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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Is there a way to see which servers have blocked or muted qoto? I realize not being seeing that many posts from people I follow who are on other instances and I’m told that they are not able to see me any longer. It’s also rather strange to be on waiting-lists for people I regularly interacted elsewhere. My main motivation to come over here was to keep in touch with all those fine people I like but left Twitter, and to find a much more friendly space.
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Am Mittwoch steigen die Bundesratswahlen: Wer schafft es in die Regierung?
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Here's an interesting chip: a Soviet clone from 1987 of the famed Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978). Although the Soviet Union had their own microprocessors, they were years behind and mostly copied Western chips. 🧵
And the next generation of LLMs will be trained on even more bullshit generated by its predecessors.
Qu’est-ce qu’on répond à un étudiant qui vous demande – à propos de rien – si le Service de renseignement de la Confédération recrute dans les universités ? J’en sais rien ; au moins, les agents ne s’annoncent pas pendant mes heures de réception.
Chaque hiver, le même drame: « En attendant Alvazzi ». #chauffage
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Hi #writers ! Bummed out by the latest #IA #writing developments? Well, let me cheer you up with my pal #ItaloCalvino who already had a hot take on this issue back in 1967. 🧵
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GNU troff is a powerful yet lesser-known #typesetting system that can serve as an alternative to LaTeX. It is much faster and a good choice when performance is important. Use it by specifying `--pdf-engine=pdfroff` or `--to=ms` when converting to #PDF.
#pandoc #pdfEngine #troff #groff
https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
Cherry profile #keycaps seem to work better with the Bling Yellow #switches. #mechanicalkeyboard
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You can play around with old Macs here in your browser:
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Save the date: On December, 7th we will introduce the fourth (and final!) volume of our text book series "Medientechnisches Wissen" (~ "Media Teknowlogy") at the colloquium "Medien, die wir meinen". The editor (me) and the autors will tell about their chapters and the project.
Join us in Berlin or via Zoom!
More info TBA here: http://hu.berlin/mediendiewirmeinen
About the book: http://txt3.de/mtw4
About the series: http://txt3.de/mtw
TIL: il y a une énorme différence entre un chargé de cours à l’UNIL et un chargé de cours à l’ULB.
(Oui, et au Québec)
@archaeoklammt Merci pour tes salutations!
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15-Year-Old Uncovers Major Wikipedia Toaster Hoax That Fooled The Media For Years
https://www.iflscience.com/15-year-old-uncovers-major-wikipedia-toaster-hoax-that-fooled-the-media-for-years-66312
It seems that some component (#DavMail?) considers *all* lines starting with “Date:” as message dates, but of course with all the TOFU, there are tons of matching lines—but the rest isn’t conformant. I’ve already fixed those that follow some pattern, but there are tons that are completely off (like “Date: 3 f=C3=A9vrier 2022 =C3=A0 11:23:21 UTC+1”).
Of course, all of this could have been avoided by not migrating to #Microsoft hell and its oh-so-modern authentication.
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Hi #histodons, especially of the #EnvHist #HistSTM persuasion, there's a postdoc opening in Geneva with @brunostrasser and Jerome Baudry for someone working on the
history of technologies for living in toxic environments (19th - 20th centuries).
It's a 1-3 year position in the SNF-funded project "Breathing Modernities: Masks, Industry, and Toxic Environments (1830s-1970s)."
Feel free to get in touch with Bruno directly for more info.
One straightforward way of dealing with systems like #ChatGPT or #Galactica in #higherEd is to directly confront students with an LLM-generated answer and have them critique it.
This is in fact be much better aligned with what we want to teach. Remembering and recalling facts isn’t an important skill anymore, but #criticalThinking is essential for a future in which graduates will work side by side with “#AI.” #constructiveAlignment
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Hurrah! Ultra excited to have this out (I started work on it in 2019).
‘New Leaves: Riffling the Histories of Digital Pagination’, Book History, 25.2 (2022)
New material here on the history of the PDF including interview material with John Warnock.
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
