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Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply

Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply

The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland...

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Why Machine Learning is Not Learning? The Human Factors

Why Machine Learning is Not Learning? The Human Factors

Machine Learning is Not Learning. The reason is simply that learning understood correctly is an human activity. Machines calculate in the algorithm, generating impossible numbers for humans to reproduce in short time. That is not learning in the clear concept of...

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ANZACmania, Australia, and America

ANZACmania, Australia, and America

  “...What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 period. And this is a real problem. Possibly only in Australia, among the countries with mass immigration, does...

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Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education

Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education

“Still, universities continue to churn out a supply of PhDs far exceeding the academic market’s demand for them. About 70 percent of all professors are not in tenure-track positions. Only 27 percent of those who received history PhDs in 2017 were in tenure-track jobs...

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