The public is no longer uninformed. They are misinformed, and that requires an entirely different editorial focus. When writing for the uninformed, your focus is to report the news, which is what every newspaper is doing today. But when focusing…
Society of Mind book in html form This is the entire “Society of Mind” book by Marvin Minsky on the web! This is an awesome read (or series of awesome reads) that I recommend to everyone!
Really thought-provoking talk about invention, creativity and attribution for people who are usually not noticed.
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon. Source: The man who studies the spread of ignorance (via Stephen Downes) Apparently there is whole area…
Autonomous vehicles are on the rise, with the US military christening an experimental self-driving warship and a smart truck platooning trial ending successfully this week. Source: Are self-driving warships and ‘smart trucks’ the future?
The article linked below is a good example of social network analysis in an accessible way for anyone who watches Game of Thrones (not so much if you don’t! but still might be good for students http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Mathhorizons/NetworkofThrones%20%281%29.pdf
Note that the list below, for which 2-unit maths is required, includes psychology and medicine – hopefully this plan spreads, but there will be much lower enrollments, and it begs the question of who will be able to teach these maths-qualified students!…
I heard about the fact that Deakin was using this technology at a Swinburne meeting focused on learning and teaching resources in the context of considering (lack of) lecture attendance as an important indicator of potential student disengagement and attrition…
It puzzling to me that the link between child prodigies and autism (or other forms of mental / emotional difference) would surprise anyone – if you process the world differently from others, sometimes that patterns you recognise as meaningful will be accessible and…
Have a browse through these ways of visualizing various philosophical positions – there’s quite a bit of food for thought in these images, and something I wish I’d done myself 🙂 Source: philosophy-in-figures (via Stephen Downes)