Friday, November 28, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
MLLP (HL7 interface) buffer termination character in Python ...
... is '1C'.decode("hex"). In case you were wondering.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
4,835,716,461,499 percent
... the question is: how much inflation has Argentina seen since 1940? In case you were wondering.
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Faculty time study
College faculty spend "17 percent of their work week in meetings – including those with students – and 13 percent of the day on email ..."
This is even more incredible when you consider that faculty now make up less than one-half of the payroll at universities nationwide. At the turn of the twentieth century, almost all of the money we spent on higher education went to teaching and research. What percentage of tuition, endowment and taxpayer money actually gets spent on teaching or research nowadays? 25%? 20%? Nobody knows.
This is even more incredible when you consider that faculty now make up less than one-half of the payroll at universities nationwide. At the turn of the twentieth century, almost all of the money we spent on higher education went to teaching and research. What percentage of tuition, endowment and taxpayer money actually gets spent on teaching or research nowadays? 25%? 20%? Nobody knows.
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