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*Inside cybernetics, ANU-style*
If this is any indication of how the ANU is run in terms of courses offered, then questions need to be asked and some full and transparant answers are required. What is it about #Universtities these days, it’s just one clusterfuck ofter another at the moment…
“The School of Cybernetics is an anomaly in the higher education landscape. The course fees are advertised at $39,925, although it’s unclear how many students, past or present, have paid the full amount. It is rumoured that almost every student has been granted a generous scholarship, although an ANU spokesperson declined to provide numbers.
Highly confidential documents seen by this masthead indicate that very few of the 28.2 equivalent full-time students in 2023 paid the sticker price. That year, total revenue from fees, philanthropy, and research income was just $258,000 for the entire school – or $9,000 a student.
Expenses attributed to the School of Cybernetics, however, were $7 million. The documents equate that to $237,000 a student, leaving the university with $228,000 per student to be found from elsewhere to cover the cost of teaching its tiny, privileged cohort.
The ANU spokeswoman declined to answer how many cybernetics students had been awarded scholarships, the value of those scholarships, or where the money to fund them came from, other than that scholarships were generally funded by “industry and general revenue”.
Sack all councils and review how appointments are made.
Read more:
https://theharereport.substack.com/profile/posts#TertiartyEducation #ANU #CoursesAndFaculties #AusPol
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https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/
#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame
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It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance ProblemThe tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings
Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.
We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷
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Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame
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A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”
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AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.
Wiener would laugh.
#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness
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https://systemic.engineering/a-roomba/
#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba #Loriot #Satire
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https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/
#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba
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The Roomba is spectral.
Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.
450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.
The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.
spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.
Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.
Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.
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https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/
#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba
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This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.— Tolkien • The Hobbit
Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?
Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)
#Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien
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Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/texts
#askMastodon #askMathstodon #math #maths #mathematics #adamSmith #Cicero #Shewart #Deming #Wiener #Shannon #ERP #ADHD
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❝And if he is told that something is the way it is, then he thinks: Well, it could probably just as easily be some other way. So the sense of possibility might be defined outright as the capacity to think how everything could “just as easily” be, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not.❞
— Robert Musil • The Man Without Qualities
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_4#Analytic_Series_:_Coordinate_Method#Ashby #Musil #Cybernetics #Constraints
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Finally did some aquarelle painting again last night!
This time I used the cover art for the #MSX game #Snatcher by #Konami as inspiration along with some in-game sprite work to fill in some blanks.The image is marked as sensitive due to eye-contact, the droid's cybernetic nature and minor gore in the form of blood splatters and singular 'human' eye.
It's painted on 300 gsm cold-pressed wood-free paper from Søstrene Grene with aquarelle water colour paints from Royal Talens' "Van Gogh" line.
Tags:
#FiXatoPaints #FiXatoCreative #painting
#mastoArt #fediArt #artShare #creativeToot #creativeToots
#aquarelle #aquarel #akvarell #waterColour #waterColours #waterColor #cybernetics #droid #MSXArt #gameArt #gaming #retroGaming
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#DifferentialPropositionalCalculus • 3.4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/02/24/differential-propositional-calculus-3/Table 7 summarizes the notations needed to describe ordinary propositional calculi in a systematic fashion.
Table 7. Propositional Calculus • Basic Notation
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/propositional-calculus-basic-notation.pngApplications —
#Cybernetics #SystemsTheory
#QualitativeDynamics
#DiscreteDynamicsRelated Subjects —
#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics
#LogicalGraphs #DifferentialLogic
#PropositionalCalculus #BooleanFunctions
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#DifferentialPropositionalCalculus • #Overview
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/02/16/differential-propositional-calculus-overview/
By way of introduction to #DifferentialLogic, here begins a chapter on #DifferentialPropositionalCalculi, which augment #PropositionalCalculi with terms for describing aspects of change and difference, for example, processes taking place in a #UniverseOfDiscourse or #LogicalTransformations mapping a #SourceUniverse to a #TargetUniverse.
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#Cybernetics #SystemsTheory
#QualitativeDynamics
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Teleology…is an algorithmic composition of mine — the sounds that you can hear are produced by instruments that play notes selected by an algorithm.
<a href="https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/my-little-grundgestalts">My Little Grundgestalts by Eidon</a>
The algorithm simulates matches from a traditional game of cards known by the name Beggar-my-neighbour (also known as Strip Jack Naked).
Every match is defined by the cards that are shuffled and then given to two players, whom I call Neal and Jack.
The pack of cards is not the “standard” pack. It only has 12 cards, by the following face values:
two 0s, one 3, two 5s, three 7s, one 8, and three 9s.Six cards are given to Neal, six cards to Jack, and they start playing.
Where does the music come from? From the states of the game, represented by Neal’s cards, Jack’s card, and the card that are being stacked “on the table” by the two players. Those states are interpreted as numbers, and those numbers select notes.
Sounds complex, though it is actually very simple to code. The simulator, e.g., is available here, while the note selection code is defined here.
Now, if you consider the states of the games as coordinates in a space, what happens exactly? That the progress of the game becomes… a set of points in that space!
And that’s what you have in this videoclip: what you see is the set of all possible states, plotted as a set of unit spheres. The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is used to create the frames of the videoclip, in which the position of the observer is slowly changed at each time step so as to create the illusion of movement. The video was created with the Permutation Feedpovray tool.
If you like this music, you may want to download a lossless version of it from my bandcamp. There you may find a lot of my compositions. And if you like them too, maybe you could subscribe to my list and be informed of the new songs I add there.
A “like” to my page would also be great ^_^ Thanks very much!
- Eidon.
#Eidon #Teleology #NorbertWiener #Cybernetics #OriginalMusic
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