- The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video. - Documenting what you’re willing to support (and not)
The idea is that I’ll be able to point at it and go “that, right there, see, I’m not being capricious or picking on you in particular… this represents a common problem which has existed since well before you showed up”. The items are short and sweet and have unique identifiers so it’s possible to point at one and say “do it like that”. - Noteable – Computational Notebook Platform for Education
Create and share engaging coding lessons with Noteable, a cloud-based computational notebook service which works in your browser from any device.Developed by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Noteable hosts your computational notebooks in one simple online hub and can integrate with your VLE.
- Let Your Kid Climb That Tree – The Atlantic
Childhood might be a particularly costly time to not move, because this is when developing brains prune unused potential. “One extreme view” of this neurological dwindling “would be that you start out wired up for every possible contingency,” the Harvard neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman said in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—but as you age, unused connections in the brain get permanently disconnected through a process known as synaptic pruning, leaving you with “a narrower nervous system.” - Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task — MIT Media Lab
- Asking a More Productive Question about AI and Assessment
“Given that AI exists in the world, and that students are likely to use it (whether accidentally or on purpose), what evidence of learning would I now fnd persuasive?” - Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity – METR
When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.