past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH. present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia. personal account. https://scottbot.github.io
I may not fully agree with her take, but I absolutely fully endorse her commitment to the bit.
EMILY WILSONI cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
Interesting to see so many comments on ycombinator/hn agreeing that the codes results of AI are often well short of what's needed for broad distribution, that coding needs more humans than ever, etc. Feels like we're in a reckoning moment here and elsewhere.
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For a citation analysis project in 2010, I checked the bibliographies of 100 random papers from different fields. Only three of those articles had bibs entirely free of formatting errors, and *many* had pretty glaring errors (like journal name). To consider when using bibs to check for AI.
will pooleyno doubt im a bad academic but i don’t doubt that someone who went through my work with a fine tooth comb would find some howlers. a french reader pointed out to me once that I got the name of the main archives I worked in for my first book wrong in the abbreviations/ front matter! mea culpalol
My aunt's last name is Wajc, pronounced Weiss. It's all a trap.
Neon Genesis Ewangelioni love it when a Polish word or name with ł is around because it is a trap. i respect languages with traps
Okay I gotta hand it to the illustrator on this one for sorta combining Minard's visualization of the loss of troops during Napoleon's Russian invasion with Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa. Figuring out how to combine those in a viz has gotta be a bucket list item for dataviz people.
Dr Ian McCormickHandy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan
I've shared this one here before, but if Spike the vampire could be reformed without magically getting a soul, that means Buffy and her vampire slayer gang were going out every night to commit extrajudicial murder.
Zach WeinersmithDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
This is excellent by @eve.gd, as always: disclosure on what parts of his site, and the workflow to get there, use AI (some of the code, some voice-to-text on account of rheumatoid arthritis), and what parts don't involve AI (every bit of text / writing).
Martin Paul Eve"I have no plans whatsoever to abandon writing by hand and brain. I strongly believe that we need to continue asserting human voices, amid the cacophony of 'slop'. If we stop writing and thinking for ourselves, then what is the point?" I added an AI use/automation disclosure page. eve.gd/ai/