On academic assessment, computerised proctoring, gaming the system, and instructional delivery.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examinations" rel="nofollow">Graduate Record Examinations</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trades_Union_Congress" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia: National Trades Union Congress</a>

<a href="https://support.proctoru.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043565051-Exam-Day-What-to-Expect-" rel="nofollow">Exam Day: What to Expect</a>

<a href="https://twitter.com/LegendAriee16/status/1304098649186742273" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/LegendAriee16/status/1304098649186742273</a>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/17/a-levels-gcse-results-england-based-teacher-assessments-government-u-turn" rel="nofollow">A-level and GCSE results in England to be based on teacher assessments in U-turn</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong" rel="nofollow">All models are wrong</a>

<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist" rel="nofollow">Twitter taught Microsoft&#39;s friendly AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day</a>

The tank story is likely to be apocryphal, but the discussion is nonetheless relevant:

<a href="https://www.gwern.net/Tanks" rel="nofollow">The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelims#Singapore,_Scotland_and_Latin_America" rel="nofollow">Prelims</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law" rel="nofollow">Goodhart&#39;s law</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish" rel="nofollow">Publish or perish</a>

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html" rel="nofollow">Is Law School a Losing Game? (Published 2011)</a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system" rel="nofollow">Dual education system</a>

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/18/computer-science-50-report/" rel="nofollow">CS50 Releases Report on &#39;Regret Clause,&#39; Cheating Cases | News | The Harvard Crimson</a>

Episode 012: Bad Education

We jump around from topic to topic with the discipline of a monkey mind. Birds, linguistics, computing and grad school may feature disproportionately.