Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

Nüülis, an't Köhlschapp ...

Esszimmer (Beelitz, Heilstätten, Brandenburg)

"Ich habe zu schnell gehandelt. Ja. Das war's." Interview von Matthias Sander mit He Jiankui, dem chinesischen Biophysiker, der 2018 die Welt mit der Erschaffung von drei genmanipulierten Babys schockierte.
#HeJiankui #bioethics

https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/he-jiankui-erschuf-drei-genmanipulierte-babys-jetzt-bricht-er-sein-schweigen-ld.1722020

♫ it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right
Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel
And the last two letters are an e and an r
And the t is in front of the iiiiii
of the tiger ♫

Lastwagen beendet Überholmanöver nach 14 Jahren
https://www.der-postillon.com/2013/01/lastwagen-beendet-uberholmanover-nach.html

2019: big petition in the #machineLearning community to allow remote presentations at scientific conferences

2020-21: ML conferences are virtual-only

2022: several major in-person conferences are super-spreader events

2023: "at least one author of each accepted paper must attend to present their work in person"

I know the virtual formats were less than ideal, but I can't blame junior researchers who are torn between flying halfway across the globe for a conference and harming their career.

My colleague, John F. Hughes, got asked for a paper that he hadn't written. The correspondent replied: "I used the chat.openai to gather new sources that I might have missed during my own scan of literature".

(I know librarians are being driven bonkers by GPT-3-manufactured book titles. But this is the first time I've heard of an academic paper request…)

@jesseabe For me personally (I don’t think there are many who’d agree), some foundational texts for #DigitalHumanities are:

- Granger, Gilles-Gaston (1967). Pensée formelle et sciences de l'homme. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne. [There is an English translation, which I’d avoid if you can read the original.]

- Гладкий, А. В., & Мельчук, И. А. (1969). Элементы математической лингвистики. Москва: Наука. [There are French, German, and English translations.]

- Leff, Gordon (1972). Models inherent in history. In T. Shanin (Ed.), The Rules of the Game (pp. 148–160). Abingdon: Tavistock.

- Stachowiak, Herbert (1973). Allgemeine Modelltheorie. Wien, New York: Springer.

- Gardin, Jean-Claude (1991). Le calcul et la raison. Paris: Éd. de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

- Moles, Abraham A. (1995). Les sciences de l'imprécis. Paris: Seuil.

- Gardin, J. (2012). Modèles et récits. In J. Berthelot (Ed.), Épistémologie des sciences sociales (pp. 407–454). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. https://doi.org/10.3917/puf.berth.2012.01.0407

- Meunier, Jean-Guy (2014). Humanités numériques ou computationnelles. Sens public. http://sens-public.org/articles/1121/

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

This just in—I look forward to reading it!

My 7-year-old does not understand the “Hello Computer” joke from A Voyage Home. You can just talk to computers now… it’s no longer funny. (Unrelated: I’m old.)

#Atari - wichtig für meine "Ichwerdung" ;)

@gisiger hat mich mit einem Blogbeitrag (vom November 22) gerade daran erinnert. Bei Schnee und Sturm habe ich meinen ersten Atari nach Hause getragen...

https://paper.wf/gisiger/tag:Atari

Joseph #Weizenbaum wäre am 8.1.2023 hundert Jahre alt geworden. Lesenswerte Würdigung im #tagesspiegel

Translation:

The SNSF, it appears from the reaction of spokesman Florian Fisch, does not think this construction deserves a beauty prize either: “Yes, publishing an article in your own publishing house is not the best scientific practice, there is a conflict of interests.” The SNSF was aware of this, but it was not against the rules. “The SNSF therefore sought written confirmation from the publisher [that was Rossi, ed.] that it would seek the opinion of an independent expert, from someone who had no relationship with the publisher and the grant applicant [that was Rossi, ed.]. The expert's opinion was considered independent, based on a plausibility check by the SNSF.”

https://nieuwscheckers.nl/verknipt-plagiaat-valse-identiteiten-en-middeleeuwse-manuscripten/