Only here b/c it has come to my attention that some of y'all didn't know that you NOT have to carry on without the ESTC. We stood up a temporary ESTC site in mid-November and thousands of people have been using it nearly every day since. Print & Probability

estc.printprobability.org

Ever wondered what the color of early modern book pages can tell us about the text's construction? Check out my video for The Bibliographical Society of America on our exciting tool at @Print_and_Prob, using paper color analysis to solve mysteries in book history: youtube.com/watch?v=OOJCXt… 🌈🕵🏻‍♀️

Join CMU Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University and The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens in welcoming award-winning #Shakespeare author, Stephen Greenblatt. This in-person event will address issues surrounding the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio. 11/30, 3PM, McConomy Auditorium. cmu.is/greenblatt

If you need that sweet sweet ESTC data while the BL sites are out of commission, this’ll just about cover you.

When Print & Probability collaborator nikolai heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built estc.printprobability.org

Hello, I’m Jacob Baxter and will be running today’s #TwitterTakeover ! I’m going to focus today on our English data from 1651-1700 which I have been working on for the best of the past year. #USTCTwitterTakeover

so I'm assembling a teaching unit on reconstructing LLM training data.

What should I know about?

currently including

1.) doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… (David Bamman)
2.) wired.com/story/fanficti… (@roseveleth)
3.) washingtonpost.com/technology/int… (@nitashatiku)

dropping in just to say I'm mostly on chrisvvarren.bsky.social these days

Others have pointed this out, but this renaming is stepping on the exact same rake that got him ousted by PayPal. Wrote about this in my book

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

Publicado recentemente! 🌟

Uma nova tradução da lição Programming Historian | @[email protected] de john r ladd, Dr. Jessica Otis | @[email protected], Christopher Warren, @scott_bot 🤹.

🔗 doi.org/10.46430/phpt0…

Obrigado a João Domingues Pereira pela sua tradução e a Josir @[email protected] + Daniel Alves pelas revisões.

Obrigado a Eric Brasil pela edição.

It is bittersweet to have to leave the fabulous 13th International Milton Symposium, July 2023 before it’s over but at least I got a chance to take my selfie ( #norfie ?) with Northrop Frye

Those of you writing up 303 Creative will want to be sure to note that the alleged request was made up.

SCOTUS just ruled on something makebelieve.

newrepublic.com/article/173987…

Alberico Gentili, author of De Iniustitia Bellica Romanorum Actio (1590), would like a word

Tbh never heard of this Vinod guy till this dumb tweet but I have heard of Barack Obama

this Note is out as of just last week in Shakespeare Quarterly! happily co-authored with the ✨Rdeam Team✨!! (aka #PrintandProbability gang) 📜 I had such fun spending last summer sleuthing old books for this project with Laura DeLuca | laurasdeluca@mstdn/bsky.social &co. 🤩 academic.oup.com/sq/advance-art…

Delighted to report that my first publication is out with Shakespeare Quarterly! Co-authored with Elizabeth Dieterich and the Print & Probability research team:

'Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio?'

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Do you know someone with programming skills who might want to spend a year building out infrastructure for some fun 'who dunnit?' problems? Thanks to NEH NEH Digital Humanities, we're hiring a fixed-term Digital Humanities Research Programmer to begin September 1! hackmd.io/@cwarren/rJ6ex…

“If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, we think it’s important that your Obsidian notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.” obsidian.md/blog/new-obsid…