Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

I wrote a longer-form piece on post.news about the concept of operationalization in AI and the way it disenfranchises communities from making decisions that the systems that govern their lives.

If you want to read it there: https://post.news/article/2LR4k0jt685pzd6uiGeHJlnBwo2

I'll also serialize it, below.

Introducing tootfinder.ch

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Looks like our #DigitalHumanities web app #ezlinavis (https://ezlinavis.dracor.org/), originally intended for extracting co-occurrence network data from literary texts, is also used in medical research. 😯 @cmil

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-022-04200-0
https://doi.org/10.21873/invivo.12976

RECEPTIO's version of #receptiogate:

"In December 2022, we were the victim of a vicious defamation campaign via the web, which shut us down for a month. After a legal investigation that established that all the accusations against us were unfounded and the result of the ravings of a sick mind (to which haters gave credence), in February 2023 the centre resumed its cultural activities"
[https://www.receptio.eu/story]

The lack of a full stop after the last sentence suggests that the story isn't quite finished yet...

Im neuen SAGW-Newsletter gelesen: «Universität Zürich schafft unbefristete Stellen im Mittelbau», sog. Lecturer-Positionen in Lehre und Forschung. Die Stellen sind für Postdocs vorgesehen, Verbesserungen gibt es aber auch für Doktorierende und Assistierende. Bleibt nur die Frage der Finanzierung:
https://www.sagw.ch/sagw/aktuell/news/details/news/next-generation-uzh

Les différents modes d’écriture de l’histoire et leurs effets sur les pratiques historienne. https://www.infoclio.ch/de/les-diff%C3%A9rents-modes-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9criture-de-l%E2%80%99histoire-et-leurs-effets-sur-les-pratiques-historienne?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #infoclioevent

We've made it easier to use the #Lua interpreter in #pandoc 3: calling `pandoc lua` (or invoking pandoc via a symlink named `pandoc-lua`) lets pandoc behave like the default `lua` binary, but with all of pandoc's libraries loaded. E.g.,

echo 'print(PANDOC_VERSION)' | pandoc lua

prints the version, and

pandoc lua script.lua

runs the given script.
#LuaLang

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL#running-pandoc-as-a-lua-interpreter

was ich an den unterschiedlichen ki modellen mag: sie entzaubern jegliche kulturproduktion als ansammlung verschränkter nachahmungsgesten.

I just re-recorded the Apple Lisa demo I gave in 2021. Now you can understand what I'm saying! I managed to keep it under an hour, too 😅 #vintagecomputing #vintageapple
https://youtu.be/cHfI6FWY1Kk

Eine – für mich als interessierten Laien – sehr anschauliche Erklärung der Grundprinzipien von ChatGPT, mit einer kleinen Genealogie von Transformer → GPT-[1,2,3] → ChatGPT. https://www.golem.de/news/kuenstliche-intelligenz-so-funktioniert-chatgpt-2302-171644.html

Jetzt noch bis zum 22.2. bewerben auf die Stelle als wiss. Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) als Leitung des Archivs für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD) in unserer Abteilung Pragmatik! 👉https://ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle8 Gern teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten! #Stellenausschreibung #Jobs #Mannheim

It may seem that LLM or anything “AI” in general will make studying (or learning at schools) easier for students, but harder for institutions bc they have to come up with exams to exclude effects of using those tools and trying to control what’s happening

The effect on the long run will be very different, though: it will get much harder for students as the use of AI is assumed and *expected*. So students are demanded to do much more than that and explicitly show creativity, innovation, etc.

Für flankierende Massagen #abst22

JOB ALERT

We are hiring! Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in *Computational Social Science with a Focus on Communication*.

Join us at U of Zurich. Great opportunities, details below.

https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/assistant-professorship-with-tenure-track-in-computational-social-science-with-a-focus-on-communication/99520e04-afd8-444d-91ea-33ca08ba8ea3

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@communicationscholars #commodon @ICA_CAT @PolComm @computationalsocialscience

This weekend's unexpected obsession blog post:

Hand-drawn maps of Zork.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/02/a-treasury-of-zork-maps.html

#InteractiveFiction #Zork #Maps