Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Once we believe the method will “work,” then any data that we collect will confirm our bias.

If you don't clean your data, it probably sucks.

AI... it isn't as dreadful as we figure it would be.

Sometimes al one can do is shake their head.

Bias. We all have it.

Can you be #datadriven if you don't know what a standard deviation is?

Strategies to Increase Technology Acceptance
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AI is great at answering easy to answer questions.

"I'm unfamiliar with it" and "this is innovative" are different things.

Folks new to education often comment on the degree who which existing systems or expertise are rejected. Schools build systems, don't use them, then replace them with new systems to do the same thing... which are subsequently unused.

Hazards. Our society seems to comprise individuals who make unreasonable assessments of them.

The same folks who tell me "videos can be so easily faked" will also send me videos with the comment "this video proves what I told you."

We used to store computer files on disks kept in boxes next to the machines... or in our backpacks. Hackers did not get the data often, but neither did we if we were physically distant from them.

We have had a warm fal in New England. The "reading outside" season has extended into November this years.

Some “wacky” ideas turn out to be true. That does not mean yours are.

“Efficient search is what intelligence is all about.” I’m not so sure.

Random keys producing Shakespeare is so random as to be impossible. Sure. But I don’t think those works were created by writing random letters.

“DNA was originally a symbiotic virus-like thing.” Sure. Sure. How does one prove that?

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin

Before scientists accept an observation, it must be observed by others. If you call yourself "data-driven" then others (who don't care what you think) must concur with your observations and interpretations.