Re: Education

Hi Hugh,

Education being all about seeing the patterns, it's nice when the classical can be related to the new concepts.  So ...

Suggestion:
The US Government (NOAA) offers a spreadsheet which calculates Sunrise, Sunset, etc. from first principles (parabolics not hyperbolics).
There is a javascript implementation
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/sunrise.html
And a spreadsheet
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html
and an explanation of the calculations in American (English available on request, I think)

The Linked Data "connection" is that the Julian Century is a quad of the Julian Day (which in turn is a big number) so quarter Great Years, quarter Years and quarter Days (6 hours) are in resonance.  The challenge is to square a 16/2=8 hour workday with a 6*2=12 hour half-day. Adding Twilight as useable workspace is a harsh idea, it diverges limit up (all work, no sleep)).  What you really need is the "triple" (4:3) Harmonic. (http://www.gandraxa.com/length_of_day.xml)

The Julian Century and Julian Day are in quads (quaternions or Gradians (1/4 "Centigrades", a can of kelvins is a can of worms)), the other angles are in Degrees and Radians.  This data base might be helpful: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2014Jul/0030.html

--Gannon


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On Sat, 7/12/14, Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org> wrote:

 Subject: Education
 To: "Linked Data community" <public-lod@w3.org>
 Date: Saturday, July 12, 2014, 6:02 AM
 
 The other day I was asked if I would
 like to run a Java module for some Physics & Astronomy
 students.
 I am so far from plain Java and that sort of thing now there
 was almost a cognitive dissonance.
 
 But it did cause me to ponder on about what I would do for
 such a requirement, given a blank sheet.
 
 For people whose discipline is not primarily technical, what
 would a syllabus look like around Linked Data as a focus,
 but also causing them to learn lots about how to just do
 stuff on computers?
 
 How to use a Linked Data store service as schemaless
 storage:
 bit of intro to triples as simply a primitive representation
 format;
 scripting for data transformation into triples - Ruby,
 Python, PHP, awk or whatever;
 scripting for http access for http put, delete to store;
 simple store query for service access (over http get);
 scripting for data post-processing, plus interaction with
 any data analytic tools;
 scripting for presentation in html or through visualisation
 tools.
 
 It would be interesting for scientists and, even more,
 social scientists, archeologists, etc (alongside their
 statistical package stuff or whatever).
 I think it would be really exciting for them, and they would
 get a lot of skills on the way - and of course they would
 learn to access all this Open Data stuff, which is becoming
 so important.
 I’m not sure they would go for it ;-)
 
 Just some thoughts.
 And does anyone knows of such modules, or even is teaching
 them?
 
 Best
 Hugh
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