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Exploring Ollama and Msty
Miguel Guhlin, Another Think Coming, 2025/02/14

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Miguel Guhlin writes about his experiences with Ollama and Msty. "The first is a text only local AI running on my machine. Msty reminded me a lot of LM Studio and Sanctum. Except that Msty made it possible to set up a knowledge stack that the chatbot could access when responding to prompts." I'm noting them here so I have a link to return to when I get back home.

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The healthcare uberization is slipping under the radar
Naiara Bellio, Automated Society, 2025/02/14

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The WHO "blames bad working conditions for the shortage of nurses" and institutions have responded by making conditions even worse. "Just like with platforms such as Uber or Glovo, nurses, healthcare professionals and daycare workers sign up to algorithmically managed apps that connect them to hospitals, medical centers and households in need of temporary staff." This is probably the plan for teachers and even professors, so be ready for it. It's going to be bad: "this would expose how unregulated technology only exacerbates the erosion of labor standards in some industries, healthcare being one of them." More here.

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Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results –
Hamel Husain, 2025/02/14

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This is an outstanding article offering a step-by-step process to working with AI to generate evaluations of business processes (for example, customer service requests). The method - if I had to summarize - is this: use an expert, simplify judgements, and give reasons for the decisions. Via George Siemens.

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How Much Does It Cost to Build an Online Course?
Glenda Morgan, On EdTech Newsletter, 2025/02/14

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This article flings around costs in the thousands to amounts of less than a hundred per credit hour (per student? it wasn't always clear). And the final answer to the question was (inevitably) "It depends." After linking to the previous item, Geroge Siemens then points is to this OELM from David Wiley and comments, "I'm thinking course design should cost about zero." My thought too.

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