Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

A Mind Forever Voyaging
Written by Steve Meretzky
Developed by Infocom
1985

You can read about my favorite Infocom game as part of Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Games here:
https://if50.substack.com/p/1985-a-mind-forever-voyaging

Steve Meretzky also saved many documents and notes from his time at Infocom and you can check them out here:
https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

I don't post much on mastodon yet but here's a couple of CfP's for low res etc. #nlp to follow:

* [loresmt](https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/)
* [field matters](https://field-matters.github.io)

Got recommended this #Emacs video by the YouTube algo and given I’ve only recently found a need for yas I decided to watch it.

It’s made me want to hugely expand on my snippets now.

https://youtu.be/xmBovJvQ3KU

Meine Analyse zum #Cyberangriff auf die #Universität #Zürich.

Spoiler: Die IT-Verantwortlichen haben einiges zu erklären.

Offenbar standen Login-Daten seit Wochen in einem #Hacker-Forum zum Verkauf.

https://www.watson.ch/!576504885

cc @watson_news

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is seeking to hire up to three full-time teaching faculty in fields that include data science, software development, database design, and library science. For candidates with a doctoral degree the teaching load is 2/2. Please boost if ppl in your network might be interested! #job https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2993

Amazing: One has to read other people's work to discover your own published (!) ideas from 10 years ago.

Thanks to @rw007 for your paper on #NLG systems https://aclanthology.org/2022.in2writing-1.1/

Merci de partager cette annonce:

Devenez membre de notre équipe linguistique à l'Université de Lausanne!

Nous cherchons:
1 assistant·e diplômé·e (doctorant·e) en linguistique générale (avec connaissances de la phonétique et phonologie)

1 premier·e assistant·e (post-doc) en linguistique générale

https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=fr%5fFR&career_job_req_id=20719&selected_lang=fr_FR&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=iRH3Y2O1F1lPjDxoFCyOrw2qE7upa%2bZa%2fJU1OlUE6Jw%3d

https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=fr%5fFR&career_job_req_id=20720&selected_lang=fr_FR&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=iRH3Y2O1F1lPjDxoFCyOrw2qE7upa%2bZa%2fJU1OlUE6Jw%3d

@linguistics

Apple’s new algorithm to detect whether someone has been in a car accident is wreaking havoc for 911 call centers this ski season. Yet another example of a good idea from a technology company in theory that has problems in practice. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

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

[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/

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

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/

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

@sociology @dh @politicalscience @academicchatter

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

[New post] Funding the League of Nations: a map of the contributions of member states https://www.martingrandjean.ch/funding-league-of-nations/

We've added a new section to the #pandoc #manual, where we list the available options for the creation of #accessible #PDF​s.
In brief: Use #ConTeXt, #WeasyPrint, Prince XML, #LibreOffice, or MS Word (hashtags mark FOSS).
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL#accessible-pdfs-and-pdf-archiving-standards

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!

"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/

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

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."

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

#lispmachines