Arjan van Dalfsen
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Arjan van Dalfsen
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PhD candidate Dutch disposition towards animals and plants (1550-2000) | Computational Humanities, Cultural History, AI, Historical Literature
"make infographic for stage 19 of tdf 2025 form albertville to la plagne, including who won etc. etc.", and this is what Google's nano banana pro gives you. Very impressive.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Gemini 3.0 pro is a big step for the (admittedly, niche) task of writing Early Modern Dutch poetry with AI.

It's not perfect yet but it rhymes, has a metre (I think; not my strong suit), and has a plausible topic. Still has a few weird things though
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Marita Mathijsen schreef een half jaar geleden voor @neerlandistiek.bsky.social een artikel over transcriptie met AI. Dat liet toen nog veel te wensen over.

Heb dezelfde tekst door vandaag gelanceerde Gemini 3.0 Pro laten doen, en zo op het eerste gezicht is dit een bijna perfecte weergave.
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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ChatGPT is great for recipes

And not only because you can give it the quantities you have to work with but because it doesn't preface its response with:

"as a child growing up in the Tuscan hills, my nonna..."
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Kimi K2-thinking has the ability to make slide decks. Had not seen that with any other LLMs. Aesthetically, they're better than mine (which, admittedly, doesn't say a lot)
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Sora2 met wat vroegmoderne casuïstiek
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Wat mij frusteert aan dat kieskompas is dat de tweedimensionale visualisatie gewoon nergens op slaat
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ik lees bij Caesar Gezelle (inderdaad, oomzegger van) over een paard dat het in zijn poten jeukt van "bratte weelde".

Even nazoeken leert: WNT had in 1898 al lemma voor "brat". Betekenis komt aardig overeen met die van van GenZ. Soms heb je helemaal geen nieuw woordenboek nodig.
September 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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L’œuvre des Frères de Limbourg est avant tout un témoignage réaliste de leur époque.

La 1ère photographie.

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Septembre, 1402-1416.

Frères de Limbourg.

Le Château de Saumur.

#Saumur #Castle #Anjou #Illumination #Enluminure
#Paint #DeLimbourg #MasterPiece
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Also: we are switching pretraining paradigms right now from fuzzy web crawl corpus with honestly questionable data practices all around, to some form of generalized "distant writing". Don't think anyone is aware of this/talking about this in DH circles and this is certainly a miss.
September 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Meanwhile, I see deep questions on the AI side that should definitely warrant some humanities input. And I don't mean the usual ethics corner, but: how to design reasoning structure/flow, personality tuning (what is the "I" in the model?), rethinking tokenization. Won't happen for some time.
Keeping “digital humanities” together as a field is going to get so hard in the era of AI. The shear forces are intense: I see lots of humanities profs who were DH-friendly reposting Zitron.

And while E.Z. is a Limbaugh-tier thinker imo, they’re not wrong that AI is disrupting things they value. +
September 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Seeing a lot of critical responses from medievalists about this BBC 1066 thing. As an early modernist, just to say that I'm happy to confirm that medieval people were indeed covered in dirt all the time and did all sound like they were in the Wurzels.
August 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
🥲
August 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Ok small rant: I don't think we're in a generative AI bubble.

Actual market is still small. It seems bigger only because all kinds of things (and liabilities) are labelled "AI" now. Long overdue infrastructure update? For AI. Having to cut jobs? Because of AI. Fundraising? Quick add AI to name.
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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OPROEPJE
Ik ben op zoek naar een paar leerlingen in hun 2e of 3e jaar vmbo-BB/KB, die mij zouden willen helpen met het proeflezen van een vragenlijst. Dit duurt in totaal ongeveer 30 minuten en er staat een presentje tegenover! Ken jij of ben jij iemand met interesse?
August 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
First impression, of 5️⃣
In terms of raw power it's a change in degree not in kind. But for 90% of users it will effectively be huge as they will now get the right model for their prompt.

So my 2 cents: generally a big step, but a bit less for the avant-garde
August 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Uit een presentatiereeks voor na de zomer: het leven van St. GPT

#1 St. GPT geeft teksten aan de mensen
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#59 🤓
Clioguesser: guess the year based on a political map, ranging from 1000 BCE to 2024 CE.

I am 15th on the leaderboard ;)

clioguesser.azurewebsites.net/leaderboard
July 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Clioguesser: guess the year based on a political map, ranging from 1000 BCE to 2024 CE.

I am 15th on the leaderboard ;)

clioguesser.azurewebsites.net/leaderboard
June 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Grok4 is het eerste model dat dit antwoord goed heeft.

Ik ben door mijn testjes heen, het is tijd voor nieuwe.
July 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Lmao
July 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🤔
June 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM