David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
I'm telling you, Binghamton: tech hub
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I'm telling you, Binghamton: tech hub
Are the non-ProQuest EEBO images comprehensive? Could they be OCRed?
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Are the non-ProQuest EEBO images comprehensive? Could they be OCRed?
I've also come to see the opening explicit statement of "here's what I think you're saying" as critical as well. Authors really benefit from knowing whether what they thought they said is what people actually read.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I've also come to see the opening explicit statement of "here's what I think you're saying" as critical as well. Authors really benefit from knowing whether what they thought they said is what people actually read.
Most of the time, Computational Humanities applies NLP tools designed for other contexts. In Chap 3, @dbamman.bsky.social explores what happens when we design NLP for humanities from the start:
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 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Most of the time, Computational Humanities applies NLP tools designed for other contexts. In Chap 3, @dbamman.bsky.social explores what happens when we design NLP for humanities from the start:
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
“Stop trying to make smart glasses happen. It’s not going to happen.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“Stop trying to make smart glasses happen. It’s not going to happen.”
I see this as mostly determined by choice of advisor? I can predict accurately how a paper will land at *ACL, but we needed lots of advice from friends to have any chance at CSCW.
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I see this as mostly determined by choice of advisor? I can predict accurately how a paper will land at *ACL, but we needed lots of advice from friends to have any chance at CSCW.
And yes, this is my commute
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
And yes, this is my commute
In Chap 2, Mark Algee-Hewitt urges us to think of interpretation as a recurring cycle, where we are challenged by tools to reimagine our objects of study.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In Chap 2, Mark Algee-Hewitt urges us to think of interpretation as a recurring cycle, where we are challenged by tools to reimagine our objects of study.
>>> [ord(c) for c in "Al"]
[65, 108]
once again a task that can be solved trivially with one line of python
[65, 108]
once again a task that can be solved trivially with one line of python
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
>>> [ord(c) for c in "Al"]
[65, 108]
once again a task that can be solved trivially with one line of python
[65, 108]
once again a task that can be solved trivially with one line of python