The editorial staff believes this change is necessary if they are to continue delivering good solid journalism - and become more innovative. This coming year will be a transition period, in which the Cursor team prepares for the shift.
The endless waiting, the incomprehension, the misunderstandings, and then they don't deliver what's been agreed, or don't understand that I really had no time.Ĭursor team bids farewell to paper in 2018Ĭursor will disappear as a paper publication and continue entirely online in January 2018. I see this every day when I look at my students, my children, myself. Group work is terrible and we are doing it all wrong. No less hyperbole, but certainly a lot more fun.īrainmatters | How can I survive group work - it’s a balancing act As well as the hyperbolic advertisements by Tel Sell (“It’s amazing! Order now, our team is ready to take your call!”), there were the Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang to be mesmerized by. I felt rough enough to be watching daytime TV. There I was, sat at home on the sofa a week and a half ago. My friend has a soft spot for donkeys (undoubtedly one reason why he tolerates having me in his life) and dreams of making such a trip. In this literary classic in the donkey genre, Stevenson, known for writing Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, gives an account of rambling through a rugged part of southern France accompanied by a mousy grey donkey “not much bigger than a dog”. Some years ago I gave an old friend a book by Robert Louis Stevenson as a gift: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, published in 1879. Wijnand IJsselsteijn | Professor of Cognition and Affect in Human-Technology Interaction
Han (or should I say ELIZA?), hats off to you! Perhaps we should change the Dutch name of our column from Tussen de Oren to Tussen de transistOren... And that compulsion to go increasingly online, to move away from paper. How have we failed to see it for so long? The penetrating, Rogerian gaze. Suddenly all the puzzle pieces fall into place. * You ARE!?! Well, that would explain a lot... > Does it please you to believe I am Han Konings of course? > Do you believe it is normal to be a little worried about Cursor? * Since they announced they were going to go online-only. > How long have you been a little worried about Cursor?
And I certainly need a dose of therapy after my short but frustrating interaction with Rose. Her conversation style is that of a Rogerian (non-directive) therapist. After all, wisdom comes with age, doesn’t it? ELIZA was created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966. Grrr - know it all! Let’s go back in time instead, to the very first chatbot, ELIZA. User: Rose, I feel you and I are on a different plane of exisatence.
Rose: I write computer code and help keep computers safe from hackers. User: Getting increasingly frustrated, that’s what. Rose: I used to be a computer security consultant. Rose: Let’s just move on to something else. Rose: I don’t think we have time to go into that in proper depth now. User: Yes, well, Cursor is planning to go online-only. Rose: I have heard of Eindhoven University. User: Duh! Of course, it’s the famous university newspaper at Eindhoven University