Feature Selection

Language evaluation criteria and the characteristics that affect them

Benefits of studying concepts of programming languages

• Increased capacity to express ideas
• Improved background for choosing appropriate languages
• Increased ability to learn new languages
• Better understanding of the significance of implementation
• Better use of languages that are already known
• Overall advancement of computing

Recursão na Vida Real

Recursividade é uma das coisas mágicas e interessantes em Programação

Endereçamento Aberto

Como uma função hash distribui (espalha) os registros no espaço de endereços?

Features of the main programming paradigms

Programming Paradigms

How Many Programming Languages Exist?

Programming Paradigms

https://marcoarmello.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/carreiracientista/

Methods to Build Knowledge

The Information Behind Symbols

Beckett - A Rainbow's Gold

Old Grey Whistle Test - Beckett from 8/5/74

The Syrian Crisis in 10 minutes and 15 maps

Métricas de Desempenho

Visualizing the seven text mining practice areas (ovals) and how speci!c text mining tasks (labels within ovals) exist at their intersections.

Five Questions for Finding the Right Practice Area

The Seven Practice Areas of Text Analytics

Machine Learning In Action

Obras de grandes escritores lidas por um computador. Além de ser possível identificar o livro (caso já o tenha lido), pode-se notar o estilo de escrita do autor.

Apelo à Propaganda

Ciclo de Compra

Entenda a diferença entre os métodos escolares

• Tradicional - Ênfase no conteúdo. O professor é o transmissor do conhecimento. Rigidez quanto a normas e conduta disciplinar.
• Construtivista - Organiza a aprendizagem de acordo com as etapas do desenvolvimento mental. Privilegia atividades que levam o estudante a aprender a aprender. Valoriza os conhecimentos anteriores que o aluno traz.
• Sócio-interacionista - Similar ao construtivismo, com ênfase na dimensão sociocultural do estudante. Dá importância ao contexto em que se aprende. Foco em atividades de grupo, na linguagem e no relacionamento interpessoal.
• Waldorf (Antroposófica) - Busca o desenvolvimento físico, individual, social e emocional. Os alunos são agrupados por idades e não necessariamente por séries, portanto não há o conceito de “repetir de ano”. Há ensino de outros conteúdos além dos acadêmicos, como música e artes plásticas. A avaliação dos alunos é baseada nas atividades diárias e envolve habilidades sociais e virtudes como interesse e força de vontade. O objetivo é formar um adulto equilibrado e seguro.
• Montessoriano - Busca desenvolver o senso de responsabilidade da criança pelo próprio aprendizado. O ensino é ativo, enfatiza os exercícios de concentração individual e, nas fases iniciais, estimula a manipulação e montagem de objetos. O professor é entendido como um guia que ajuda as crianças a superar as dificuldades.
• Freireano  (Paulo Freire) - Parte do princípio de que os conteúdos precisam fazer sentido para o estudante, com palavras que carreguem conceitos importantes para sua vida: trabalho, tijolo, salário. Entende que a educação é um instrumento de conscientização política. Estimula a valorização do saber do aluno e o diálogo.
• Logosófico - Baseia-se nos conceitos da Logosofia, que busca promover o conhecimento de si mesmo, a integração do espírito com as leis universais e o domínio das funções de aprender, ensinar, pensar e realizar. A pedagogia se baseia no conhecimento e no afeto. Objetiva libertar as faculdades mentais para que o sujeito compreenda os verdadeiros objetivos da vida e se sinta motivado e mais consciente de seus atos.

Nowadays

Nowadays

Laurentius de Voltolina - 700 years old and the same way in the education

Mini história da educação no Brasil

Michael Angelo Batio - Diary of an Empty Life

Hanoi Tower

Cross-context productivity factors

The Scientific Method

Diseconomies of scale in software engineering

The learning pipeline of the cat versus dog classification problem. The same general pipeline is used for essentially all machine learning problems.

How To Write A Research Proposal? 11 Things To Include In A Thesis Proposal

Into to Research Methodology

Quantum x Classical Computation

The Overton Window

Definition and discussion of the concept is below. The main points I want to convey with this image:

- There is, or there should be, a constant tug-of-war on the edges of the Overton Window on any issue.

- There is a place for everyone and anyone along the Left side of the rope, as long as we're all pulling in the same general direction.

- The current location of the Overton Window is so far to the right of any objective political spectrum, that what are now considered Extreme Left Positions are really not extreme at all.

Definition, Review:

This is old hat to a lot of folks in the blogosphere, but defining terms is a good thing. Wikipedia:

The Overton window is a concept in political theory, named after the former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Joe Overton, who developed the model. It describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue.

The lower line with various notches represents this full spectrum in the chart above. The black brackets represent the Window itself, which contains the smaller range of policy that is acceptable to the public at any given time.

Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable.

Delivering rhetoric to define the window provides a plan of action to make more acceptable to the public some ideas by priming them with other ideas allowed to remain unacceptable, but which make the real target ideas seem more acceptable by comparison.

The way to shift the Overton Window is by moving the edges, by pushing ideas that are even more extreme than what is actually desired.

As the Overton Window shifts along the spectrum, a specific policy (a notch in the graph) goes through the following phases of public acceptance:

- Unthinkable
- Radical
- Acceptable
- Sensible
- Popular
- Policy

Here is a specific example of the Overton Window in action as it relates to public school policy.

The Importance of "Extremists"

Responding to "progressive conventional wisdom" that says the Democratic Party plays too much to the elusive Middle, Kos Diarist Thereisnospoon:

On the contrary: the GOP knows that the middle DOES matter. They know that by playing to their base in very well-crafted ways, they can shift the very definition of what the middle is. By introducing radicalism into the public discourse (and taking initial heat for it), whatever used to be radical within this context becomes moderate by comparison.

Eliminationist Right-Wing Blogs and Fox News screechers may look like clowns, but that is their function. To stretch the Window so far to the Right that anything short of nuking the Middle East seems acceptable.

Or take the Abortion issue. The prominence (way out of proportion to their actual numbers) of Fundie Whackaloons who want to outlaw abortion completely, has made it acceptable that some procedures have now been, in fact, outlawed.

So non-insane fundy voters can say to themselves "Well, at least abortion isn't completely illegal. Phew!" As if it were even something a modern society that believes in a woman's right to control her uterus would even consider!

The truth is that we need to do both. It is not an either-or scenario. We cannot achieve victory by playing to the base and ignoring the middle, nor can we win by playing to the middle and ignoring the base. We need to do both--and the GOP understands this. ...

To win, we must sway the middle by playing to the base--and we must understand that this is a difficult and heavily calculated process that requires time, money and manpower.

I'm not sure if I agree completely with Spoon, but they're on to something.

The discussion of the Overton Window is completely abstracted from Reality. It assumes that anything can be made acceptable through this technique.

While the Bushies and the Neocons have done a smashing job of proving this point, recent events have shown that Policy which is not based on Reality, and that goes against the best interests of the country tends to fall apart at some point.

The one and only difference between OS X and Windows

The history of "free"

Simply Explained

The New Waterfall

Idempotent And Non-Idempotent

Agile Families

Finally Agile

Simply Explained

Good Questions

As principais teorias administrativas e seus principais enfoques

Software Process

Cadeia de Markov para Iniciante