Nick Laiacona

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Humanities software developer, author of FairCopy, partner at Performant Software.
Hey, @benmschmidt 's outfit NomicAI just released GPT4All, an open desktop-scale language model. I claim this as #DH. https://twitter.com/nomic_ai/status/1640834838578995202
Nomic AI on Twitter

“Today we're releasing GPT4All, an assistant-style chatbot distilled from 430k GPT-3.5-Turbo outputs that you can run on your laptop.”

Twitter
Watching Die Hard and it strikes me that Hans Gruber is a pretty good manager.

From the #NativeBoundUnbound project:

If there are any #researchers in South Carolina who would want to work with us to document and learn more about those impacted in the early years of the 18th century, please contact us.

linktr.ee/natboundunboundhttps://twitter.com/NatBoundUnbound/status/1604957389970890753

#DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory

Structure of a TEI-document :) (my diagram) #tei #xml #teixml

@jerielizabeth @mia ohh thanks for answering Jeri! And sorry for missing this Mia. Still getting the hang of Mastodon 😅

To give a bit more detail, we are using the Github search API to identify repositories, users, and organizations that have the term Digital Humanities in them in all 184 ISO languages and then doing some additional searches based off of this initial dataset to find ppl that might contribute or star or subscribe, etc... to these repos or users but don't have DH in their bios.

But there's lots of further rabbit holes to explore! I've started doing some additional searches for just Humanities or subfield terms like Digital History or Digital Cultural Heritage, but haven't dug into that data yet.

Finally to your question about publishing and rewards, I'm hoping to eventually compare this dataset to ones that others have created looking at DH citations and DH Twitter to see how this dynamic compares. Any other advice/suggestions though are very appreciated!

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

Berlin is considering the possibility of a car-free area larger than Manhattan. The citizen-driven plan would create the largest car-free area in a city anywhere in the world.

Leadership can come from many places when it comes to transforming cities. Via #FastCompany
https://www.fastcompany.com/90711961/berlin-is-planning-a-car-free-area-larger-than-manhattan

#cities #Berlin #Germany #urbanism #cars #carfree #transportation #mobility

This comment from hacker news, shared by Dare Obasanjo on Twitter, is one of the clearest explanations I've seen of why OpenAI appears to be so far in front of Google and of how the economics of actual products differs from that of demos like Chat-GPT.

Hah, #ChatGPT can write poetry!

The prompts were
1. write a haiku about Moby-Dick
2. write a sonnet about Moby-Dick

You can play with it here https://chat.openai.com/chat

h/t @TedUnderwood

ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

I find it amazing how quickly academic Twitter has ceased to be. All the interesting stuff seems to be at Mastodon these days. So now that we're at it: could we maybe also just get rid of academic publishers by massively defecting to diamond open access journals?