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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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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’).”…
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Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s intervention on the Labor Government’s decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia’s defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional discussions. ANU’s Mark Kenny is reported in The New York Times as he explained the essential problem: …
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After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia
The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The Big Banks will not support…
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Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL
Featured Image: Dr Neville Buch in the Sinclair Lewis Collection, Port Washington, Long Island, New York State (USA). Dear Dr. Buch, It was a pleasure to meet you this afternoon and show you the PWPL’s materials on Sinclair Lewis. Here is a link to a Google Arts and Culture page the History Center put together…
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Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023
Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30 years (1991-1992). An intelligent conversation, the last few days, has indicated to me that I need to clarify where I am coming from as an American-Australian…
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HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland
A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0
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Persons, Ideology, and Cognitive Mapping
Ideologies are like social science models. Historians point out that that such boxes are useful for mapping (another form of modelling) but persons and their cognition do not fit with mathematic precision into such spaces. Such hardline arguments (“ideological”) about ego identity end up blindsided. At best it is shorthand expression, giving fairly accurate…