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Open Recognition Networks
Stephen Downes, Oct 26, 2020, ePIC 2020 – 18th International Conference , Online via Zoom

Recent technologies such as badges and blockchain have added a new dimension to online skills recognition. In a recent MOOC, Stephen Downes implemented both, and in this presentation will outline the process and technology employed. From this starting point, Downes will discuss the concept of recognition more broadly and explore how new forms and processes of recognition are now possible, leading to the development of open recognition networks. In addition to outlining the technology of open recognition networks and showing some examples, Downes will survey how they interoperate with other technologies, such as competencies and skills analytics, and discuss some of the potential social, ethical and cultural challenges such systems introduce. uuu

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Hard Problems and Then Some
Richard Marshall, 3:16, 2020/10/26

This is the callout quote that got me to read this article: "The prevalence of belief based-accounts of knowledge and propositional-attitude approaches has obscured the importance of reliable and virtuous motivation and skills in epistemology and philosophy more generally." I agree - but the interview here with Carlos Montemayor covers much more ground than that, including especially the roles of attention and motivation in knowledge and belief.

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Freedombone
Freedombone, 2020/10/26

Despite its odd name, this is an interesting project. "Freedombone is a home server system which enables you to run your own internet services, individually or as a household. It includes all of the things you'd expect such as email, chat, VoIP, web sites, wikis, blogs, social networks, media hosting and more. You can run Freedombone on an old laptop or single board computer. No ads and no built-in spying." This is in many ways similar to NextCloud. Or, here's another option: Bonfire. It's an actual device you can use to host your own node on a decentralized federated social network.

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Badgebot
Badgebot, 2020/10/26

Self-styled as "the world's first open badges issuing twitter bot", Badgebot allows people to award badges and post the results using their Twitter account. I heard about it in today's ePIC conference. It "uses Twitter timelines and tweets as evidence, displayer of badges, and access to badges" and "saves all badge data as public gists" which you can view here. You can find code here and here. Here's the (short) list of badges. Here on Twitter I awarded myself a badge and here is the result.

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Using AWS Rekognition To Automatically Grade Surgical Residents - Thoughts?
Reddit, 2020/10/26

This is an example I used in my talk on Open Recognition Networks today. It's an application that uses Amazon Web Services AI to evaluate work done by surgical residents. There's more information on the SES website. "Our idea, which actually came from another conversation on Reddit, was to draw a grid on a suture pad and have students attempt to suture the mock wound. Surgeons would then identify the finished grid images on the pads as good or bad." Easy to set up, and cost about a cent to run.

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