Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

It continually baffles me that UK universities throw so much of the admin burden onto the academic staff who are far more expensive than administrators

Practising self-care by not admitting that I partly agree with the latest hot take that everbody's dunking on

Yes, but many years before that I went to to a festival where he was on the bill. It was shortly after he'd been doing Tickle on the Tum for kids TV and I wasn't expecting much, but I was just stunned

Very good music alert

Just like Ralph McTell. OK not a floor-filler as such, but

George Osborne plunged UK into austerity due to an 'error on a spreadsheet' An academic paper produced by two Harvard economists and relied upon by Cameron and Osborne contained serious miscalculations.

Then there's this

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Amelia Dimoldenberg Vivian Poulet-Magasin [IMDB cast credits for Industry S4 E4]

Well-played, #industryhbo, well-played

I'd add that Starmer's Labour are actually (and enthusiastically) building the tools that a right wing government will enthusiastically use to make things *really* bad:

• Mandatory digital ID
• No right to jury trail
• Access to private bank accounts
• Assisted dying (as per the current bill)

Who better placed to give us estimates of the two media's densities in s/m^3?

Chaps -> chaos

I dunno, I read him as an amoral chaps-merchant rather than an idealogue, he revelled in the trouble he caused whereas most nowadays don't believe they're doing so

My copy of The History Man is in storage so I can't check, but I bet Howard Kirk didn't put the furniture back in the room after taking it into the corridor to shake his students out of their bourgeois complacency

Wasn't there a falcon that flew around Portcullis House catching mice, or was that just a rumour used to wind up newbies?

The razor blades and mass-produced wine were cheaper than what they replaced whereas the search+engines that used to provide good results were free, at least at the point of use, so the consumer experiences the degradation but not the saving

c) there are some results in it that make uncomfortable reading but that we ought to at least engage with. That said, it's a while since I read so I might be misremembering things

There's plenty to criticise and I certainly don't share his conclusion but it's worth reading because a) most of the "we've got too many unis" crowd draw on it, b) many of the common arguments against this view are at least addressed in it and

For the US he estimates it at 80%, averaged over all subjects, and concludes that all state funding for HE should be withdrawn (which he presumably thought before he started).

A libertarian economist (albeit a relatively civil one) attempts to quantify how much of the value of a degree arises from the signalling effect vs human capital (i.e. skills acquired) and broader benefits such as enjoyment of learning, broader world-view etc.

I know I bang on about this a lot, but have you read The Case Against Education?

"Nice try Mr Roper, but you're forgetting one thing: I used to work in a hotel!" [Roper finds his pillow overloaded with mints and his toilet roll folded to a particularly aggressive point] #TheNightManager

Good point, I certainly won't be voting for a party led by someone who's approach to the two-child limit has been cruel and inconsistent

Tried the Monty Hall problem on my daughters (8). Both adamant that the car is the booby prize. One wants the goat and the other wants the empty box because where would we keep a goat?

There's a kind of vibration absorber that's become known as an 'acoustic black hole' and I spend my life telling anyone who'll listen that being non-reflective doesn't make it a black hole, just a black thing

Who, Starmer? Not at the time of writing, but...

Sorry, but lots of this is misleading by omission at best. 1/ does not cover the fact that ppl with wealthy parents can currently duck all or part of the loan and thus interest. 2/ does not deal with fact of what we would call mis-selling in other sectors (the use of misleading comparisons to...

Interesting, does it go Kafkaesque, where they spend the year trying to penetrate the admin machinery to no avail, or nihilist, where they decide that these students won't read the material anyway?

Smith, where Jones had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had the examiners' approval.