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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78538
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78538
Who's Grading You on Coursera? The Shift from Human Peers to AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78537 Coursera has two problems. The first is that its peer assessment system is broken. The second is that it needs to continue to scale and attract investment.
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Who's Grading You on Coursera? The Shift from Human Peers to AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78537 Coursera has two problems. The first is that its peer assessment system is broken. The second is that it needs to continue to scale and attract investment.
Alchemy #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78536
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Alchemy #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78536
How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78535 One day I will wrestle with the idea of how there can be multiple knowledge communities, but for now, I wish only to emphasizethe need to preserve them.
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78535 One day I will wrestle with the idea of how there can be multiple knowledge communities, but for now, I wish only to emphasizethe need to preserve them.
From detection to development: how universities are ethically embedding AI-for-learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78534 "I believe the 'Police and Punish' model must now be replaced," writes Mike Larsen.
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
From detection to development: how universities are ethically embedding AI-for-learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78534 "I believe the 'Police and Punish' model must now be replaced," writes Mike Larsen.
When grades stop meaning anything #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78533 Fill in the blank: 7 + 2 = [_] + 6.
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When grades stop meaning anything #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78533 Fill in the blank: 7 + 2 = [_] + 6.
Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78532 This article is a summary of the full paper (16 page PDF) describing what may be a significant advance in AI.
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78532 This article is a summary of the full paper (16 page PDF) describing what may be a significant advance in AI.
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit - Educational Psychology Review #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78531 Maybe it's just me, but I always find a deep disconnect when I read studies like this talking about effective learning.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit - Educational Psychology Review #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78531 Maybe it's just me, but I always find a deep disconnect when I read studies like this talking about effective learning.
Yes, I'm Defending The Use Of Computers For Learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78530
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yes, I'm Defending The Use Of Computers For Learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78530
How Big Tech is quietly colonizing education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78528
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
How Big Tech is quietly colonizing education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78528
Introducing Nano Banana Pro #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78527 People have been expressing a lot of enthusiasm for the new Nano Banana image generator AI from Google. Here's Mike Caulfield, for example, with a nifty infographic from his 52 video walkthroughs of Critical Thinking with AI Mode.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Introducing Nano Banana Pro #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78527 People have been expressing a lot of enthusiasm for the new Nano Banana image generator AI from Google. Here's Mike Caulfield, for example, with a nifty infographic from his 52 video walkthroughs of Critical Thinking with AI Mode.
Pastoral Landscapes Brim with Patterns in Luminous Paintings by David Brian Smith #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78526
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pastoral Landscapes Brim with Patterns in Luminous Paintings by David Brian Smith #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78526
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78525 This is an excellent article that speaks to me specifically as someone based in the humanities who does work in the field of education.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78525 This is an excellent article that speaks to me specifically as someone based in the humanities who does work in the field of education.
Exploring Joplin Note-Taking Tool #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78524 Miguel Guhlin reviews Joplin Notes, a new online note taking application that can be run locally or in the cloud. It's one of a class of tools designed to organize your writing when you write a lot of content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exploring Joplin Note-Taking Tool #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78524 Miguel Guhlin reviews Joplin Notes, a new online note taking application that can be run locally or in the cloud. It's one of a class of tools designed to organize your writing when you write a lot of content.
Anatomy of an AI agent knowledge base #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78523
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Anatomy of an AI agent knowledge base #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78523
A New Era Begins #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78522
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A New Era Begins #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78522
The Degree That Never Ends #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78521 This is an article that could stand being half its current length but which makes a useful point.
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Degree That Never Ends #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78521 This is an article that could stand being half its current length but which makes a useful point.
New Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) Hopes to Cut LLM Costs by Reducing Token Consumption #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78520
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) Hopes to Cut LLM Costs by Reducing Token Consumption #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78520
The existential struggle between being a 'we' and an 'us' #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78519 In Black Like Me John Howard Griffin wrote about 'the hate stare'.
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The existential struggle between being a 'we' and an 'us' #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78519 In Black Like Me John Howard Griffin wrote about 'the hate stare'.
Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78518 This short post demonstrates the difference between having AI do something for you, and asking AI how to do that thing.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78518 This short post demonstrates the difference between having AI do something for you, and asking AI how to do that thing.
From Shannon to Modern AI: A Complete Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78517
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
From Shannon to Modern AI: A Complete Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78517
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78516 Mark Surman outlines Mozilla's AI strategy (Mozilla makes the Firefox browser).
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78516 Mark Surman outlines Mozilla's AI strategy (Mozilla makes the Firefox browser).
Putting principles into practice: an ethical approach to GenAI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78515
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Putting principles into practice: an ethical approach to GenAI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78515
Data Visualization – Data Visualization with R #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78514 Via this week's Data Science Weekly I encountered the the GitHub repository of all the exercises for this course.
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Data Visualization – Data Visualization with R #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78514 Via this week's Data Science Weekly I encountered the the GitHub repository of all the exercises for this course.
Physical AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78513 If 'content knowledge' were enough, we could teach students everything they need to know from books and instruction. Our experience with AI shows that this isn't so.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Physical AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78513 If 'content knowledge' were enough, we could teach students everything they need to know from books and instruction. Our experience with AI shows that this isn't so.