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Day 2 2023 American Tour
Image 1: 2023-01-31 Pasadena City Hall The second day has been a rolling success. Preparing for meeting, in the hotel lounge, for the afternoon with the Dean of School of Theology and Mission at Fuller, Dr. Amos Yong, and Dr. Kirsten Kim, the Paul E. Pierson Chair in World Christianity and Associate Dean…
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Day 1 2023 American Tour
Image 1: 2023-01-30 Westfield Century City, Los Angeles Well, this first full day of my American Tour has reached a sufficient balance of work and pleasure. After eating at Denny’s for the last lunch, I walked around in the wet Westwood for shops I needed, mainly for an overcoat and head warmers. I…
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DAY 2 2023 EAST AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Image 1: Facade of the 1887 Italianate style rendered brick with balustrade parapet building, in the rural town of Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. Photo 149222058 / Glen Innes © Antonio Ribeiro | Dreamstime.com My mate Ian and I love Glen Innes, NSW. It is a typical Australian country town if such…
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DAY 1 2023 EAST AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Image 1: Neville leaving home for a month, at 12:00 p.m. 8 April 2023 It was the day after my eldest daughter’s wedding, and I had to get away. I needed to be in Canberra on Tuesday anyway, and leaving on Saturday meant that I could have one of those road adventures where you…
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Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History Article: Downloadable PDF Version In the early morning, before dawn broke, I dreamed of how to explain my philosophy and history (historiography). It came as my mind recovered from the slightly-over twelve-hour drive from Glen Innes to Gumly Gumly, just outside of Wagga Wagga; no,…
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2023-04-05 Letter to Mayor. Re. Questions on 2023-2025 Commemorations
Adrian Schrinner Brisbane Lord Mayor Brisbane City Council GPO Box 1434 Brisbane Qld 4001 5 April 2023 Dear Lord Mayor, I will present a paper at the 50th AHA conference (4-6 July), following on from my 2021 AHA presentation. I have attached the abstract for the 2023 paper, the AHA acceptance docket (email),…
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Understanding ‘Machine Learning’ from the Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge: What is Learning?
Bélanger (2011:14) outlines the different directions that Dewey and Thorndyke, and others, came into the teaching, learning, and assessment theories. These differences are important to understand why machine learning is not learning. In learning tasks where personable judgements are to be reported, nearly all of the schools Bélanger outlined would support a view of learning…
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Machine Learning is not Learning: The Human Choice in A.I.
Machine Learning is not Learning. Image Source: Marktoonist (Tom Fish Burne). Licenced No. 27175, 28 March 2023, US$100 Do not laugh. Imagine a society where there is no desire to learn beyond egoism and all work is reduced to the push of a button or a key without intelligence. Whether such a dystopian society…
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Dear Nick…
Dear Nick, I am writing a short letter after skimming your Sky News piece, “Peter Dutton is steering the Voice ‘No’ campaign to victory over cancel culture by refusing to play the role of a troglodyte conservative”. I make only a sincere plea to stop fuelling an unintelligible culture-history war and where I have…
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Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education [Teaching Document Copy] “Quora advertises with the slogan ‘The best answer to any question’, ‘Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users’ answers’” (Anon 2015, ‘quora’).”…