Ben Nagy
@rantyben.bsky.social
I turn latin poetry into long lists of floating point numbers. For (and only for) the purpose of potential employment I have a couple of phds or whatever.
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📢 We are delighted to announce that the first #EADH2026 keynote speaker is Prof. Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social
📜She is one of the founders of READ-COOP, delivering Transkribus
🎨In her work she focuses on advanced digitisation of cultural heritage
#EADH2026 #DigitalHumanities #DH
📜She is one of the founders of READ-COOP, delivering Transkribus
🎨In her work she focuses on advanced digitisation of cultural heritage
#EADH2026 #DigitalHumanities #DH
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
📢 We are delighted to announce that the first #EADH2026 keynote speaker is Prof. Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social
📜She is one of the founders of READ-COOP, delivering Transkribus
🎨In her work she focuses on advanced digitisation of cultural heritage
#EADH2026 #DigitalHumanities #DH
📜She is one of the founders of READ-COOP, delivering Transkribus
🎨In her work she focuses on advanced digitisation of cultural heritage
#EADH2026 #DigitalHumanities #DH
Halal lamb ribs over charcoal in Adelaide's northern suburbs, let's fkkn gooo
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Halal lamb ribs over charcoal in Adelaide's northern suburbs, let's fkkn gooo
GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEN
LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEN
LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEN
I don’t want to click on this ad that appeared in my Apple News feed- is it AI? Click bait? Or did Idaho really move?
February 12, 2026 at 3:34 AM
GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEN
LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEN
LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEN
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Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.
Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.
Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
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Britains smallest Shetland Pony Lucky.
Dennis Hutchinson, ca. 1980
Dennis Hutchinson, ca. 1980
February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Britains smallest Shetland Pony Lucky.
Dennis Hutchinson, ca. 1980
Dennis Hutchinson, ca. 1980
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Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
my "not a pedophile in the technical sense" shirt raising a lot of questions already answered etc etc
"“I was not then and am not now aware of any evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was a ‘pedophile’ in the technical sense; his sexual preference appears to have been for young women aged 16-22, which would at most reflect partial ephebophilia." This guy is such an awful person.
[wtf?]Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference – The Daily Texan
thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...
thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...
February 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
my "not a pedophile in the technical sense" shirt raising a lot of questions already answered etc etc
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This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
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Happy birthday to 2 ancient Greek mathematicians: Vettius Valens (1906 yrs old today) and Proclus Diadochus (1614 today). Valens was an astronomer and working astrologer, born #onthisday 120 CE. Proclus a Neoplatonist philosopher born 412 CE. Both super important to understanding of ancient thought.
February 8, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Happy birthday to 2 ancient Greek mathematicians: Vettius Valens (1906 yrs old today) and Proclus Diadochus (1614 today). Valens was an astronomer and working astrologer, born #onthisday 120 CE. Proclus a Neoplatonist philosopher born 412 CE. Both super important to understanding of ancient thought.
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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 AM
CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
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Witness the power of this fully operational Bayesian latent space social relations model - Lecture B05 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Incremental model construction and testing workflow for dyadic and generalized exchange networks, posterior network simulation, one dank Insane Clown Posse meme.
Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B05 - Social Networks II
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Witness the power of this fully operational Bayesian latent space social relations model - Lecture B05 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Incremental model construction and testing workflow for dyadic and generalized exchange networks, posterior network simulation, one dank Insane Clown Posse meme.
I presented a little research project this week in Aotearoa at the regional classics conference. Here I was testing the idea that Ovid has a distinct style in the way he uses language when writing as a male vs female poetic speaker.
He doesn't.
He doesn't.
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I presented a little research project this week in Aotearoa at the regional classics conference. Here I was testing the idea that Ovid has a distinct style in the way he uses language when writing as a male vs female poetic speaker.
He doesn't.
He doesn't.
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Initial 'Q'(uid) with interlace and intertwined animals at the beginning of Book I of the Georgics
BL Harley 2533; Virgil, Bucolica (ff. 1-14v), and Georgica (ff. 14v-48v); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century; France, S; f.14v
BL Harley 2533; Virgil, Bucolica (ff. 1-14v), and Georgica (ff. 14v-48v); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century; France, S; f.14v
January 31, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Initial 'Q'(uid) with interlace and intertwined animals at the beginning of Book I of the Georgics
BL Harley 2533; Virgil, Bucolica (ff. 1-14v), and Georgica (ff. 14v-48v); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century; France, S; f.14v
BL Harley 2533; Virgil, Bucolica (ff. 1-14v), and Georgica (ff. 14v-48v); 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century; France, S; f.14v
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I have said it before, and I will say it again - trochaic octameter is too long to be a line and we should think of it as 4+4
Happy 181st birthday to "The Raven", Edgar Allen Poe's mannered, gothic, archaising poem of grief, madness and anthropomorphic avians, first published in the New York Evening Mirror #onthisday in 1845.
January 29, 2026 at 8:44 AM
I have said it before, and I will say it again - trochaic octameter is too long to be a line and we should think of it as 4+4
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I am sure many of you have written brilliant books and I am sure I will buy them at #aiascs but this is by far my favorite exhibition hall purchase so far
January 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I am sure many of you have written brilliant books and I am sure I will buy them at #aiascs but this is by far my favorite exhibition hall purchase so far
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Trilingualism in action: Latin book on herbs & their uses gets translation annotations of some head words to French & English
Things I learned: 'haus' (Middle French) is a (rare) plural form of 'allia' (Latin), aka 'garlec' (Middle English)
CCCC MS 438, f. 21v
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
Things I learned: 'haus' (Middle French) is a (rare) plural form of 'allia' (Latin), aka 'garlec' (Middle English)
CCCC MS 438, f. 21v
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
January 26, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Trilingualism in action: Latin book on herbs & their uses gets translation annotations of some head words to French & English
Things I learned: 'haus' (Middle French) is a (rare) plural form of 'allia' (Latin), aka 'garlec' (Middle English)
CCCC MS 438, f. 21v
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
Things I learned: 'haus' (Middle French) is a (rare) plural form of 'allia' (Latin), aka 'garlec' (Middle English)
CCCC MS 438, f. 21v
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
necromancy is woefully neglected in the modern academy 😔
Knowledge unified under the outstretched arms of Philosophy
BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v
BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
necromancy is woefully neglected in the modern academy 😔
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Drop-in replacement for sklearn LDA using MCMC and hyperparameter optimization: github.com/mimno/sklear...
GitHub - mimno/sklearn-gibbs-lda: sklearn-compatible LDA using collapsed Gibbs sampling with Numba optimization
sklearn-compatible LDA using collapsed Gibbs sampling with Numba optimization - mimno/sklearn-gibbs-lda
github.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Drop-in replacement for sklearn LDA using MCMC and hyperparameter optimization: github.com/mimno/sklear...
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Possums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Possums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Vous en avez marre des GAFAM et de l’ultra dépendance aux services US ? Voici des solutions, toutes présentes dans notre fiction en accès libre « GAFAM : 24h dans la peau d’un repenti ».
Si vous avez des suggestions, n’hésitez pas à en donner en commentaires 🙏🏼
Si vous avez des suggestions, n’hésitez pas à en donner en commentaires 🙏🏼
January 24, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Vous en avez marre des GAFAM et de l’ultra dépendance aux services US ? Voici des solutions, toutes présentes dans notre fiction en accès libre « GAFAM : 24h dans la peau d’un repenti ».
Si vous avez des suggestions, n’hésitez pas à en donner en commentaires 🙏🏼
Si vous avez des suggestions, n’hésitez pas à en donner en commentaires 🙏🏼
today I am up north at my mate's place, giving the charcoal grill some love on a 43 degree day 🥰
muu ping!
muu ping!
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 AM
today I am up north at my mate's place, giving the charcoal grill some love on a 43 degree day 🥰
muu ping!
muu ping!