The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

Continuing with the theme that #culturalanalytics is happening all over the place, here is a piece in the Journal of Social Robotics that studies "representations of #AI in science fiction." link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

🤖 Meta (= Facebook) announced a new "language model" today, trained on millions of scientific papers. Judging from examples in the HN discussion, it's hilariously bad. Language models should model language, not "knowledge." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336112…

(I just posted this on Mastodon:) Sharing a just-opened call for a Digital Systems & Digital Scholarship Specialist to support digital humanities in my English Dept. at UC Santa Barbara. Nota bene "Eligible for Remote Work: Yes." Full job description here: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMPLO…

Another neat example of ecological modeling influencing computational humanities. Folgert Karsdorp #CHR2022 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short…

In LLMs, the need for "prompt engineering" is a sign of *lack* of robust language understanding. It will be interesting to see if scaling LLMs alone will reduce the need for prompt engineering.

I loved this piece personally, and today it led to a terrific discussion in my #digitalhumanities grad seminar. Didn't think I would assign it as a teaching text, but I will now. Half of the students are creative writers, and this spoke to them. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

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This is an amazing investigation of the books that are “known” in ChatGPT’s training data 📚 “Whose language, and whose lived experiences…is captured in their knowledge of the world?…Whose narratives inform the implicit knowledge of these models?” arxiv.org/abs/2305.00118

Excited to learn that my book ucincinnatipress.uc.edu/9781947602847/… w/James Lee won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction E-Book! University of Cincinnati Press ucdscenter University of Cincinnati UC_ArtSci UC Journalism UC School of Public and International Affairs #NextLivesHere Ohio U SIUE Alumni Association Military Veterans in Journalism indiebookawards.com/winners.php?ye…

.Dr. Jeffrey Layne Blevins + James Lee's book on the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful political groups is worth a read ---> tinyurl.com/2p9f2uf9

Looking forward to presenting this excerpt from my book w/James Lee that won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for non-fiction e-book at SMRace Knowledge! University of Cincinnati @uc_artsci UC Journalism UC School of Public and International Affairs University of Cincinnati Press #NextLivesHere ou.edu/disc/news-even…

🚀Pioneering collaboration provides an entirely new perspective on century of Tudor history! New book from Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian Ahnert brings to light the complex power dynamics, the spy-craft, and the intrigues that defined the Tudor era (1509-1603). bit.ly/3Qok3aN

if you're in literary studies and wondering why machine learning might be valuable, here's a quick primer. From this article that goes into greater depth. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Dear Everyone, the world's loveliest dissertation advisor needs some very considerable help. Please read and spread the word. michaelskidneyjourney.wordpress.com/2023/10/21/my-…

Digital Humanities job Northwestern Libraries! We're seeking an interdisciplinary data scientist as we build a new digital scholarship program. A great opportunity for publications, interdisciplinary collaboration, and gaining project experience using AI/ML in DH. library.northwestern.edu/about/library-…

Happy to see my book w/James Lee attract so much attention from AUPresses 📚! University of Cincinnati UC_ArtSci UC School of Public and International Affairs UC Journalism University of Cincinnati Press #NextLivesHere #RealWorldReady AEJMC International Communication Association Democratic Communiqué IAMCR @udc2023 Northwestern Medill