Phil Hackett

How to LEARN faster with the Feynman technique: > Pick a topic you wanna understand and start studying it > Pretend to teach the topic to a classroom > Go back to the books when you get stuck > Simplify and use analogies! Teaching a powerful tool for learning. 🧠

Introducing FunSearch in @Nature: a method using large language models to search for new solutions in mathematics & computer science. 🔍 It pairs the creativity of an LLM with an automated evaluator to guard against hallucinations and incorrect ideas. 🧵 dpmd.ai/x-funsearch

Join the @OUComputing team as a part-time Associate Lecturer on ‘TM359: Systems Penetration Testing’ and help to support the next generation of Cyber Security professionals. Apply here: www5.open.ac.uk/employment/vac… #CyberSecurity #TM256 #CertifiedEthicalHacker #TM359 #CyberCareer

What does AI mean for computing education? Our CEO, @PhilipColligan, engages with the big questions surrounding AI and computing education in our latest blog. Read more: rpf.io/blog-wdamf #AIEducation #AILiteracy #Computing #Education

Yes yes! Really excited to get this one schedule in for this term. A chance to bring together all those interested in computing education research. Whether you’ve got a PhD or just some curiosity, join us for a friendly chat.

📣 We are bringing Microsoft's TEALS to teachers and pupils in England 🌍increasing access to high-quality computing lessons, boost knowledge & skills, & understanding of digital careers 💪 direct support to secondary school teachers. ➡ Find out more hubs.ly/Q01YMcr-0

50% of StackOverflow traffic is gone! Look at the attached chart. It tells a scary story that will not be limited to StackOverflow. Right now, detecting AI-generated content is impossible. Last week, OpenAI shut down the tool they created for this purpose. They launched it in January, and it's dead today, less than seven months later. Their statement: "The AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy." I'm not surprised about any of these two events. I don't remember the last time I visited StackOverflow. Why would I when tools like Copilot and ChatGPT answer my questions faster without making me feel bad for asking? And I'm even less surprised about OpenAI killing their tool: Many believe detecting AI-generated text is impossible. I'm one of them. Here's what OpenAI had to say about this: "We are (...) currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated." Notice how they differentiate text from audio and visual content. For the latter, they seem confident they'll find a way to recognize humans from AI. For text, they are not and are word-salad'ing us with a vague "researching more effective provenance techniques." StackOverflow famously banned any AI-generated answers from the site. That's the wrong move. Instead, we need to find a way where human and AI-generated content coexist and benefit from each other. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, so how can we get the most out of it? Do you think StackOverflow will survive? What can they do to fend off what seems to be a life-threatening event?

Russell Group, which is made up of 24 leading #universities including Oxford and Cambridge, has announced that students will be allowed to use generative AI. Here's what you need to know 🧵👇 1/ #AIEthics

Take Pair Programming to the next level with these four Replit features 🧵

DFE update on use of generative #AI within education... "It’s vital that our system of #assessment can fairly and robustly assess the skills and knowledge of those being examined." #ChatGPT #Bard assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

We're teaming up with @googlecloud. Replit's 20M+ developers will get Google Cloud services, infrastructure, and foundation models. Idea to live software on Replit just got even faster.

If we prioritise curriculum coverage over curriculum understanding then we’re just whipping away unfinished plates. Everyone’s hungry, there’s loads of waste and no one quite knows what’s going on. Fewer plates, more time to savour and digest.

Hornets, Slugs, Bees and Butterflies: the workload relief revolution wp.me/p31zUY-Li 🐌a let-go-of list of 20 slugs 💥a not-to-do list of 18 hornets 🐝a keep-doing list of 10 honeybees 🦋a start-doing-list of 12 butterflies ✊ join the revolution

Join us to discuss Collaborative Coding in the Cloud on Monday 6th February at 2pm GMT with @missedabracket @OUComputing sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/2022/12/21/sig… All welcome to our monthly #SIGCSE journal club meetup on Zoom @jetbrains @CodingRooms @Replit

I miss Rach 🙂. This is education related - don't lose your licence keys!

We’ve been working with @CodeFirstGirls to help increase the number of women working in technology by: 👩‍💻 Teaching programming languages to over 2000 women. 👩‍🎓 Funding dozens of 14-week nanodegrees in data and software. Find out more in the @guardian ⬇️ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…

Join the @OUComputing team as a part-time Associate Lecturer on ‘TM359: Systems Penetration Testing’ and help to support the next generation of Cyber Security professionals. Apply here: open.ac.uk/about/employme… #CyberSecurity #TM359 #CertifiedEthicalHacker #CyberCareer

The Big Book of Computing Content is HERE! Check your inbox or download your free copy here: helloworld.cc/bigbook2 Print subscribers in the UK will receive their free copy in the post this week; tag us in your pics so we know when you get them. Happy reading ☕ #CSEd #STEMEd