Francois Soyer

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Thank you!

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.

I was sitting at my desk and had a feeling that someone was watching me.

Thank you!

YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science Swooping season: How to stay safe

Thank you, response sent. :-)
They're fairly large birds with a very sharp beak who seem to have a particular loathing for cyclists in the springtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JF...

Springtime in Australia.

Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

Receiving my author’s copies of my latest book: always a wonderful feeling but this time also a bittersweet one.

Beware swooping trees.

Just found the longest word in the English language.

Saw some of my fellow inhabitants of Armidale using surfboards as makeshift sleds this morning! #Australia #Armidale

Certainly have not seen this much snow since I moved there in 2018!

Siberia Down Under. #Australia #Armidale

Snow in Australia will always feel strange to me

Snow Down Under... and it's only getting heavier! #Australia #Armidale

History falling apart: early 17th century Inquisition trial dossier. digitarq.arquivos.pt/documentDeta...

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

Congratulations Una!

Another frosty Antipodean winter morning and another colorful visitor in the garden (Armidale, NSW).

Australian King Parrot (Male).

It's winter here in Australia but we still get these colourful visitors on frosty mornings in the NSW northern tablelands.

Latin as a living language in 16th century Europe. In 1552 the inquisitors in Lisbon were interrogating an Englishman accused of sacrilege and because the Englishman "could not speak Portuguese well and knew Latin, they asked him questions in Latin." digitarq.arquivos.pt/.../0b68019c....

Congratulations Rachel! This is excellent news.

My father just sent me these pictures from his (somewhat neglected) village church in Burgundy. Plaster fell off the wall revealing these pictures. Any informed guesses about the age/date. My guess would be 16th century but I'm not an art historian.