Category: IT musings
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Freshly back at my desk after a week of wandering around the countryside and swimming in the sea, the thought occurred, “Do I really need to be here? Why haven’t I been replaced by a robot yet?”. After all, we have been promised that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is around the corner for some years…
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Testing some multiple choice questions, I came across an issue that seems curiously little discussed in education circles. The case is the multi-select, multiple choice question, where a learner may select x number of correct answers from y number of options. The client particularly did not want to divulge how many correct answers there were,…
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Online reviews are usually given as averages. But imagine restaurant A has ten 4 star reviews and restaurant B has eight 5 star reviews and two 1 star reviews. Similar averages, but restaurant A basically guarantees a 4 star meal, whereas restaurant B has a 1 in 5 chance of delivering a terrible meal. I…