rproctor.bsky.social
Architectural historian of the twentieth century.
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I for one will not be opening up my bank account to the inane writing machines but I'm sure some students will be.
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Copilot lags behind the curve though, you can't really tell unless you spend £20 a month on whatever the most recent ChatGPT version is that claims to be able to write PhD theses.
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It is well established in planning and local government that public transport reduces inequalities by enhancing mobility, e.g. to access jobs. (See e.g. the Manchester tram).
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And (what surprised me, for Bristol anyway) the mapped locations of high proportions of households without cars ... often in places where a car would be considered a necessity by many.
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The census maps showing car ownership per household are very revealing.
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(Useful on dalle de verre generally, not just Norris, I hope).
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Doesn't look like one of Dom Charles Norris's, but nevertheless may I plug my chapter on his work in this lavish book? www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858946504
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I'm sure the committee will give lots of blame to individuals, meaning it'll be seen as an aberration until another 2 or 3 go the same way.
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On one hand there's shameless mismanagement, on the other relatively small government decisions having rapid catastrophic consequences.
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This is excruciating.
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"this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favourable to political conformity".
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"the ready-made phrases [...] will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – [...] partially concealing your meaning even from yourself".
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@weirdbristol.bsky.social Thought this might appeal to you!
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This brilliant bridge, by the Percy Thomas Partnership, is discussed in some detail in my new book. bsky.app/profile/rpro...
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I know people who have to apply to a competitive scheme to be awarded one research day per week for a year.
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I think we had one round of heavily skewed competitive applications since covid, and that was it.
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Many universities have already made this decision by squashing staff research time, cutting subjects with less grant potential or employing teaching only staff on them, limiting sabbaticals to favoured subjects, etc.
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Ooh, gables, how bourgeois. How urbane. YES.
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And by that logic, how many great ideas and insights never made it into books and articles because the researcher was never given adequate time by their institution, or had a grant application rejected, or retired early and got into something else?
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But the problem is I *like* "bad" buildings.
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We should do this.
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No! I don't think there will be one, but you never know.
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Know Your Place Bristol is significantly richer (but more complicated, best on a desktop). maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/
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The trouble with this is it can be dismissed as a few overpaid people's fault rather than the systemic and political failure it is.
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As someone else said, it's artificial intelligence in the same way that astroturf is artificial grass.
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100%, as the kids say.
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Guilty pleasures.
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And seemingly always far more words than necessary for any task.
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Think I'm onto something here.
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Ah yes, the stupid egomaniac man theory of history.
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What was the cause or catalyst? Covid and the under-appreciated everyday traumas it created?
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I think of it as a mum equivalency threshold. In the past many students used their middle-class mums to proofread for grammar, style, structure, etc. Is grammarly significantly more than that? If it gives everyone a middle-class mum, fine. Otherwise it crosses the line into plagiarism.
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There's always another one.
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Marvellous.
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Just read this, Butcher's Crossing by John Williams, and I'd say it does so in many interesting ways.