Technological Enhacements and Faith
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LLM as MLM
No one likes to be wrong. But perhaps what bothers people even more than making a mistake is being made a fool, being tricked or duped. It's no surprise then that many folks bristle at the assertion that "AI" is a con. They stamp their feet
Measure for Measure
Prescriptive Practices
Math teacher Michael Pershan wrote an excellent newsletter this week, and I'd like to start there rather than with the ubiquitous stories about the underwhelming roll-out of OpenAI's latest GPT. Michael's insights are interesting and important; OpenAI, not so much – unless you want to
Education and the New Cult of Efficiency
Raymond Callahan's 1962 book Education and the Cult of Efficiency remains a classic study of public education in the US, chronicling how in the early twentieth century schools' goals became business goals. "The procedure for bringing about a more businesslike organization and operation of the schools