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It's time to redefine how we learn and connect
Stephen Downes, YouTube, 2025/01/24

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This post links to the YouTube site where I will be making an announcement next Monday, the 27th, at 12 noon Eastern (5 pm UTC). I will be demonstrating and describing something I have been working on for a number of months now. What is it? Well - it's a lot of things, and I'd rather people saw the whole thing at once than have me give a name to part of it. I'll show it, you can try it, and I'll announce as well a MOOC that will build on it. No, it's not an AI thing. See you Monday.

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Educational AI toolboxes
Yishay Mor, Google Sheets, 2025/01/24

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This is a spreadsheet put together by Yishay Mor comparing (as the title suggests) various AI 'toolboxes' for education. "I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to help me compare," writes Mor. "The results were.. not overwhelming, but I guess a starting point."

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New AI picks up 97% of lung diseases, and can tell pneumonia from COVID-19
New Atlas, 2025/01/24

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A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.QUOTE: Shafiabady noted that as long as the model is trained on the right data, it has the potential to further its lung-disease diagnostic abilities, picking up signs of tuberculosis, black lung, asthma, cancer, chronic lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis. And the researchers hope to adapt the model to be able to accurately assess more than ultrasounds, such as CT scans and X-rays.

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DIY Web Archiving
Quinn Dombrowski, et al., 2025/01/24

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This is a PDF zine describing how people can use a couple recommend tools to create their own archive of the web as they browse. The main tool is called WebRecorder, which sits as a plug-in in your browser. KIWIX is a tool to browse the web offline. Now I haven't tried either of these, so I can't vouch for them. Also, the PDF I'm linking to is locked down, so the links don't work and you can't select text from it. So I am initially suspicious. But it looks like an interesting project, so I'm passing it along. Via Ed Summers.

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