July 2019 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism

2019-07-30

A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.

2019-07-30

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?
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The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System

2019-07-30

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.
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Should AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions?

2019-07-28

Just some thoughts on explainable AI.
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Grading Paper Exams with an iPad

2019-07-28

Turns out you can grade paper exams pretty well with an iPad.
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Comic Recommendation: Hack/Slash

2019-07-28

An interesting comic series that is more than skin deep.
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Gab seems to be running nicely now

2019-07-23

The free speech social network Gab has recently shifted to a new underlying technology. After about three weeks, things are looking good.
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Stupid Software: Excel

2019-07-16

Apparently Excel likes my students, it changes the scope of formulas without warning, resulting in very different results.
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Oxford Unions Debate about No Platforming

2019-07-14

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.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Month: July 2019

The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.

The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System

Should AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions?

Grading Paper Exams with an iPad

Comic Recommendation: Hack/Slash

Stupid Software: Excel