Dave Walk Overhead a guy today explaining how his service for hiring managers uses predictive filtering to weed out job applicants automatically. Out of all of the applications of machine learning this good be one of the worst. Like how it would deny someone if they didn't have X years of experience in mySQL. It's really kind of sad.

🙄 Doug Belshaw Well it's better than one person I heard of who (literally) threw the hundreds of paper applications from the top of his stairs. Ones that got to the bottom were 'meant to be interviewed'. To be honest, the fit between what most organisations need and how they filter - usually by awkward credentials - is broken. That's why Open Badges are so exciting: openbadges.org

🦿 Lucian Marin This was a better explanation of what Open Badges tries to achieve than site itself.

🙄 Doug Belshaw Well I was on the original badges team at Mozilla... ;-)