Tag: Meta

Weekly digest 48

Nov 24, 2024

in Digest

AR glasses, augmented reality, email newsletter, Estonia, Meta, Orion, Tartu, Tartu Health Care College, user interface

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.
Podcast: Interview with Mark Zuckerberg in a Meta VR environment

Oct 3, 2023

in AI

Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, mixed reality, podcast, Quest 3, Quest Pro, virtual reality, VR

This is incredible. I won’t be surprised if we end up spending most of our time interacting in mixed realities, in the future. The implications for education are, IMO, astounding.
We don’t need global-level conversation platforms

Aug 29, 2023

in Conference, Social media

AMEE, AMEE23, learning community, mastodon, Meta, social media, social network, Threads, twitter

Instead of more sessions on how to use Twitter to build community (a conversation that’s been going since Twitter launched), I would have liked to see more thoughtful and critical discussion around the use of social media for HPE at the AMEE conference. For example, this piece by Cal Newport, where he questions the idea…
A thought on Meta’s Threads

Jul 12, 2023

in Social media

career capital, Meta, social media, Threads, value

https://startupy.substack.com/p/things-im-thinking-about-67f I think Zuckerberg will be able to build another money making machine with Threads. But alas, this is not the feel good internet I was looking for. More endless scrolling, chipping away at my capacity for concentration. More people incentivized to churn out loads of content to please an algorithm. More user-friendly sameness. More…
Weekly digest (29 May-04 Jun 2023)

Jun 4, 2023

in AI, Digest

Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, citation, Google, GPT, image generation, imitation learning, language, Meta, Photoshop, reinforcement learning, translation, videos, youtube

I’ve been camping in Wales for most of the past week, so haven’t had much time for reading, writing, and posting (which is why most of the posts in the stream have been quotes from my Readwise library). Apologies for the lack of diversity. Normal programming will hopefully resume soon. It makes no sense to…

Tag: Meta

Weekly digest 48

Podcast: Interview with Mark Zuckerberg in a Meta VR environment

We don’t need global-level conversation platforms

A thought on Meta’s Threads

Weekly digest (29 May-04 Jun 2023)