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Andromeda Yelton

Attention professors! Do you have any awesome students looking for a summer fellowship? MPOW (JSTOR Labs) is running its second Innovation Fellows cohort: labs.jstor.org/blog/innovation 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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Elisa Beshero-Bondar

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. :-) python-textbook.pythonhumaniti

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Jim Salmons

To my & /#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"

👂 youtu.be/QQQa6nJff7w
Lyrics: genius.com/Johnny-clegg-spirit

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Alex Stamos

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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Ulrike Wuttke (moderator) 🇺🇦

@Jim_Salmons @dhinamug @DHdKonferenz @cneud This is very funny!

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Okay this might be a long post :blob_grinning_sweat:

One thing that I realised is making 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 :sad_cat:) 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 , 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 - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
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 -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS :apple_inc:
Tusky for Android :android:

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via 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 :ablobsmilehappy:

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Jim Salmons

Hi Ulrike @uwuttke & @dhinamug @DHdKonferenz - It’s not (yet) a 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. 😂 (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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DH in a Mug ☕️🤖

Today drinking in #DHinaMug style from a special #dhd2022 @DHdKonferenz mug 🥰! What is your favourite #dh mug? Please boost and sent pictures! 🙏 #DigitalHumanities

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Jim Salmons

To my & /#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 . You’ll learn about this interesting time-related concept and get a bit of my personal backstory along the way. 🤓👍 bit.ly/nowsliding-pt1

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Quinn Dombrowski

Hi new #DigitalHumanities people finding your way over here! If you're looking for DH folks, there's a list going here: tinyurl.com/dhmastodon. Please add yourself with the link at top, and DM me if you need anything to be updated! #TwitterMigration

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Jim Salmons

@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 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.

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To my & /#ML folk: As a indie , I am reluctant to make a clean break and move to the m’don federation. Twitter has been an essential channel for evolving my 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, 👋🤓✌️

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Yo Albert @wunderalbert - W/o a public , non-GitHub /#ML devs can’t integrate & into , , Model-Switching, Prompt-Selection/Sequencing, etc. research. E.g., LangChainAI is on 🔥. See integrations: langchain.readthedocs.io/en/la, & repo: github.com/hwchase17/langchain). I urge you to discuss w/ Oege & other Next Hubbers. 🙏

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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 . 😎
arxiv.org/pdf/2205.00445.pdf

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Hi Albert @wunderalbert,

Why UI/UX framework support for 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.

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@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.

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Hi @TeemuRoos - WRT positive use cases, I suffered a devastating spinal cord injury in 2020 which abruptly ended my activity as a . I was fortunate to join the Technology Preview. It was a game-changer for me. See bit.ly/Copilot4DisDev for more. AI code generation has the potential to be a life-changer for and . Cc: @wunderalbert

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@SignalsAndSorcery 😱🤣✌️

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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 articles. 🤓 LangChain docs: langchain.readthedocs.io/en/la

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Yo Albert @wunderalbert - Per my ‘Thoughts on Agency’ article, the addition of , , and features in could be gr8 way to explore adding “Sherlockean smarts” into Conversational focused on support for building apps based on popular UI/UX frameworks.
twitter.com/sjwhitmore/status/

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