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  • Reinforcement Learning – Behaviouralism for the Machine?

    I was at a day long seminar/conference on campus yesterday showcasing a variety of technology projects that are running on campus. One of the sessions that I went to that was somewhat interesting (if poorly presented) was on reinforcement learning (RL). Basically they have the machine/program hunt for a maximal reward signal and from there…

  • Docs/Scribd – The Facebook App

    I didn’t get the welcome screen, but they say that it’s not meant for plagiarism, but to help share work that has already been done and that is only taking up space on drives. According to it’s homepage blurb: Facebook Docs is a library of schoolwork where anyone can contribute. Over 50,000 documents have been…

  • An attempt at explaining US Copyright

    If only there was someone with time to do this for Canada and other jurisdictions:

  • Cone of learning and mlearning

    This is something that I was thinking about with all the talk of twitter and the like as well as mLearning last week. The Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale) (fancier) suggest that interaction is something that is critical to learning. Linked with mLearning, being able to be in the field doing and then getting a…

  • Rip online videos

    If you are getting frustrated at not being able to take your favorite YouTube videos offline, take a look at Zamzar. It’s free, you have to agree to terms of service that are much like YouTube/Google Video’s and while they agree that they won’t sell your email, your address (mail and IP) may be used…