@billhopsworth.bsky.social
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Sadly a lot of people are paid a handsome wage to not notice things like this.
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sadly a lot of people are paid a handsome wage to not notice things like this.
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Super important analysis. Tl:dr — frontline academics and PS staff that directly support the work of frontline academics are universities’ productive units.
Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units.
And yet here we are.
Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units.
And yet here we are.
Sharing this again because, in my experience of being a union branch leader during a massive, year-long onslaught of redundancy consultations, no one ever brought up the problem of the cost allocation death spiral. I wish I'd had this information in my arsenal. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...
www.linkedin.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Super important analysis. Tl:dr — frontline academics and PS staff that directly support the work of frontline academics are universities’ productive units.
Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units.
And yet here we are.
Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units.
And yet here we are.
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With the market & AI mythos reeling post-DeepSeek, it seems like a good time to reup this year-old paper, on the perils of the "bigger is better" approach to AI, coauthored with @sashamtl.bsky.social + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
With the market & AI mythos reeling post-DeepSeek, it seems like a good time to reup this year-old paper, on the perils of the "bigger is better" approach to AI, coauthored with @sashamtl.bsky.social + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics!
desfontain.es/blog/privacy...
desfontain.es/blog/privacy...
Five things privacy experts know about AI - Ted is writing things
… and that AI salespeople don't want you to know!
desfontain.es
January 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics!
desfontain.es/blog/privacy...
desfontain.es/blog/privacy...