@anildash i was actually thinking, as an art project, of getting a solar panel and doing this with a collection of CC0 content. i decided not to do pursue this after seeing how things developed with OpenAI, on the grounds that if a true-open model existed, the proponents of closed/stolen models would point to my open model to go "see? AI doesn't have to be based on stolen content!" then continue using the stolen content.

I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldn’t / wouldn’t / shouldn’t roll their own. I got into a discuss with my manager about whether our products were essentially — my words — a hoax.

Me: “Look, our products are riddled with bugs and holes. They’re nearly impossible to deploy, manage, and maintain. They frequently don’t even work •at all• on the putative release date, and we sell the mop-up as expensive ‘consulting.’”

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Die sog. Rollwagen-Kalender der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg werden derzeit im Rahmen eines Dissertationsprojekts erforscht. Leider stehen nicht alle Jahrgänge zur Verfügung.

Die Doktorandin ist dringend auf der Suche nach den Jahrgängen 1810, 1833 und 1835. Auch andere Jahrgänge sind von Interesse.

Besitzen Sie einen Rollwagen-Kalender und wären bereit, die Doktorandin Einsicht nehmen zu lassen? Wir freuen uns über eine Nachricht!

https://www.sustb-augsburg.de/article/suche-nach-taschenkalendern-aus-dem-verlagshaus-rollwagen/

Reminder: Our department currently has an open position for a graduate assistant in computer science for the humanities.

https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=21961&career_ns=job_listing&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH

This is an 80% position for up to 5 years. 50% are reserved for working on your PhD thesis, 50% for teaching and service.

The phrase “excellente maitrise du français; bonnes connaissances de l’anglais” should be understood as “B2 level” for both languages. Teaching and admin is in French, thesis can be in English.

#DigitalHumanities #job

Neuer Job, neue Stadt: Ich bin nun Leiter der Publikationsdienste an der @tuvienna 😀

Hello world!

This is a new account with the intent of spreading information and use of #plaintext

Because it is the less inexpensive, flexible, and green file format in the world and there's no task it cannot accomplish. Prove I'm wrong.

This account will publish reviews of tools, techniques, hacks, ideas and novel use cases for the old, plain, rough txt.

#Markdown included.

And #XML as well... oh wait... even #json is here???

Oh my goodness. there's the entire world living and working on the shoulders of some little and ugly text file... Let's discover it together!

Wow, feels like 100 years. I put a lot of work into this document.
https://mastodon.cloud/@karlcow/113515623285167952

I am thrilled to share that I successfully defended my PhD, Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability, at the University of Basel yesterday! 🎉 The presentation is available here: https://julsraemy.ch/prezi/loud4ch-doctoral-examination.html.

In the coming months, the dissertation will be openly accessible both as a PDF in the university library's repository and on a dedicated website in HTML: https://phd.julsraemy.ch.

A big thank you to everyone who supported me along this journey, especially my supervisors Peter Fornaro, Walter Leimgruber, and @azaroth42

#IIIF #LinkedArt #CulturalHeritage #DH #DigitalHumanities #CIDOCCRM #STS #ANT

Anyone has recommendations for opportunities in "Digital Humanities" for data scientists/machine learning researchers & practitioners?

#research #job #machinelearning #datascience

Buchtipp: »JavaScript – Schnelleinstieg« von Ulrike Häßler, auch durch https://www.mediaevent.de bekannt.

https://www.mitp.de/IT-WEB/Programmierung/JavaScript-Schnelleinstieg.html

endlich unabhängig von Excel

I wonder whether institutions that recognize their errors in the context of historical fascism and consider them a “permanent warning” on “possible ideological drifts to which any person, institution or society is exposed,” should remain active on X, giving the platform legitimacy and attracting users. ⇢

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As of last night, my first two books — RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN, and RESPONSIVE DESIGN: PATTERNS AND PRINCIPLES — are available to read online, for free.

I had some emotions about it: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/books-no-longer-apart/

#blogging #bookstodon #ResponsiveDesign

Initially starting out as a fun hack in between talks at a conference, iwd.el is now - thanks to a contributor - reasonably functional and can be used to connect to wireless networks via #emacs (if you are using iwd standalone).

https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/iwd-el

HelloFresh UK is "revolutionizing" the food supply chain by exploiting the warehouse workers.

https://youtu.be/I7zI0H_LPsg?si=FBh3Gv9Bky3Dg1Xk

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Warehouse workers statements 👇

"They keep people like animals"

"They don't put wanter inside the warehouse"

"We work in cold conditions -4. We should be able to come out and warm ourselves up"

#tech #gigwork #hellofresh #techethics #dataethics #data #aiethics

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.

A thread, with links:

Chirag Shah and I wrote about this in two academic papers:
2022: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
2024: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

We also have an op-ed from Dec 2022:
https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

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