eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
If you’re not listening to the Latent Space podcast, you’re missing some of the best thinking on generative AI happening right now. The show notes for a recent episode begin, Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “GPT3 was trained on the entire Internet”. Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, … Read more
Recently I’ve been thinking about the difference between an informational resource and an educational resource. I’ve had the sense that an educational resource is an informational resource with a little something extra and have enjoyed coming back to this thought again and again over the last several weeks, trying to reduce this “something extra” to … Read more
There’s a really terrific conversation happening on the cc-openedu listserv. It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. Dr. Chuck contributed over the weekend, and his contribution provides a great opportunity for me to respond with the first substantive post since … Read more