Ben Nagy
@rantyben.bsky.social
I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers
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🔜 „Databases of Digitised #Manuscripts: Their Users and Use“ – am 20./21. Nov. findet die #DiHeLib Konferenz an der @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social statt. Wir freuen uns, das #Handschriftenportal in zwei Beiträgen der Sektion „Data for Users“ zu präsentieren 👉 dihelib.id.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/aktual...
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🔜 „Databases of Digitised #Manuscripts: Their Users and Use“ – am 20./21. Nov. findet die #DiHeLib Konferenz an der @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social statt. Wir freuen uns, das #Handschriftenportal in zwei Beiträgen der Sektion „Data for Users“ zu präsentieren 👉 dihelib.id.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/aktual...
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Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
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📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
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There seems to be a scam / Fishing attempt on #CHR2025
I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution.
It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )
I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution.
It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )
Elsevier scam alert for Exhibitor Housing Services (EHS) and Exhibitor Housing Management (EHM)
Warning about scam alert for Exhibitor Housing Services (EHS) and Exhibitor Housing Management (EHM)
www.elsevier.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
There seems to be a scam / Fishing attempt on #CHR2025
I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution.
It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )
I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution.
It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )
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Dungeness & Dragons
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Dungeness & Dragons
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In Chap 4 of #ComputationalHumanities, Crystal Hall proposes parallax (looking at the same thing from two different angles) as a metaphor for how to interpret computational approaches. Tool variability can be a problem, but with intention it can be powerful!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In Chap 4 of #ComputationalHumanities, Crystal Hall proposes parallax (looking at the same thing from two different angles) as a metaphor for how to interpret computational approaches. Tool variability can be a problem, but with intention it can be powerful!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
(I am neither an AI maximalist nor a true believer, but I am much more swayed by the environmental and social negatives than reductive misunderstanding of the tech)
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
(I am neither an AI maximalist nor a true believer, but I am much more swayed by the environmental and social negatives than reductive misunderstanding of the tech)
while I am on my high horse, the argument that "LLMs don't know anything, the things they get right are because that's most of what the see people say" is .. kind of correct but also *exactly what humans do most of the time* like I promise you did not critically research every fact in your brain
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
while I am on my high horse, the argument that "LLMs don't know anything, the things they get right are because that's most of what the see people say" is .. kind of correct but also *exactly what humans do most of the time* like I promise you did not critically research every fact in your brain
This is more or less exactly how the (still default) "generative syntax" model of cognitive linguistics tells you humans learn the rules for their language, and the academics who "know how LLMs work" and bang on about "just stochastic parrots" need to make room for that in their worldview
Transformer LMs get pretty far by acting like ngram models, so why do they learn syntax? A new paper by sunnytqin.bsky.social, me, and @dmelis.bsky.social illuminates grammar learning in a whirlwind tour of generalization, grokking, training dynamics, memorization, and random variation. #mlsky #nlp
Sometimes I am a Tree: Data Drives Unstable Hierarchical Generalization
Language models (LMs), like other neural networks, often favor shortcut heuristics based on surface-level patterns. Although LMs behave like n-gram models early in training, they must eventually learn...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is more or less exactly how the (still default) "generative syntax" model of cognitive linguistics tells you humans learn the rules for their language, and the academics who "know how LLMs work" and bang on about "just stochastic parrots" need to make room for that in their worldview
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Mary giving Jesus a flower
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mary giving Jesus a flower
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
as a poetry analyst, I would also like to add:
remember remember
the fifth of November
gunpowder, treason and plot
is literally the worst mnemonic rhyme I know of. 'Fifth' is not in a structural rhyming position, and it is the only 'i' vowel for leagues, so there's not even any useful assonance.
remember remember
the fifth of November
gunpowder, treason and plot
is literally the worst mnemonic rhyme I know of. 'Fifth' is not in a structural rhyming position, and it is the only 'i' vowel for leagues, so there's not even any useful assonance.
The most British headline I've seen in a long time.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
as a poetry analyst, I would also like to add:
remember remember
the fifth of November
gunpowder, treason and plot
is literally the worst mnemonic rhyme I know of. 'Fifth' is not in a structural rhyming position, and it is the only 'i' vowel for leagues, so there's not even any useful assonance.
remember remember
the fifth of November
gunpowder, treason and plot
is literally the worst mnemonic rhyme I know of. 'Fifth' is not in a structural rhyming position, and it is the only 'i' vowel for leagues, so there's not even any useful assonance.
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Come see me at Kawaiicon for one of these ridiculous stickers (I’m on my iBook fucking up ur shit)
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Come see me at Kawaiicon for one of these ridiculous stickers (I’m on my iBook fucking up ur shit)
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📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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This is one of those technical things, like correctly defining a p-value, that just can't be done easily and correctly at the intro level. But if you want the technical explanation, see notes for week 4 of my evo game theory course. PDF link: github.com/rmcelreath/V...
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is one of those technical things, like correctly defining a p-value, that just can't be done easily and correctly at the intro level. But if you want the technical explanation, see notes for week 4 of my evo game theory course. PDF link: github.com/rmcelreath/V...
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It's con week! Ahh!
Whether you have been coming since we were Kiwicon, or are a hacker con newbie, there's probs new stuff happening around the venue that you haven't heard of.
Take a look! 🧵
Whether you have been coming since we were Kiwicon, or are a hacker con newbie, there's probs new stuff happening around the venue that you haven't heard of.
Take a look! 🧵
Cute Happy GIF
ALT: Cute Happy GIF
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's con week! Ahh!
Whether you have been coming since we were Kiwicon, or are a hacker con newbie, there's probs new stuff happening around the venue that you haven't heard of.
Take a look! 🧵
Whether you have been coming since we were Kiwicon, or are a hacker con newbie, there's probs new stuff happening around the venue that you haven't heard of.
Take a look! 🧵
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From the Depths by William Balfour Ker
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
From the Depths by William Balfour Ker
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You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Theseus: one of the hugest assholes in classical mythology
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Theseus: one of the hugest assholes in classical mythology
Amazingly regular hand, but with an interesting thick stroke on the upper left of the 'a', making it look like a mini capital. That's also a pretty fly capital 'S'!
Colophon in red ink from a recycled unidentified MS by Johannes Gredinger, completed on the “feria vi” after the feast of S. John “ad portam Latinam” (12 May?). The exact year is masked by the book’s spine label (@stabiberlin.bsky.social, Cs 6738)
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...
resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000157260...
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Amazingly regular hand, but with an interesting thick stroke on the upper left of the 'a', making it look like a mini capital. That's also a pretty fly capital 'S'!
Tufte sidenotes! 😻 I love them in principle but never use them :\
This November, like every November, I am teaching basic research proposal writing to the new phd cohort at my institute. Here is the 2 page template we start with and adapt. Link to LaTeX github.com/rmcelreath/P...
![\title[PhD Plan for CANDIDATE]{Department of \mbox{Full Luxury Galactic Metascience}\\PhD Plan for CANDIDATE}
% list committee members
\author[]{Committee:\\
Prof.~MEMBER1\\
Dr.~MEMBER2\\
Dr.~MEMBER3}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle% this prints the handout title, author, and date
\begin{marginfigure}[-5.2cm]
\includegraphics[width=3.5cm]{Minerva.pdf}
\end{marginfigure}
\section{Phenomenon}
The subject matter to be addressed. What is the question? Citation for background are useful, but don't do a full lit review (yet).\cite{HenrichMcElreath:2003} Additional references can be included at the end bibliography by using \verb|\nocite|. \nocite{NBGA2005}
\section{Theoretical Perspective}
The framework for explaining the phenomenon. What are the implications of theory? If more than one theory is relevant, how do the implications differ? What are the current holes in the theory or theories?
\section{Approach}
Modeling and empirical research approach to address the theory/ies nominated above. Important thing is to \emph{justify} the approach in terms of theory.
\section{Specifics of Approach}
Outline any special skills, equipment, or techniques that will be required. This includes, in the case of field research, a paragraph on the background of the field location. Data analysis approach needs a sketch. Can use citation\cite{Merowetal2014} for further detail.
\section{Expected Products}
A list of the (usually 3) articles expected for completion of the PhD. Think of each as a fantasy abstract.
\begin{enumerate}
\item \emph{The Evolution of Human Uniqueness.} There is wide agreement that humans are unique. But it is rarely asked: Have they always been unique? In this paper, we derive a general uniqueness theorem that states that any unique species must have been less unique at some point in the past. This theorem has implications for the achievement of world peace.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ta2whs6wjtpljvpqgs5leu36/bafkreihnoflhyf2lajrvcsovawt3xr47qlm76jfhzet5lqumkabtzufvoe@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Tufte sidenotes! 😻 I love them in principle but never use them :\
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Polish version finally released!!
31 października nakładem wydawnictwa Mag ma się ukazać kolejna pozycja z serii Uczta Wyobraźni – tym razem czytelnicy otrzymają Światło niezwykłych gwiazd, powieść łączącą w sobie elementy science fiction i fantasy, której autorką jest Ryka Aoki.
31 października nakładem wydawnictwa Mag ma się ukazać kolejna pozycja z serii Uczta Wyobraźni – tym razem czytelnicy otrzymają Światło niezwykłych gwiazd, powieść łączącą w sobie elementy science fiction i fantasy, której autorką jest Ryka Aoki.
Światło niezwykłych gwiazd: nowa książka z Uczty Wyobraźni zapowiedziana - Książki - POLTERGEIST
31 października nakładem wydawnictwa Mag ma się ukazać kolejna pozycja z serii Uczta Wyobraźni – tym razem czytelnicy otrzymają Światł...
polter.pl
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Polish version finally released!!
31 października nakładem wydawnictwa Mag ma się ukazać kolejna pozycja z serii Uczta Wyobraźni – tym razem czytelnicy otrzymają Światło niezwykłych gwiazd, powieść łączącą w sobie elementy science fiction i fantasy, której autorką jest Ryka Aoki.
31 października nakładem wydawnictwa Mag ma się ukazać kolejna pozycja z serii Uczta Wyobraźni – tym razem czytelnicy otrzymają Światło niezwykłych gwiazd, powieść łączącą w sobie elementy science fiction i fantasy, której autorką jest Ryka Aoki.
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Literature people punching a hole through the wall at this point.
“What is Proust, chopped liver?”
“What is Proust, chopped liver?”
November 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Literature people punching a hole through the wall at this point.
“What is Proust, chopped liver?”
“What is Proust, chopped liver?”