Jim Salmons @Jim_Salmons@qoto.org
I am a 71-yo #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist & #DisabledDeveloper. My research is focused on the development of a Ground-Truth Storage format for digitized serial publications, primarily magazines.
Joined Nov 2022
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Attention professors! Do you have any awesome students looking for a summer fellowship? MPOW (JSTOR Labs) is running its second Innovation Fellows cohort: https://labs.jstor.org/blog/innovation-fellows-2023/ This would be a good fit for someone with LIS, edtech, digital humanities, or related interests. Design thinking instruction + mentorship + independent projects. Last year's projects/fellows were SO COOL, and the person running the program is pretty amazing. (& yes of course it's paid)
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I am loving this super well-written Intro to Python for Humanists by W. J. B. Mattingly--it's wonderfully accessible to students just starting out and exploring NLP, and it's timely and wide-ranging in its examples: combining word embeddings via spaCy and gensim with topic modeling via nltk--and best of all it's really for hunanist approaches to word salads. Super happy with Mattingly's stuff. :-) https://python-textbook.pythonhumanities.com/intro.html
To my #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML folk: Coping with recovery/rehab from my spinal cord injury, today Johnny Clegg’s spirit spoke to me:
“Spirit is the journey, body is the bus
I am the driver from dust to dust
Spirit is a story, body is a book
I am the writer, together we flow"
👂 https://youtu.be/QQQa6nJff7w
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Johnny-clegg-spirit-in-the-journey-lyrics
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This claim is false.
Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d). This is a famous "d-order" that has to be signed by a judge.
Companies can demand reimbursement under 2706. You can argue that 2703 should have a higher standard, but if the government can get to user data should it be free or should the companies ask for a nominal cost?
This is absolutely nothing to do with content moderation.
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@Jim_Salmons @dhinamug @DHdKonferenz @cneud This is very funny!
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Okay this might be a long post 
One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.
With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe 
) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**
### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS 
](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android 
](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)
Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux
I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over 
Hi Ulrike @uwuttke & @dhinamug @DHdKonferenz - It’s not (yet) a #DHinaMug but if ever there was an image that deserved to be given mug treatment, it’s this one from Clemen’s @cneud birdland account. I nearly laughed my head off when I saw this. 😂 #DigitalHumanities (Sheesh, my 🐘client has really fought me on getting this reply user references right!? Still getting my sea legs under me. 😱)
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Today drinking in #DHinaMug style from a special #dhd2022 @DHdKonferenz mug 🥰! What is your favourite #dh mug? Please boost and sent pictures! 🙏 #DigitalHumanities
To my #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML folk: As I transition here from Birdland, recognize I have some new followers, and it’s yearend holiday time, I thought I would point you to a fun 2-part article about the neologism #nowsliding. You’ll learn about this interesting time-related concept and get a bit of my personal backstory along the way. 🤓👍 https://bit.ly/nowsliding-pt1
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Hi new #DigitalHumanities people finding your way over here! If you're looking for DH folks, there's a list going here: https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon. Please add yourself with the link at top, and DM me if you need anything to be updated! #TwitterMigration
@illtud - embedded translation is so important and useful to me. Having grown up in a ruthlessly monolingual world & given my own cognitive style, I have never succeeded at learning any language other than English. My #DigitalHumanities network of mentors & collaborators are mostly EU based. Twitter in-line translation has been vital for me. I hope a solution can be developed for Mastodon client apps.
To my #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML folk: As a #SelfDirectedLearning indie #CitizenScientist, I am reluctant to make a clean break and move to the m’don federation. Twitter has been an essential channel for evolving my #PLN Personal Learning Network. At 71-yo, I know how impossible it was in the pre-Internet world to engage directly with world class researchers in your domain of interest. But I increasingly feel uncomfortable with how things are evolving at Twitter. Hello from Colorado USA, 👋🤓✌️
Yo Albert @wunderalbert - W/o a public #API, non-GitHub #AI/#ML devs can’t integrate #GitHubCopilot & #HeyGitHub into #CoT, #RLHF, Model-Switching, Prompt-Selection/Sequencing, etc. research. E.g., LangChainAI is on 🔥. See integrations: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrations.html, & repo: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain). I urge you to discuss w/ Oege & other Next Hubbers. 🙏
OMGaia Albert @wunderalbert! Have you ✅d’out this paper? 😱👍👏 “MRKL Systems: A modular, neuro-symbolic architecture that combines large language models, external knowledge sources and discrete reasoning“ 🤓🔥 The LangChain folks have taken a 1st cut at this in their Agent subsystem. This is what we need for a role-based `CoT Dialoguer` Agent in #HeyGitHub. 😎
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.00445.pdf
Hi Albert @wunderalbert,
Why UI/UX framework support for #HeyGitHub voice-coding productivity boosting?
With decades of experience on dev teams of all kinds, I see three user profiles of interest:
1. On large-project enterprise teams, the UI/UK coder tends to be a junior non-engineer designer. These folks can use all the help they can get to contribute to the team.
2. On small consultant engagement-based teams or small entrepreneurial teams, the senior engineer types have to wear many hats. For them, writing UI/UX code is a distraction when they would prefer to work on the actual problem solution code.
3. A third type, which I think fits me, we are thought-leading POC prototypers who are expert at nothing but just need to get our ideas alive for others to see the potential of our concepts. 🤓
In all three scenarios, while the reasons vary, the value of boosting UI/UX developer productivity is clear.
@wunderalbert Yep, back from the holiday & likely the shutdown of Semmle `lgtm` service having possible user migration issues.
I am starting to explore `LangChain` use for, initially some prompt chaining, then an agent with memory, to do some typical UI/UX coding with the wxPython framework wrapper on wxWidgets. It would be a good POC to show how a higher level voice conversation could replace the role of a WYSIWYG interface builder.
Hi @TeemuRoos - WRT positive use cases, I suffered a devastating spinal cord injury in 2020 which abruptly ended my activity as a #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist. I was fortunate to join the #Copilot Technology Preview. It was a game-changer for me. See https://bit.ly/Copilot4DisDev for more. AI code generation has the potential to be a life-changer for #DisabledDevelopers and #DisabledSTEMstudents. Cc: @wunderalbert
Quick update Albert @wunderalbert - My Zoom with Oege is rescheduled to Thursday. So looking forward to this. ITMT, Harrison Chase and the LangChain contributors have been on 🔥 this past week! 😱👍 The addition of the Agents and Memory features seem perfect for exploring the ideas in my #HeyGitHub #Copilot articles. 🤓 LangChain docs: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yo Albert @wunderalbert - Per my ‘Thoughts on Agency’ #HeyGitHub article, the addition of #ConversationChain, #Agent, and #Memory features in #LangChainAI could be gr8 way to explore adding “Sherlockean smarts” into Conversational #Copilot focused on support for building apps based on popular UI/UX frameworks.
https://twitter.com/sjwhitmore/status/1596213155210096640?s=12&t=Khpgtpee1al2eccE5duSSw
I am a 71-yo #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist & #DisabledDeveloper. My research is focused on the development of a Ground-Truth Storage format for digitized serial publications, primarily magazines.
Joined Nov 2022
