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www.queensu.ca/history/abou...
Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Canadian History at Queen's. Please help circulate the ad. widely.
Is there a place to pre-order? 👀
That looks excellent! Another caveat that I think goes in a different direction can be found in this post by an archivist friend. She points out that some metadata ("what papers were next to this one?") are useful yet nearly impossible to digitize
peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...
@absurdlymax.bsky.social is this anything
panpsychism: the belief that one can communicate with one's cookware
If I were a scholar that ever had to deal with transcription, I'd check this out immediately:
dropbox.com/scl/fi/kjstg...
From 🐦:
"I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900."
where's the "in mice" guy when you need him?
University of Toronto sociolinguist Jack Chambers has died.
This is so sad to hear—he was at the university when my mum majored in linguistics, and was still teaching in my undergrad years. The whole U of T community will miss him.
www.linguistics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...
@sambowman.co @scientificdiscovery.dev special culinary edition?
Post by Andy Masley on Twitter: Effective Altruism DC will be organizing a large EA conference in DC on May 2nd and 3rd. While I won't be directing the org anymore I'll be extremely excited to attend. The conference will bring together the large network of people working in EA cause areas in DC as well as people from around the world, and will welcome everyone from very active EAs to EA skeptics working in related fields. EA is more topical than ever in DC. If you'd like to connect more to the general EA network here this is the best way to do it. Apply here!
an upcoming EAGx event in Washington DC — spread the word!
apply here before April 16: www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/ev...
stir-fry pans that are still developing their patina:
Woks in Progress
Screenshot of text: LLM writing often puffs up the importance of the subject matter by adding statements about how arbitrary aspects of the topic represent or contribute to a broader topic. There is a distinct and easily identifiable repertoire of ways that it writes these statements. There follow quoted blocks of text where highlights include these phrases: "marking a pivotal moment"; "represented a significant shift"; "was part of a broader movement"; "an important center".
Wikipedia has a "signs of AI writing" page intended as a resource for its editors, but much here seems useful for a general audience:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
This 👇🏻 tendency in particular may be the biggest reason I now find scrolling social media so much more exhausting than in 2022.
Here's a guide published today by Canadian-born researcher Chris Blattman, who was a skeptic of AI for research just a month ago (!)
claudeblattman.com
This article ended when I thought it was just finishing its introduction!
I'm not sure your own views on AI, but if you ever have a coding, admin, or organizing project where you need to turn digital inputs into digital outputs, I strongly suggest trying a tool like Claude Code, which is miraculous
urged my MP to try to bring Anthropic or its employees into Canada
Yes, absolutely. FWIW, I've been able to do everything I need to on FB via the mobile site.
The only thing that you absolutely need the app for is selling on Marketplace, which isn't what you're doing.
For those not following along, when transit vehicles go faster they complete more trips in a day and you can get the same service level for fewer vehicles and a lower wage bill
I've used Simpletax, now Wealthsimple Tax, for about eight years. It's amazing.
It's remained about as easy as I can imagine it being, even as I developed quite a complex return (self-reported income, T4s and T4As, capital gains, large charitable contributions, disabled family member)
CRUCIALLY, this is a non-London problem
We calculated the grad wage premium for each UK region and nation a few years ago, and you see declining graduate wage premia in every English region except London
If we want to diagnose why the UK is such an outlier the answer is in the regional story
The p<0.001 thing is important because a lot of smart people think lowering the p value threshold will save us. I’m very skeptical of this.
"Pheidippides, for all his valour, lacked a sports watch."
Galileo's drawings of the moon in various states of fullness.
Various sketches, including a horse's head. On the same page is some rough work for calculations. The page comes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, Ms. Gal. 46, folio 56.
Various sketches, including a man in motion and a female figure similar to the Venus Felix. On the same page are some calculations and a few written words. The page comes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, Ms. Gal. 46, folio 101.
something I learnt recently: Galileo Galilei was really into visual art. He was once an instructor at the Florentine "Accademia delle Arti del Disegno".
This helped him as a scientist when he made his famous moon drawings (first pic). We also have some other sketches from his notebooks (pics 2-3).
Finding ways to improve trade with the EU is great.
But on the other point in the poll: even considering EU membership is not great. It is likely infeasible. It is very surely unwise.
The reason is that we are North American not European.
The French organist Thomas Ospital visited Rochester, NY to play a recital and do a masterclass. I had the good fortune to attend!
The end of his concert included three improvisations, which I've written a description of on Facebook: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Seeing a concert by one of France's best organists, Thomas Ospital, tomorrow night. So excited!
Super interesting. Where did you find this figure, Deena?
Get pharmacies to switch from fax machines (Canadian edition)
Challenge level: impossible
Gift link from the Globe and Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/acfc5cc...
see also
josephheath.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...
The most frumious of bandersnatches — the manxomest of foes!