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Data Care Act (proposed)
Several Senate Democrats have proposed a Data Care Act. It seems obvious that there is pressure for politicians to impose expectations on online companies to address concerns for the use and protection of user information. I have concerns that Republicans … Continue reading
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Hungry caterpillars and ed book critiques
Dean Shareski posed a question on Twitter about the lack of critical reviews of education books. The tweet generated an interesting discussion which you can probably still read if you search Twitter for Shareski soon after this post appears. Just … Continue reading
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Models are not strategies
I came across an article written from a brain-based model of learning that makes the point I have also made many times. A model of how learning happens is not intended as a recipe for instruction. To me, a description … Continue reading
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Should have stopped with PageRank
I was a fan of Google and Google search from the beginning because their algorithm for prioritizing search results made sense to me. Pagerank was similar to citation frequency which academics recognize as an indication of the importance of their … Continue reading
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Demonstrating the filter bubble
Five or six years ago or so, Eli Pariser wrote a book entitled the Filter Bubble. The core idea in this book was that online information companies personalize our online experience serving our personal priorities rather than presenting the world … Continue reading
Squoosh
Google claims that it is motivated to speed up the internet. Among the projects is has initiated to this end is Squoosh. This online service (you can also install the code yourself) drastically compresses images with little noticeable decline in … Continue reading
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