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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Haben wir unser Immunsystem die letzten Jahre verhätschelt? Wurde es geschwächt durch Coronavirus und Maskentragen? Ein paar Erklärungen, wie unsere Abwehr funktioniert.
https://www.republik.ch/2023/02/03/laesst-sich-das-immunsystem-trainieren
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[Appel à communication] Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects. Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society. Délais : 1er mars 2023 #AAC https://sts2023.ch/
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The idea that "payment" will cut down spam and scam is insane. Of course people will pay money to make you fall for their scam
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Another opportunity for Learned Societies who berate APCs...
The MIT Press announces new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model
https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-announces-new-initiative-to-flip-existing-subscription-based-journals-to-a-diamond-open-access-publishing-model/
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Google Trends stinks!
While frequently used by researcher Google Trends seems to be a highly unreliable source of historical trends, Alexandra Franzén argues based on an experiment revealing Google Trends inability to replicate its own results.
Compare for instance the two identical searches conducted at different times below.
"Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends" is out now: https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221151118
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Postdoc position in graph reasoning for narrative
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QSP
Deadline: 19 Feb
Tasks: ontology learning, semantic relation identification, extracting structured information from narrative texts. #NLProc #DH #GNN #wikidata #fanfic #job #academic
@gronlp
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[New post] Funding the League of Nations: a map of the contributions of member states https://www.martingrandjean.ch/funding-league-of-nations/
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We've added a new section to the #pandoc #manual, where we list the available options for the creation of #accessible #PDFs.
In brief: Use #ConTeXt, #WeasyPrint, Prince XML, #LibreOffice, or MS Word (hashtags mark FOSS).
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL#accessible-pdfs-and-pdf-archiving-standards
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In preparation for the next Hypertext conference edition, we have asked Vint Cerf (
@vgcerf
), vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google to give us his vision on Hypertext.
Read more (Post + Video): https://ht.acm.org/vint-cerfs-vision-on-hypertext/
Here you can watch the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vHm3ftCCCMU
Enjoy!
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"Merci à vous tou•tes d'avoir vérifié les réponses de #ChatGPT pendant des mois, ainsi améliorant notre modèle. Après avoir extrait votre #digitallabor, nous sommes désormais prêts à vous faire payer un abonnement pour pouvoir accéder à ce même service." https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/
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Just in case anyone is feeling this way but doesn’t know how to express it: an academic career does at pretty much every stage require you to learn how to produce entirely new genres of writing, often on the fly—we often provide too little guidance & too few models for each one, with some strange expectation that folks will just figure it out.
Figured out research papers? Write a dissertation!
Finished the diss? Make it a book! Write a grant proposal!
Did those things? Write a statements of your research, service, & teaching philosophies for your dossier!
Case in point, just this semester—nearly 2 decades after I started grad school!—I wrote my very 1st letters evaluating tenure cases—another entirely new genre I’ve never once read, because I was always on the other side of that process.
So just: it’s not that you can’t write or think—it’s maybe that you’re being asked to think & write in new genres all the time
@michal_h21 Yeah, that’s possible, but the documentation of otherlanguage* talks more about what it is _not_ rather than what it is… Also, Babel doesn’t complain, so it might be that biblatex wants something that isn’t loaded.
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Chaosnet: The #Lisp Machine network protocol that was beat by TCP/IP
"The only really visible remnant of #Chaosnet is the CH DNS class. There’s something about that fact that I find strangely fascinating. The CH class is a vestigial ghost of an alternative network protocol in a world that has long since settled on TCP/IP. It’s exciting, at least to me, to know that the last traces of Chaosnet still lurk out there in the infrastructure of our networked society. The CH DNS class is a fun artifact of digital archaeology. But it’s also a living reminder that the internet was not born fully formed, that TCP/IP is not the only way to connect computers to each other, and that “the internet” is far from the coolest name we could have had for our global communication system."
@michal_h21 Yes, but since Babel 3.39 this is supposed to be no longer necessary; see Section 1.3, “Mostly monolingual documents” in the Babel manual.
@michal_h21 Kinda, but I currenlty don’t have the time for a bug report (because I need to grade…)
Actually, the issue seems to be due to an interaction between babel and biblatex (and unrelated to abstract). This example always produces “undefined references” (I only load csquotes to stop biblatex from complaining, it doesn’t change anything):
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{document}
English
\begin{otherlanguage}{german}
Deutsch
\end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}
I’ve found three ways to make it work:
- Remove biblatex; or
- Explicitly load the other language (here: german); or
- Use otherlanguage*
@felwert Exactly my reasoning as well :-)
I hope to be able to replace LaTeX for PDF generation at some point: it’s so slow :-(
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He needs those parts for his spaceship, he's going to otter space.🚀
@felwert Both, I guess. Package development moves much faster today, which is good in some respects, but also leads to instability and incompatibilities.
The days when you could say that, in contrast to Word, you can still process your LaTeX files from 10 years ago, are definitely over. This is one reason why I switched from #TeXLaTeX #Beamer to Markdown (#Pandoc + #Deckset): I could no longer reasonably expect my slides from last semester to compile without changes.
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Talk about wildly anti-patterned. Trying to change a password on an Office365 account. If you paste into the password box, you get a message along the lines of "password cannot contain username". I promise the random string I was pasting contained *no similarity* to the user name. They made me actually type it. Twice. So it's shorter and simpler because who has the time?
#TeXLaTeX TIL:
1. Using an otherlanguage environment in the abstract environment produces spurious “unresolved references” that can never be resolved. Using otherlanguage* seems to avoid this problem.
2. biber sometimes simply stops working. The solution is to delete its cache, e.g., by saying rm -rf $(biber --cache)
Is it just me, or has #TeXLaTeX become very brittle?
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
