Georg Mayr-Duffner

@georg_mayr_duffner
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WorkLibrarian, WU Vienna
InterestsLinguistics, fonts, typography
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Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."

Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them.

The German word "Schläger" can mean:

- racket, bat
- ruffian, rowdy

The word "kaputt" can mean:

- damaged, destroyed
- tired

So, the sentence "Der Schläger ist kaputt" can mean:

- "The racket is damaged"
or
- "That thug is weary"

And now enjoy translating "Der Schläger schlägt mit dem Schläger alles kaputt, bis der Schläger kaputt ist."

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

Attention #metadata geeks: "GPT-4 generates a crosswalk between DataCite Schema and schema.org (type ResearchProject) schema."
https://medium.com/@kj.garza/parrotgpt-on-the-advantages-of-large-language-models-tools-for-academic-metadata-schema-mapping-434cceabc68b

#AI #DataCite #GPT4 #LLM #SchemaOrg

ParrotGPT: On the Advantages of Large Language Models Tools for Academic Metadata Schema Mapping

Picture, if you will, the labyrinthine world of academic information management, where metadata schema mapping serves as a vital underpinning for the exchange and intermingling of data across diverse…

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Today I was interviewed by a very nice guy from a German radio called ARD. I guessed D = Deutschland but when I asked what A and R stand for, he said something that lasted 20 seconds. So I thought I should re-share a cartoon I made a few years ago 😁

Happy to report that a Linux build of #Jurism has uploaded without mishap via the deployment chain, and that a test download has succeeded from a dynamic "latest version" link under the Beta tab of a development copy of the Jurism project website.

Further, yesterday I accidentally ran the J6 client against my large personal database—and it upgraded without error.

And the Google Chrome plugin works.

All of which means we're just days away from a beta release.

A map of my village, by Thomas Huot-Marchand.

baudigital.social geht an den Start! Wir sind der Fachinformationsdienst (FID) #BAUdigital, und wir laden auf diesen neuen Mastodon-Server alle Forschenden, Lehrenden und Lernenden aus den Communities #Bauingenieurwesen, #Architektur und #Urbanistik ein, um sich fachlich auszutauschen und zu vernetzen.

Bitte verbreitet diese Nachricht, damit unser Server auf möglichst vielen anderen bekannt wird. Bitte boosten, was das Zeug hält!

#introduction #neuhier

How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/dmr/doceng22.pdf

#pdf #typography #thesis

"Die Tatsache, dass die Niederlande, Norwegen und Dänemark sowohl zu den radfreundlichsten als auch wohlhabendsten Ländern der Welt gehören zeigt, dass man ein entwickeltes Land nicht daran erkennt, dass arme Menschen Auto fahren sondern daran, dass reiche Menschen Fahrrad fahren."

Ingwar Pero