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    <title>The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-05T15:52:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[that moment in 1993 when AOL connected its users to the wider internet and forever changed its culture.

Internet old timers will point out the internet was never the same after that. Prior to that moment in 1993, as new users got on the internet, it was in a small enough group that old timers could impart some basic cultural knowledge, so even as newbies joined (often in a decent batch in September as entering college freshmen received their first internet access), they would make a mess of things for a few weeks, but the existing community could quickly help them acclimate and understand how to deal with things appropriately.

But as more and more people joined the internet, that cultural aspect became more and more difficult to maintain [...]

I’m so concerned that so many are focused on either appealing to “friendly” billionaires on their side to help, or to politicians to simply “regulate” away the bad stuff. The problem with either of those is that it still is asking for power-hungry people to control the power of the internet. And hoping they won’t abuse it and shift it to their own interests.

This is why decentralization isn’t just a technical preference — it’s a democratic imperative [...]

entire ecosystems designed to resist capture by those who would centralize power [...]

Decentralization isn’t the end goal any more than a constitutional system is the end goal of democracy. Both are architectural choices that enable something more fundamental: human autonomy and collective self-determination. ]]></description>
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    <title>Gaslighting Americans about public schools: The truth about ‘A Nation at Risk’ - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-10T16:12:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the commission had been launched by then Secretary of Education Terrell Bell to fend off the president’s 1980 campaign proposal to abolish the department. In its report, it laid out a strong argument in favor of a vigorous federal presence in education to support vulnerable students, aid higher education and research, and protect civil rights. These suggestions were quickly relegated to the dust bin of history [...]

two successive white papers reflecting on what we had heard from experts on the complexities of the school “system” in the United States. The essence of the two lengthy papers was that American schools had accomplished great things for the United States and were now faced with the joint challenges of (1) successfully educating a more diverse and lower-income population through high school, and (2) improving standards or we risked becoming mired in mediocrity. Virtually every reference to the accomplishments of American schools and the challenges of diversity and poverty disappeared from the succeeding drafts.

At the meeting to discuss my second draft, Holton showed up with a brilliant polemic, a handwritten draft he had developed. He read it aloud to the assembled commissioners. Castigating American public schools for the failures of American society and in particular the nation’s declining economic competitiveness, it became the foundation of “A Nation at Risk.”

[...]  The report, while putting education near the top of the national agenda, has served as an undertow helping undermine confidence in educators and public schools while trashing government generally. The argument of wholesale school failure has been an essential bulwark of the effort to privatize public education by diverting public funds into school vouchers and unaccountable charter schools, particularly the scandal-plagued for-profit charter sector [...]

“A Nation at Risk” also helped lay the foundation for 40 years of gaslighting Americans about the problems our society faces. Distracted by the false argument that most of our economic problems can be laid at the school door, policymakers have been able to ignore major problems including growing inequality, homelessness, drug addiction and the epidemic of gun violence [...]

Had the commission entered the treacherous waters of school finance — which promotes inequity in public education with a system that relies in large part on local property taxes — it would inevitably have had to deal with the troublesome issue of childhood poverty and unequal opportunity, a topic that commission leaders avoided.

In the end, this was a missed opportunity. The report was a product, like the other blunders identified by Stephen Weir, of decisions grounded in ignorance and pride. In this case, commission leaders, isolated from the real problems of the society about which they pontificated and arrogantly convinced that the answers they sought could be found in the faculty lounge, misread the nature of the problem, misinterpreted the cause and misled the American people.]]></description>
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    <title>We're a Nation At Risk (Happy April Fool's Day) | HuffPost Life</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-10T13:26:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is a decent set of retrospectives on ANAR in the April Phi Delta Kappan.]]></description>
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    <title>Big Lies of Education: A Nation at Risk and Education “Crisis” | dr. p.l. (paul) thomas</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-10T13:25:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The narrative created by A Nation at Risk has none the less some enduring elements that are uncritically supported by mainstream media

[lots of links]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-02-15T17:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not enabling people to shape and participate in these systems risks creating deep mistrust. This mistrust could limit the potential of data – and the different technologies it powers – to be applied to the significant challenges of our time.

Empowering people with data also creates new opportunities. Citizen science projects show the power of harnessing the knowledge of crowds]]></description>
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    <title>Import AI 354: Distributed LLM inference; CCP-approved dataset; AI scientists</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-11T20:24:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-354-distributed-llm-inference</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most of AI policy rests on assumption that AI will be centralized - training will be done on massive supercomputers and the resulting large-scale models will be served by big blobs of computers connected to one another via dense networks. Here, PETALS shows that the latter assumption could be false - big models may instead be served by ad-hoc collections of heterogeneous hardware communicating over standard lossy network connections. And since PETALS works for fine-tuning as well, it also suggests model adaption is going to be an increasingly decentralized and therefore hard-to-control process. ]]></description>
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    <title>Import AI 353: AI bootstrapping; LLMs as inventors; Facebook releases a free moderation tool</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-11T19:16:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-353-ai-bootstrapping-llms</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[contemporary language models can lead to net-new advances on well-formulated problems for which we can evaluate the goodness of potential solutions. This means that for some classes of problems we can now seamlessly turn compute (via an LLM inference) into ideas [...]

    “We sample best performing programs and feed them back into prompts for the LLM to improve on; we refer to this as best-shot prompting.”

    “We start with a program in the form of a skeleton (containing boilerplate code and potentially prior structure about the problem), and only evolve the part governing the critical program logic.” 

    We maintain a large pool of diverse programs by using an island-based evolutionary method that encourages exploration and avoids local optima. 

    Leveraging the highly parallel nature of FunSearch, we scale it asynchronously, considerably broadening the scope of this approach to find new results, while keeping the overall cost of experiments low [...]

FunSearch could find solutions to these problems because it’s easy to write code that evaluates candidate solutions. 
    We should remember that lots of the most important problems are ones which we don’t know how to evaluate - in fact, for many things, if we knew how to quantitatively evaluate success]]></description>
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    <title>Answer.AI - A new old kind of R&amp;D lab</title>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[we will be doing genuinely original research into questions such as how to best fine-tune smaller models to make them as practical as possible, and how to reduce the constraints that currently hold back people from using AI more widely. We’re interested in solving things that may be too small for the big labs to care about-—but our view is that it’s the collection of these small things matter a great deal in practice [...]

fast.ai’s AI courses are the longest-running, and perhaps most loved, in the world. We built the first library to make PyTorch easier to use and more powerful (fastai), built the fastest image model training system in the world (according to the Dawnbench competition), and created the 3-step training methodology now used by all major LLMs (ULMFiT). Everything we have created for the last 7 years was free...

Answer.AI will figure out the fundamental research needed to tame AI, and the development path needed to make it useful in practice.]]></description>
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    <title>Import AI 352: Asteroids and AI policy; privacy-preserving AI benchmarks; and distributed inference</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-11T17:20:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-352-asteroids-and-ai-policy</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AI is hard to control if the ‘means of production’ can be distributed and localized: Systems like LinguaLinked increase the likelihood of a future world where AI systems can be run and even finetuned locally via heterogeneous collections of small devices. This increases the chance of AI being functionally ungovernable because it makes it possible to deploy and use systems via broadly distributed, generic hardware. ]]></description>
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    <title>Generative Objects</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-07T21:39:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.generativeobjects.com/?ref=blog.holochain.org</link>
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    <title>SAIL: Broadening Learning, ELAI, Safetey, Regulation • Buttondown</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-25T15:29:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://buttondown.email/SAIL/archive/sail-broadening-learning-elai-safetey-regulation/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the fulcrum of learning has shifted. Knowing things will continue to matter less and less going forward as AI improves its capabilities. We'll need to start intentionally developing broader and broader attributes of learners: metacognition, wellness, affect, social engagement, etc. Education will continue to shift toward human skills and away from primary assessment of knowledge gains disconnected from skills and practice and ways of being. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://blog.holochain.org/distributed-collective-action-network/?__s=hke58npqo3klkhmkigvw">
    <title>Building Group Cohesion Horizontally with Holochain - Holochain Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-11T19:02:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.holochain.org/distributed-collective-action-network/?__s=hke58npqo3klkhmkigvw</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ A platform designed for individuals to organize horizontally requires infrastructure that is also horizontal. With Holochain, the platform can be completely controlled and powered by its users. Moreover, as a designer and developer, I am free to focus my energy on improving the tools, without worrying about bureaucracy or scaling.

So far, I have developed two of the three tools for Holochain — "Who’s in?” to mobilize people for events or joint actions, and “Converge”, for deliberating and making collective decisions. ]]></description>
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    <title>Free vs Open. Cryptography for the people | by Mary Camacho | Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-10T18:53:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@marycamacho/free-vs-open-305f730ae51f</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[we have created an innovative peer-to-peer application framework that enables the end-user to cryptographically control their data while using any type of application. This capability allows people and communities to use free software, and (finally) have their digital freedom respected. As we see it, this is one of the only ways to ensure that humanity can continue to take advantage of digital technology breakthroughs without the continued loss of liberties. This new capability will unleash entirely new possibilities for humans to coordinate and collaborate at scale.

In addition to creating new tech, Holochain also helped craft the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL), approved by the Open Source Initiative. This is the only license which guarantees the liberties of people to always control their cryptographic keys and data. Systems and software licensed with the CAL ensure that people maintain control over their data]]></description>
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    <title>A platform with no likes, no follower count, and no comments (Sublime, Sari Azout)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-16T10:40:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newpublic.substack.com/p/000-a-platform-with-no-likes-no-follower</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[connecting something requires a lot more than just passively liking [...]

How do we get rid of this obsession with the present? We believe that a culture that is stuck in the present cannot solve important problems [...]

this obsession with quantification, and just converting something as nuanced as human expression into a series of numbers, it just pushes us to ascribe value to these aggregated numbers instead of depth and resonance and meaningful connections [...]

from this immediacy and obsession with recency to this slowness and contemplation. When you go from perpetual information overload to the joy of discovery and insight [...]

Something I personally struggle with is, how do we balance the audacity of the vision with earning the right to get there slowly by delivering value to people? And I think we would all really just benefit from breaking down the audacity of this vision into realistic steps you can take.]]></description>
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    <title>All work is group work now: Collaborative learning as a pedagogical and assessment framework for learning with generative AI – improving learning</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-15T09:51:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/7324</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The key idea insight is to stop thinking of generative AI as a tool and begin thinking about it as a legitimate collaborator. This shift in frame allows you to begin seeing the ways that existing research, theory, and practice in collaborative learning – and social learning more broadly – might be adapted to help us figure out how to use generative AI to effectively support learning [...]

(Vygotsky, 1978, p. 86). In other words, the zone of proximal development includes the set of problems too hard for a learner to solve on their own, but that are solvable with assistance from what has also been called a “more knowledgeable other.” When you think of generative AI as a “more knowledgeable other,” this unlocks a way for you to bring some of Vygotsky’s work of sociocultural learning to bear as you think about using generative AI to support learning [...]

If, for whatever reason, you prefer to continue thinking of generative AI as a technology rather than a collaborator, you might explore connections to Jonassen’s idea of “cognitive tools” or explore connections with “computer-supported collaborative learning” ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-grade">
    <title>TWO: Weapons-Grade - by Mark Pesce</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-10T00:39:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-grade</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AI chatbots deceive us in what they claim to know; we deceive them in order to surface their forbidden knowledge. All of this has led to an arms race as ‘prompt injection’ techniques weaponise language in order to surface forbidden knowledge. As in any arms race, both sides advance with every new technique and every new defense. Yet because the guardrails are simply patches on top of the model (often implemented as vector databases that sit alongside the model, keyed to reject prompts that sit ‘close enough’ to forbidden territory) no comprehensive solution can be implemented. The ability to gaslight a language model into surfacing forbidden knowledge is an inherency of their design.

[...] Mistral did not include any of these safeguards in its own model, and seems to have ensured the hyperdistribution of its model via BitTorrent upon its release (or perhaps only looked the other way). An ‘uncensored’ language model which can surface all of the knowledge embedded within it is now in widespread release. Because Mistral 7B is small, it can be easily tweaked to operate within the confines of a modern smartphone, also able to run locally on pretty much any PC - or child’s toy.

What does this mean? Having spent a long weekend exploring the capacities of Mistral 7B running on an AUD $129 Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, I can affirm that Mistral 7B provides quite a depth of assistance to anyone who might want to manufacture a range of explosive chemicals, scheduled drugs, and the like. ]]></description>
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    <title>New study on how governments can fund radical ecological and social policies without GDP growth</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-27T12:16:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fund-radical-ecological-social-policies.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is widely believed that governments can only increase spending if they first grow GDP to increase tax revenue, otherwise they risk inflation or "unsustainable" levels of public debt. This presents a problem, because GDP growth works against ecological objectives. Indeed, a majority of climate scientists is now calling for "degrowth"—a democratically planned, equitable reduction of less necessary forms of production—in high-income countries in order to enable faster decarbonization. Key degrowth measures include the expansion of universal public services and a job guarantee in sustainable sectors.

Degrowth presents governments with the question of how to finance the necessary ecological and social measures during this process of transformation—a question that Olk and his fellow research team members want to answer. They argue that public investment can be increased without GDP growth and that the process of degrowth simultaneously dismantles destructive, less necessary industries and prevents inflation. 

The article draws on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to explain why states with monetary sovereignty are not subject to financial constraints. "Contrary to what conservative economists claim, public spending is not actually constrained by tax revenues, but by the productive capacity of the economy," explains Olk [...]

monetary and fiscal policies to prevent inflation and ensure economic stability during a degrowth transition. These include: stronger regulation of private money creation by banks; progressive taxation of capital income, as well as of energy and resource consumption; targeted price controls; robust public utility systems; and the introduction of an emancipatory, democratically organized job guarantee in sustainable sectors. This holistic policy framework has the potential to build broad democratic support for a transition to a more sustainable future [...]

degrowth requires above all a politically well-organized social base. Concerns about financial feasibility, inflation, and living standards often lead to widespread skepticism about the possibility of a radical social and ecological transformation.

In this study, the authors address these concerns, demonstrating how such a transition is macroeconomically feasible, and propose a practical economic policy program that allows for ecological and social goals to be achieved at the same time. ]]></description>
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    <title>Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-30T22:56:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/now-is-the-time-for-grimoires</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[companies can develop useful prompts that do serious work and capture them in corporate grimoires, prompt libraries that encode the expertise of their best practices into forms that anyone can use. I would expect individuals to similarly come up with their own spellbooks of prompts to automate their work. And I would hope that more academics, government agencies, and open source developers would be creating freely available prompt libraries for everyone [...]

Prompts are basically programs in prose, and do not require any coding experience to write. In fact, to create an expert prompt you just need three things: [expertise, 10+ hours of working with AI, A vision of what you want the prompt to do that is focused and achievable.]

[...] LLMs are quite good at taking abstract concepts and applying them. However, AIs also have limited context windows (memories) and tend to start to ramble if a conversation goes on too long. Generally, you should expect an AI to start to wander off its goal after a few exchanges, so you need to ensure your prompt is focused on your goal [...]

How might the AI be more helpful? Does it need more context? Does it need further constraints?

[...]

We are used to technology being out of our hands, developed by teams of engineers and delivered to us, ready to accomplish the goal set out by the product’s designers. AI does not work that way. 

[...] The corporate focus on giving AIs more data before building an infrastructure around using AI misses this point, which is not surprising because the use case of AI is radical: it puts individual workers, not the company, in charge of innovation. Instead, companies should be considering how to build libraries of prompts, grimoires of expert spells that allow practices to be scaled inside the organization. If it turns out more data is needed, it can then be gathered, but I suspect that, in many cases, general models will do very well at many tasks with just a few examples in a prompt.

What I would really like to see is large-scale public libraries of prompts, written by known experts and tested carefully for different audiences. These prompts would be freely available to anyone who wants to use them, and they could turn LLMs into innovation machines, learning tools, or digital mentors for millions of people. And robust discussions around these prompts could help adjudicate ethical uses, even as the crowd of users could offer reviews and suggestions for improvements. ]]></description>
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    <title>We can save what matters about writing—at a price – The Stone and the Shell</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-18T14:40:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tedunderwood.com/2023/07/31/we-can-save-what-matters-about-writing-at-a-price/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[if the goal of education is actually to learn new things — and we’re learning those things along with our students — then simulating the process is not something to fear. Consider assignments that take the form of an experiment, for instance. Experiments can be faked. But you don’t get very far doing so, because fake experiments don’t replicate. If a simulated experiment does reliably replicate in the real world, we don’t call that “cheating” — but “in-silico research that taught us something new.”

If humanists and social scientists can find cognitive processes analogous to experiment — processes where a well-documented simulation of learning is the same thing as learning — we will be in the enviable position Robin originally thought he occupied: students who can simulate the process of doing an assignment will effectively have completed the assignment. 

I don’t think most take-home essays actually occupy that safe position yet, because in reality our assignments often ask students to reinvent a wheel, or rehearse a debate that has already been worked through by some earlier generation. A number of valid (if perhaps conflicting) answers to our question are already on record. The verb “rehearse” may sound dismissive, but I don’t mean this dismissively. It can have real value to walk in the shoes of past generations. Sometimes ontogeny does need to recapitulate phylogeny, and we should keep asking students to do that, occasionally — even if they have to do it with pencil on paper.

But we will also need to devise new kinds of questions for advanced students—questions that are hard to answer even with AI assistance, because no one knows what the answer is yet. One approach is to ask students to gather and interpret fresh evidence by doing ethnography, interviewing people, digging into archival boxes, organizing corpora for text analysis, etc. These are assignments of a more demanding kind than we have typically handed undergrads, but that’s the point. Some things are actually easier now, and colleges may have to stretch students further in order to challenge them.

“Gathering fresh evidence” puts the emphasis on empirical data, and effectively preserves the take-home essay by turning it into an experiment. What about other parts of humanistic education: interpretive reflection, theory, critique, normative debate? I think all of those matter too. I can’t say yet how we’ll preserve them. It’s not the sort of problem one person could solve. But I am willing to venture that the meta-answer is, we’ll preserve these aspects of education by learning from the challenge and adapting these assignments so they can’t be fulfilled merely by rehearsing received ideas. Maybe, for instance, language models can help writers reflect explicitly on the wheels they’re reinventing, and recognize that their normative argument requires another twist before it will genuinely break new ground. If so, that’s not just a patch for writing assignments — but an advance for our whole intellectual project.]]></description>
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    <title>Holochain Powers Local-First Software</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-28T19:02:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/holochain-powers-local-first-software-holochain</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Holochain applications are made to work at any scale. Working from a local-first basis, they work perfectly well at the level of an office or a town, but they also function for distributed teams and national governments. Because they are infrastructure agnostic, and don’t require central servers to hold user data, they can fluidly scale based on use and connectivity.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-03-08T23:15:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[@21:00 EHB self-reflects: "flowplace...constellations of currency in the post-monetary world...extensible game format language...there wasn't any good fabric for composability between the currencies and the groups...there was an enclosability to it...It turned out we had to build holochain...fabric of collaboration that is just brain-dead simple...Ruby on Rails for the distributed web."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-02-25T14:05:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/glorialnolan/status/1628376062231969792#m</link>
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    <title>Better Public Schools Won’t Fix Income Inequality - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-11T21:35:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We have confused a symptom—educational inequality—with the underlying disease: economic inequality. Schooling may boost the prospects of individual workers, but it doesn’t change the core problem, which is that the bottom 90 percent is divvying up a shrinking share of the national wealth. Fixing that problem will require wealthy people to not merely give more, but take less.]]></description>
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    <title>Why Do They *Think* That? – Essays you didn’t want to read</title>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[all the errors of reasoning]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2022/08/tacit-revolution.html">
    <title>Improvisation Blog: Tacit Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T11:50:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2022/08/tacit-revolution.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is so much knowledge in professionals working in this area which is the product of years of experience in the field. Much of it is uncodifiable. 

Uncodifiable does not mean untransmissible. Uncodifiable knowledge can be taught dialogically, and more importantly, technology can greatly assist in producing new kinds of dynamic dialogical situations where this transmission can take place [...]

This is almost certainly going to be the trajectory of educational technology. It doesn't look like it at the moment because "edtech" sees itself (tacitly!) as "educational management tech" - we don't really have "technology for learning" as such. It's managers who write the cheques for edtech. But that will change. We're going to need "technology for learning".

There's then another challenge for institutions. Because when we do have "technology for learning", the dialogical situations of tacit learning will not need to be bound by classroom, curriculum, assessment, etc.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-11-14T13:43:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.holochain.org/economy-as-ecosystem/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[something that could combine the micro’s individual behaviour approach with the macro’s systems thinking lens. A sort of ‘grand unified model’ for economics.

Then she says something that surprises me: Valueflows, the economic grammar at the heart of hREA, offers a path in this direction. It records the flow of resources between individuals, but it records them from an independent view — as a transaction between parties rather than a set of entries in two disconnected ledgers [...]

an open-source economic model for the textile industry — and local markets in general. In the logic of this economy, everyone succeeds when supply chain relationships and other intellectual property are shared.]]></description>
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    <title>The Quest by Circadian Medicine to Make the Most of Our Body Clocks</title>
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    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/magazine/circadian-medicine.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Currently, the application of circadian rhythms to health care — some speak of it as “circadian medicine,” while others use “chronomedicine” — is often considered just a facet of sleep medicine, and it lacks the cohesion and influence that discipline has achieved. “Circadian medicine extends so far from sleep medicine,” Czeisler told me. “We need to develop a new clinical specialty — in the same way sleep medicine was developed half a century ago.”

[...]  having a large breakfast, a medium lunch and a small dinner — leads to lower blood-sugar levels and greater weight loss compared with sizing the meals in reverse order.

On average, Americans eat within a 12-hour window. But [...] shrinking that to a six-to-eight-hour window and eating more of the day’s calories earlier can lower blood pressure and blood sugar

[...] if timing does affect survival, what he dreams of is a drug he can administer shortly before an infusion that shifts the clock in the immune system and the affected tissues to the ideal time. Without that, determining each patient’s clock phases to identify the best time for an infusion and then getting the patient to the clinic in that interval feels out of reach, he says. “An hour here or there — if that’s what matters, we’re kind of doomed to failure.”

The conundrum Buchwald, Hogenesch and others face is that to determine how critical the timing of drug taking is, you need large data sets with hundreds — preferably thousands — of diverse patients taking a drug across 24 hours. Otherwise, you risk not seeing small effects, or believing that an anomalously large effect is representative. But before institutions with the resources to run those studies will undertake them, they want proof that doing so will be worth it.

[...] “Pain, infection, hypertensive crisis and other conditions do not occur selectively in the morning.” In person, he is blunter: “No matter how dumb it is,” he says, referring to conventional hospital practices involving lighting, for example, or drug delivery, “they don’t want to change it.”

[...] data hospitals collect is primarily for billing, not research, and when patients receive services and medications isn’t always noted. If logging the times of procedures — of blood draws, vaccines, urine and other samples — in patients’ electronic medical records were standard practice, it could vastly improve our understanding

[...] Any data gleaned from medical records will still be observational, but the more such data you have from a variety of sources, the more persuasive it can be. In the meantime, researchers can create larger and more representative samples by looking at multiple small studies collectively in what’s called a metanalysis.]]></description>
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    <title>A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History</title>
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    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/arts/indigenous-continent-pekka-hamalainen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[decentralized, kinship-based, and egalitarian political regimes made poor targets for imperial entradas]

hardly the first scholar to argue against the trope of the “doomed” Indian, who inevitably falls victim to the onslaught of guns, germs and capitalism [...]

Readers will encounter few familiar signposts like the Boston Massacre or the Constitution, and relatively little analysis of treaties and laws. Instead, the key texts include maps (both Indigenous and European), which, even into the 19th century, Hamalainen argues, illustrate the fragility of colonial claims over a vast continent dominated by “overwhelming and persisting Indigenous power.”

[...] the book’s ability to trace across eras and epochs is limited,” Blackhawk said, “particularly by its occasional disregard of things like law and policy, which are central to Native American sovereignty and lives.”

“Indigenous Continent” also invokes another concept that may raise some eyebrows: empire. In his books on the Comanche and the Lakota, Hamalainen characterized those nations as aggressively expansionist powers who themselves shoved aside other Native peoples and often dominated European settlers]]></description>
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    <title>Googling like an Evangelical with Francesca Tripodi - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-18T16:37:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/francesca-tripodi/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1:50 ...take two things more seriously than we usually do: how people search for information, and how people read the infomation that they find

2:45 ...[I asked people 'how did you decide who to vote for?'] and almost everyone I spoke with [said] 'Google.'

3:35 ...people don't really understand how [the information that drives the democratic process is] procured for them

6:25 search has incredible power in how it shapes our view of the world...what we choose to ask for ends up constructing what we end up seeing

8:25 for 4 months I consumed nothing but the information [people in] my study deemed to be trustworthy...I began to hear an entirely different narrative than I was [having] in my correspondence...They were centering around key words and phrases that were almost exclusively tied to these information ecosystems.

10:56 [conservative propagandists] were taking [a] data void [and] filling the gap with a bunch of digital-first content, and then they were hyperlinking these sources to each other so that when you did a search, it made it seem like there was ample amounts of information...pages and pages of content largely arguing the same thing which creates this illusion of legitimacy that this is in fact something I should be paying attention to

11:56 [as Benkler contends] the point isn't to dominate the online space, it's to use the online space to create these offline narratives and as soon as those offline narratives are airing on Fox news, the NYT has to respond to them, CNN has to respond to them and very quickly attention has been shifted [...] driving the global media agenda

18:26 they're saying "don't believe me...go out there and do your own research," enabling this idea [to not trust elites] but then they combine this individualist method of interpretation [ie: applying Biblical text] with these data voids...these loops of their own making...very few people are considering the role that they play in shaping these filter bubbles

20:50 the person most likely to tag their content with "social justice" was Jordan Peterson, a highly conservative figure, a very far right figure, who advocates against social justice...he weaponized this phrase to become an epithet

23:00 [on Prager University's 5-minute video propaganda expanding into kids' programming]

25:30 [Ethan says "if Prager U is unfamiliar to you, you should take this as a sign that you are so far to the left you are searching for things in ways that are not triggering incredibly popular videos...They are worth watching just for the sheer craft" and I hate this particular flavor of academic idleness and self-loathing. Why should I go out of my way to muck about the online shit pits? We don't spare people their immersion in the shit pits by stumbling in after them. Build alternatives, build tools for others to build their ways out of the shitpits etc.]

35:15 rather than looking at people with contempt because of their voting record, how can we understand...the driving forces that lead them to make the decisions they made...if there's a villain in this plot, it's the media systems they pointed me to. It was through these media systems, pundits and politicians that I came to see they're activating a lot of problematic content. They are rooting on, and activating, white supremacist logic...and the people I interviewed weren't aware of these mechanisms that were being used against them  [...] powerful ways of making meaning in this world are being weaponized by people who have a very specific political or profit-driven agenda that is not necessarily aligned with the values they pretend to have]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-08-17T01:17:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://outland.art/ian-cheng-nft-3face/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[3FACE cleverly positions the process of minting a generative NFT as a metaphor for personality development. When collectors visit the project website to mint, they are offered several “daemons” to choose from, animated kernels of personhood that will partially determine the appearance of the token [...]

BOB (Bag of Beliefs), 2018, is a work about artificial intelligence. A primitive digital life form—a grotesque orange dragon with a long body, lots of squirming appendages, and a hungry mouth—learns to make decisions about what it does or doesn’t want by interacting with its audience. Through an app, viewers can feed BOB offerings to help it learn and grow. The subject is the human relationship to AI, how people train something alien and beyond understanding in a way that is at once paternalistic and worshipful; the medium is AI itself, and the interactions with it.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-05-23T14:29:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[declines in particulate pollution exposure raised test scores and reduced the black-white test score gap]]></description>
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    <title>Unleashing the Power of Unenclosable Carriers</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-20T18:01:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[open-source, unenclosable framework that enables hosting of peer-to-peer applications without any centralized or consensus-based infrastructure. It provides a way of ensuring the integrity and accuracy of data in a network while also enabling every user to host and represent their own data [...]

Holochain functions on any network. It can operate through the internet (TCP/IP) but doesn’t require it; apps can just as easily operate on mesh networks or even local area networks, Bluetooth networks, or any other means of communicating data among peers. Even when offline from the larger network of app users, a subgroup of connected peers can run the app with full functionality among themselves (since everyone hosts a copy of the core application code) and synchronize their changes with the network later [...]

what’s different about a Holochain-based social network versus Facebook or Instagram isn’t that the Holochain version is more philanthropic; it’s (1) the choice that people have in how to interact with one another and with the application, (2) the ownership and authorship that people retain over their own data, and (3) the decreased infrastructural costs because the load of running the software and hosting the data is spread across the user base [...]

many of humanity’s greatest challenges — rainforest destruction, pollution and climate instability, food supply degradation, the looming energy crisis, and so on — won’t be solved at the levels of policy or diplomacy, but only by shifting the underlying architectures that determine how wealth and power are allocated and how people are incentivized to act [...]

nothing less complex would map to the problem space Holochain is designed to address. Global challenges are interrelated and multi-faceted in their causes and effects, so they require interrelated and multi-faceted solutions. You can’t solve the energy crisis, pollution, deforestation, or hunger with centralized systems – or, as it turns out, with blockchain tokenization – any more than you can fix a meadow with a hammer. Matters have gotten out of hand precisely because we have been force-fitting living systems through power-entrenching enclosure points for centuries.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-02-20T18:01:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[decentralized power production was once the norm and could easily be again, sending centralized facilities the way of industrial-age relics like broadcast TV service, print-newspaper conglomerates, and the U.S. Postal Service [...]

With the currency supply grounded in the economic output it represents – and with no debt created beyond what’s issued directly for value-creators – there’s no ‘economy’ that needs to keep growing just to feed itself. And with currency issued directly by the value producers, no one can extract value just by virtue of having a monopoly on money issuance [...]

A bonus benefit of mutual credit is that it may bypass the challenges that many cryptocurrencies face with regard to securities laws (which are themselves a form of carrier enclosure). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in particular has a penchant for shutting down blockchain-based projects that issue speculative tokens, but because mutual credit is issued only in the moments when value is actually exchanged, it is not a future-based investment and, as such, may be difficult to classify as a security [...]

any company’s internal assessment of their external effects is skewed by the company’s limited perspective (which is a kind of enclosure in its own right) even if it has the best intentions.

In an unenclosable financial system, however, there’s a way around the problem: incorporating external feedback loops into the currency itself, based on input from people who are in a position, from vantage points outside the company, to assess its external impacts. This way, instead of expecting companies to care about people and planet and also do impossible accounting, a TBL currency enables a much simpler thing, which is to allow a company’s reputation for doing good or harm to impact its overall cost of doing business [...]

that it’s even possible to outstrip the carrying capacity of our ecosystem is, in part, a function of our currency supply being disconnected from the limits of the physical systems upon which the economy operates. Reconnecting these two phenomena is actually imperative for having a sustainable economy: if we don’t, we have no guardrails against outstripping the planet’s capacity to regenerate itself [...]

tight coupling of ownership and stewardship makes holding natural resources unlucrative as compared to liquidating them, due to the costs of ownership and the time cost of money. But we can begin to imagine how, if we decouple ownership from stewardship, the balance could tip such that growing the capacity of the land is more beneficial to the landowner than depleting it [...]

Natural selection might actually be better understood as ‘survival of the fit’, as in “those whose characteristics are most fit for their environs are most likely to survive”. And a great way of being highly fit to one’s environs is to treat existing resources regeneratively, using the ones that exist to produce even more valuable resources [...]

it’s so critical that, at a collective level, we have feedback loops that check and balance our overall consumption, or else we’re just like a yeast colony that overconsumes its environment and causes its own demise. We must have systems that track our impact and make it visible, facilitate and reward the sharing of resources, and incentivize working together to leave the pie at least as big as we found it. And these systems must be built on unenclosable carriers or they will get hijacked again and again for the benefit of only a few [...]

an explosion of new social organisms like we’ve never seen before, a complete reimagining of how humans interact and organize. We call it the Holocene Explosion [...]

data is delivered in real time, but also that it’s delivered in a format that is consistent with how the human perceptual system is designed to operate. You have on the wall in your office not paragraphs, charts, and graphs, but a simulated ecosystem acting as the real-time health monitor of a complex system, displayed in such a way that you can take in large amounts of information at a glance [...]

How much faster might we solve humanity’s most intractable problems if we were all seeing the impact of our collective action in real time? If we were problem-solving not through marching-in-the-streets social activism that tries to compel power brokers to act against their own economic interests, but rather by tapping into humankind’s collective creativity to invent new social and economic patterns that incentivize everyone to grow the whole?]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-02-10T11:47:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.holochain.org/unenclosable-carriers-and-the-future-of-communication-2/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[no one can gain influence by simply controlling the medium of communication itself. The work of holding and transferring the data is distributed among the regular participants within the application, with everyone hosting their own data and sharing a bit of the load of hosting the data published to the network.]]></description>
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    <title>The Wellerman (Sea Shanty) - From TikTok to Epic Remix</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-10T02:04:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[from Together 2021]]></description>
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    <title>Limits to Blockchain Scalability vs. Holochain | by Arthur Brock | Jun, 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-13T01:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://artbrock.medium.com/limits-to-blockchain-scalability-vs-holochain-19685dcb89f9</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Any “decentralized” system using Proof-of-Work or Proof-of-Stake will eventually centralize power, wealth, and control. In fact, if you’re really on the edge of what’s possible in distributed systems, you realize that any approach to consensus is a type of centralization [...]

Holochain’s DHT (distributed hash table) randomizes which nodes validate each piece of data by routing it to the nodes whose network address is nearest to the hash address of the data being validated. The workload is distributed fairly across all users, ensuring the resilience of the data in the shared storage space.]]></description>
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    <title>Learn Holochain in 5 Minutes</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-06T15:09:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r72cRM1Axyg</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><dc:subject>currencies .video .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hylo</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-25T19:25:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hylo.com/evolve/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hylo’s mascot is an axolotl. Axolotls have the ability to regrow parts of their body over and over. Axolotls are also forever young. Unlike most amphibians, they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis and keep their gills and watergoing-ways for life.


We chose this endangered amphibian from the lakes of central Mexico as a symbol of the resilience and regenerative power of nature and networks, and because we believe that the youthful enthusiasm expressed in joy and play are important parts of community building and creativity.]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:evolution"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.pearsoned.com/every-student-succeeds-act-historical/">
    <title>The Every Student Succeeds Act in historical context</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-23T23:00:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pearsoned.com/every-student-succeeds-act-historical/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By 2009 ESEA was already two years past due for reauthorization. Though ESEA was stalled in Congress, new programs were created and money was allocated towards education in 2009 as part of the national economic stimulus plan (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). Approximately $100 billion was allocated towards education aid via the ARRA. New competitive grant programs were established for the design of assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards and for innovative efforts to improve state data systems, standards and teacher evaluation systems.

[...] In 2011 a system was put in place that allowed states to apply for waivers that relinquished some of the NCLB requirements including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in math and reading/language arts. The waivers also allowed states to set their own student-achievement goals and design their own interventions for failing schools. However, to be eligible for a waiver, states must have adopted college-and-career ready standards and tied those to their annual state assessments. Waivers did not remove the requirement to test students annually]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:f73306f16a90/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://towardsdatascience.com/fighting-covid-19-with-open-access-and-ai-9a4df3cbe8c0">
    <title>Fighting COVID-19 with Open Access and AI</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-28T17:58:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://towardsdatascience.com/fighting-covid-19-with-open-access-and-ai-9a4df3cbe8c0</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The goal of CORD-19 is to spur the creation of automated systems for interpreting scientific literature and to leverage these systems to improve discovery for biomedical researchers, clinicians, and policymakers]]></description>
<dc:subject>Covid-19 open science science_is_a_method research artificial_intelligence data learning assessment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:b61d9089637b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:open"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:science_is_a_method"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:research"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:artificial_intelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:data"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/holochain/unleashing-the-power-of-unenclosable-carriers-and-how-holochain-can-help-1a4d443aa844">
    <title>Unleashing the Power of Unenclosable Carriers (and How Holochain Can Help)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-20T21:27:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/holochain/unleashing-the-power-of-unenclosable-carriers-and-how-holochain-can-help-1a4d443aa844</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><dc:subject>internet .remake infrastructure flows .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:056016f4cc1a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/998974/immunity-passports-cornavirus-antibody-test-outside/">
    <title>Why it’s too early to start giving out “immunity passports”</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-13T19:42:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/998974/immunity-passports-cornavirus-antibody-test-outside/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[antibody tests:
low sensitivity/high specificity = false negatives 
high sensitivity/low specificity = false positives

Because we don’t know what the real infection rate is—1%, 3%, 5%, etc.—we don’t know how to truly predict what proportion of the immunity passports would be issued incorrectly. The lower the infection rate, the more devastating the effects of the antibody tests’ inaccuracies. The higher the infection rate, the more confident we can be that a positive result is real [...]

Instead of being used to issue individual immunity passports, serology tests could be deployed en masse, over a long period of time, to see if herd immunity has set in—lifting or easing restrictions wholesale after 60 to 70% of a community’s population tests positive for immunity. There are a few case studies that hold promise. San Miguel County in Colorado has partnered with biotech company United Biomedical in an attempt to serologically test everyone in the county. The community is small and isolated, and therefore easier to test comprehensively. Iceland has been doing the same thing across the country. 

This would require a massively organized effort to pull off well in highly populated areas, and it’s not clear whether the decentralized American health-care system could do it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>immuno assessment group_as_organism health_care US decentralize Covid-19</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.patreon.com/posts/toward-new-1-0-24798022">
    <title>Toward A New Evolutionary Paradigm 1.0</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-11T20:52:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/toward-new-1-0-24798022</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[mutation isn't really random but inevitably fuses interacting units together into new emergent wholes that then exert a top-down diversification pressure [...]

our definitions of life and non-life - like our definitions of random and non-random - have more to do with the scale at which we perceive phenomena than any objective reality of those phenomena.]]></description>
<dc:subject>complexity evolution perspective networks intelligence</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:7260e2e9852a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://orbitermag.com/how-did-life-begin-part-3/">
    <title>How Did Life Begin? (Part 3) (autocatalysts)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-11T20:51:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://orbitermag.com/how-did-life-begin-part-3/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A metabolic network is the collection of chemical reactions that happen within an organism to turn food and external energy into the basic building blocks (such as nucleotides, amino acids, and lipids) that form the molecules required for growth, maintenance, and reproduction [...]

a very different scenario for a possible origin of life, other than that of the RNA world hypothesis. Instead of life starting with single self-replicating RNA molecules (for which there still is no experimental evidence), perhaps it started with simple autocatalytic sets that form quite easily, and that initially used metals and small self-produced molecules as their catalysts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks metabolism evolution complexity emergence</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:491c878bb6d5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-wins-missteps-and-next-steps-600812bc9ecc">
    <title>Holochain: Wins, Missteps, and Next Steps</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-13T18:40:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-wins-missteps-and-next-steps-600812bc9ecc</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[we underestimated the consequences of the rebuild. Mostly because we have almost no live apps in production at this time instead of a thriving ecosystem (that we still look forward to). Equally important, we underplayed the maturity of the prototype and encouraged devs who were ready to build on it to wait for the Rust version.

As a result, much of the world still thinks Holochain’s application model is unproven when, in fact, we’ve had functional apps for almost two years with speed and scale that outperform every other crypto platform I’ve seen.]]></description>
<dc:subject>currencies networks .remake criticism .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:0ab8a6a144ad/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&amp;id=21404">
    <title>Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Surface Reference Network (GSRN)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-09T19:23:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&amp;id=21404</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Justification, requirements, siting and instrumentation options]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate earth science knowledge_building networks mission_oriented_investment .research</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:cefcbc38f272/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:science"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:mission_oriented_investment"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/examining-mmt-model-in-detail.html">
    <title>Noahpinion: Examining an MMT model in detail</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T01:56:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/examining-mmt-model-in-detail.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this model, the government can't determine how much labor it gets or how much each laborer gets paid; it can only determine the total number of dollars it pays for labor. In fact, as Tcherneva suggests, labor unions might even allow workers to get all the government's dollars for a very small amount of labor - good for workers, but bad news if there really is a fire! [<- firefighters as an example amounts to circular reasoning]

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1112487454429241344

"It's really how the model works. It's about forcing people to do unproductive work."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economy model prediction knowledge_building</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:b33abeb30d66/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/DecentralEvery/status/1083759797319671810">
    <title>[holo links]</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-13T12:45:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/DecentralEvery/status/1083759797319671810</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><dc:subject>currencies .reference .thread .from-twitter .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:e32848ca149a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.brokennature.org/">
    <title>Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival – XXII Triennale di Milano</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-10T21:52:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brokennature.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[creative practices in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world, and designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems.]]></description>
<dc:subject>altermodern art earth networks complexity design data</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:c3659b05f8b3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-topology-to-holograms.html">
    <title>From Topology to Holograms</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-08T22:45:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-topology-to-holograms.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Topologies enfold time in a peculiar way. We have to pass over them to understand them. They are structured space (synchronic), but the time of diachronic exploration is implicit in them.

But a topology is not an encoding - it is a manifest space. However, a topology can be encoded as a hologram.

Whilst a geometric form like a trefoil knot plays with space, music plays with time. The way in which music's playing with time might be encoded is the critical issue. I think this works according to the same principle as an object's encoding of space. Actually, in the case of a hologram, space and time are implicated in both, because a hologram is formed through the interference patterns of light, which implicates frequency, and in turn, time.

Music's interference pattern involves the interactions of redundancies or constraints. It's not just music - it's any diachronic process which involves this... learning and conversation are exactly the same. But where is the connection between the hologram's encoding of space and music's encoding of time?]]></description>
<dc:subject>time space language linguistics perspective learning complexity .mark_johnson .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://evonomics.com/failed-economics-tyranny-of-mathematics-enslaved-wrong-theory/">
    <title>Failed Economics: Tyranny of Mathematics and Enslaved by the Wrong Theory</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-18T15:55:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/failed-economics-tyranny-of-mathematics-enslaved-wrong-theory/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is an infinite variety of ways that cells might respond to local environmental conditions, but natural selection has winnowed the ones that work at the level of the whole organism. When Adam Smith invented the metaphor of the invisible hand, he was saying that human economies are like bodies and beehives in this regard.

Smith did not say that people are entirely self-interested. That would come later, from his followers and disciples. He had a sophisticated and nuanced conception of human nature that he described most fully in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments. According to Smith, people have genuine concern for others in addition to themselves. They have a sense of right and wrong that leads to the establishment of norms enforced by punishment. They are interested in their reputation as much as their monetary income, and so on. Shakespeare would have felt comfortable with Smith’s conception of human nature. People still responded primarily to their local social environment, so the invisible hand metaphor remained apt, but their preferences couldn’t be collapsed into a single generic concept of self-interest [...]

Following Newton’s monumental discoveries in the seventeenth century, a series of scientists and mathematicians, including Leibniz, Lagrange, Euler, and Hamilton, developed a new mathematical language using differential equations to describe a staggeringly broad range of natural phenomena. Problems that had baffled humankind since the ancient Greeks, from the motions of planets to the vibrations of violin strings, were suddenly mastered. The success of these theories gave scientists a boundless optimism that they could describe any aspect of nature in their equations. Walras and his compatriots were convinced that if the equations of differential calculus could capture the motions of planets and atoms in the universe, these same mathematical techniques could also capture the motion of human minds in the economy [...]

Anyone who builds theoretical models, as I do, knows how many simplifying assumptions must be made for a model to be mathematically tractable. The world described by the mathematics becomes detached from the real world, not because of any ideological bias, but just so that you can grind through the equations. It was at this point that economists began to rely upon a conception of human nature that defies the dictates of common sense, even before we get to the more refined dictates of psychology and evolutionary theory [...]

A purely fictional world defined by mathematical equations acquires so much authority that it becomes the real world for its adherents. Aspects of the real world that cannot be related to the imaginary world are so dumbfounding that they are labeled paradoxes by the faithful.]]></description>
<dc:subject>.act4 .hello-world david_sloan_wilson economy evolution theory math model culture risk decision religion .add_to_hwhvg</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2018/11/stafford-beers-critical-holism-in.html">
    <title>Improvisation Blog: Stafford Beer's Critical Holism in Education</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-16T17:49:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/2018/11/stafford-beers-critical-holism-in.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If education is seen to be a "whole", then the metasystem has to mop up things like uncertainties over teacher and student "performance": it invents categories and metrics to measure teaching and learning. It even ties some of these metrics to the pay or job security of teachers. More recently it deploys technologies to reinforce these metrics. What happens? "explosive complexification".

Why do these uncertainties arise in the first place? What is it about the whole which invites pathological metasystemic regulation? There's a simple answer to this. It is the hierarchical structures of organisation which education adopts. These structures themselves are very poor at mopping up their own uncertainty: hierarchies attenuate complexity from their bottom to their top, and from the environment to each individual. The only mechanism they have for managing uncertainty is authoritarianism, and this eventually leads to collapse.]]></description>
<dc:subject>learning education complexity assessment .mark_johnson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:f25a6671582e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:assessment"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://edexcellence.net/articles/the-end-of-education-policy">
    <title>The end of education policy (Petrilli)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-15T22:13:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://edexcellence.net/articles/the-end-of-education-policy</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[just, ugh]]></description>
<dc:subject>education_reform</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:16b04de79fbf/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/de-correspondent/the-problem-with-real-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-f29aca95c2ea">
    <title>The problem with real news — and what we can do about it</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-16T16:36:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/de-correspondent/the-problem-with-real-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-f29aca95c2ea</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In contrast to fake news, which is misleading because it’s simply untrue, real news misleads us in a more subtle and fundamental way. It gives us a deeply skewed view of probability, history, progress, development, and relevance [...]

when I say “news” I don’t mean “all journalism.” There are countless types of journalism that are thorough and informative, and there are ten of thousands of journalists committed to public service who do invaluable work. Nor is my criticism of the news meant as a dismissal of “the media,”

[...] the first thing we do is teach our correspondents to seriously moderate their own consumption of news. We encourage them to seek inspiration for article ideas outside of the day’s newspapers, talk shows, and tweets — by going out into the streets, by reading books, and, above all, by asking our readers the question, “What do you encounter every day at work or in your life that rarely makes the front page, but really should?”

[...] it’s no longer our correspondents’ goal to be the first, get a scoop, or be picked up by other outlets. Their goal is to thoroughly ground themselves in the major developments of our time and, along the way, share their learning curve with a growing community of followers.

To get there, we’ve also had to train our correspondents to stop thinking in completed stories [...] our reporting allows the reader to join in at his or her own level of knowledge, and grow from there.]]></description>
<dc:subject>journalism media language politics perception bias time knowledge_building .hwhvg .hello-world</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:cb3bb85ef855/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06091-z">
    <title>Artificial intelligence nails predictions of earthquake aftershocks</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-02T14:58:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06091-z</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The scientists looked at more than 131,000 mainshock and aftershock earthquakes, including some of the most powerful tremors in recent history, such as the devastating magnitude-9.1 event that hit Japan in March 2011. The researchers used these data to train a neural network that modelled a grid of cells, 5 kilometres to a side, surrounding each main shock. They told the network that an earthquake had occurred, and fed it data on how the stress changed at the centre of each grid cell. Then the scientists asked it to provide the probability that each grid cell would generate one or more aftershocks. The network treated each cell as its own little isolated problem to solve, rather than calculating how stress rippled sequentially through the rocks.

When the researchers tested their system on 30,000 mainshock-aftershock events, the neural-network forecast predicted aftershock locations more accurately than did the usual stress-failure method. Perhaps more importantly, DeVries says, the neural network also hinted at some of the physical changes that might have been happening in the ground after the main shock. It pointed to certain parameters as potentially important — ones that describe stress changes in materials such as metals, but that researchers don’t often use to study earthquakes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>.act4 earthquake prediction model networks complexity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:beab23e83358/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:model"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awADEuv5vWY">
    <title>Holographic Light to See Inside the Body (Dr. Mary Lou Jepson)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-24T22:00:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awADEuv5vWY</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["telepathy is in reach with the tools of our time: big data, machine learning, consumer electronics manufacturing infrastructure" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QcLcgcYnpg

(She was part of Negroponte's OLPC team.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>human_body gadget medicine data artificial_intelligence .video solutionism women technology .holo holo might_be_vaporware .make_public</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:d346f5a29c19/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:medicine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:artificial_intelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:.video"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:solutionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:women"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:.holo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:holo"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://educationnext.org/gates-effective-teaching-initiative-fails-improve-student-outcomes/">
    <title>[Gates' wasted half a billion dollars]</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-26T22:58:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://educationnext.org/gates-effective-teaching-initiative-fails-improve-student-outcomes/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the results didn’t just fail to achieve goals, but generally were null to negative across a variety of outcomes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bill_gates education_reform</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:2633b45bbba8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://illinoislawreview.org/online/volume-2018/spring-volume-2018/reasonable-expectations/">
    <title>Reasonable Expectations (Hutt &amp; Polikoff reply to Elmendorf &amp; Shanske)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-22T13:29:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://illinoislawreview.org/online/volume-2018/spring-volume-2018/reasonable-expectations/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[decentralized curriculum decisions and concentrated political pressure resulted in a design for NAEP that reflected no particular curriculum and whose score was interpretable only relative to itself. Similarly, efforts throughout the 1960s to develop data on student achievement and access to opportunity simply overlaid uniform statistical categories on top of the messy, idiosyncratic, and non-standardized organization of American schooling.27 For instance, the effort to analyze national course taking patterns—features of important policy conversations throughout the 1980s and 1990s—were an artifact of a standardized coding scheme commissioned by the National Center for Education Statistics, not any actual standardization in state standards, course taking patterns, or curricula.

Far from being a mere academic or technocratic matter, the contrived uniformity of collected-school statistics had real-world consequences. The push to desegregate schools following Brown led to an increased focus on collecting information on school demographics. But statistics indicating school racial balance often masked the resegregation within schools achieved through curricular tracking.29 Subsequent statistical research identifying specific track placement and course-taking patterns that served as gatekeepers of educational opportunity led to calls for detracking and legislating specific course work. These calls were based on the theory, and available empirical evidence, that exposure to more rigorous material had positive effects on student achievement and life outcomes. In California, for instance, this led to a push for “Algebra for all” by 8th grade.30 While these efforts produced greater equity at the level of course-taking statistics—enrollments tripled within a decade—the curricular change produced, on average, a negative effect on students’ tenth grade math achievement scores [...]

while the ability to do sophisticated impact analyses has undoubtedly increased, there are many messy complications that make it challenging to construct a “what works” agenda in education. For instance, many educational policies and interventions work in some settings but not others: some charter schools are more effective than their local traditional public schools, while others are worse.36 Vouchers seem to work in some states but not others.37 Even for something as simple as comparing the effectiveness of two textbooks, studies will often return conflicting results.38 The fact that the conclusions are causal does not change the fact that the effects of the interventions are unclear [...]

What works with careful attention in one site may not work when brought to a larger scale, and efforts to rapidly scale a project may outstrip existing capacity and result in a much lower quality treatment in later years. To be clear, these challenges do not invalidate the important work that can be done with high quality educational data. They merely point to the challenges of relying on causal research to inform policy and practice [...]

how should we interpret—let alone apply—decades-old findings in a different policy context? If we found that two decades ago having access to computer courses and typing skills resulted in those students having a disproportionately high percentage of high paying technology jobs, would we still believe that this was the case two decades later? If we thought it was actually the skills in the classes that were valuable, then perhaps. But it seems just as likely that there was a first mover advantage; the value was in the novelty of the skills.]]></description>
<dc:subject>US history education schools learning assessment data .research criticism infrastructure law activism solutionism education_reform .hwhvg .hello-world</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-2/solving-problems-no-one-has-solved/">
    <title>Solving “Problems No One Has Solved” (Elmendorf &amp; Shanske)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-22T13:29:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-2/solving-problems-no-one-has-solved/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The state’s own choices substantially determine whether researchers—and hence litigators—can produce credible evidence concerning the causal effect of state laws and funding arrangements on the outcomes that ground the education right. States exercise this control through the architecture of administrative data systems; through the rules for assigning students, programs, and funding to schools; through the manner in which educational reforms are rolled out; and through the terms on which the state provides access to administrative data.]]></description>
<dc:subject>education_reform assessment law .remake .research .pdf .hwhvg .hello-world</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:281b12d4c067/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-illinois-free-street-theater-workshop-chicago">
    <title>Takeaways From Our First Free Street Theater Journalism… — ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-30T17:52:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-illinois-free-street-theater-workshop-chicago</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><dc:subject>art journalism activism knowledge_building .hwhvg</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:14691a5d1441/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/t:activism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://evonomics.com/the-new-invisible-hand-david-sloan-wilson/">
    <title>Why New Economics Needs a New Invisible Hand - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-10T09:15:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/the-new-invisible-hand-david-sloan-wilson/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just as I am not the first to declare the old concept of the invisible hand dead, I am not the first to “discover” the existence of a middle path. It emerges from numerous theoretical perspectives ... [reading list]]]></description>
<dc:subject>group_as_organism culture evolution david_sloan_wilson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:199157491a08/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learning-analytics-surveillance-and.html">
    <title>Improvisation Blog: Learning Analytics, Surveillance and Conversation</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-03T15:24:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learning-analytics-surveillance-and.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the real question about learning analytics is a question about automatically-generated multiple descriptions of the data, and how those multiple descriptions influence decision-making. 

Of course, decisions made from good data will not necessarily be good decisions, nor are decisions made with bad data necessarily bad. What matters is the relationship between the expectations of the human being and the variety of description they are presented with [...]

when we consider analytic tools. The richness of the ability to generate multiple descriptions means that there is variety in the different descriptions that might be created by different people. The value of such tools lies in the conversations that might be had around them. 

With the emphasis on conversation, there is no reason why analytic tools should be cloud-based. There is no reason why surveillance is necessary. They could be personal tools, locally-installed instead. Their simple job is to process log files relating to one user or another.]]></description>
<dc:subject>learning assessment altermodern .mark_johnson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:4179f7375927/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/personal-learning-technology-and-end-of.html">
    <title>Improvisation Blog: Personal Learning, Technology and the end of the Curriculum</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-03T15:02:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/personal-learning-technology-and-end-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[objects illuminate the understanding of people engaging with them. It is through the use of objects that we produce multiple rich descriptions of our understanding. What is learnt are the underlying patterns which generate the variety of descriptions [...]

Education has yet to catch up with the generative power of the technological objects at its disposal. When it does so, it will see the "curriculum" to be a redundant concept [...]

create ways in which objects can be manipulated so as to create a natural flow of inquiry between teachers and learners and between learners and each other. The ridiculous thing is that I don't think this is hard to do. But to achieve it we have to deal with that other pernicious object in education: the assessment

[echoes of Dave Cormier's rhizomatic learning]]]></description>
<dc:subject>learning assessment social_objects emergence .mark_johnson</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:2291b0fc0151/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb18/vol75/num05/Three_Moves_for_Assessment-System_Success.aspx">
    <title>Three Moves for Assessment-System Success (Jenn)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-03T00:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb18/vol75/num05/Three_Moves_for_Assessment-System_Success.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[generate lists specifying "what it looks like" when students are demonstrating a particular quality—and what it looks like when students aren't demonstrating it. They might create an illustration that summarizes one or more of these outcomes [...]

 If a school or district is considering implementing alternative assessments, some of the pre-work can include looking carefully at rubrics and checklists already in use and revising as needed so these rubrics align with what matters to the community. Leaders can ask teachers to review their tools and ensure that those tools support a growth mindset by making shifts like displaying rubric levels from low to high, using text descriptors instead of numbers, and focusing on what students did, not just what they did wrong.]]></description>
<dc:subject>learning assessment design</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:dd21d53a6f46/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/12/06/how-eva-moskowitz-is-remaking-public-education-as-we-know-it-for-better-and-if-we-arent-careful-much-worse/">
    <title>...is remaking public education as we know it for better and if we aren’t careful worse</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-21T03:05:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/12/06/how-eva-moskowitz-is-remaking-public-education-as-we-know-it-for-better-and-if-we-arent-careful-much-worse/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Her acid tirades are legendary and can get scathingly personal more quickly than I might have believed had she not once dressed me down after I wrote a story she didn’t like.

“The Education of Eva Moskowitz” is plainly positioned to soften and humanize, yet even here, she often swerves into score-settling eviscerations of her perceived enemies. She devotes two chapters to decrying the media, in particular a New York Times reporter’s coverage of Success’s disciplinary practices; Moskowitz accuses her of a biased “abuse” of journalistic privilege. Lazy, meanwhile, is a tag she affixes to students and bureaucrats alike. She has no patience for critics who question Success’s high-stress test prep (as some of her own teachers do). Nor can she resist deriding fellow charter-school leaders as “political pacifists.” 

[...]  Moskowitz has realized that she can do more to change public schools as a private citizen than as mayor — by operating outside of democracy rather than within it. I agree with her, and that unsettles me.

[...] If the trend continues, parents across the income spectrum won’t face a tapestry of alternatives to the mainstream school district, each one with its own name and unique approach. Instead, they will get to choose from a handful of charter-school networks that are likely to make the original district — the one governed by an elected school board or the mayor, depending on the city — more peripheral

[...] At traditional public schools, the various layers of government are responsible for both steering and rowing. They steer by supplying funding and deciding what schools should broadly aim for: what kids should learn, and by when. The government also rows, hiring the bureaucrats and superintendents and teachers charged with meeting those goals. In the charter-school model, government responsibility ends at steering — providing funding, deciding which measures of success matter, and holding schools accountable for results. Choosing whom to hire (and fire), what to pay them, what else to spend money on, how to design curricula — all those decisions are contracted out to private, mostly nonprofit organizations. Those are in turn governed by boards usually — in the case of larger networks like Success — made up of wealthy donors.

[...] while critics see the lottery approach as an abdication of responsibility, Moskowitz and Osborne champion it as a tool for social justice. Neighborhood schools, they argue, institutionalize housing segregation, making a child’s ZIP code his educational destiny. Charter schools, by contrast, hand the power of choice to parents who can’t afford to exercise it through real estate.

[...] A recent study of New York City’s public high school system — in which students have applied to schools outside their neighborhood for years — found that parents seem to care less about the quality of the school than about the academic ability of the other students there. Left to their own choices, parents could very well resegregate schools as effectively as ZIP-code-based systems of assigning schools have done [...]

Yet Petry and Greenblatt aren’t just nice. They are in charge, and nobody elected them. Like Moskowitz, the two men who founded her school really want, I think, better schools for all kids, and I believe they want to achieve this by the most-ethical means possible. But as the three of them have worked at revamping and expanding the network’s slice of public education, they have added new members to its board, and predictably, they have picked some of the wealthiest and most politically connected people.]]></description>
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    <title>How Hayek's Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-03T17:45:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/hayek-evolutionary-theory-disproves-politics-david-wilson-bowles/</link>
    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The union of political liberalism with Hayek’s economic liberalism – laissez faire– has proven to be an unhappy marriage. It is no surprise that some of those who have fared worse during the last quarter century of right wing resurgence are attracted to xenophobic nationalism and intolerance. In the early 21st century it is not ‘big government’ that is the threat to liberal values. Ask yourself: where are they key liberal ideas of tolerance, the rule of law, and defense of the weak against the strong more secure today: the Nordic countries (where governments comprise half of the economy) or the U.S, where Hayek’s political vision has been widely embraced?

[...] that the information revolution in economics that Hayek kicked off well over a half century ago, ended up pointing to a larger public role both in rectifying market failures and in addressing the problem of unaccountable power exercised by employers over employees.

But a new paradigm along these lines is not simply a refurbished Nordic social democracy, or even less centralized planning. It points to an active role for a democratic civil society, and not simply government regulation.

[...] Hayek’s vision of the economy as a complex evolving system was less readily rendered in mathematical form than the Walrasian paradigm that dominated economics in the late 20th century. This limited its take-up among economists because we – rightly in my opinion – place a high value on the precise formulation of models using mathematics where this is possible. Second, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Hayek’s bitter opposition to Keynesian stabilization policies and other forms of highly beneficial government regulation of the economy led many economists – few of whom bothered to read Hayek — to reject his other, more fundamental insights. His reputation has also been tarnished by extreme claims on behalf of laissez faire made by those claiming his mantle. In this he has suffered a fate similar to Marx: his economic insights have been overlooked in part because those who most famously took up his name advocated systems that were rightly opposed by most scholars.]]></description>
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    <title>How to Create Collective Intelligence (interview with Geoff Mulgan, author of Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-03T17:42:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The reason that multi-cellular organisms and eusocial insect colonies both have minds is because they are both units of selection. Lower-level interactions that result in collective survival and reproduction are retained, while lower-level interactions that result in dysfunctional outcomes pass out of existence. What we call “mind” focuses on the lower-level interactions that result in the gathering and processing of information, leading to adaptive collective action.

As soon as we associate “mind” with “unit of selection”, then the possibility of human group minds leaps into view [...]

Not only do units of selection tell us where group minds are likely to exist, but also where they are unlikely to exist. In many animal societies, within-group selection is the primary evolutionary force, leading to behaviors that would be regarded as selfish and despotic in human terms. If these societies have group minds at all, they are highly impaired, unlike eusocial insect colonies. By the same token, despotic human societies have group minds that are highly impaired, unlike more cooperatively organized human societies [...]

 most of what I have recounted is new, emerging only within the last two or three decades, and is often not reflected in the thinking of otherwise smart people on the subject of collective intelligence. In particular, there is a tendency to naively assume that collective intelligence emerges spontaneously from complex interactions, without requiring a process of selection at the level of the collective unit [...]

There is little doubt in my mind that groups can think, and can have true or false beliefs.  But the ways groups do these things are not precisely analogous to the ways individuals work. I try to provide a way of thinking about the degrees of ‘we-ness’ of groups, that relates this to the extent of integration of cognition in a group.  Here I extend recent work on individual consciousness which relates it to the degree of integration of the brain while awake.  This, I hope, more nuanced position sees individuals as shaped by groups, and groups as made up of individuals and is helped by the ways in which psychology and neuroscience have revealed that the individual mind is better understood not as a monolithic hierarchy, with a single will, but rather as a network of semiautonomous cells that sometimes collaborate and sometimes compete [...]

I offer several different challenges to the glib, but very common, view that the universe has some inner dynamic towards benign self-organisation.  The first recognizes organization as costly, the lens of cognitive economics.   When we study self-organisation more closely in any real situation – from markets to online collaborations like Wikipedia – they turn out to rely on a great deal of labour, provided by some people who choose to devote scarce time and money to the work of making things happen, rather than just having fun or sitting on the couch.  Where there are insufficient motivations, incentives or habits for doing this self-organisation tends to disappoint. The second lens recognizes conflict, and a constant struggle between forces for cooperation and forces that aim to disrupt or misinform.  Contemporary social media are an obvious example. The third more sociological lens recognizes that most real complex human societies combine multiple cultures, some hierarchical, some individualistic, and some more egalitarian and cooperative.  These complement each other in all sorts of ways.  Purely flat, self-organising egalitarian structures tend to fall apart, as do structures which are only hierarchical or only individualistic.   I believe this is a fundamental insight of some modern social science (which I attribute particularly to the anthropologist Mary Douglas) which helps make sense of everything from grappling climate change to the everyday life of business [...]

co-evolution – systems learn best by trying, fixing and following leads rather than abstract design.

DSW: Again, your emphasis on the need for policymaking to be iterative is important. In addition, any systems engineer will tell you that a complex system cannot be optimized by separately optimizing the parts. The parts and their interactions must be organized with the performance of the whole system in mind. If so, then collective intelligence at the global scale requires policies that are formulated with the welfare of the whole earth in mind. Nothing else will do and the concept that each nation can pursue a “my nation first” policy is collective idiocy. Do you agree with this assessment?

GM: The insight that optimization of parts can be suboptimal for the whole is one of the great contributions of systems engineering, and one that is often forgotten both in business and government, where the relentless pursuit of narrow targets can often have disastrous consequences.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2017-12-16T17:08:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Taryn</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An important aspect of the experiment with Ofsted is that the BIT doesn’t want schools to know how the algorithm works, as the project’s director told Wired. ‘The process is a little bit of a black box—that’s sort of the point of it,’ he said. In other words, schools are to be kept in the dark about the school-evaluating algorithm so that they don’t have the opportunity to ‘game’ their data in advance, which would result in skewing the predictive model [...]

As the US GovLab has reported, the application of data science in public policy by ‘data labs’ can help create a ‘smarter state.’ Indeed, Nesta and the Cabinet Office have previously collaborated to develop ideas about a ‘new operating system for government,’ using  data science, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, sensors, autonomous machines, and platforms to redefine the role of government [...]

 the Nudge Unit is seeking to transform the way school inspections are performed. Rather than inspection through embodied expertise, school evaluation is now to be enacted predictively, before the inspector arrives. Jenny Ozga has previously written of how digitally recorded data increasingly surrounds the inspection process. The Nudge Unit is seeking to pre-empt the inspection process through the application of machine learning algorithms which have been trained to spot patterns and make predictions from pulling together a wide range of multimodal data sources about schools and their contexts.

These deliberately ‘black-boxed’ and opaque systems, which schools would be unable to understand, could be significant actors in practices of school accountability. If, as anticipated, some of Ofsted’s tasks are automated by the Nudge Unit’s intervention, then it may be unclear how certain decisions have been made in relation to a school’s overall evaluation. Although the BIT claims it doesn’t wish to replace the professional inspector, it is clear that school inspection will become a more distributed task involving both human and nonhuman decisionmaking and judgment, with data science methods perceived as more objective and impartial means for producing evidence than professional observation. In this sense, it is entirely consistent with behavioural science claims that human decision-making is less rational and evidence-based–and more emotionally-charged, cognitively-biased and subjective–than is commonly assumed.]]></description>
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