Idealistic Youth and (Social) Power 2019-08-10 | Reading time: 2 minutes A short passage from a graphic novel struck a chord — there is a danger when idealistic youth get power beyond their years.[show the article]
Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 3 minutes It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.[show the article]
Should AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions? 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute Just some thoughts on explainable AI.[show the article]
Grading Paper Exams with an iPad 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute Turns out you can grade paper exams pretty well with an iPad.[show the article]
Comic Recommendation: Hack/Slash 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute An interesting comic series that is more than skin deep.[show the article]
Gab seems to be running nicely now 2019-07-23 | Reading time: 1 minute The free speech social network Gab has recently shifted to a new underlying technology. After about three weeks, things are looking good.[show the article]
Stupid Software: Excel 2019-07-16 | Reading time: 1 minute Apparently Excel likes my students, it changes the scope of formulas without warning, resulting in very different results.[show the article]
Oxford Unions Debate about No Platforming 2019-07-14 | Reading time: 2 minutes Oxford Union recently had a debate about no platforming. Given many students and universities like the idea (hey, it's not censorship, just ... you know ... something different), it might be worth a watch.[show the article]
