mikejbeggs.bsky.social
Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
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Honestly a huge relief. Really have not had time to find French hens yet
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It’s text focused and not ideal if you’re doing quant-focused work. It can do LaTeX equations, can embed images. But it’s mainly for text
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I’ve used it for many years. It’s really flexible so everyone will use it differently, but for me it’s great to have all the text of a project in one place, without the doc getting bogged down. It’s basically a binder for text files. Easy to rearrange, navigate, hide old drafts without losing them.
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For all I know it is still there, still playing that song
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In 1995 I went to a shoe shop in Osaka called Step By Step and it apparently played ‘Step By Step’ by the New Kids on the Block continuously on repeat
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My broader point re: national accounting logic is that it would be odd in that framework to have an asset that is nobody’s liability but which is created and destroyed by balance sheet decisions rather than production
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Well yeah, even on CB balance sheet bank reserves are also liabilities that are not promises to pay, right? (Unless they are promises to pay cash, but then isn’t cash likewise a promise to pay reserves?)
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I think it’s better from a national accounting perspective to still consider them liabilities of the central bank even if they aren’t promises to pay. They’re not unique as liabilities in that respect
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Jaroslav Vaněk on the theory, if not the practice
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Thanks so much Ben. It is invaluable for anyone involved in bargaining and/or trying to enforce an EA to get a sense of how interpretations can play out in court.
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Did the Monash lawyer not question Prof Mills?
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Thanks Ben this is really useful! How long are we expecting all this to take?
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That one’s actually ResearchGate or academia dot edu, can’t remember which
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It’s always a thrill to get this one
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My kiwi intermediate school used romantic poets, I was in Burns
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80s revival was already very much underway when I was an undergrad in late 90s
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You also never want your dad to say it
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Obviously in some fields it is more important to test recall and there’s no alternative to exams and similar
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I do also set other types, e.g., data visualisation with commentary. (I’m in a social science field that mixes quant and verbal reasoning.) My approach is to tell students that I won’t always spot LLM generated stuff, but it’s often crap and they shouldn’t waste opportunity to develop skills
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I’m sure they do in places. For me, they died with Covid distance learning - moved to take-home exams, open book by necessity, which are really shorter essays with shorter due dates and no expectation of research.
This is assessing ability to understand and make a argument rather than recall
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My biggest worry is that essays will be discouraged. In my field writing is thinking and we shouldn’t deny the skill to most students just because some will cheat themselves out of it
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I’m sure we’ll get an online module to help us parse this before then
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It is certainly ambiguous, though, what happens from S2
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Here’s what has been communicated to us
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I believe we can still disallow for our units, but it is allowed by default
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Yes, as I said here, this is a great example of a case where the person using the phrase would generally welcome the opportunity to elaborate on context if someone is pretending to not know what it means bsky.app/profile/mike...