From Tyler Cowen: No, it is not converging upon human-like intelligence or for that matter AGI. Still, the broader lesson is you can build a very practical kind of intelligence with fairly simple statistical models and lots of training data. And...
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. — Jonas Salk When we make decisions about the technology we use in our classrooms, we very often ask the wrong questions. We think about how we can use the latest,...
Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct Chromebooks Can Do That?! Next Generation Online Learning Programs – Khan World School ‘The Bottom Has Dropped Out’: Study Confirms Fears of Growing Learning Gaps
Since the dawn of time, students have been looking for ways to get out of writing papers. How do I know this? Because I was a student who tried to get out of writing papers. I was terrible at it since I’d mostly just end up not writing the paper (Have I told you how...
Take a peek at this animated map showing the spread of writing worldwide over time. It’s an interesting perspective on something we all take for granted.I’m really enjoying Ryan Holiday’s latest installment in his Stoic Virtues series: Discipline is...