Since you kind of, perhaps more than most, have a spectrum of insight across what various companies are up to in academics? done alphabetically. And it was like, it was pages and pages of companies, and I was like, this is amazing.
So way before GPS and Google Maps and all that, you would have these analog, spiral-bound map books where they would list the streets in the back in alphabetical order. And so if you had to go to Cherry Street, you'd look and it would say, Cherry Street page 50, A5, and you'd find-- that's how we got around.
So all of the literacies I talk about attention, participation, collaboration, crap detection and network know-how have to do with both the skill of encoding and decoding. A fundamental alphabetic literacy and ability to read and write. But beyond that individual skill, the ability to use that skill in concert with others.
knowing yourself well enough to trust your own distractability and go with it um and and follow that and do what's humans recognize and alphabetic writing is is built on our visual systems
I don't do that. So I just sent alphabetical, and I said aardvark. And I think that's what sealed the deal because I think at that point they're like, all right, so this guy is
And that is that, I've discovered that in the nonprofit world, great ideas don't receive quite the reception they receive in the for-profit world. Make Congress sit in alphabetical order.
environmental pollution and energy security through the promise of renewable energy. Going in alphabetical order, Mark Jacobson is the Director of Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment. And a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He is on the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Environment committee for the
And these are some of the articles that have appeared just in recent weeks and months in major newspapers, mostly in the United States. So if I went to learn another alphabetic language, I might be looking for the mappings between symbols and sounds.
Oh, they listened to me. So they're out of alphabetical order, out of subject.
One of the problems we had early on was figuring out how to divide up the chapters. So we thought about doing it alphabetically. And then we realized, well, we have Alan Alda, and Arleen Alda, and we have Ashok Amritraj, and Ahmed Ahmed.
But I go into the bookstore, and I usually find my books in some section like Current History or Modern American Politics or something like that. And those books are then organized alphabetically. And what often happens to me, as it just happened this week when I stopped into Barnes and Noble, that my book, because of my name being Kinzer,
But since then, we now have 250 museums since 1961. This is a list of all them in alphabetical order. But it's not about really the museums that that, I guess, mark how creative a city is.
And to me, it was a very interesting display of the arbitrariness of our various systems of language when it comes up against number. So I did a version called "The First M Numbers in Alphabetical Order." And it generates and alphabetizes the first thousand Roman numerals. So I'll show you a little of the Concrete Perl series of programs.
don't you with me go down this list and just say out loud the the ones that gets sex fifty one percent or more out loud what's the first one on the list in alphabetical order common was 68 percent the next one forward-looking with 71 percent the next one honest with 88 nine percent the next one inspiring with 69
knowing yourself well enough to trust your own distractability and go with it um and and follow that and do what's obviously there's so much in the world that is not an alphabetic way of learning that's still a very complex symbol system but um I think that's
lose rather than I wanted to win, you know? Of course, winning is also a huge pleasure, but more than anything, I just didn't want to lose. so on. Everything went in alphabetical order. I started from A and read them all straight to the very end.
Do you remember when every new Android version was named after an alphabetical dessert, and the biggest surprise of every I/O was gonna be them unveiling
1 million names, we have to sort them alphabetically, so we know where our name is when you look for it, and we don't have to read all the names to find
So it goes "gah," "hah," "lah." It's kind of following that English alphabetical way.
you developed page numbers, when you had alphabetical indexes, when you created a system of citation and footnotes and all that kind of stuff and a reliable way of storing these books, that
all other genres of literature that we would naturally list on a sheet of paper in alphabetic writing, what you would use writing
to represent spoken language. So today, I'll be talking mostly about how we learn to read in alphabetic writing systems like English, in which the visual symbols of writing stand for sounds. So in thinking about how we connect visual symbols to spoken language, it feels intuitively
He comes running up, A-- and you can follow the alphabetic letters-- from Cisalpine Gaul, where he has his winter headquarters.
lose rather than I wanted to win, you know? Of course, winning is also a huge pleasure, but more than anything, I just didn't want to lose. He would look through it. The countries were arranged alphabetically. A for Andorra, Angola, and so on. B for Belgium, Brazil, and
And the only reason I know that is because I arranged the world's literature on laryngeal mask arrays alphabetically and chronologically over two months.
And you can see that the principal investigators, just in alphabetical order here, I've got to Bill Bottke who is from the Southwest Research Institute,
Yes, of course, it could have been alphabetical order.
I'm going to introduce the first poet, but we're going to go into alphabetical order.
write beautiful effective but tough especially if you come to it late in life as I did what he needed was an alphabetical
You have no easy way of telling whether the system is logographic, syllabic, or alphabetic , what the language of the inscription might be, or even if the inscription is
So when I say this, it's easier when you have all the students lined up by alphabetical last name.
Since you kind of, perhaps more than most, have a spectrum of insight across what various companies are up to in academics? And I was looking through it and thinking, oh my gosh, like the only way to organize this is alphabetically, just because every day there's
He said, Judge, I have seven kids, and the teacher makes them sit alphabetically
You'll just say, well, I've always done it alphabetically.
I said, spices? Well, he loves to line up all the spices in my spice cabinet in alphabetical order.
And so "I am that I am" is a sort of homage to that, that simply displays all the permutations of the five full vowels. And there's also a piece based on a work of Claude Closky, which is the first m numbers in alphabetical order. So Claude Closky did a piece, in 1989, both in English and in French, where he presented the first thousand numbers in alphabetical order.
And there's also a piece based on a work of Claude Closky, which is the first m numbers in alphabetical order. So Claude Closky did a piece, in 1989, both in English and in French, where he presented the first thousand numbers in alphabetical order. And of course, they're alphabetized differently in French and English when they're spelled out.
I guess. Because the modern version of how arranged now, it actually follows kind of an English alphabetical setting.
Because when you talk about the men who united the states, it could very easily be a list of men in alphabetical order,
and this is stuff that I love, serendipity, these are actually all up there alphabetically, but you'll notice that all the ones in the center are the happy ones.
That is, when you and your spouse are trying to figure out how to organize the CDs in your collection, and you want to do it alphabetically and your spouse wants to do it by genre or
And in this spirit, here's a conundrum for you, which links both numbers and words and it is: if all numbers were listed alphabetically, what number would come second? Now normally
Now I'm just gonna finish here 'cause at the beginning of the talk I said and I hope it will come, "If all numbers were listed alphabetically what number would come second?"
And it is, we believe, the first printed book to have an alphabetized index. You see it's alphabetical down the side. They don't actually have page numbers, where we didn't have Arabic
Jerry: Yeah. I'll-I'll-I'll find one for you. I think, uhh, is Tweety Pie not there. The list is in alphabetical order. So,...
So Claude Closky did a piece, in 1989, both in English and in French, where he presented the first thousand numbers in alphabetical order. And of course, they're alphabetized differently in French and English when they're spelled out. And so he showed these.