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| bio | website | denubis.wordpress.com |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
| age | 29 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | Apr 27 at 11:01 | |
| stats | profile views | 32 |
Dr. Brian Ballsun-Stanton is a Philosopher, Information Technologist, and Game Theorist exploring the Philosophy of Data. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from The University of New South Wales in addition to a MS & BS in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He has developed a new methodology (The Social Data Flow Network) to explore how individuals in the field understand the nature of data. Currently, his research is exploring the social construction of technology, focusing on the user-driven change of technological tools, in addition to his research of data warehouse ETL strategies for disparate data sets.
Beyond philosophy, Dr. Ballsun-Stanton has experience in haptic research, specifically the use of gesture control of human computer interfaces and an abiding interest in robotics as seen in his flying robotic cable-array manta-ray.
His interests include the academic study of Role-Playing games, the exploration of how science fiction literature transforms reality, and the social consequences of a technological world outpacing society's cultural assimilation of its consequences.
He is a long time gamer, having helped to design the indie game Pax Draconis. He has been running an Ars Magica game for the last 6 years and has extensive experience with indie games and both 3.5 and 4e D&D.
Papers you may be interested in:
- Brian Ballsun-stanton, Samuel Russell (2012) Constrained Optimization in Dungeons and Dragons : A Theory of Requirements Generation for Effective Character Creation.
- Brian Ballsun-stanton, Ernest Mueller, C Ross Eskridge (2012) Clerics , Magic Users , Fighters and Thieves : Theoretical Approaches to Rules Questions on the Role-Playing Games Stack Exchange.
- Brian Ballsun-Stanton (2010) Asking about data: Experimental philosophy of Information Technology, 119-124. In 5th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology.
- Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Kate Carruthers (2010) #c3t the command & control of Twitter: On a socially constructed Twitter & applications of the Philosophy of Data, 161-165. In 5th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology.
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asked | Improving the legibility of a pdfTeX produced PDF on Google Docs |
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accepted | Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt |
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awarded | Teacher |
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answered | Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt |
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awarded | Scholar |
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Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt I was using texexec instead of context Your solution works. Sorry to have been a bother. |
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accepted | Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt |
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May 14 |
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Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt Thanks. If you throw that up as an answer, I'll accept it. It's exactly what I was looking for. Sorry for not being thinky. |
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May 14 |
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Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt The problem is spanning the margin and body, not just placing a framedtext in there. |
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May 14 |
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Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt I think I'm using MkIV but I've got a suspicion that MkII snuck in there. |
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Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt To be fair, I've gotten an odd color error that suggests that I'm not doing things right. I'll reverify my setup tomorrow. |
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May 13 |
awarded | Editor |
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May 13 |
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Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt added 127 characters in body |
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May 13 |
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Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt I ran your code in ConTeXt and unfortunately the AMS reference did not show up in the index. (Tested both in my main document and by copy/pasting your code directly into a clean one.) (this is my first "oops" comment here, how do I make this comment more useful? I'm running the latest minimals as of yesterday.) |
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asked | Floating a sidebar into the margin with ConTeXt |
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awarded | Supporter |
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awarded | Student |
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May 12 |
asked | Automatically assigning abbreviations to an index in ConTeXt |
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awarded | Autobiographer |
