The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade: "For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how...
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The Great A.I. Awakening. Excellent (and lengthy) article in the NY Times on Google's recent work on AI. "Apparently Google Translate, the company’s popular machine-translation service, had suddenly and almost immeasurably improved."
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The Prince by Machiavelli. Been meaning to read this for some time. It seemed more of a recap of history of Italy in the early 16th century and a lengthy job application pamphlet. Basically, "I know what's been going on and how complex everything is so give me a job". It was rewarding though that some...
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Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we live today. I've not read much about them and assumed they were pretty much ancient and irrelevant, reduced to one-liner aphorisms, but Michael Puett has been teaching a popular...
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