Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I like the work Ian O'Byrne have been doing recently designing (and redesigning) his own personal learning system. He has the first three of the four stage "aggregate remix repurpose feed-forward" model I've described in the past (he calls it "consume curate create"). It's a common enough pattern, certainly nothing I invented, and he references Andrej Karpathy's of an LLM wiki in the same context. I plan to do something similar with the 30,000 or so links I have amassed over the years. But I'm cautious about any integration of AI. As O'Byrne says, "I care a lot about keeping my voice." In most things, I say the thing AI can't say, because I see the world differently from the majority. 

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