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Tuesday 7 February 2017

TMI

I will never, ever again fall back on the old adage, "in the age of information, ignorance is a choice". Anyone quoting that has never read the ALMA CASA cookbook. Or the example training PDF. And the less said about the vast, stupendous data reduction wiki, the better.

In the age of information overload, I need more tea. Much more tea.

7 comments:

  1. Back in the 1990's some comedian said trying to get information from the internet was like trying to get a little sip of water from a high-pressure fire truck hose.

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  2. In the age of information, (some form of) ignorance is a necessity...

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  3. Winchell Chung that is vaguely familiar. Can't remember who that was, tho.

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  4. Christopher Butler this site
    cyber.harvard.edu - Quotations about the Internet
    attributes it to Mitch Kapor about 1991

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  5. André Esteves, I've tried that. Unfortunately, even after the second or third scientist; I find that my productivity doesn't improve. Maybe I'm preparing them wrong.

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  6. Chris Greene from what i gather they must be very fresh!

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