Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

There is a reason AI can customize documents... this is an easy skill and lacks most understanding of a text.

NIH syndrome... the not invented here syndrome... does prevent you from finding other solutions, but it can also cause you to ignore important aspects of your local situation.

God Object: Creating a single class or object that handles too many responsibilities, leading to a lack of modularity and increased coupling.

We often do this to ourselves.

Antipatterns are based on solutions that seem logical but are fundamentally flawed.

I work in education. I have seen so many ot these!

Lysenko's life and work serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of political interference in scientific research.

Lysenkoism's adoption in China contributed to the Great Chinese Famine, highlighting the disastrous impact of pseudoscience on agriculture.

Lysenko promoted vernalization, a process of treating seeds with cold to increase crop yields, despite its lack of scientific basis.

Lysenko's influence led to the suppression and imprisonment of many geneticists who opposed his views, including the renowned botanist Nikolai Vavilov.

Lysenko's theories, based on Lamarckism, were politically endorsed by Stalin, causing a significant setback in Soviet genetics.

“But in the end, we remain thinking beings, too.”

Let’s get back to this as we think about AI.

In 2017, a BBC reporter agreed to have his name/ face IDed as a person of interest in a Chinese city. It took him 7 minutes to get caught by the AI cameras.

I am at that age when I can look at upcoming projects and decide if they are worth my time. I've heard rumors that the college is looking at replacing our LMS. This will be the one that will make me resign.