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Claire Boardman Aug 7, 2023

Viking Dublin Dogs 🐕 🐺🐴Aug 7, 2023

This is @StillJustRena for the week, on Viking Dublin Dogs. I'm fascinated by ideologies, why people believe and do what they do, and the archaeological evidence for that, so I'm going to take a dive into Norse Myths!

Claire Boardman Jul 4, 2023

Nika Shilobod Jul 1, 2023

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Claire Boardman Mar 20, 2023

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Tim Sherratt Mar 20, 2023

And for the `contributor` endpoint where a `q` parameter is now required you just use no value at all to get everything.

Claire Boardman Mar 20, 2023

Shannon Mattern Mar 20, 2023

If you, like me, are going to SCMS in Denver next month, you might want to check out this indigenous photography exhibition @ the DAM! [Wendy Red Star!]

https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/speaking-with-light

Speaking with Light | Denver Art Museum

Speaking with Light is one of the first major museum surveys to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working over the past three decades.

Claire Boardman Mar 20, 2023

Scott Jenson Mar 20, 2023

Am I the only one that feels like online discussions about LLMs are starting to feel just a bit like Crypto did 2 years ago?

To be sure, there *is* something relevant and powerful about LLMs. But the uncritical and exuberant discussions along with the hand wringing angst feels so Gartner Hype Cycle.

Of course LLMs have amazing potential! But really, just chill out, build some thing and, you know, see how it goes first?

Claire Boardman Mar 5, 2023

Martin Paul Eve Mar 5, 2023

This is probably the best primer on neural networks and machine learning that I've ever read. A long read but worth your time.

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

Claire Boardman Jan 29, 2023

Mél Hogan 🏳️‍🌈😷Jan 29, 2023

For a long time I’ve been writing about the environmental impacts of data centers— what can I read to better understand how that extends to LLM and AI more specifically? #enviro #environmentalmedia #datacenters #LLM #AI

Claire Boardman Jan 20, 2023

Shannon Mattern Jan 19, 2023

Dorothy Berry just shared the most phenomenal talk here at the Penn Price Lab abt care in Black digital collections. I especially appreciate her focus on humility + the need to make clear who helped us; the importance of considering what it means for us, as researchers and archivists, to care for the past; and the need for big institutions to recognize the limits of their knowledge + experience

Claire Boardman Jan 18, 2023

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Dr. Michelle Fullwood Jan 17, 2023

P.S. If this interested you, maybe you can help me out by pointing me to people researching this topic. I'm especially interested in how different languages/writing systems affect how people make catalogues/taxonomies/indexes.

Claire Boardman Jan 18, 2023

Dr. Michelle Fullwood Jan 17, 2023

I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.

#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory