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by Stephen Downes
Mar 30, 2016
Mea Culpa
Doug Belshaw reports that the post Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People was satire. So I should have listened to the original doubt I felt when I wrote "If this article is accurate (and there's no real reason to think it isn't)...." Sadly, I didn't, and as a result, passed satire along as fact.
'Passing on the Right'
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/03/30
I think the difference between me and them is this: I am an educator and philosopher, who happens to be a socialist. My politics are derived from my science. He, on the other hand, is a conservative, who happens to be a professor. His science is derived from his politics. I'm aware that this is a bit of a caricature, but it seems in the main to be an accurate representation. I have no particular objection to his being a conservative, but I would have an objection were he unwilling to accept the primacy of reason and evidence.
Deep Learning with the Analytical Engine
Adam P. Goucher, GitHub, 2016/03/30
Cool but challenging. "This repository contains an implementation of a convolutional neural network as a program for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, capable of recognising handwritten digits to a high degree of accuracy (98.5% if provided with a sufficient amount of training data and left running sufficiently long)." See also Neural Networks and Deep Learning, " a free online book by Michael Nielsen, which is almost certainly the best hands-on introduction to the subject of neural networks and deep learning. It gives a detailed and accessible introduction to how neural networks are structured, the details of stochastic gradient descent and backpropagation, and a brief introduction to convolutional neural networks."
Instagram changes cause growing backlash among posters
BBC News, 2016/03/30
There's an interesting lesson to be found in the backlash to changes being implemented by Instagram. The photo sharing site has traditionally employed a reverse-chronological listing of recent photos. This way, users could see everything. The change employs an algorithm to select the photos deems 'most interesting' to the user, and displays those. Gone is the serendipity of seeing, well, whatever. Users were outraged. Now celebrities and people who use Instagram are urging users to 'turn on notifications' to ensure they don't miss a photo. But user's don't want that either. "I'm tired of everyone telling me what to do on Instagram today," tweeted one US-based user. Choice, autonomy, diversity... who knew this would be what people want in a social network?
Hyper Island Toolbox
Hyper Island, 2016/03/30
I'm always on the lookoput for collections of things that would be useful (if unexpected) things to import into a personal learning environment. This, I think, qualifies. How would these work? I'm not sure. But a meeting or event planner should certainly be part of a PLE, and these are the sort of resources I would want to have available when undertaking such a task. I think I'd put them under the heading of 'scaffolds', though I'd want to make them more interactive in order to fit with a proper event planning tool. Ah, the possibilities. Via Doug Belshaw.
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