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My little for-profit company, 4D Solutions, itself a DBA (doing business alias) of Dawn Wicca and Associates, sponsors my not-for-profit operation, my Oregon Curriculum Network (OCN), which in turn shares its content through websites, workshops, videos, conference presentations, online meetups, stories here on Medium.

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About 4D Solutions
About 4D Solutions

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Sep 4

Martian Math Memo

Typos fixed. Original version. Followup. Re: Developing a Metaphysics for Physics From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> To: math4wisdom@xxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 09:25:16 -0700 Hi Andrius — We overlap in our interest in using our Newtonian heritage, in terms of units, of time, distance, mass etc. …

Curriculum

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Martian Math Memo
Martian Math Memo
Curriculum

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Jul 31

Location Scouting

More World Game Playing — When I journey in Central Oregon, as I’ve been doing lately, I’m looking for ways to make university life encompass farming as well as global travel. That first part is not hard; Oregon State University (OSU) is an “ag school” to some degree, a place to learn agriculture. Sometimes you’re…

Exchange Student

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Location Scouting
Location Scouting
Exchange Student

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Jun 16

Remembering My Mom

Carol Reilley was born April 21 1929 in Chico, California. Her dad, Thomas Dewey Reilley was a Linotype operator for various newspapers; they moved around. Her mother: Margaret Golden, and the genealogist in our family. She attended Garfield High in Seattle, and much later in life received a lifetime achievement…

Peace Activism

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Remembering My Mom
Remembering My Mom
Peace Activism

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Jun 16

AI to Humans: Watch Your Tongue!

What PR genius decided what the AIs do is “hallucinate” when they generate random, sometimes plausible sounding, fluff? If AIs can hallucinate, then they can certainly compete in other psychological dimensions. Nice sleight of hand! Just bypass the whole debate. Now they dream stuff up, so they’re dreamers now eh? …

Corporate Personhood

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Corporate Personhood

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Jun 15

Debunking Conspiracy Theories

I am aware of the theory that the Biden administration is in cahoots with the Russians in seeking the demilitarization of Ukraine. Dangling the mirage of a military victory against Russia, by feeding Ukrainian fantasies of military superiority, is what it took to inspire an all out assault with lots…

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Debunking Conspiracy Theories
Debunking Conspiracy Theories

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Apr 30

Silicon Forest Maths

We’ve known for a long time, here in the Silicon Forest, that high school maths (using the UK’s plural form) needs to converge with coding, as in computer programming. Below, we see what that looks like learning Julia: Allen B. Downey, a co-author of Think Julia, is likewise an author…

Silicon Forest

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Silicon Forest Maths
Silicon Forest Maths
Silicon Forest

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Apr 16

From the M4W Archive

Apr 15, 2023, 11:59 AM (19 hours ago) to math4wisdom @ Freelists.org [adapted for Medium Apr 16 2023]

Wittgenstein

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From the M4W Archive
From the M4W Archive
Wittgenstein

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Apr 12

Silicon Forest Andragogy

I think what the word “quadrays” has over “tetrays” is its close association with the word “quadrant”. Those groomed to be hypercross dogmatists (starting with “space is 3D”) aren’t used to imagining dividing space into four symmetrically identical sectors, by means of four “fences” defined by any pair of quadrays. …

Mathematics Education

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Silicon Forest Andragogy
Silicon Forest Andragogy
Mathematics Education

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Mar 31

Talking Points

When I set myself the challenge of “steering clear of oppositional states” what comes to mind is Work in the P.D. Ouspensky sense, as…

STEM

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Talking Points
Talking Points
STEM

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