Trying to make yourself stupider
“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – CS Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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Creative Destruction in the Music Industry at Ignite Wellington
Ignite Wellington was part of Global Ignite Week, and I was invited to do a talk as part of this exciting and (as a presenter) nerve-wracking endeavour. Each presenter is given exactly 5 minutes to present, and allocated 20 Powerpoint slides which are automatically advanced every 15 seconds; the presenter has no control over the…
Continue reading →Te Reo Pūtaiao – Tohunga Rorohiko
Te Reo Pūtaiao: A Māori Language Dictionary of Science came out earlier this month. It was compiled using the Freelex / Mātāpuna open source dictionary writing system that I wrote. Te Reo Pūtaiao is an encyclopedic dictionary; nearly all of the info is in Te Reo Māori, and each entry contains an equivalent English gloss…
Continue reading →Basil Pesto Kugel
Here’s a variation on kugel … not as bland as straight kugel, but not as in-your-face as pasta-pesto. 500g pasta 250g sour cream 250g cottage cheese 250g milk 2 eggs 1 plant, fresh basil chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushed 75g pine nuts 75g parmesan cheese, grated Preheat oven to 190°C. Boil the pasta until for…
Continue reading →Welcome to Dave’s world
Eek, another blog you say. Well, some of the stuff I want to write about doesn’t fit neatly into any of my other normal outlets. I hope you enjoy what you read, and be sure to leave comments or contact me directly if you’d like to engage directly.
Continue reading →Steam wisps
I took one of the most interesting photos I’ve ever taken a couple of days ago, at Field Hut in the Tararua range. Check out an inset of the steam wisps: They’re spooky, and very Maurice Sendak.
Continue reading →A Beautiful Journey through Assisted Death
My mother, Dr Sarah Traister Moskovitz, died on 1 September 2024 through Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever witnessed. She was 97. This is the story of how she came to end her own life.
Continue reading →EdTech news clippings – new location
Are you looking for the latest developments in Education Techology – EdTech? In 2021, I started an EdTech news clipping page using Pinboard.in. I’ve changed my bookmarking technology to Raindrop.io, and am now also publishing these on Mastodon. Here’s how to find them: Raindrop.io direct: https://raindrop.io/davemosk/ed-tech-49190038/ Raindrop.io RSS feed: https://raindrop.io/collection/49190038/feed Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @edtech.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy If…
Continue reading →AI performs better than expected
Skepticism mollified – for specific tasks If you’ve talked to me about AI recently, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to AI being a panacea for the world’s problems. What between hallucinations about academic articles, many inherent biases, lack of training on obscure subjects, stuff that’s just plain wrong,…
Continue reading →The Song Remains
Last month, I helped launch a new web site: The Song Remains, a collection of Yiddish poetry with English translations by Polish-Jewish poets who were killed during the Nazi occupation. The poems come from the eponymous book, anthologised by Binem Heller and published in Warsaw in 1952. There are over 160 poems by 36 authors in total. We will be publishing one poem per week from the collection. You can subscribe (for free) to receive a poem per week in your inbox.
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