Author Archives: x28

Technically confirmed authorship?

Posted on January 10, 2023 by x28

I want to know who thought up what I am reading. The only way to ensure it was a human, is via successful networks of personal trust. Continue reading →

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No prediction

Posted on December 28, 2022 by x28

Difficult to guess: either, bullshitters and gaslighters will have a harder time,
or tech will lure us even more effectively into relying on patronizing prostheses. Continue reading →

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Twitter Exit

Posted on December 13, 2022 by x28

I moved, but I don’t like Mastodon, either, because I dislike the stream of any microblogging platform which, for me, was only a poor surrogate of RSS and Social Bookmarking. Continue reading →

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Visualizing the “shoulders”

Posted on October 26, 2022 by x28

We are “standing on the shoulders of giants” who, in turn, were leveraging the work of those who have gone before. And if their incremental contributions are put into atomic, tweet-length sentences, we can visualize these relationships in impressive ways. Continue reading →

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Future

Posted on September 22, 2022 by x28

I watched Stephen Downes’s beautiful slides about “The Future of Learning Technology”, and made notes about Agency, what we learn, Creative Experiences, textbooks, apprenticeships, and more. Continue reading →

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Minimal GitHub for reassurance

Posted on August 26, 2022 by x28

Finally I have found the minimal GitHub procedures for my simple use case: just reassuring me a safe way back from trying out changes of my code. Continue reading →

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Conversations with tools

Posted on August 13, 2022 by x28

The ‘conversation’ with GPT-3 certainly creates inspirations, and it can be compared to blog reactions, or to Luhmann’s communication with his Zettelkasten. But it is a matter of preferences. Continue reading →

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Pruning for Output

Posted on July 13, 2022 by x28

The key of my workflow from ‘Zettelkasten’ notes to an output is probably to see which items need to be pruned. Continue reading →

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Edtech weariness?

Posted on July 7, 2022 by x28

For me, the distinction between my optimism and pessimism about ed tech is rather simple: I believe in simple, low tech tools that are really tools and not patronizing prostheses.
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Cognition at scale

Posted on June 17, 2022 by x28

My thoughts about the story of the ‘sentient’ chatbot LaMDA, considering scale as strength of IT.
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