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Philosophers On a Physics Experiment that “Suggests There’s No Such Thing As Objective Reality”
Justin Weinberg, Daily Nous, 2019/03/22

MIT Technology Review recently published an article entitled “A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality. Of course, the suggestion fell far short of a proof, but that didn't stop people from speculating. I personally fall into the 'no objective reality' camp, but not because of quantum physics. Anyhow, what's interesting about this set of short articles is that they make clear how important is the interpretation of any objective evidence. No data, no matter how concrete, speaks for itself; what it means depends on what we recognize it to be.

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EthicalML/xai
GitHub, 2019/03/22

From the website: " XAI is a Machine Learning library that is designed with AI explainability in its core. XAI contains various tools that enable for analysis and evaluation of data and models. The XAI library is maintained by The Institute for Ethical AI & ML, and it was developed based on the 8 principles for Responsible Machine Learning." This may all seem pretty esoteric, but I can imagine a  student assignment of the (far) future: use your AI to automatically generate a response to a Reddit discussion and them employ the AI to explain the reasoning for your AI-generated response.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?
Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 2019/03/22

Remixing open educational resources has been invented by a Harvard professor. As EdSurge reports, "The idea comes from Robert Lue, a biology professor at Harvard University who was the founding faculty director of HarvardX, the college’s effort to build MOOCs. He’s leading a new platform called LabXChange that aims to let professors, teachers or anyone mix together their own free online course from pieces of other courses." Until this point, we have not really had any idea what to do with our old MOOCs, and could only rebuild them from scratch. Thanks to a $6.5-million grant from the Amgen Foundation, that's all changed.

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