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Voglio essere disturbato…
Sono riuscito a trovare i video che tu youTube.com sono stati rimossi dopo pochi minuti sulla lapidazione di una ragazza curda, colpevole di essersi innamorata di un mussulmano..
Sono stati rimossi per “violazione ai termini di utilizzo” .. si.. perchèi “termini di utilizzo” di YouTube.com sono quelli di farci vedere un mondo fatto di bambini felici che giocano con i loro biondissimi genitori.. un mondo-pubblicità..
Ma se conoscere la realtà vuol dire essere disturbato, io preferisco essere disturbato, grazie!
Per motivi di spazio e di banda posto i links ai video, ma se dovesserero scomparire anche da questo sito, fatemelo sapere che li ho recuperati e li ho nel mio hard disk..
La seguente è la traduzione della pagina
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Voglio essere disturbato…
Sono riuscito a trovare i video che tu youTube.com sono stati rimossi dopo pochi minuti sulla lapidazione di una ragazza curda, colpevole di essersi innamorata di un mussulmano..
Sono stati rimossi per “violazione ai termini di utilizzo” .. si.. perchèi “termini di utilizzo” di YouTube.com sono quelli di farci vedere un mondo fatto di bambini felici che giocano con i loro biondissimi genitori.. un mondo-pubblicità..
Ma se conoscere la realtà vuol dire essere disturbato, io preferisco essere disturbato, grazie!
Per motivi di spazio e di banda posto i links ai video, ma se dovesserero scomparire anche da questo sito, fatemelo sapere che li ho recuperati e li ho nel mio hard disk..
La seguente è la traduzione della pagina
http://www.ikwro.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=2
A smart spider
So, this week-end I decided to get a break to my Machine Learning course and paint a bit of stuff, including the kid's wood house.
There is a side with a plastic windows, and my task was to paint the wood, trying to go as much as possible with the brush inside the hole between the wood and the plastic:
Now, while I did just started from the top, a spider that was hidden in the hole between the plastic and the wood a bit more down, did the first smart thing: he (or she?) did come out. He learned that if I would have continued, I would have reach his hideout with the brush and killed him. He did a second smart thing: he went on the windows, on the plastic side, not on the wood side. Then he waited a bit, and as I was painting the wood from up to down… he moved across the plastic side to go up “against the gradient” and reach a calm, safe area.
I wander what is the neural structure that even in a such a simple creature allowed him to make the right decisions to maximise his fitness and how much powerful computers we would need to match these abilities.
Cheryl's Birthday - Quand'è il compleanno di Cheryl ?
Traduzione italiana del problema del compleanno di Cheryl (Cheryl's Birthday):
Alberto e Bernardo vogliono diventare amici di Cheryl, e vogliono sapere quand'è il suo compleanno. Cheryl gli dà una lista di 10 possibili date:
| 15 Maggio | 16 Maggio | 19 Maggio |
| 17 Giugno | 18 Giugno | |
| 14 Luglio | 16 Luglio | |
| 14 Agosto | 15 Agosto | 17 Agosto |
Cheryl poi dice separatamente ad Alberto e Bernardo rispettivamente il mese ed il giorno del suo compleanno.
Alberto: Non so quando sia il compleanno di Cheryl, ma so che pure Bernardo non lo sa.
Bernardo: Non sapevo quand'è il compleanno di Cheryl, ma adesso lo so.
Alberto: Allora adesso anch'io lo so
Quand'è quindi il compleanno di Cheryl ?
A reflection on remote university exams without proctoring
I had recently had the experience of organising for a master course a remote exam and had a very bad experience as many students ended up cheating.
A am going public here because on one side I think it is a good proxy of the tension that many of you must have feel in the post-covid era: on one side, remote exams can be super convenient for you of for the students. Especially in advanced education, where the problem of motivations in remote teaching is less pushing, the option to detach the physical place of teaching and grading to those of student's life is really tempting. But is it really possible ?
In my case I has been “forced” to organise the exam remotely, given the nature of the master program with students physically in different countries. At the same time I had, as a student, great experience (setting aside some technical problems with a specific browser..) with proctoring software/services where the room is firstly “scanned”, the software take control of the pc where you do the exam, the mic and the camera, everything is recorded and a mix of AI/cheaply paid guys somewhere in Asia check that all is ok or he/she report to the teacher. Because everything is recorded for years, a warning is also typically given to students that if cheating is discovered, maybe years later when they are affirmed professionals, the title will be stripped.
In my exam however I didn't use these services. I has been told that the students were “good”, already at the end of their accademic carrear. And when I proposed these system, links included, no-one ever replied.
A smart spider
So, this week-end I decided to get a break to my Machine Learning course and paint a bit of stuff, including the kid's wood house.
There is a side with a plastic windows, and my task was to paint the wood, trying to go as much as possible with the brush inside the hole between the wood and the plastic:
Now, while I did just started from the top, a spider that was hidden in the hole between the plastic and the wood a bit more down, did the first smart thing: he (or she?) did come out. He learned that if I would have continued, I would have reach his hideout with the brush and killed him. He did a second smart thing: he went on the windows, on the plastic side, not on the wood side. Then he waited a bit, and as I was painting the wood from up to down… he moved across the plastic side to go up “against the gradient” and reach a calm, safe area.
I wander what is the neural structure that even in a such a simple creature allowed him to make the right decisions to maximise his fitness and how much powerful computers we would need to match these abilities.
Cheryl's Birthday - Quand'è il compleanno di Cheryl ?
Traduzione italiana del problema del compleanno di Cheryl (Cheryl's Birthday):
Alberto e Bernardo vogliono diventare amici di Cheryl, e vogliono sapere quand'è il suo compleanno. Cheryl gli dà una lista di 10 possibili date:
| 15 Maggio | 16 Maggio | 19 Maggio |
| 17 Giugno | 18 Giugno | |
| 14 Luglio | 16 Luglio | |
| 14 Agosto | 15 Agosto | 17 Agosto |
Cheryl poi dice separatamente ad Alberto e Bernardo rispettivamente il mese ed il giorno del suo compleanno.
Alberto: Non so quando sia il compleanno di Cheryl, ma so che pure Bernardo non lo sa.
Bernardo: Non sapevo quand'è il compleanno di Cheryl, ma adesso lo so.
Alberto: Allora adesso anch'io lo so
Quand'è quindi il compleanno di Cheryl ?
A reflection on remote university exams without proctoring
I had recently had the experience of organising for a master course a remote exam and had a very bad experience as many students ended up cheating.
A am going public here because on one side I think it is a good proxy of the tension that many of you must have feel in the post-covid era: on one side, remote exams can be super convenient for you of for the students. Especially in advanced education, where the problem of motivations in remote teaching is less pushing, the option to detach the physical place of teaching and grading to those of student's life is really tempting. But is it really possible ?
In my case I has been “forced” to organise the exam remotely, given the nature of the master program with students physically in different countries. At the same time I had, as a student, great experience (setting aside some technical problems with a specific browser..) with proctoring software/services where the room is firstly “scanned”, the software take control of the pc where you do the exam, the mic and the camera, everything is recorded and a mix of AI/cheaply paid guys somewhere in Asia check that all is ok or he/she report to the teacher. Because everything is recorded for years, a warning is also typically given to students that if cheating is discovered, maybe years later when they are affirmed professionals, the title will be stripped.
In my exam however I didn't use these services. I has been told that the students were “good”, already at the end of their accademic carrear. And when I proposed these system, links included, no-one ever replied.
