Category: CDE
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Wordle as a Soliloquy Comparison Tool
Wordle works chiefly as a word frequency analysis tool. Words used more appear larger. By looking at the resulting wordle graphic one can visualize presumably the important of the words to the speaker, but also get insight into the mindset. I’ve seen this approach in speech analysis in looking at President Obama’s 2011 State of…
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Another video test
I think this is a good fun example of critical thinking. This “trailer” refrences several movie cliches, but instead of using direct dialog, they use referential dialog. I did not catch it right away, it’s a little brain jarring but really made me think. Some of the detail, even down to the writing on the…
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Shape file into web friendly image
I am working on a BTOP logo and wanted a coastal outline of Alaska in a Albers Conical Equal Area Projection. Here is a start. Alaska is a very challenging state to map, because of the coastal detail and the long Aleutian island chain. Anyway, this image was derived from a DNR ArcGIS file. If…
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Public Private Keys for Community
I wanted to set up a public/private key pair for community.uaf.edu as I need to get in there and work on things from time to time. From my OS X terminal I did a $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 I went into the cde directory and added an authorized_keys file and placed my public…
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YouTube Embed Debugging
I was quite curious about why the iTeachAK site was behaving differently than the other blogs in terms of transposing a YouTube URL into html embed code as we saw in this Thursday’s morning demo. My initial hunch on misbehaving plugins was wrong. I did some testing with other blogs having exactly the same plugins,…