But with the post-EU agreements across the island of Ireland, Schengen remains potentially tricky because of NI. If the UK was compelled to join Schengen it would change the calculus for Ireland, but if Ireland didn't want to join it would mean a hard border, so... tough decisions all round!
It is largely CTA related, yes. One of the reasons Ireland didn't want to/wasn't in Schengen was because the power balance within the CTA was in favour of the UK. UK's Visa rules trumped Ireland's for example. And as the most important trading partner, Ireland had to follow the politics more.
It also doesn't change the fact that I know I don't know what I'm doing, but it helps me appreciate the workings of a method I want to use in a grant project, and will be hiring a computational social scientist to make it legit. If I get the money. Which depends on me understanding this method...
If you'd told me a month ago - let alone when I started off in academia - that I'd be using cloud computing to run a code an AI had written for me to analyse almost 4.5m words of text, I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are.
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Not so happy Matt
Walking out of the lecture theatre realizing I've given my last proper lecture of the academic year, vs the realization that I have hundreds of essays landing on my desk soon
#academicsky people! Do I have any contacts who might be willing to chat to this dunce about Natural Language Processing #NLP, particularly as it pertains to multilingual Semantic Network Analysis? I have many questions!
Come and work with us! Happy to answer questions about the school etc.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a *reliable* and *accurate* programme/app that converts references into different styles (e.g. x/y/z/ to APA etc.)?
Another oil shock. *IF ONLY* we could generate energy without oil?! Mad, I know, but maybe huge windmills, or maybe even something that harnesses the sun? Waves move about a lot, maybe some Brainiac could invent something that turns moving water into energy?! One of those billionaire fellas maybe?
I'd say it's not the quotes themselves, but the use of the quotes can be symptoms - especially when they're used by hegemonic forces! 😂
Happy ALCS day
To benefit from even a partial notion of "democratic capitalism" you would need to have been alive between ~1945-1979. Democratic capitalism in Liberal economies lasted about 34 years. It lasted longer (maybe still there) in the Nordic countries. As with everything, continental Europe is a mixed bag
Automating alienation. Fantastic.
I try to do this too when I mention it during lectures. I also emphasise that if students are to use AI properly, they will have to do a lot of fact checking and verification of data. Often meaning that the time they'll save won't be very much at all.
For one of my modules this semester, I put a statement in my handbook to say that use of Generative AI to produce essays is not permitted. I decided I needed to give more specific guidance on what I will - and won't - accept.
From The Times last Saturday. Starmer's ministry provides empirical proof of the fact that (contrary to what the Labour leadership has believed for many years) you can't govern without an ideology: something organising your outlook and mobilising people to action.
www.thetimes.com/article/2cb4...
Largely depressing reading. But the takeaway point is that something has to give at some point, some how.
Humanity is hurtling so quickly downhill. Lazy warmongering. I'm sure it helps that the targets had already been dehumanised.
I keep hearing the Green Party have been doing divisive and sectarian politics. Does anyone have any examples? Or is this Labour Party entitlement to a core vote they actively dislike?
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.
Hmmmmmm.
What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run
It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage
Take a bow
Imagine if Matt Goodwin's campaign strategy was to NOT tell people to vote Reform.
Absolute galaxy brained genius of the far right. A brain too big for academia etc etc
Delighted to see the news in Gorton and Denton this morning - on multiple fronts.
Today marks the 15,000th day this year it has rained in Ireland.
What's the point of anything anymore
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Don't worry - it's been raining in Wicklow so the reservoir the Dubs use to steal all our water will be nice and high 😉