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Crafty person, tinkerer and occasional nitpick. Cats, mostly emacs but sometimes vi, and both tea and coffee.

[E-Tangata @etangata]

“Although imbued with care, love and good intentions, ultimately, ‘inclusion’ aims to better fit Māori to a relatively unchanged university environment.” — Te Kawehau Hoskins & Alison Jones.

https://t.co/Tk6oXg7AEO

[jen hay @jbhay]

What do we know about what non-Māori-speaking New Zealand adults know about te reo Māori?
Recovering from Covid, and avoiding thinking too hard! I thought I'd ease back into work-mode by summarizing this paper we wrote in te reo Māori last year. https://t.co/l3rnkpva2u (1/9)

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Ted Chiang’s piece on ChatGPT and large language models is as good as everyone says.

The fact that the outputs are rephrasings rather than direct quotes makes them seem game-changingly smart — even sentient — but they’re just very straightforwardly not.

https://t.co/UnFdebkr7e

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

These models still don’t *understand* anything — they just know which things tend to appear near other things (but not why) and have become very good at building coherent sentences and paragraphs out of those things.

They’re regurgitating patterns, not thinking or formulating.

[Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @AraPaerangiCom]

We have a generational chance for change. Whatever happens will impact the lives of generations. Let's be excellent ancestors. #NZResearchRethink
https://t.co/vE7q9veIbG 6/6

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Ok that's it then 👋🏻

[vicki @vboykis]

Here is a way to think about what actually happens when we type inside the ChatGPT textbox. Wonderful paper.

https://t.co/6lEKkldn17

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@juliaferraioli @nearyd @_krr12 "imp sending disaster" is pretty funny though

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@cpaintingnz @waikato I just got an email to my student account that the strike action (&the suspension) had been withdrawn. Haven't checked my work account yet to see what the TEU says.

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@bzbear2 https://t.co/hnGibs6WEQ

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@DeborahFitchett @JoFountain2 @taramcallister4 UoW has it too. It's monitored and HR/your manager will have a chat with you after x days/year though.

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@wherorobyn @eey0re @scoutriver Also - how do people think online voting works? You still need to get your ballot. Most likely on paper. In the mail.

[Matheson Russell @mathesonrussell]

But there is a wider context here and we shouldn’t be blind to the fact that the neoliberal university is a creation of govt policy and underinvestment is a political decision.

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I'm on sick leave so won't join #TEUonSTRIKE - but I think it's clear that the funding model for NZ universities is based on assumptions that no longer hold and it's time to address this sector wide.

[Mark @maetl]

Paper ballots are technology. A protcol design problem.

Technology is a combination of social processes and information systems. It’s always more than just building material things.

For those calling us Luddites here, maybe go read up on the actual history of the Luddites.

[henry cooke @henrycooke]

online voting remains a bad idea. and the private company that runs a lot of local elections may technically be “election officials” but are not the electoral commission or necessarily disinterested in potential new electoral processes.