As a schoolchild, she had delighted in using a pendulum to make drawings in her exercise books, but it was not until midlife that she found in this process a portal to a larger world of ideas. In 1938, using a silver pendulum with a jade end she believed was guided by energy fields — a technique she termed radiesthesia — she began making large-scale drawings in pencil and crayon on graph paper, hundreds of them, to divine diagnoses of physical and psychic ailments and heal people, often with results bordering on the miraculous.
The LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics. It was completed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2024.
Everywhere in education, you see incentives at work. The incentives, though, are so far removed from the actual goals of education that they produce perverse results.
Goodhart’s Law is usually stated, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
L. Mariot, and L. Manzoni. (2023)cite arxiv:2303.05228Comment: 22 pages. Extended version of Ön the Linear Components Space of S-boxes Generated by Orthogonal Cellular Automata" arXiv:2203.14365v, presented at ACRI 2022. Currently under submission at Natural Computing.
M. Porter. (2022)cite arxiv:2201.07794Comment: working paper (associated with my data-ethics lecture at the 2021 AMS Short Course on Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems); not yet refereed; private comments and suggestions are appreciated.