Excellent use of funding. In bocca al lupo!
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Excellent use of funding. In bocca al lupo!
For ‘January’ read ‘May’ and for ‘June 6’ read ‘June 9’.
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I just downloaded an article on a C19th mathematical controversy, and Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform popped up to suggest some PDFs for me to download from the Hellenic Journal of Cardiology, the International Journal of Cardiology, and Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 🤡
PS. Snopes link for anyone who needs it: www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...
The problem with the Spanish is that they don’t have a word for armada. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I have departed colleagus whom I miss dearly and whose advice I would love to have. If someone decided to give me AI slop disguised as "expert advice" from them, I don't think I'd be able to control my reaction.
Butlerian Jihad Now (both the Dune one and whatever holy war Judith Butler would fight)
If only Labour had a consistent moral message to trot out at times like this! youtube.com/watch?v=_g4i...
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It's frustrating that there's apparently no way to inspect the relevant “testing” corpus. Torres Aguilar mentions “the editors transcription” (p. 15) but the only reference that he provides is a link to the manuscript on Gallica, where there is no transcription. Unless I'm missing something…?
That's theoretically possible, sure. But I can see no suggestion anywhere in the article that Example 3 is really *two* examples that have been combined to save space; and its components are separated by the vertical bar that was used in Example 2 with its conventional signification of a line break.
Thanks for digging up the manuscript! I see that the source lines were clearly non-adjacent (line 19 + line 17). This does not suggest “the careful curation of ground-truth data” using “deep expertise” (Torres Aguilar p. 4) but a reckless confidence in the unverified results of an automated process.
Folio 48v of the 1501 edition of the Dictionarius pauperum (aka Summa de abstinentia) attributed to Nicolas de Biard, from chapter 33 (De ebrietate), including the two sentences mentioned in the post.
You can see both sentences here (first one 6 lines down, second one 8 lines up from the bottom). Would be interesting to know how they got mashed together in your quotation. Did the source manuscript have two columns that were mistakenly transcribed as one? www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb1101...
Still makes no sense because it’s stitched together from: (1) Ebrius servus est omnium peccatorum, quia ex quo diabolus cepit portam claustri, de facili totam familiam suam introducit. (2) Si quis haberet vas quod corrumperet vinum quando esset infusum, stultus esset qui de meliori in eo infunderet.
TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
Hello! It's two years since Thomas, my gorgeous son, died. Next month, Alison and I, along with around 30 friends and family, will be doing a memory walk in support of Children's Hospice South West. If you could spare a few quid in sponsorship, that would be 😍
www.justgiving.com/page/thomas-...
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
There was more to his apology for WWI, too: “the justified decision of the united German people to strive for the goods of this earth peacefully and prudently +but freely and strongly, and to expand in accordance with their innate vitality+” (sich auszudehnen gemäss seiner eingeborenen Lebenskraft).
For now, at least, you can still use the parameter newbks=0 to revert to the useful version of Google Books.
I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
This is horrific. Docking all pay for refusing to reschedule teaching due to strike action (for which pay has already been docked).
This map is a thing of beauty and explains so much about why norther rail is a thorny issue.
You may also find it useful to add filter=0 (no removal of similar results) and/or pws=0 (no attempt to personalize results).
Happily you can still force Google to treat you like an adult. How you make this the default will vary by browser, but the basic point is that the search URL should include the parameters udm=14 (no “AI”), nfpr=1 (no autocorrect) and/or tbs=li:1 (no variant forms): www.dedoimedo.com/computers/go...
The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.
🎓Latin Job Alert!🎓
UGent's Department of Literary Studies is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, with a focus on a late period (medieval and/or early modern), starting 1 September 2026.
Applications are due by 28 January 2026 at midnight (Brussels time).
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Never mind the balls, it’s the brains I’m worried about!
A subtweet?
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
Hope it went better than the subheadings suggest!
