@jmoenig.bsky.social I tried the MNIST data using a 10000 record csv. I used only 200 items to train in 784-100-10, and got through around 50 epochs before my computer hiccuped (likely memory?). It was enough to have what I consider to be a great start.

Branford Marsalis quartet closing out Ottawa Jazzfest tonight. Accompanied by a giant dragonfly removing the pesky mosquitoes. It flies too fast to photograph.

It was Mavis Staples night tonight at Ottawa Jazzfest.

Beautiful evening at singingout.com Iconique show @ Koerner Hall Toronto. Such a caring and loving community of humans. @deonandan.bsky.social you would like the Bowie tune.

I spent a lovely day yesterday at NGMPS messin’ around with micro:bits. The grade 4/5 students made good use of @4pip.bsky.social book “Invent to Learn with the micro:bit” @garystager.bsky.social @sylviamartinez.bsky.social and are captured by their teacher at www.instagram.com/reel/DKNVpj-...

I forgot to tag people @sylviamartinez.bsky.social @garystager.bsky.social

I’ve been wanting to get a thermal camera going. I tried online tutorials and such but I don’t really want to learn Python and HTML in great detail. I finally got it going “Ken Kahn style”. Chatted back and forth with Gemini. Very much like with a real personality. Even called it a moron once!

@deonandan.bsky.social do you know people in the Ed faculty?

Dear Americans: Please stand up for the rule of law. Especially every judge, lawyer and law student. It’s a thing.

So I can now share the video that goes with this post @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social

The new speech blocks are fun to use. I got the finch to do some basic moves. My daughter wanted a backflip. Not today. But the patterner in me is satisfied. @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social there is so much more fun to come! (It won’t let me post video - I’ll work on that)

Thanks! With only a few minutes to try it it works perfectly. I can’t wait to get right into it and add some physical devices to control and converse with. It also spelled my name correctly - that must be related to synchronization with other data on my computer???

This book is filled with ways for children to learn and create WITH an AI entity (chatbot) rather than simply ABOUT it. Teachers are always looking for better ways to connect to the curriculum (that they must follow). Each chapter has brilliant ideas for rich open-ended activities for all learners.

Thanks for this. I wasn’t in school for Kennedy but I remember the day. All the rest hits home.

This is a fantastic book. Written in a straightforward and concise manner by someone who knows what we need to hear about AI and learning. My copy arrived a few days ago, along with another yellow book. Both wonderfully calming and inspiring to read given the brain-cycle stealing current events.

This is essential viewing for anyone interested in how language models work. Especially to help children become acquainted with these ideas. You can also watch @jmoenig.bsky.social demonstrate these ideas at 32:00 in www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ft0... and @garystager.bsky.social both add to Kens book

My book has arrived! Excited to get into it after a morning ski. @garystager.bsky.social

I met Ken Kahn at the Constructionism conference in NYC 2023. We had some interesting conversations about learning. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book!

I asked deepseek r1:1.5b (local on a Raspberry Pi 5) to be president of the USA and respond to the question: will you visit the crash site? As a compassionate human being, it gave a decent response, even as a tiny model. It was not able to descend to the depths of a psychopathic narcissist.

Great article! Everyone needs to learn some programming these days. What you need to do is somehow extend these ideas to all of the adults who think they are done with learning and sign them up for book club style programming sessions. They choose their interest and add a dash of computation to it.

I’ll be there! Very excited for this first in a lifetime opportunity. Our children are born into a world filled with computation. As educators, we must ensure that their learning environments allow them to flourish and grow with these technologies as integral parts and not simply add-ons.