Dr Dave Hitchcock
@davehitchcock
Historian at CCCU: Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
The future some vice chancellors definitely want, everywhere they can have it:
Definitely a great sign of health in that nice university sector you've got there, england.
If Global Banking School is the future of British Higher Education, count me out. Count everybody like me, out. Find someone else willing to pretend to teach you in decaying office buildings while taking your very real money.
It seems like a poisonous factionalism the only thing that gets some political animals up in the morning (on the Labour Right). Good riddance and perhaps the next set will actually do what needs doing.
Sue them into the ground, this is hideous and it's a terrible breach of every workplace right this poor young woman had. Clearly the only way HMT is going to learn is the hard way.
This guy Andrew Kelley invented a coding language called 'Zig' and, when asked about the total ban on all AI contributions etc at his company, he said:
This is truly something to watch. GMB and Unite's GS both going for the throat over Miliband, because he will pursue green policies that affect the jobs of a handful of their members. I'm firmly a union guy but wow do I disagree with this. If they're threatening to leave over the issue, let them.
Miliband still managing to anger all the right people I see. They're obviously doing this because he's influential and it's working. Leave it too long and no one in the public sphere will nod along.
This 'poverty as a wheel' thing has more legs than I initially thought. I'd forgotten that Daniel Defoe framed poverty this way, or as an 'engine of history making' (a phrase I'm playing with) in several of his pamphlets. I wonder how popular wheel metaphors were.
Neat. I am thankfully not as scraped as I thought (though all my writing was stolen early on like so many others, by Open ai and meta both).
Gee I wonder what happens next to all the universities pushing (and paying for) these chatbots as the brave new world of learning.
In the course of reading up on university finances over my egg scramble, I encounter Nick Hillman OBE defending, of all things, VC bonuses (!), asserting they are part of 'institutional autonomy'. Ambitions for later in life there bud?
When Ann Burk died homeless aged 24, in 1847 in Warrington, her 'address' in the burial record was entered as 'vagrant office'.
Basically Kelly is calling out people who do this and call it history (amd there are a lot of them, sadly).
How do large projects reliant on AI-generated datasets get around the huge confidence interval problems with gen-AI? Answer: