in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects a glimpse into the process below

Google Gemini 2.0 realtime AI is insane. Watch me turn it into a live code tutor just by sharing my screen and talking to it. We’re living in future. I’m speechless.

New essay - Where #OpenEducation Meets #GenerativeAI: OELMs. "Over the next several years course materials will likely shift from formats that look more like traditional textbooks toward formats that look more like large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools. The

A new article out today ranks arXiv's most-cited #AI papers from January 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024. It's a greatest hits list that includes technical reports on open models like Qwen, Llama, Phi, and Mistral; new model architectures like Mamba, and fine-tuning techniques like

Last year there was a series of meetings held by SPARC and others orgs discussing whether or not the US needs a national open education strategy. I attended one of the meetings and blogged my concerns about it afterward. opencontent.org/blog/archives/… Now a new job posting from SPARC

I'm really excited about this new strand of work, designed to combine the technical power of #generativeAI with the participatory power of #OER. I'm still cleaning up the prototype code (screenshots in the essay), but it will be available on GitHub soon. opencontent.org/blog/archives/…

The US Copyright Office has released a new report on the copyrightability of works created using generative AI. For people working with #OER, these bullets from the Executive Summary will be of particular interest: - Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant

This x1,000,000. I'm looking at you, #open, #OER, #openpedagogy, etc. From Ahmed Lachheb et al., link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If you aren't using #DeepSeekR1 with #Cursor, what are you even doing? WOW.

New essay - Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK. Would you be surprised if you pulled a random person off the street, shoved them into a classroom full of students, and then found that they weren’t a particularly effective teacher? Of course not. And why

Early this morning, Josh Hawley + Ron Wyden had a bipartisan amendment in the Senate Budget resolution to strike out any cuts to Medicaid. Shelley Moore Capito and Senator Jim Justice voted against it- and against protecting the program.

NEWS Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says he’s traveling to El Salvador to check-in on the status of his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "Following his abduction and unlawful deportation, U.S. federal courts have ordered the safe return of my constituent Kilmar Abrego

New essay: Gravity, Bandwidth, and Tokens: Fundamental Constraints on Design "Back in the mid-1990s I read an absolutely amazing article that had a lasting impact on my thinking. Despite looking for it several times over the years, I've never been able to find it again. This was

Great news! President Brad Smith and Marshall’s Board of Governors extended his contract to 12/31/29. I’m thrilled for our city, university, & state. Let’s go!

Some of the best news I've heard lately!

“Generative AI models don’t understand, they just predict the next token.” You’ve probably heard a dozen variations of this theme. I certainly have. But I recently heard a talk by Shuchao Bi that changed the way I think about the relationship between prediction and understanding.

President Brad D. Smith and First Lady Alys Smith made a historic $50 million gift to Marshall University to advance Marshall For All, a groundbreaking program designed to eliminate student debt. Learn more about this milestone gift at bit.ly/4gqF1C8