Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
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We’re all prompt engineers for humans when we communicate with each other
Think about it the next time you talk to someone, particularly a stranger. How you start, how you craft your “input” (including body language, expression) will affect the “output” from the person 😁
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It's really hard to tell which of these wickedly tough challenges will be solved first: AGI, people living on another planet, or getting OSX to remember which fucking screen a window was on when it wakes back up.
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Quite big news, if Der Spiegel is right about this. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-send-leopard-tanks-kyiv-allow-others-do-so-spiegel-2023-01-24/
“There’s no sign of a breakthrough just yet, but pressure is building domestically for Bern to re-engage with Brussels in order to get association moving.” https://sciencebusiness.net/news/Horizon-Europe/eu-and-switzerland-talk-about-horizon-europe-davos
The #Mosaic #Web browser was released thirty years ago. (Well, we called it a “WWW browser” back then. And boy, was it buggy!)
“Mosaic in the rear view” by @Jayhoffmann
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blog/postscript/mosaic-in-the-rear-view/
@TedUnderwood It’s no fun if you admit it right away!
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Say Hello to Ivory. We are now available to all on Apple’s App Store! We have launched as “Early Access” because we still have a lot of exciting plans ahead of that will make Ivory even better. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
@Clearerworld I think this is the link you wanted to post ;-)
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Ivory is on the App Store now - highly recommended. I’ve been on the beta for a while now, and subscribed immediately.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
@NearerAndFarther This last point about availability is important, I think. Technical availability is one issue, and I was lucky that when I used ChatGPT in a course in December that there were no issues.
But since OpenAI has now begun to monetize ChatGPT, I guess we’ll be seeing different availibility issues soon… If not for this version, then for the next one, some universities will have licenses with guaranteed access, others—won’t. The latter will then be unable to familiarize with the state-of-the-art technology they’ll need for their jobs…
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At some point on some day/time yet to be determined, but after we do it here, we'll be announcing the availability of @ivory on our Twitter company accounts.
As part of this it'd be nice if we could include some suggested general interest instances that could handle a large (hopefully thousands) influx of users.
Any instance owners interested in this? We have links to https://joinmastodon.org/servers and https://instances.social in the onboarding.
But adding a few instances in the Tweet would be cool.
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@dbellingradt Hard to say. Since the ban on third-party clients Twitter is unusable for me and I hardly see what’s going on there. I do see quite some #DigitalHumanities content here, so there seems to be a critical mass.
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It's a few years old now, but there's some very good ABS data explaining why people don't use public transport.
Service coverage and quality accounts for 78%. Cost was cited by 2.7% of people.
The priority is improving the service.
Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4602.0.55.002Main+Features40Mar+2012
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After 12 years of using ref managers (first Mendeley, Zotero since 2018) my library is an absolute mess with thousands of partially read PDFs. Should I just start over with an empty library? Any tips?
It’s 15:30 and I still haven’t had lunch. But hey, everything for the department! ;-)
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Here's my review of @driscoll`s THE MODEM WORLD - the book explores little-known aspects from the (pre)history of social media, c. 1978-1995. The book's call to imagine a post-commercial online world hits the nerve of our time!
Can't recommend this book enough (go buy & read it)! I especially hope that the book will encourage scholars outside the US to explore the history of their local BBSs (that's still a niche).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221151051
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Reminder: new music released on Sunday! Check it out.
RT @JohnCarterWood@twitter.com
New music!
I've just released my new solo synthpop track, "Eternal September".
Created with free and open-source software (especially @ardourdaw@twitter.com) and free to stream and download on @SoundCloud@twitter.com.
https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/eternal-september
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JohnCarterWood/status/1617207097573130240
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#Twitter migration woes
Having left Twitter for reasons, I’m dismayed to see some of my fellow refugees posting content from Twitter. RT’s. So that, to explore the content, I would need to connect to Twitter again.
Isn’t it worth the extra trouble to find the non-Twitter version of whatever it is you’re highlighting?
That is all. Thank you for listening.
@psanker @sascha_wolfer Maybe there are implementations that do this (Perl ensures consistent behavior for the special ranges A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and any subranges of these), but according to POSIX, in any locale other than POSIX, “a range expression has unspecified behavior.” Better use [[:upper:]] or something equivalent.
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
