Sarah Lang (she/they)

The #TeXLaTeX Ninja is back with a deliberately provocative title!
Is Distant Viewing a Scam?!

Distant Viewing, the application of computer vision methods to Humanities data in the spirit of Distant Reading, is a well established part of Computational Humanities. But is it a scam?

Find out at: https://latex-ninja.com/?p=6560
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http://latex-ninja.com/2026/04/04/is-distant-viewing-a-scam/

Is Distant Viewing a Scam?

Distant Viewing, the application of computer vision methods to Humanities data in the spirit of Distant Reading, is a well established part of Computational Humanities. But is it a scam?!Before you…

LaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital Humanities
Apr 4 at 8:16pmWeb
Show threadErik Play2Learn14h ago
@sarahalang I'm immediately thinking about that this is a domain where AI might be totally beneficial, already adding the ability to gather qualitative data from multiple-hour long sources in seconds.