypothesis has decided to have annotations released under CC0 Public Domain Declaration, instead of CC-BY license?

    1. share bibliographic updates to a local digital library. However, we should note that many DRM implementations preclude sharing eBooks at all; this vision of a shared local library will be difficult to realize under current restrictive policies.

      A Microsoft's researcher talking about DRM as "restrictive policies".

    2. both the body of the annotations and their anchors need to be revised before the annotations are suitable for use in a public discussion.

      Is a good practice for hypothesis to make personal annotations first, when reading, without carefully thinking of them too much, and then, once reading is over, go back to the annotations and see which are relevant to make public and polish them a bit?

    1. The information Third Voice can gather about its users' surfing and purchasing habits is far greater than any one Web site could ever gather.".

      And then it came Facebook...

  2. jeb.biologists.org jeb.biologists.org
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    1. there’s nothing exceptional about human brains.

      But is there something exceptional about the societies we have built? And the culture (including everything: chairs, tables, houses, streets, etc, etc) that surrounds us? I mean: is consciousness something that we have as individuals? Or is is something collective that we feel individually? Like a node in a vast network that gets a feeling of the local consciousness that the whole network has, and feels as if it is his/her own consciousness...

    1. ants can add and subtractsmall numbers.

      Where it says "ants" I guess it should say "colonies" or "groups of ants". Is a neuron the same as a brain?

    Annotators

    1. The only reason the same thing doesn’t happen to books is that they’re locked into ink on paper.

      But there are (and I think there were when this article was written) ebooks out there and, still, most people (true?) prefer printed books.

    1. Isthere any way of using these annotations (cryptic jottings,emphasis symbols, underlining and highlighting) in theDocuverse?

      For example, I think one could sum the highlight in each specific section. If many people highlighted a passage, then the highlight color is higher. That way one would be able to discover passages that many people found important/interesting. Although, it may also bias others to do the same. As usual.

    2. do not require the reader to assume the overhead ofspecifying exactly where an anchor starts or ends

      Interesting that she defined the task of specifying exactly where the annotation starts and where it ends as an overhead

    3. Although certainly it would be folly to becomeenmired in imitating paper systems and paper-basedpractices, it is important to look beyond the existing on-linefacilities for readers

      This is in clear opposition to the ideas of Brust and Rothkugel in their 2007's "On Anomalies in Annotation Systems", where they claim that "a new annotation system is doomed to fail if it is based on the pen-and-paper annotation paradigm only".

    1. Wherever your article is published, readers can leave annotations and replies if they have their own personal datastore to save them to.

      "if they have their own personal datastore to save them to". Can readers see each other's annotations?

    Annotators

    1. doomed to fail if it isbased on the pen-and-paper annotation paradigm only.

      But an online annotation system based on pen and paper practices brings at least two vantage points:

      1) the ability to annotate documents which usually wouldn't be printed (maybe because they are not so long or relevant to do so, or because the reader prefers not to do so), and

      2) the ability to share annotations and collaboratively work with them.

      Wouldn't these two characteristics be enough to make readers move from pen and paper to online annotation?

    2. the common annotation systems donot support annotations that capture movements,pointing, gestures, and alike.

      Although this may be an interesting proposal for future annotation systems, I don't think this can explain why although most learning material is available in digital form, people still prefer pen and paper; or why they use bookmarks, email messages, etc, instead of one of the existing annotation services. The ability to capture movements, etc is not available either in pen and paper or bookmarking, etc practices.

    3. Cognitive efforts spent for relating two or moredocuments, probably even of different types, cannot becaptured

      I don't understand why this is an anomaly of annotation systems.

    4. a significant cognitive activitythat is not taken into account in the design of existingannotation systems.

      I don't understand how this is derived from the fact that learners have to use several annotation services.

    5. a comment

      The comment was (translated to English):

      It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

    6. Studies have demonstrated benefits inlearning more because of the ability ofaccessingproper annotations than because of the activity ofwriting them down.

      What studies?

    1. earliest web annotation system.

      Although the paper cited at the end of the following sentence has a section "Related work" listing several previous web annotation tools.

    1. emulate the way the brain links data by association rather than by indexes and traditional, hierarchical storage paradigms,

      The traditional, hierarchical storage paradigms remind me of the old web directories, such as Yahoo Directory.

    1. a user can download his or her own data

      In a platform where one of the main values is collaboration, how important is it that these platforms guarantee that the user will be able to backup his/her data in case he/she wants (or is forced to) move out? Shouldn't this platforms also guarantee that one would be able to download ALL public data (or data the specific user has access to) to make sure he/she will be able to recreate the whole thing if he/she wants (or is forced) to?

    1. We can hope that the industry, in moving to a web model, will also give up DRM, but it isn’t clear.

      This is absurd. Precisely, having approved a recommendation for EME is exactly the opposite thing to do to persuade the industry to give up DRM on the web!

    2. we have seen industry move consciously from a DRM-based model to an unencrypted model, where often the buyer’s email address may be put in a watermark, but there is no DRM.

      But this assumes that the main interest is copyright and not, as the EFF has pointed out, crashing competition and prosecuting security researchers. In fact, now Spotify's web player only runs with DRM enabled.

    3. And if the closed platforms prohibited DRM in apps, then the large content providers would simply distribute their own set-top boxes and game consoles as the only way to watch their stuff.

      This sounds a bit naive to me. Who would buy those set-top boxes and game consoles? And do not only consider the United States' and European markets. Wouldn't the large content providers have to adapt to how the web works if they want to reach a broader audience?

    1. any technology invented in your adolescence is amazing and world-changing; anything invented after you turn 30 is immoral and needs to be destroyed.

      Hey! The source says 35, not 30 ;)

    1. now, a key W3C standard requires a proprietary component to be functional, and that component is under Google's control,

      I understand this component is the Content Decryption Manager and I understand they have to be propietary, but Google's is not the only one available.

  3. Mar 2020
    1. Instead of seeing everyone rip their gear levers out of their cars, we see them staring at their phones on the subway, or procrastinating on a deadline by bingeing TV, or getting dragged into dumb fights on social media.

      Or reading this article, but anyway ;)

    1. make dev

      I was getting a

      pg_config executable not found

      error which I solved by installing libpq-dev.

      I was also getting a

      cannot import name 'Feature'

      error when make dev was trying to install zope.interface. Apparently, the "Feature" API is deprecated from setuptools. I solved this by unpinning the version of zope.interface in requirements.txt, which is currently pinned to 4.3.2.

    2. make services

      I was getting a

      Couldn't connect to Docker daemon

      error which I fixed by adding my user to the docker group:

      sudo usermod -aG docker USERNAME

  4. developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
    1. enter the URL where your client will listen for the authorization code as the “redirect URL”.

      In the Hypothesis client, this is handled differently. When the login process is started, a listener is configured in the window which launched the login popup to wait for a message. In the login popup, when the login has succeeded, a page is loaded which runs a JavaScript that sends a message to the window that launched the popup. This is because the OAuth server is reached with the response_mode=web_message parameter.

    1. make dev

      If I do make dev, boot.js is not minified and Firefox (74.0) fails with "Script returned non-structured-clonable data". Chrome doesn't fail, though. If I run yarn build instead, boot.js is minified and Firefox doesn't fail.

    1. El hacktivismo y la democratización de los accesos a la información determinarán el carácter de la lucha entre la comunidad intelectual y la propiedad intelectual.

      Me encanta

    1. reload the extension after you edit and save a file.

      What if I have to build the extension? That is, what if between my source files and the extension source files lays a building step?

    1. 45 infectados que hay hasta el momento,

      Es un error decir "hay", porque da una idea equivocada de la prevalencia y mortalidad. Debería decir "infectados que han sido identificados [o reportados] hasta el momento". Es sutil, pero no trivial

    1. 888 couples (548 heterosexual and 340 MSM) contributed 1238 eligible couple-years of follow-up; 1251 when including periods of follow-up time in which the HIV-RNA load was suppressed at the beginning of the period but during which the load became elevated.

      So only 13 couple-years had low load at the beginning which raised by the end of the period. Isn't that too small of sample?

    1. vanguardist ideological dogma

      In the context of the theory of Leninist revolutionary struggle, vanguardism is a strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically advanced sections of the proletariat or working class, described as the revolutionary vanguard, form organisations in order to draw larger sections of the working class towards revolutionary politics and serve as manifestations of proletarian political power against its class enemies (source: Wikipedia).

  5. Feb 2020
    1. users of mobile apps also browse the web, so it’s not so much a question of apps “versus” the web, as it is a look into our data consumption in general (despite Flurry’s positioning it as a battle that’s to be won or lost).

      I think this may not be entirely true, because (unless the app incorporates some kind of web browser) app users access app services directly, instead of going through their web servers.

    1. In the Hypothesis implementation, two other strategies are available to disambiguate.

      How does the Hypothesis implementation differ from the w3c recommendation? What does it have that the w3c doesn't?

  6. Jan 2020
    1. jigsaw-type scripts

      The jigsaw technique is a method of organizing classroom activity that makes students dependent on each other to succeed. It breaks classes into groups and breaks assignments into pieces that the group assembles to complete the (jigsaw) puzzle.

  7. Nov 2019
  8. Oct 2019
    1. -Hace dos años que se elabora un proyecto para presentar ante el Consejo Federal de Educación con núcleos de aprendizaje prioritarios.

      Esto se aprobó en septiembre de 2018, resolución 343/18 del CFE

    1. aun no existe un espacio curricular dedicado al tema en la mayoría de las provincias, no hay docentes especializados para compartir ese conocimiento y los materiales de trabajo son escasos.

      Esto debería resolverse con la aprobación de los Núcleos de Aprendizaje Prioritarios de Educación Digital, Programación y Robótica por resolución 343/2018 del Consejo Federal de Educación, que prevé dos años para que las provincias adecúen sus diseños curriculares.

    1. El Plan se organizó en tres fases. La primera de ellas, se inició en agosto de 2018

      Esto ocurrió después de la sanción del decreto 386/18 (27/04/2018) que creó el plan Aprender Conectados, pero antes de la resolución 343/18 del CFE (12/09/2018) que aprobó los Núcleos de Aprendizaje Prioritarios de Educación Digital, Programación y Robótica. ¿Guarda relación con el hecho, mencionado en el párrafo anterior, de que el Diseño Curricular de Nivel Primario ya había sido actualizado en 2017?

    1. Program.AR. (2016). Observaciones sobre el documento preliminar “Programación y robótica: habilidades para la educación básica”. Buenos Aires: Fundación Sadosky

      No lo encuentro

    1. While many applaud adult-like thinking in young children, a child’s natural, instinctive, creative and curious way of relating to the world may be repressed when technology is introduced into learning environments at an early age.

      What proofs does the author have of these assertions?

    1. Studies show that bilingualism correlates with cognitive development, intelligence, memory and problem-solving abilities, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

      But studies showing that learning to program boosts cognitive skills (including problem solving, for example) are becoming common as well. How much of these benefits would be specific to natural languages and how much of it would overlap with learning languages in general, either be them natural or computer?

  9. Sep 2019
    1. In the more familiar notion of vocal babbling the muscle movements are mapped to the resulting auditory consequence;

      But of course this is different because, in this case, children can compare the sounds they hear from themselves, from the sounds heard from others. i.e., this example does not imply the existence of an a priori representation of the sound to be matched either sound (own or foreign).

    1. high conflict trials induce an increase in the decision threshold,

      Shouldn't this parameter be "selected" by the subject before the trial is shown? Do subjects know or have an intuition of which trials will come?

    1. Is three years experience in an adoptive home for children ranging in age from birth to 18 months the same as three years experience in an adopted home for children ranging in age from 24 to 42 months?

      But isn't this the same? I mean, I can say: there is a sensitive period, such that a negative environment affects development only if experienced during this period. And here I would be saying the same, but the other way round! There is a sensitive period, such that a good environment is useful only if it is experience during this period.

    1. Q-interactive,

      Is Pearson's platform for iPad-mediated cognitive test administration. It is available for many cognitive tests, including WISC-V, and it allows the examiner to read administration instructions, control stimulus materials, time performance, score, and make notes on one iPad, while a second iPad presents stimulus materials and collects responses from the examinee.

  10. Aug 2019
    1. The random intercept and random slope are only weakly correlated (0.294/19.493∗0.416−−−−−−−−−−−√≈0.1)

      How can I know this from statsmodels alone?

  11. Jul 2019
    1. países pequeños con un alto nivel de educación uniforme acompañado con una fuerte ética que enfatiza en el valor del trabajo.

      ¿Es una consecuencia, o una causa? ¿Qué evidencias hay a favor de una y otra hipótesis?

    1. If a lot of nodes host a little bit, these little bits quickly add up to more space, bandwidth and availablity than any centralized HTTP service could ever possibly provide.

      How accurate is this? Think of Google, Amazon, etc. They are huge!

    1. Filter values support the same methods of spelling correction and partial matching as other Geocoding requests.

      However, whereas request (a), with locality "Coronel Moldes" (abbreviated as "CNEL.MOLDES") passed as address component returns ZERO_RESULTS; request (b), with locality passed within the address parameter returns a better result.

      request a) https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1 DE MAYO 0&components=locality:CNEL.MOLDES|administrative_area:Provincia de Salta|country:AR&language=es-419,

      request b) https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1+DE+MAYO+0,+CNEL.MOLDES&components=administrative_area:Provincia+de+Salta|country:AR&language=es-419

    1. ratificará la inconstitucionalidad del cierre dominical.

      Debería decir "la inconstitucionalidad de la obligación de cierre dominical". Cerrar nunca debería ser inconstitucional

  12. Jun 2019
    1. Crucially, a node loses its ability to function as soon as the node it is dependent on ceases to function while it may not be so severely effected by losing a node it is connected to.

      But isn't this comparison unfair? I mean, doesn't it actually depend on the number of connectivity and dependency links it has?. In other words, it is true that the node ceases to function if it loses the only node it depends on. But wouldn't it be equally dramatic if it loses the only node it is connected to? It seems to me it is all a matter of how many nodes it is connected to/it depends on.

    1. either pay for the open internet or just get Facebook for free. They chose Facebook.

      Well, but internet.org seems to provide access to other services, not only Facebook. I understand that it is still questionable, but it is biasing.

    2. The Apple App Store isn’t a level playing field.

      Is Google's Play Store a little more of a level field? It would be nice to see how numbers are there.

    3. if we stop treating them like the utility that they are, they can find ways to charge a lot more money.

      Yeah, but don't they also do it to save money? If they favor services hosted in their own networks (such as a Netflix CDN installed in their facilities), aren't they saving money by not paying peer or transit?

    4. The water company shouldn’t care whether you’re turning on a tap to wash dishes or to take a shower.The power company shouldn’t care whether you’re plugging in a TV or a toaster.

      But they both charge you based on how much you use. ISPs usually don't do that, or their transfer quotas are quite high.

    5. instinctively try to keep the call as short as possible, because they want to avoid the massive long distance fees historically associated with such calls, even though these no longer apply.

      Doesn't it make some sense that long distance calls cost more than short distance? The same way driving a longer distance means paying more tolls?

    6. imagine that a corporation purposefully delayed the introduction of email by a decade. What would be the total impact on the productivity of society?

      What are the real implications (poverty reduction, etc) of this delay in economy growth?

    7. But the “baby bells” wouldn’t stay divided for long. In 1997, they were able to start merging back together into a corporation even bigger than before the break-up.

      This reminds me of Mickey's broom in Disney's "Fantasia". Can I write "Mickey"? Or will I be sued by Disney Corporation?

    1. Since November 2015 links to messenger app Telegram are no longer clickable or copyable in Whatsapp’s Android client,

      I tested it today in Android and it seems to be working now

    1. The directory structure of both of these packages follows the Million Song Dataset.

      root, subdir 1, subdir 2 = third, fourth, fifth character of msd_id (after 'TR')

    1. If we evaluate non-C major key annotations separately, we achieve a score of 0.84 - very close to the human-to-human baseline.

      If there is a C major key signature, most likely it was set by default and it is wrong.

    1. Key Signature

      I understand this meta message has two data bytes, but the second byte (minor, major) could have been replaced by a bit (as it may either be 0 or 1 only). Couldn't it have been defined as first data byte = root note, second data byte = one of seven modes (ionian, dorian, etc)?

    1. In Chile, the national telecom regulator ruled that this practice violated net neutrality laws and had to end by June 1, 2014.[3][4]

      But "Claro" offered in December 2018 data plans which only allowed access to Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Snapchat.

    1. Most common web browsers can retrieve files hosted on FTP servers,

      This seems to have been first implemented by Tim Berners-Lee, when he was trying to popularize his World Wide Web and Web browser (according to himself, in his "Weaving the Web" 1999 book).

    1. some people don’t like the idea that anyone can essentially copy their blog post or website and then add a layer of criticism to it without their permission.

      Are they "copying" the websites?

    1. I wouldn’t even know this extra layer existed over my blog if one of the women annotating it hadn’t tweeted the link.

      Naturally, as she wouldn't know someone was commenting about her article in Twitter, reddit, etc, if she didn't know those sites existed.

    1. catch-22: the utility of the service requires a certain scale.

      catch-22: paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations.

    1. unspoken codes of conduct that apply to any annotation that’s created within that group.

      Why unspoken? Couldn't they be advertised in the group's page to make sure everyone is aware of them?

    2. Rufus Pollock and Philip Schmidt’s joint grant while active Shuttleworth Foundation grantees allowed Nick to focus for a time on that project.

      Open Knowledge Foundation

    1. the architectures of extension/plugin technologies are user-agent specific.

      I'm still not sure what the WebExtensions API is, but this may have been sent before its (widespread?) use