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@bibliolater @bookstodon I think one thing holding back open access publishing is the lack of good software for running a journal. OJS is one of the few things available, but it has essentially no support for handling LaTeX. I'm currently building something for a journal that will help automate the LaTeX production process. I plan to make it open source and I would welcome collaborators.
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2023/may/16/is-it-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-scientific-publishing-podcast #Science #Books #Publishing #Podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
Cunningham, M. (2022). The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400–1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327244 #History #Europe #OpenAccess #OA #Books #histodons @histodons
Working, L. (2020). The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625227 #History #OpenAccess #OA #Books #Britain #America #histodons @histodons
Naef, A. (2022). An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878333 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #UK #histodons @histodons
"Ever wish you had an assistant to do research, prep files, create outlines, or draft emails? https://www.atanet.org/business-strategies/5-tedious-non-translation-tasks-chatgpt-can-do-amazingly-well/ Now you do." #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Translations
Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1658487483762618371
"Piltdown Man placed Britain’s name on the map of human evolution. There was only one problem—there’s no such thing as a missing link."https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-problem-of-piltdown-man #History #Science #Evolution #Britain #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/columbiacss/status/1656722141293731844
"Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries". https://newbooksnetwork.com/spoils-of-knowledge #Podcast #Books #Sweden #Library #Archives #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1658503386357022728
Lucas, P. (2022). A CONSPECTUS OF LETTERS TO AND FROM SIR HENRY SPELMAN (1563/4–1641). The Antiquaries Journal, 102, 370-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Anglo_Saxon #Manuscripts #England #Research #histodons @histodons
"This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text." https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Scotland #Enlightenment #C18th #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/MaxSkjonsberg/status/1658470581384380421
Dow, S. (2023). SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000530 #History #Philosophy #Science #OpenAccess #OA #histodons @histodons
"They pulled off one of the most astonishing campaigns of conquest in history, forging the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen. But how did they treat their subject populations once the dust had settled?" https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/what-life-like-mongol-empire/ #History #Mongol #Medieval #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NicholasMorto11/status/1658126237603094531
"Felix Flicker explores the magnetic monopoles theoretically predicted to exist in ‘spin ices’ and how this could lead to fundamental advances in electronics with the possibility of magnetic currents that overcome physical limitations faced by electrical currents today." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xH97Su-KY #Video #Science #Physics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1657804298087014403
Ohthere: King Alfred’s Viking Guest from beyond the Arctic Circle https://ancientscribbles.com/2022/03/ohthere-king-alfreds-viking-guest-from-beyond-the-arctic-circle/.html #History #Ancient #Norway #England #Europe #Vikings #Arctic #histodons @histodons
"..Mark Carrigan argues that the dynamic of ChatGPT and generative AIs as efficiency tools opens the door to further growth and acceleration in research outputs, but also raises questions about the value of these products of academic labour." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/14/generative-ai-and-the-unceasing-acceleration-of-academic-writing/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Academia #Writing
Source: https://twitter.com/LSEImpactBlog/status/1657687447197696001
"Here are 10 books that we recommend you read if you’re looking to immerse yourself in the world of classical literature, but don’t know where to start." https://blog.oup.com/2022/05/10-books-to-immerse-yourself-in-the-world-of-classical-literature-reading-list/ #book books #Literature #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPAcademic/status/1657428017151610880
Len Scales, Ever Closer Union? Unification, Difference, and the ‘Making of Europe’, c.950–c.1350, The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April 2022, Pages 321–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac061 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Journal #Europe #Article #Medieval #histodons @histodons
Nataliia Hübler, Simon J Greenhill, Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims, Journal of Language Evolution, 2023;, lzad002, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad002 #OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #Evolution #Anthropology #Article #Langauges
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A very interesting point (that when an LLM gets very good at predicting continuations, it may do it by developing things that look a lot like mental models) expressed really badly.
"Doing things they were not trained to do" is an utterly misleading way of describing the situation. They weren't trained to do any specific thing at all, except produce plausible continuations. Anything that that implies, from writing a bland thank-you letter to urging a reporter to leave his wife, is to exactly the same extent "something it was not trained to do".
This kind of wording just encourages people to have inaccurate ideas about how LLMs actually work.
Grumble grumble! :)
"a close reading of the sources reflects the importance of Indigenous knowledges to imperial expansion, on the one hand, and the interactive nature of cross-cultural knowledge sharing that became hidden by early modern European epistemological practices." https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac047 #History #Brazil #Europe #histodons #openaccess #oa @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1648687392856113152
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