Keywords: communication, connection, distributed cognition, distributed learning, information, Internet, knowledge sharing, links, massive open online course (MOOC), nodes, online, open educational resources (OER), social networks
Human Nature Applied Virtually
In November, I'll be leading an online writing workshop called Friends as Force Multiplier [https://otherinter.net/workshops/fafm/], hosted by semi-enigmatic consultancy Other Internet [https://otherinter.net/]. FaFM will focus on understanding, navigating, and leveraging internet communities — from empathy to economics and back. I don't have any teaching credentials
Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions
Last week, my travels took me to San Antonio where I delivered one of the keynote addresses at the Educause Learning Initiative conference -- a gathering focused on the application of technology for learning at the college and university level. My presentation, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us Ab
Fleetwood on Twitter / X
Studying continual learning at the moment, best papers thus far:https://t.co/Y9oXBAiyj2https://t.co/ByWlaF3ncnhttps://t.co/hG0XIzq6cHhttps://t.co/5VSEnBIkX2— Fleetwood (@fleetwood___) April 11, 2026
Pluralis Research
Protocol Learning — decentralized, communication-efficient model-parallel training for foundation models.
What is open communication?
Open source collaboration requires open communication, they say. Just what is open communication, exactly? Drawing on past research [1], here are the four principles that make communication open. O…
Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs
A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web
Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs
A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web
Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs
A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web
Wait… whats a Community of Practice?
“Learning is not merely the acquisition of knowledge by individuals. It is a process of social participation.” A slightly bastardised…
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain (Published 2017)
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research
Reproducible research: methodological principles for transparent…
This Mooc proposes methodological principles for open and transparent science. It deals in a practical way with note-taking, computational documentation, replicability of analyses.
The best free cultural & educational media on the web - Open Culture
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I often get emails asking for ideas (or materials) to learn about distributed systems. I always recommend getting started with Gossip Glomers. Only six challenges, some easy and some difficult, but an absolute top tier fun and learning experience fly.io/dist-sys
