{"id":4203,"date":"2011-07-12T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2011-07-12T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:25:27","slug":"odds-and-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other\u00a0weekend I discovered that MIT has an &#8220;opencourseware&#8221; site where\u00a0it has\u00a0posted videos of different semester long courses.\u00a0 Apparently\u00a0MIT has been doing this for many years &#8212; I&#8217;m just late to the party in noticing it.\u00a0 If you like to learn new subjects, want an update on a course that you first took decades ago, or maybe have a child\u00a0thinking about\u00a0majoring in science or engineering,\u00a0you can check out the site at this link: [<a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/index.htm\">Link<\/a>].\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It looks like other colleges have similar videos posted on YouTube; but, I think MIT has the most organized approach with its site.<\/p>\n<p>In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Diamond v. Diehr<\/span>, Justice\u00a0Rehnquist once\u00a0prompted the government&#8217;s counsel with the question\u00a0&#8220;Incidentially, what is an algorithm?&#8221;\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/diamond-v-diehr-algorithm.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 MIT has a course to answer that question should it ever\u00a0arise again: [<a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science\/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005\/\">Introduction to Algorithms<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other\u00a0weekend I discovered that MIT has an &#8220;opencourseware&#8221; site where\u00a0it has\u00a0posted videos of different semester long courses.\u00a0 Apparently\u00a0MIT has been doing this for many years &#8212; I&#8217;m just late to the party in noticing it.\u00a0 If you like to learn new subjects, want an update on a course that you first took decades ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}