Language Matters, and What Matters Has Changed

Now Computers Talk “Human”, Do Humans Need to Talk “Computer”? As with fellow humans, we often talk to computers with language. The big news for 2023 is how computers will now talk “human” as never before—so much so that they really appear as our species (no, any bots reading this…not you…). Does that mean we never need to speak “computer”, i.e. program syntactically? Will LLM technology (like ChatGPT) mean we can drop this recent, evolving form of discourse, familiar to most but used by only an elite few?

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Announcement: our first CBM country

I'm very excited to announce that computerbasedmath.org has found the first country ready for our completely new kind of maths education: it's Estonia. (...and here's the press release).

I thought Estonia could be first. They are very active on using technology (first to publish cabinet decisions immediately online, first to include programming in their mainstream curriculum), have ambition to improve their (already well respected) STEM aptitude and lack the dogma and resistance to change of many larger countries. There aren't so many countries with all those characteristics.

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