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Karwan Fatah-Black
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Historian of colonial empires, specifically the Dutch. Now researching proto-citizenship in the Atlantic world.
If it includes my work, how bad can it be???😆
April 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Ja, interessant, maar zie nog niet waarom text mining en statistische methodes daarvoor niet meer geschikt zijn. Wellicht kan een LLM langere trends beter doorzien dan text mining. Er zijn inmiddels wel steeds meer omvangrijke sets data die langere periodes beslaan. Dus dat geeft vast mogelijkheden.
January 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If it is fed enough material, I think it can. An advantage of using a locally hosted model is that it does not censor the material and the output in the ways that the public models do.
January 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
At least the Open WebUI makes it feel very easy to create "knowledge" for the model.
January 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Should be really easy. We have the txt files made with HTR of a large number of colonial archives. Must load even easier than the pile of pdf's that I've fed it now.
January 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nice, I'm using Ollama 3.2 now. And to be honest don't really notice a difference between models (yet).
January 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Haha, ok, so I've fed it my publications from the past 15 years. I guess I've created a machine version of my academic brain.
January 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
...and I can now train my local LLM with my own relevant data and literature. This might actually become fun/useful
January 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Installed the web user interface (Open WebUI) during morning coffee. Really don't see why people who like to use AI for daily tasks don't use it locally. ollama.com
Ollama
Get up and running with large language models.
ollama.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Strange how wel it can reason. I've asked it to reflect on certain solutions to complex issues. It managed to do so quite well. And when asked to give counter arguments it did so successfully, in my view.
January 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And it works surprisingly well. I just asked it to summarise several full text articles and I don't think it did better or worse that chatGPT. I don't personally see a need for it atm, but I don't think that most people who do want to use some AI models need to rely on the popular US-based services.
January 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Or just download the freely available pdf! library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
library.oapen.org
January 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM