Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism
A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.
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Month: July 2019
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.
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
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?
Just some thoughts on explainable AI.
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Grading Paper Exams with an iPad
Turns out you can grade paper exams pretty well with an iPad.
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Comic Recommendation: Hack/Slash
An interesting comic series that is more than skin deep.
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Gab seems to be running nicely now
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
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
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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