By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Artificial Intelligence and Law :
A Six Part Primer
Daniel Martin Katz, Computational Legal Studies, 2017/03/20
The 271 slides in this presentation might make you balk, but there are blank slides, and the rest of them move along at a brisk pace. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unpaywall
Heather Piwowar, Impactstory, 2017/03/20
Are you or your students trying to get work done but get stuck at a paywall? I know it happens to me often enough. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. YaCy: The P2P Search Engine
Archive.org, 2017/03/20
The YaCy search engine actually exists and actually works, and I can even find myself on it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teacher wins $1M global prize for work in northern Quebec
Benjamin Shingler, CBC, 2017/03/20
Salluit is an an Inuit community of abut 1450 people in northern Quebec accessible only by boat (in summer) or by air. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teach schoolchildren how to spot fake news, says OECD
A boy using a computer A boy using a computer. The OECD plans to test the ‘global competencies’ of 15-year-olds around , The Guardian, 2017/03/20
I know we would all love to do this, but I don't think you can simply 'teach children to spot fake news'. That's a bit like trying to 'teach children to spot mathematical errors'. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Foundation, 2017/03/13
Tim Berners-Lee champions a vision of the web as "an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries." But this vision, he writes, is challenged on three major fronts (quoted):
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Collision Course — Why Are Funders Straying from Their Lane?
Kent Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/03/13
The pro-publisher website The Scholarly Kitchen is noting with alarm the shift in funding away from publishers and toward initiatives that compete with publishers. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent and How the Media Creates the Illusion of Democracy
Josh Jones, Open Culture, 2017/03/13
I read Manufacturing Consent many years ago. Its core claims are lavishly documented (indeed, most of the book consists of the documentation; the argument itself begins and ends in the first chapter). Here is an excerpt of the 'five filters' portion of the video:
I try to make OLDaily the opposite of all that. OLDaily is non-profit. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Coded Language of For-Profit Colleges
Tressie McMillan Cottom, The Atlantic, 2017/03/13
"For-profit colleges," writes Tressie McMillan Cottom, "target and thrive off of inequality." She calls these examples of "lower ed" - in contrast with higher ed, which is where the more economically successful go. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael Nielsen, 2017/03/13
Between meetings with notaries today I was wondering to myself whether work had been done on using one neural network to train another neural network. More...
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