Anthony Finkelstein

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Anthony Finkelstein

Anthony Finkelstein

@profserious

University President & Software Engineer. Interests: tech, policy, education, books, art, antiques. London, UK.

London Katılım Şubat 2009
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Simon Finkelstein
Simon Finkelstein@Finksi·
Looking back over the US National Security Strategy. Struck by the below paragraph....
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Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
@vulpine2020 @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham To be clear, I agree with you in large part. I favour much greater liberalisation and deregulation. I am an admirer of what Buckingham has achieved, at we should acknowledge is a very restricted scale. I do not think it is the form of university governance that is the problem!
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Whig@vulpine2020·
@profserious @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham They’re not really privatised in any meaningful sense because of the fee regime in particular. Buckingham shows what some freedom can do but we should go much further (the other problems you cite flow from high levels of state interference in the market)
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Adrian Hilton@Adrian_Hilton·
I agree with this (though haven't always, on the grounds of undergrad maturity). There is much to commend the two-year Bachelor's degree, which the @UniOfBuckingham pioneered (with a third-year Masters option), and it delivers admirably without any structural ‘squeezing’.
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious

Another Modest Proposal: 'being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick' by @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/another-mode… #HigherEducation #Universities #AcademicTwitter

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Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
@vulpine2020 @Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham In effect universities are 'privatised', they are independent charities established by royal charter. The challenge is the regulatory framework, a market fixated on 'status', the controlled fee regime, and conservative university governance.
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@Adrian_Hilton @UniOfBuckingham Just shows an advantage of being a privatised university: flexibility, competition, innovation. If we privatised all universities we would see much more of this sort of thing
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Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
Strong encouragement to consider the @civic_future programme
Marnie Riches@Marnie_Riches

I completed @civic_future's Public Leadership Programme and it was transformative. I've since set up an arts policy think-tank in a bid to get dysfunction out of the arts. But maybe you want to be an MP or Civil Servant or Policy guru. This year's application deadline for Civic Future programmes is looming. Could public service be for you? Go for it!

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Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
@david_colquhoun Well that sounds exactly like the AI we were promised (human-like). But that is a quibble. The point here is that tools can be limited but still incredibly powerful and useful. It is somewhat unclear whether these limitations are of the essence of the technology.
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David Colquhoun on Bluesky 🇺🇦 💙
David Colquhoun on Bluesky 🇺🇦 💙@david_colquhoun·
I asked Gemini 3 "Draw a diagram showing tiller, rudder post and rudder (based on typical 30 ft sloop)" It produced this grotesquely bad diagram!! How can it be so stupid? #AI is rubbish
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David Colquhoun on Bluesky 🇺🇦 💙@david_colquhoun·
@profserious Perhaps -but it will have to be much better than it is now. Will they ever be sufficiently honest and reliable for general use? The asymptote hasn't been approached yet, and it's far from obvious where it will be. At the moment, it's far to close to being an auto-complete.
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Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
@david_colquhoun Finally, whether or not current valuations are correct, this is a transformative technology of profound significance, it is a benchmark scientific achievement, that is likely to reshape much of the way we use information and indeed society ...
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Anthony Finkelstein
Anthony Finkelstein@profserious·
@david_colquhoun Your criticism that the model did not "understand" the operation of the tiller demonstrates that your approach is unreasonable.
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@david_colquhoun So what upsets me here is that you are using a really amazing technology which can (and actually is) generating astonishing results (images, explanations) and you regard it as faulty because it does not meet erroneous expectations based on a misunderstanding of how it works.
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