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Phew, I’ve sent out the “rapport de planification” for the 2025–2028 period to the department members for comments.

As for the abstract I wanted to write—it’s still titled “something about uncertainty and modeling.”

I just received an inquiry about Malaga, a software package for the
development and application of so-called Left-Associative Grammars (LAG), developed at the University of Erlangen in the 1990s.

Amazing.

I suspect my take is not what people want to hear, but it’s that we need to prepare students for the long run, which means not just adjusting assignments but helping them understand the technology.

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Morgen möchten wir uns wieder die Köpfe heiß diskutieren bei unserem Gesprächskreis! Von 11-12 Uhr stellt @toroe essentielle Fragen zu ethischen Aspekten der #DigitalHumanities. Es moderiert @resonanzfilter Komm gerne spontan vorbei, Zugangsdaten findest du hier dhtheorien.hypotheses.org/1306

"the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence in peer review by companies such as Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer excises critical human judgement in the evaluation of scholarship and serves the capitalist interests of these corporate entities rather than academic interests and values."

researchinformation.info/featu

The outlook is bleak:

"the core functions of higher education are destined to be quantified and that this data will be harvested, curated, and repackaged through a variety of enterprise management platforms"

"enterprise companies correctly see an opportunity for vertical integration and end-to-end or closed-loop systems"

researchinformation.info/featu

No doubt there are fish hooks in his perspective too, but I found Stephen Wolfram's description of the potential synergies between ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha illuminating.

He highlights the inadequacies of ChatGPT but also (primarily) the ongoing value of human-curated, structured, data.

writings.stephenwolfram.com/20

#chatgpt #digitalhumanities

This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.

The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.

vintageapple.org/byte

#retrocomputing #magazines

Kudos to WashU for a progressive stance on #ChatGPT and other AI text generators. Their Center for Teaching and Learning is also holding workshops to help faculty understand what’s new.
ctl.wustl.edu/event/1_11_23_ch

Here's my contribution to #receptiogate. I am nearly a 100% sure that I have been at their stated address, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, a few years ago to attend a chocolate-making workshop. It was a lot of fun. No manuscripts involved though.

RT @DHBenelux
#SaveTheDate for 10th edition of the #DHBenelux2023 Conference @kbrbe the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels from 31 May – 2 June 2023! the full #CFP & deadlines-> 2023.dhbenelux.org/ & Pardon our dust as we get the website together!

Wie können digitale Texte resistenter gemacht werden gegen Plagiate? Im @Mittelalterblog nimmt Christof Rolker einen aktuellen Fall zum Anlass, darüber nachzudenken, wie in den #Geisteswissenschaften digital publiziert wird und benennt Probleme, die angegangen werden müssen.

Sapienti satis est (?): Zur digitalen Quellenkritik im Kontext von Plagiatsvorwürfen:

mittelalter.hypotheses.org/299

C'est enfin tout à fait officiel : à partir de février 2023 j'entame un postdoc à Lausanne avec @yrochat !

J'ai encore du mal à réaliser et j'ai tellement hâte 🔥

On Feb. 17th & 18th the first meeting of the group for the "history of computer science and computers" (at @informatik) will take place a the department for #mediastudies at University Bonn.

There will be talks, planning discussions, and visits to computer historical collections in Bonn.

If you are interested to participate go here: txt3.de/fg2023-1 (and drop me an email)

#ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Retrocomputing #ComputerArcheology #ArtificialIntelligence

@RevueHN commence l'année 2023 en accomplissant sa première bonne résolution : déménager sur Mastodon ! Bonjour à toutes et à tous !

@epyllia Thank you for making me aware of version 2.0! I’m probably going to use it next semester for a discussion about the different conceptions of in North America and Europe.

I had the nagging feeling that something was off, but I couldn’t put my finger on it (pun not intended).

A: I’d appreciate it if we could keep the meeting short.
Me: Yes, that’s I wrote “max. 1 h.”
B: Maybe you could be more explicit…
Me: Waddya, mean, more explicit than “max. 1 h”?
B: Well, maybe you could write “let’s keep it short, max. 1 h”?
Me:

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