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This afternoon during Karl's nap, Erika:

Had her first computer programming experience using Scratch -- she had a lion cub and a fox wandering around the screen making noises.

Completed lesson 95 of the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading.

Finished three lessons in Reading Eggs, and passed the quiz for map 8. She hadn't used Reading Eggs in a while, because the level of difficulty of the lessons had exceeded her comfort zone, but since the company sent me a code for 3 free months of service, I suggested she might give it a whirl and see if it was easier now. Not surprisingly, it was. She still doesn't like anything involving time pressure, though -- she freezes when there's a timer going.

She also watched educational videos on Brainpop Junior while I was helping Karl get to sleep.

Whew!

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Date: 2012-08-23 06:50 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
DARPA Scores a Huge Victory in Apple's iPhone 4SIt is never easy to predict when a miatilry-funded innovation can satisfy a commercial need. And it’s especially doubtful that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could have predicted that the 'Personalized Assistant that Learns' (PAL) program would eventually be used by millions of people around the world. Yet that is exactly what is about to happen, when Apple, Inc releases its iPhone 4S with the Siri Personal Assistant. Apple purchased Siri Incorporated in 2010, about two years after Siri was spun out of SRI International. Prior to the spin-out, Siri's core technology was developed under multi-million dollar DARPA grant. It's clear from this video that DARPA's intended customer was not the smart phone user, but instead a miatilry officer issuing orders in a command center. Luckily for DARPA, and iPhone users worldwide, SRI International saw the potential to employ PAL in the embedded environment. As a result, we iPhone users will all soon be benefiting from DARPA’s investment.

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