I bet us still funds universities better than we do.

Maybe ongoing maintenance costs come out of someone else's budget. Which moves the rube to a higher pay level.

Worst thing is it's totally bipartisan to the extent that I don't know which party introduced which stupid metric. Only that the number grows.

Kudos to the current Minister for canning some of the dumbest research metrics. Been a long while since that happened. Needs extending to teaching.

Yeah, fully agree. I don't really care that someone uses a computer to produce a valid outcome - they've demonstrated competence. But (unless it's the point of the assignment) they shouldn't get the same marks as someone who did it on their own since I'd prefer to hire the latter over the former.

Could be worse, you could introduce funding schemes that punish unis unis for doing poorly on nonsense metrics.

Oh wait...

Excellent point. I should have remembered the groupthink cycles that dominate in educational "thinking". I'm a fan of one lesson per student, followed by throwing the (as large as possible) book; as I think you are too. But that's not 'pure' enough...

I've got evidence on that. When I took over 1st year maths I basically made the case that letting students pass without demonstrating understanding (as had been the case) just set them up to fail in future courses, so got a de facto exemption from getting told off.

More failures, lower success.

Yeah. The admissions/graduations is essentially the Government/electorate's doing, so outside the sector's hands (see, e.g., ANU which rejected it).

What I'm concerned about is why there's such a widespread delusion within the sector that it's somehow not like that. Especially re. integrity.

But there's a prevailing delusion that you can. Which is why even smart people twist themselves into knots to support bad ideas or deny the obvious truth.

It's like claiming that climbing Kosciusko is like climbing Everest because reasons.

LOL. No. I can probably stretch your analogy to fit but only in >260 characters.

What I mean is that letting in more people with lower preparation will inevitably lead to lower outcomes and 'dumbing down' because you can't teach to all levels.

Can't get into Nature or Science if you do that.

Saying the blue-tick idiots are shitposting is an insult to shitposts. They're basically the incels who weren't funny enough for 4chan.

Our key element of novelty is to approach the problem from non-thermal ensembles. Most of the prior work (Harbola excepted, but only for x) tried to extract excitations from thermal models.

Cheers :-)

I don't remember reading that one but Stefano checked out a fair bit of prior literature to conclude that our approach is fundamentally new. What I'm less confident about is whether or not it's useful - but the idea is out there now and someone (maybe us) can refine.

I'm no fan of my tax dollars being used for PsiQuantum but also he's far from the best person to trust...

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