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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 12h

1 Is AI Conscious? A Primer on the Myths and Confusions Driving the Debate #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78352

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 13h

Wiley Launches Interoperable Platform to Power Scientific Discovery in World's Leading AI Technologies #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78351

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 14h

WhyTorch #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78350

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 15h

The future of the CLO: Leading in a world of merged work and learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78349

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 15h

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3 #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78348 This is the third of a great three-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) on tools used by software engineers.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 15h

The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78347

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 17h

Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78346 I am interviewed for the EduTrends podcast.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d

Why I Built a Homelab (and Why You Might Want To #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78345

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d

AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78344

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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d

Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78343

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d

What Large Language Models Teach Us About 'Human Knowledge' #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78342 I like the way this article topples the 'wisdom' pyramid. Consider AI: it "doesn't climb a virtual digital pyramid from data to information to knowledge to wisdom...

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 4d

To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78341 This is quite an interesting article on how we understand AI, though it feels like it ends too soon. I recommend reading it from the perspective of human learning.

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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 5d

How accessible is the educational research literature? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78340

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 5d

Modeling AI for Authentic Writing #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78339 As I read this article it once again occurs to me that access to AI levels a disparity that until now preserved an entrenched advantage for some people.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 5d

The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78338

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 5d

TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78337 Large language models (LLM) may be experts but they have no experience conversing with students.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 5d

HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78336 This is how easy it is for an academic institution to embrace open access. "Going forward, preprints will form the basis of HHMI's assessments of its researchers' work.