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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 30, 2016
Mea Culpa
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Doug Belshaw reports that the post Here are Google,
Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best
People Linkwas 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'
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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.
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Deep Learning with the Analytical Engine
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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
Link" 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."
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Instagram changes cause growing backlash among posters
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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?
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Hyper Island Toolbox
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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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