By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie
Andrej Karpathy, Andrej Karpathy's Blog, 2015/10/28
This article is a reaally good indication of thee sort of thing that can be done with a neural network (I hesitate to classify these as deep neural networks, because as the article makes clear, they depend on training sets). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What’s Happening in ‘Their Space’?
Jane Andrews, Mark Jones, Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME), 2015/10/27
This item was shared by Grainne Conole and Ana Cristina Pratas on Facebook, so I took a look, but must honestly confess to muttering "come on, really?" a lot while reading this item. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Lessons from the MOOC investment gold rush
Martin Weller, The Ed Techie, 2015/10/27
Martin Weller reflects on "this unprecedented amount of investment from universities and venture capitalists" on MOOCs. I'm not sure it was "unprecedented" - I think spending on sports stadia eclipses it by a lot. So did the money poured into technology transfer and commercialization divisions. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Smell of the Place
Sumantra Ghosha, YouTube | World Economic Forum, 2015/10/27
This is a terrific 8-minute video that applies as much to educational institutions as it does work environments. Basically Ghoshal argues that the environment, far more than the characteristics of employees, is what impacts productivity. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sharing, Gifting, and the Moral Evolution of the Social Web
Tim Rayner, Medium, 2015/10/27
I really like the image at the top of the article, and that by itself makes this article worth sharing. But I wish to be on the record as saying that (a) 'gifting' should not even be a word, much less a concept, and (b) the concept of 'gifting' proposed here should not be seen as some sort special and privileged type of sharing. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ESPN Clips Vanish From YouTube Due to Rights, Legal Issues
Jack Clark, Bloomberg, 2015/10/26
Remember how great YouTube was and how important its free and open access to everything was so important for education, spawning such things as the Khan Academy? Well that's all about to change as Google introduces YouTube Red subscriptions on Oct. 28. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wearable tech expands new horizons in schools
Alison DeNisco, District Adminisstration, 2015/10/26
The headline is misleading - the article is mostly about Google's Cardboard, a $16 set of cardboard goggles you can use with your mobile phone to see 3Dish scenes and videos using specially designed applications. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Leader-less ants make super efficient networks
Phys.org, 2015/10/23
We actually see this sort of phenomenon fairly frequently. It's yet another example of simple low-level processes working over time to create order and efficiency without management or leadership. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. It's Never That Simple
Dave Snowden, Cignitive Edge, 2015/10/23
This article raises three reasons to question "evidence-based policy." The first two are versions of the same thing, and a common problem. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Slides and Resources from My Keynote at The Allen Experience
Karl Kapp, Kapp Notes, 2015/10/23
Here's a slide presentation that reflects some of the themes I talked about in my own presentation this week. "Don't think like an instructional designer," he advises. More...
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