Stephen Downes

I've wrestled with the question of whether there can be an'artificial intelligence' over the last few days. The question of course comes down to what we think 'intelligence'is, and whether we think it is something unique to humans, or at the very least, something beyond the capacity of a computer or machine.

Goodness, I hate working with public and private keys. But that's the only way to access Reclaim containers by SSH (for SSH file transfer and SSH terminal access).

On a trip to see family in a country known for its culinary excellence, a former Financial Review restaurant critic finds both delights and disappointments.

2 Mei 2024 A Couple Of Items That Caught My Attention Filed under: sekolah virtual — Michael K. Barbour @ 12:05

Bernard Pivot, did more than any other French journalist to get people to read, joined the extinct writers he loved.

The Financial Times reports, and Larry Sanger confirms, that Sanger is leaving Citizendium to work on (the more commercially viable?) Watchknow. "At best, Citizendium could be called a qualified success. Launched in March 2007, it currently lists 11,810 articles - 2,999,674 fewer than the English-language version of Wikipedia."

"Is Wikipedia," asks Steve Wheeler, "dying a slow death?" That might be a fair conclusion to draw following this report, "that Wikipedia has lost 49,000 editors in just a few months." Larry Sanger, who created Citizendium as a response to Wikipedia, suggests

Every two years, a musical feat of world standard is achieved by a young Australian in an unlikely Victorian country town. Shepparton.

When I first started in this business of working online some thirty years ago I was somewhat surprised to learn that it would involve more, not less, travel. And so here I sit on a red-eye to Morocco, not for the first time, to immerse myself in a world where the call to prayer happens five times daily, where I will give my talk in French, where, maybe, I will be able to buy a fez in Fes.

This presentation summarizes major factors - technology acceptance models, risk matrices, validity measures - used to assess a survey of instructors on their acceptance of instructional technology. Transcript.