Chris Bigum
@cj13.bsky.social
Unretired academic living on the Gold Coast. Generative AI in education, material semiotics, alt thinkers, too many interests. Swimmer, body surfer when the body allows. Posts human-made unless otherwise indicated. https://chrisbigum.blogspot.com/
GenAI and the University’s Favourite Magic Trick chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/04/bibs...
Bibs @ bobs #37
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April 19, 2026 at 4:01 AM
GenAI and the University’s Favourite Magic Trick chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/04/bibs...
Metaphors in AI and genomics: Going beyond blueprints and parrots makingsciencepublic.com/2026/03/13/m...
Metaphors in AI and genomics: Going beyond blueprints and parrots
I have been writing about metaphors in genetics and genomics since 2003 and about metaphors in AI/GenAI/LLMs since 2023. Recently, I started to wonder whether there are any similarities and differe…
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March 14, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Metaphors in AI and genomics: Going beyond blueprints and parrots makingsciencepublic.com/2026/03/13/m...
On Being Given Homework by a Statistical Parrot chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/03/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #36
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March 13, 2026 at 3:41 AM
On Being Given Homework by a Statistical Parrot chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/03/bibs...
Whispers from the Latent Space chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/03/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #35
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March 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Whispers from the Latent Space chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/03/bibs...
So Long, and Thanks for All the Metrics
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Bibs & bobs #34
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February 27, 2026 at 3:34 AM
So Long, and Thanks for All the Metrics
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This one hits hard.
February 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
This one hits hard.
a wee post: The Epistemically Uninsured . chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/02/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #33
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February 20, 2026 at 6:05 AM
a wee post: The Epistemically Uninsured . chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2026/02/bibs...
OMG, OMG, OMG ... chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #25
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August 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
OMG, OMG, OMG ... chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
Tired of collaborating with a GenAI assistant without proper etiquette, emotional validation, or metaphors about aviation? chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #24
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August 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Tired of collaborating with a GenAI assistant without proper etiquette, emotional validation, or metaphors about aviation? chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/08/bibs...
How many of your colleagues are going through or have gone through intellectual menopause? www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/i...
Intellectual Menopause
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May 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
How many of your colleagues are going through or have gone through intellectual menopause? www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/i...
Another more than useful post by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social on getting AI and assessment wrong again and again and again: markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/h...
How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction
The common thread running through these debates is a fixation on outputs. GAI captured attention because of the ease with which eerily human outputs could be produced in response to natural languag…
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April 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Another more than useful post by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social on getting AI and assessment wrong again and again and again: markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/h...
chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/04/bibs... If AI literacy is a map, human sensibility for AI is a compass
Bibs and bobs #22
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April 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/04/bibs... If AI literacy is a map, human sensibility for AI is a compass
Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press. For a well argued framing of AI. Beyond so much of the lame commentary found re "AI literacy".
March 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Hayles, N. K. (2025). Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press. For a well argued framing of AI. Beyond so much of the lame commentary found re "AI literacy".
farsight.cifs.dk/governing-th... "stuck in old ways of thinking about new problems" a quote from a Farsight essay by Casper Skovgaard Petersen.
Governing the Megastructure - Farsight
To tackle planetary challenges, governance must become more embedded in technological systems of sensing and automation, argues philosopher of technology Benjamin Bratton.
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March 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
farsight.cifs.dk/governing-th... "stuck in old ways of thinking about new problems" a quote from a Farsight essay by Casper Skovgaard Petersen.
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Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Bibs & bobs #21
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March 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Thinking about the notion of a robust AI sensibility
Generative AI has been here for a while, it’s just not evenly distributed. chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/02/bibs...
Bibs & bobs #20
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February 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Generative AI has been here for a while, it’s just not evenly distributed. chrisbigum.blogspot.com/2025/02/bibs...
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social I can't add to your interesting post and question except to say it may mesh a little with Geroge Friedman's framing of Trump's meta agenda or I have a bad case of mental fog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ok...
Trump's Master Plan: How Russia Lost Everything | George Friedman
YouTube video by Mauldin Economics
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February 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social I can't add to your interesting post and question except to say it may mesh a little with Geroge Friedman's framing of Trump's meta agenda or I have a bad case of mental fog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ok...
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What strikes me as missing from talks about AI in education & replacing teachers is, that kind of "learning" absolutely matches corporate job expectations.....
On the century-long fantasy of replacing teachers with machines, and the utter contempt for people it demonstrates to be touting this vision right now 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/automated-co...
Automated Contempt
The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel ...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What strikes me as missing from talks about AI in education & replacing teachers is, that kind of "learning" absolutely matches corporate job expectations.....
@carloiacono.bsky.social Most of the reactions fit previous patterns when new digital stuff popped up...all the way back to the late 70s. I think it is more fun to play with AI-related commentary. chrisbigum.blogspot.com
cj's serendipitous bibs, bobs and the odd musing
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February 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social Most of the reactions fit previous patterns when new digital stuff popped up...all the way back to the late 70s. I think it is more fun to play with AI-related commentary. chrisbigum.blogspot.com
@carloiacono.bsky.social all of the current noise around AI and ed will barely warrant a footnote in years to come. These transitions are always messy, threatening to existing ways of doing things/thinking about things.
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social all of the current noise around AI and ed will barely warrant a footnote in years to come. These transitions are always messy, threatening to existing ways of doing things/thinking about things.
@carloiacono.bsky.social does a fine job describing the game we are playing with AI: hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/in-the-twi... well worth a read.
In the Twilight of Certainty
A Reflection
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February 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
@carloiacono.bsky.social does a fine job describing the game we are playing with AI: hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/in-the-twi... well worth a read.
Hey Inger @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, here is a case for not one but a very large number of "work husbands" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
Your Doctor Is Like Shakespeare (And That's A Problem) - 3 Quarks Daily
by Kyle Munkittrick
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February 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hey Inger @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, here is a case for not one but a very large number of "work husbands" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...