Program Evaluation
I’m currently doing some program evaluation work at work. Some links
related to that: A guide to
program evaluation, program
evaluation methodologies: a comparative assessment, an interesting
course description for a course on econometric methods, a
program evaluation and research group, a
review of Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound
Evaluation
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Maple Syrup… Mmmmm…
Colin pointed out yesterday that we are about to have a run of ideal maple
syrup weather- warm during the day and around or below freezing at night.
this
CBC article confirms it.
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Modern Rhetoric
That last link was focused on classical rhetoric. Here’s a page with
information about modern rhetoric.
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Silva Rhetoricae
I think one aspect of rhetoric that turns me off is the fact that there
are many precise descriptions of different speech strategies. I’m not a
huge detail person. However, this time I’m going to persevere. Here’s an
interesting site that goes into great detail about rhetoric and rhetorical
devices. The author calls it ‘Silva Rhetoricae’ or ‘The Forest of
Rhetoric’.
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Rhetoric of science
Jen G. gave me an interesting article to read, and in it I came across the
term ‘rhetorical process’. I’ve been intrigued by rhetoric for a while,
but I keep looking at it, every few years, and it keeps bouncing off me.
Maybe this pass, it’ll stick. One of the articles that has got me
interested again is this wikipedia
article about the rhetoric of science.
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Uses for recycled plastic, etc.
I’m currently working on my environmental consulting stuff, making lists
of possible environmental actions that people can take. One of the
possible actions is to buy stuff that contains recycled content. However,
as I wrote this down, I realized that I wasn’t actually sure what sorts of
things recycled plastic is used for. Happily, after a quick search, I
found this
page, which contains a list of some of the things reycled plastic is
used for. That page also has a link to a UK
directory of recycled products. You can also buy the products directly
from the site. The site is run by WRAP which, according to their
website “is a not for profit company created in 2000 as part of the
Government’s waste strategies across the United Kingdom.”
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Online Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
Have I mentioned recently that I looooove the internet? Here’s an online encyclopedia of “more
than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups
according to their graphic characteristics.”
{Jen keels over from the sheer coolness of this website}
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Euler Angles
3D geometry is interesting because there’s a direct analogy between this
type of math and 3 dimensional physical space. This means that to work
certain things out about 3 dimensional space, you need to understand 3D
geometery. In the other direction, it also means that to understand 3D
geometry, you can just build 3D models (which in my case translates to
“cardboard boxes and knitting needles”) and see how parts of the models
actually move through space. Handy.
Anyway, I’ve realized that I’ve never really given much in depth thought to 3D space or 3D geometry until now. As it turns out, I’m really quite ignorant with respect to how objects move in three dimensions, and also with respect to how to model and describe this movement mathematical. That’s all starting to change now, however.
One of the new mathematical concepts I’m grappling with
is Euler
Angles.
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