Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute Losing weight is simple, keeping it off is hard. Funny thing, with tracking, you'll see phases, trends and where you'd end up when.[show the article]
Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.[show the article]
How about a few mirror neurons for AIs/neural networks? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute AIs could be psychopaths — capable of understanding emotions but not being affected by it. Or they could be condemned to feel.Image: "Detroit -- Become Human" walkthrough.[show the article]
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]
