Category: Blog
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USP515 Session 4 Notes
September 14th and 16th Session Four: Environmental Justice This session will focus on the concept and root causes of environmental injustice. We will be guided by the following questions: How would you define the concept of “environmental injustice”? Disparate impact Social movement in relation to environmental movement with social justice component Poorer nations bear the burden of…
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USP514 Session 4 Notes
September 14th and 16th Session Four: Sustainable Development in Historical Context This session will focus on the origins of the concept of sustainable development and how it is connected to the concept of development. Our discussion will be guided by the following questions: What is meant by the term “development”? To improve the accessibility or availability of…
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Symbolic Logic Operators
This is just like computer science! Operators (~) Negation operator (&) (And) Conjunct operator (v) Disjunct operator (->) (if then) Conditional operator (<->) (if and only if) Biconditional operator
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N95 Is Not Good Enough
I have severe asthma. I have tried hiking in an N95 mask and I have asthma attacks the whole time. My home environment is kept extremely clean by my custom high-power low-cost air filtration system; my indoor PM values usually stay at zero. The only other variable is N95. So what is N95? The certification…
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Generative Adversarial Networks
It would be really fun to expand on my previous work with developing agario bots to use generative adversarial networks and watch them learn to beat each other.
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Multpurpose Apocalypse Sensors v3
This is the third version of my apocalypse sensor array. The major change is a move to laser particulate matter sensors instead of infrared. Current Hardware MKR 1010: This is a really great microcontroller. It uses SAMD so it can be a little different to get things working instead of the traditional Arduino chips. Most…
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USP515 Session 3 Notes
September 9th Session Three: Central Theories This session will focus on the concept and root causes of environmental injustice. We will be guided by the following questions: What are the main issues discussed in Feagin and Eckberg article? (These are all quotes) Most of the germane social science literature contains some variation of the assumption…
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USP493 Session 3 Notes
Graphic presentation of data For nominal and ordinal data you can do a pie chart or a bar chart For grouped interval data you can construct a histogram For grouped or ungrouped interval data you can construct line graphs Measures of Central Tendency Mode – can be used for nominal, ordinal and interval data the…
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Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 8)
I had assumed this book would be about Thrawn’s exodus. In fact,as you may expect, there is a twist. Just as I was about halfway through this book and dreading the end of the Thrawn series, I head the news that a new Thrawn book has just been released and that it’s the beginning of…
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The Core Strength of Community-Centered Activism Built on Radical Queer Anarcho-Communism
One of the huge advantages of anarcho-communist radical queer organizations comes as a deliberate result of the way they were constructed. Early gay leaders like Harry Hay started nonprofits like Mattachine Society in order to advocate for gay rights from within the structures of the political establishment. At the time, COINTELPRO was an FBI…