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Tom Woodward

The What If Machine - 2 views

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    "Hey there! You've stumbled upon the What If Machine where anything is possible. Click on a particular topic and start wondering about anything and everything with our what-if-machine. Disney"
Jeff Nugent

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 1 views

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    "Although massive open online courses (MOOCs) are seen to be, and are in fact designed to be, stand-alone online courses, their introduction to the higher education landscape has expanded the space of possibilities for blended course designs (those that combine online and face-to-face learning experiences). Instead of replacing courses at higher education institutions, could MOOCs enhance those courses? This paper reports one such exploration, in which a Stanford University Machine Learning MOOC was integrated into a graduate course in machine learning at Vanderbilt University during the Fall 2012 semester. The blended course design, which leveraged a MOOC course and platform for lecturing, grading, and discussion, enabled the Vanderbilt instructor to lead an overload course in a topic much desired by students. The study shows that while students regarded some elements of the course positively, they had concerns about the coupling of online and in-class components of this particular blended course design. Analysis of student and instructor reflections on the course suggests dimensions for characterizing blended course designs that incorporate MOOCs, either in whole or in part. Given the reported challenges in this case study of integrating a MOOC in its entirety in an on-campus course, the paper advocates for more complex forms of blended learning in which course materials are drawn from multiple MOOCs, as well as from other online sources."
Jonathan Becker

Machine Bias: There's Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And... - 0 views

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    What are the implications for universities committing to learning analytics?
Jonathan Becker

Humans Still Win: A Comparison of Two Robo Essay Readers From Turnitin and WriteLab | E... - 0 views

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    "Robots may replace me as a journalist, but English teachers can rest assured that machines have a long way to go to before being able to offer quality feedback. "
Tom Woodward

How meaning comes to technology: PCR at 30 | Jean-Baptiste Gouyon | Science | theguardi... - 0 views

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    "More than a technique, PCR is a concept, that enables molecular biologists to think in new ways of their object of study, DNA, to ask genes new questions. Opening the way to new experiments, it literally frees the imagination. Some even use PCR machines as fridges. After all a thermocycler is nothing but an intelligent heating and cooling block. It can be set on 4ºC for 48 hours, to conserve the result of an experiment over the week-end. "
Tom Woodward

Two Games That Undermine The Concept of Games :: Games :: Features :: Paste - 1 views

  • In my first play-through of Stanley, I gave the game the benefit of the doubt and did absolutely everything it told me to do; the game’s voiced-over narration explains which path to take, and I did what I was told. The result is a boring, cliché videogame narrative that takes only a few minutes to complete: the protagonist, Stanley, has been mind-controlled by a mysterious machine, and when he discovers this, he turns the machine off and escapes to the real world. The game ends with Stanley outside, finally “free” of having been told what to do … the irony being that I, the player, have done exactly what I was told to do by the narrator in order to achieve this result.
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    "The way to "beat" this set of endless staircases is to turn around. Turning around will not take you back down the hallway that you used to get to the stairs; it will take you to a new room entirely. In most videogame-and in, y'know, actual rooms in real life-turning around will take you back to the place you just were. In Antichamber, going backwards often results in discovering a totally new area. "
Enoch Hale

Jeffrey Hancock Wants to Keep Talking About How We Use Social Media for Research - The ... - 0 views

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    "The most widely read paper of Jeffrey Hancock's career was not conceived in a university laboratory. The data were collected by machines. The subjects were unwitting. The methods were not approved by an institutional review board."
Enoch Hale

The New Aesthetic - 1 views

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    Merging human and machine.
Tom Woodward

Intoxicating machines - O'Reilly Radar - 2 views

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    ""Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about," [Richard] Feynman later explained. "The trouble with computers is you play with them." - George Dyson, describing the beginning of the Manhattan Project's computing effort in Turing's Cathedral. "
Tom Woodward

BTO Symposium Overview - 0 views

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    "Biology was once largely a descriptive science, largely limited to agriculture and medicine. This is no longer true. Biology is Technology. From programmable microbes to human-machine symbiosis, biological technologies are expanding our definition of technology and redefining how we interact with and use biology. We now have the opportunity for a radically new approach to developing game-changing applications and solutions to intractable problems. "
Enoch Hale

The Ph.D. Octopus, by William James - Classic British Essays - 0 views

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    "Originally published in the Harvard Monthly in March 1903, "The Ph.D. Octopus" by philosopher William James offers a powerful critique of the "tyrannical Machine" of graduate education and the growing obsession with examinations, diplomas, and "decorative titles.""
anonymous

Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • 85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
  • The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
  • For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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  • If your job was to feed people, but you were only measured by the efficiency of calories delivered, you may learn over time that high-calorie, high-processed foods were the most efficient ways to deliver calories,” he says. They would be the most margin-friendly way to deliver calories. But the food still wouldn’t be good—because the original metric didn’t take into account “sustainability, or health, or nourishment, or happiness of the people.”
  • Google and Facebook, just two companies, send more than 80 percent of all traffic to news sites. (No wonder they make 85 cents of every digital-ad dollar.
Tom Woodward

Twitter Calendar - 0 views

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    "Users of Social Networking sites frequently discuss events which will occur in the near future. By annotating Named Entities and resolving temporal expressions (for example "next Friday"), we are able to automatically extract a calendar of popular events occurring in the near future from Twitter. "
Tom Woodward

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 1 views

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    A broad spectrum of media that is available under CC licenses.
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