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Toni Aittoniemi

#School in the age of #AI
It cannot be about sorting children into achievers and nonachievers anymore.
Because that will be about who is best with #ChatGPT.

If you want an answer without chatgpt, it has to be written or oral.

If you want materials that cannot be copypasted, they need to be in print.

And if we want motivation, school has to be about tasks that make a difference in the world.

School needs to manufacture #critical #thinking, not proficiency with tools.

open.spotify.com/episode/3nCpd

SpotifyRethinking School in the Age of AIYour Undivided Attention · Episode
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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Achim #Stephan: “I feel, therefore I am. How #feelings influence our #thinking.”

He was Professor of #Philosophy of #Cognition at the University of Osnabrück and Dean of the #CognitiveScience program. His main field of work is the #philosophyofmind, and in particular #emergence, #emotions and #affectivity, from #predictability to #selforganization”.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2024

or: youtu.be/gMherlB50K4

portrait of Achim Stephan
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Dr. Stefan T. Siegel

One Tool to Rule Them All!?

✅ The Fact
There is no #tool to rule them all. Effective #knowledgemanagement depends on your goals, needs, and context and builds on solid #thinking and working habits—not on a single tool.

📚 Dig Deeper
Siegel, S. T. (2025). One Tool to Rule Them All!? Stop Chasing After the “Perfect” Tool for Thought for (Personal) Knowledge Management. It Does Not Exist. Notelab. Developing Ideas Through Evidence-informed Note-Making. lnkd.in/d3cruGDK

One Tool to Rule Them All Personal Knowledge Management Notetaking Apps Obsidian Lord of The Rings Meme Dr. Stefan T. Siegel
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Douglas E. Welch

The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]

The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.

In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:

Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here's how to think about each type:

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/15

The image features three white dice in mid-air against a dark background. The dice are captured in a dynamic state, with one die in the foreground showing a five, another in the middle showing a six, and the third in the background showing a five. The dice are illuminated by a light source from the upper left, casting shadows on the surface below. The focus is sharp on the dice, highlighting the black dots representing the numbers, while the background remains blurred, emphasizing the motion of the dice. The overall composition is minimalist, with the contrast between the white dice and the dark background creating a striking visual effect. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
#luck#think#Thinking
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Douglas E. Welch

Curiosity: The neglected trait that drives success via BBC [Shared]

On 7 January 1918 at New York’s Hippodrome, the incredible illusionist Harry Houdini unveiled one of his most famous tricks – the vanishing elephant – in front of thousands of spectators.

The beast in question, Jennie, reportedly weighed 10,000 pounds (4,536kg). She raised her trunk in greeting, before a stagehand led her into a huge cabinet and closed the doors behind them. After a dramatic drum roll, the doors reopened – and the cabinet was now empty. To the thousands of spectators, it seemed that she had vanished into thin air. 

How could Houdini have managed to hide such an enormous animal? No one at the time could provide a definitive explanation of what had happened, though there is one predominant theory.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/11

#curiousity#Thinking#intelligence
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ned haughton

I don't use LLMs for anything meaningful (I have tried them, just to help understand how they work). I think the reason is something like this:

1. In would be really keen on a computer <-> brain interface. The possibilities are fascinating.

2. But only if it was:
- open source,
- understandable (not black-box), and
- not corporate-controlled.
So neuralink is a fuck no. I think the visceral discomfort with and repulsiveness of the idea of someone like Elon Musk having direct access to your brainstem should be obvious to anyone half-sane.

3. LLMs are not quite the same thing, but they are definitely in some kind of uncanny-valley of similarity. The link is linguistic, and not electrical, but that's just one level of abstraction away. And they fail all three criteria in point 2 (at least all of the commercial ones do, I don't have the energy or impetus to set up my own, I'd rather just do the learning myself).

#LLM#GenAI#AI
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yaggadagga

Okay, I think I'm stuck. I've moved all my thermostats (4 heating zones, 1 AC zone) to #HomeAssistant sensors and #nodered automations. The only thing I can't figure out is how to replicate a "hold". In other words, if a user changes the temperature via the homeassistant UI, the node-red automations suspend for x amount of time.

I see there is a 'currentUser' val, but I it's the same in NR as my HA login. Maybe it's tied to the long access token?

Processing out loud... #thinking #automation

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Steve Henderson Fine Art

She stopped in the midst of placing the pin in her hair, suddenly struck by a thought that she needed to intently run through in her mind.

Have you ever done that? Needed to think something through so fixedly that you can't move anything beyond the blinking of your eyes?

Truly amazing, are the human mind and spirit.

The Hairpin canvas print -- 2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/f

Canvas print of an original charcoal drawing depicting a woman running her fingers through her hair.
#art#artwork#mastoart
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Douglas E. Welch

How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate [Shared]

1. Read staggering amounts, regularly returning to the classics both fiction and non-fiction.
2. Write your own notes of your daily learnings aiming for super concise summaries. In that way you must squeeze and reveal the essence of a subject.
3. Stay active during the day. That’s not just ‘go to the gym’. Stay active; you’ll notice the ideas flowing so much more quickly and easily.

Plus 100 more!

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/07

#intelligent#intelligence#Thinking
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