Notices by Brandon Hall (bthall@mastodon.social), page 15

@nightpool @moonman @KitRedgrave Yeah, and 6 digits of social, no less!

Doing my first project on Data.world, which involves assembling a dataset

Considering how badass the service is for working with existing datasets, I expected that they help you through creating datasets of your own for sharing. Nope! #datascience #statistics #personalProjects #personal

@beardyunixer That's a very good idea! I will try email for now, then. :)

New semester, new professors. For one of my classes, the professor is very unwelcoming to engage with face-to-face, despite his being conversational during his lectures. I haven't encountered this before, but I'll see what variables much be at play that are leading him to be so sour. He might to talk by email, for instance. #college #personal #SacState

@zatnosk I'd say that if you wish to proceed down this path at all, go for the latter then gradually generalize until you find yourself satisfying the former.

@zatnosk u aliv bro?

@lnxw48a1 @xahlee @bob Somewhat the same for me. I've lacked graphics-capable hardware for all but the last year and a half, leading my brother and I to never quite ride the hype waves of games and worlds that the media focuses on.

Now, my constraint is time. Instant messaging now seems tedious for me, even when scheduled, whereas in middle and high school it was a primary joy.

@lnxw48a1 @xahlee @bob One of my middle and high school friends was one of the highly successful merchants on the service prior to its economic collapse. I'm glad to report that he's an #economics major at my school, but I suspect that much of his earlier brilliance has diffused after years of underutilization.

On this note, I wonder whether virtual worlds might give young persons more opportunities for growth and than real worlds do.

@bob @xahlee @lnxw48a1 #GaiaOnline was like this, but it at least had great micro-communities. When the owners of the service started making a ridiculous number of pay-real-money-to-own items, I and many others left. Its economy is now in shambles.

@lnxw48a1 @xahlee Supposedly they do require an ID, but I do not remember being checked for one when I recently rode Greyhound.

Got the vibe from a professor that I'd better either learn #Calculus over the weekend or drop his class. 😥 #college #personal

@lnxw48a1 Thanks for bringing me in the loop about this discussion! This was a big topic of discussion in the philosophy class that I took about business ethics. Large business interests sometimes conduct public policy campaigns that would supposedly remove gov meddling in biz (a desired thing among freemarketeers), when in fact the policy does little more than reduce the burden upon only the large business interests, leaving issues for little guys.