Recent had ik een leuk gesprek met een hele leuke AI-beleidsmaker bij een onderwijsinstelling in Nederland. Ik beloofde haar een paar linkjes die helpen mijn kijk op AI te begrijpen, maar in plaats van een mail dacht ik: ik maak er een blogpost van! Kan iedereen meelezen en heb ik ook meteen en handige bron […]
Why so fatalistic about AI?
I see this argument “why stop students if we can’t check it anyway” so much, so let’s dive in a bit! You can’t stop students from doing X Firstly, we have been saying things like this for decades, if not longer. “Don’t collaborate on homework”, “Do this exercise without a calculator”, or when I was […]
We need a ring theory for sexism (and other injustices)
When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Some of those things I filed away, mentally, for future reference, and some of these surface now and then. A recent of that I remembers […]
Code Reading Club
There is a lot to be said about learning to program, what languages to use, what didactics to use, to learn it in a university or in a boot camp, but one thing I think is similar in all those situations: a strong focus on creating code, very often ‘green-field’ code, starting from a specification […]
Experimental Methods in Neuroscience and Cognition – Igor Crk and Andrew Begel
This talk is about what we can learn from neuroscience and cognition. We humans have a part of the brain called the cerebral cortex for memory and speech processing and other things cats do not have 🙂 EEG By looking at what parts of the brain light up, we can learn what type of things […]
