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30 juin 2016

How We Trained an Algorithm to Predict What Makes a Beautiful Photo

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How We Trained an Algorithm to Predict What Makes a Beautiful Photo
EyeEm, Medium, 2016/06/06
Is it really much of a leap to imagine evaluating people this way? Ask yourself whether this sounds like exam grading: "it’s extremely difficult and nearly impossible to break down aesthetics as a hard set of rules. Our vocabulary for defining what makes a good photo is very limited." So, what we have here is a tool that evaluates and organizes your photos in order of goodness. More...

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30 juin 2016

Employers told to stick to ‘core business’ after Citroën blow

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Employers told to stick to ‘core business’ after Citroën blow
Jude Burke, FE Week, 2016/06/06

I lot of employers have been taking training into their own hands recently, spurred on by digital media and learning providers such as Pearson. The early returns this apprenticeship program are not encouraging. More...

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30 juin 2016

Internet trends: the latest Mary Meeker report

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Internet trends: the latest Mary Meeker report
Bryan Alexander, 2016/06/06
Analysis of the most recent report from Mary Meeker on internet trends, referenced here Friday. Bryan Alexander notes (among other observations) "Meeker sees speech recognition and voice interfaces going mainstream. Good reflections here." Inside Higher Ed, unwilling to take any sort of stance, gives us 36 undifferentiated highlights. More...

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30 juin 2016

The Final Frontier: Space

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Final Frontier: Space
Stephen Downes, Jun 03, 2016, SALTISE, Montreal, Quebec

I compare two metaphors for learning: first, time, as the dominant metaphor, which is a linear and ordered progression toward a goal; and second, space, which is a non-linear exploration of a domain. I also examine the sort of tools. technologies and learning supports we should be thinking about when think of learning from a space-based perspective. More...

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30 juin 2016

Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect
Geoff Graham, CSS-Tricks, 2016/06/02

There are thousands of lessons like this on the internet, not part of any official repository, but widely shared and widely used. This one is shared by a site called CSS-Tricks. More...

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30 juin 2016

Introducing HyperDev

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Introducing HyperDev
Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software, 2016/06/02
So this looks interesting. "HyperDev is going to be the fastest way to bang out code and get it running on the internet. We want to eliminate 100% of the complicated administrative details around getting code up and running on a website." I've set up a very simple page here. It took me a couple minutes. More...

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30 juin 2016

A tour of Docker's components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A tour of Docker's components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more
Rick Fast', O'Reilly, 2016/06/02

More on Docker. "Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other." More...

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30 juin 2016

No, it’s not you: Google maps really did get crappy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. No, it’s not you: Google maps really did get crappy
Justin O'Beirne, Quartz, 2016/06/01
As a cartography aficionado I also have notice the declining quality o Google maps, and in particular the disappearing city names. The author talks about the imbalance (too few cities, too many unnamed roads) at a certain scale, but if you zoom in you'll also notice it difficult to find street names and the names of rivers (you also get a totally different selection of city names). More...

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30 juin 2016

Inexorable

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Inexorable
Simon Terry, 2016/06/01

"The thousands of small adjustments we make each day are barely noticed," writes Simon Terry. But change is a constant in human life, and it should be a constant in organizations as well. More...

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30 juin 2016

39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes
Kennedy Elliott, Medium, 2016/06/01

There' some good information about design in this article as well as some insight into how humans perceive (and even some information about how humans perceive as compared to algorithms). More...

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