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
Stress relief: reconfigured one of my #Ikki68 Aurora #MechanicalKeyboards for my wife.
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Write-up by reddit user /u/BlackHatCowboy_ on how to learn about and use filters and custom writers:
http://chulsky.com/pandoc/
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After a packed week of #Microsoft and #Google making big releases on the heels of #ChatGPT, Melissa Heikkilä just said out loud what a few people didn't want to hear:
"Technology is not ready to be used like this at this scale. #AI #LanguageModels are notorious bullshitters, often presenting falsehoods as facts. That makes it incredibly dangerous to combine them with #search, where it’s crucial to get the #facts straight."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1068498/why-you-shouldnt-trust-ai-search-engines/
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Microsoft: lol yeah this thing lies or makes stuff up all the damn time but we decided to go live with it anyway, don't trust it, it's a trickster when it's not a dumbass
Right there in the faq, that's... certainly a decision
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"Are Bing's AI-generated responses always factual?
Bing aims to base all its responses on reliable sources - but AI can make mistakes, and third party content on the internet may not always be accurate or reliable. Bing will sometimes misrepresent the information it finds, and you may see responses that sound convincing but are incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate. Use your own judgment and double check the facts before making decisions or taking action based on Bing's responses."
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Wer ist durch den Wegfall der bislang kostenlosen Scientific API von Twitter betroffen?
Ich suche Beispiele für Bericht im DLF, wo dies Einfluss auf die Forschung hat.
#FediCampus #ScienceMastodon
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Bundesräte sollen nur noch am Wochenende beobachten
@felwert @religion I’d say #MDPI is a predatory publisher, but you could also “name their methods aggressive rent extracting, rather than predatory.”
https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/
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Bald ist #Fasnacht – und die 163. #Idiotikon-Wortgeschichte handelt saisongerecht von Gebäcken namens Chrapfe, Chruchtela, Öörli und Chnüüblätz (leider hat der Autor aus Platzgründen nicht auch die Rezepte mitliefern können ...):
https://www.idiotikon.ch/wortgeschichten/chruchtele-oerli-chnueblaetz
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For a moment there I thought this was a rather extreme leap in backward compatibility from Apple.
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If the first non-whitespace non-comment thing in an #Inform7 source file is a double-quoted string, the story title is set to that string. If, on the same line as the closing quote, there's a " by " then the story author is set to whatever follows it. The story author may be double-quoted, but doesn't have to be. (If it's single-quoted then literal double-quote characters will be part of the story author value.) There may be a period immediately after the story author.
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If anyone is wondering if Bing+GPT is somehow going to be better than Google Bard, remember that both LLM systems will be dependent on the underlying search algorithms.
Here is Bing (prior to GPT integration) doing the wrong thing. Bing search is retrieving articles about how Google summary boxes are wrong and then giving the wrong answer.
Both will have the same failure modes. The only difference is that Google stepped in it first.
Source: https://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/1623576572015050753
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Mindshadow
Developed by Interplay
1984
Couldn't get a good source for the credits but it seems like it was designed by Rebecca Heineman and Allen Adham?
@pandoc Thanks for reaching out! Let me first stress that I really appreciate your work on #Pandoc.
As for me, I guess I should have controlled extensions more tightly from the start, since not everything makes sense in my setting.
I do think the new Figure node type is a good idea, but since implicit_figures is enabled by default for Pandoc’s Markdown, I guess this change will bite others as well. Of course, it’s documented in the release notes, but since it may lead to the loss of content, maybe it would have been good to explicitly warn that the AST has changed considerably, which may break filters relying on the old behavior, and the changes in writers may break custom templates.
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#DHNB2023 Calls for Reviewers for the Conference Proceedings! The DHNB proceedings are published with CEUR workshop series (https://ceur-ws.org/), a diamond open access publisher. Full papers are due 15 March 2023, and the review process will last until 26 April 2023.
Reviewing for the proceedings is an excellent way of contributing to the DHNB community and to digital humanities scholarship!
Interested? Fill in the short questionnaire, and we will get in touch! https://forms.gle/EEiaCgW56FWCHd4K7
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Another new #Markdown extension in #pandoc 3: "mark".
pandoc --from=markdown+mark
This adds support for
==highlighted text==
syntax. Works with LaTeX, HTML, and docx output.
#formatExtension #highlight
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Started work on SchXslt2, the second iteration of a modern XSLT-based ISO Schematron processor. SchXslt2 will be XSLT 3.0 only. What I can tell so far: The Schematron to XSLT transpiler is less then 500 lines of XSLT.
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
