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Weekly digest 32

Aug 4, 2024

in Digest

AI literacy, Anthropic, Claude, creativity, geek, generative AI, guard rails, Perplexity, psychology

A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
Being a geek…

Nov 2, 2013

in Note

geek

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a…
Thoughts on Geekretreat 2010

Jan 18, 2010

in Open access, Scholarship, Social media, Technology

cognician, community, education, geek, geekretreat, p2pu, peer to peer university, social media, stanford valley, technology

I got back yesterday from Geekretreat in Stanford Valley (beautiful, by the way) and these are some of my thoughts after reflecting on the experience. The theme of this year’s retreat was (broadly) the role of the internet in South African education, which is what motivated me to apply for a scholarship. I have to…