Today at #chr2025, I will be presenting our work on the evaluation of the historical adequacy of masked language models (MLMs) for #Latin. There are several models like this, and they represent the current state of the art for a number of downstream tasks, like […]

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I would rather define myself as a #genai sceptic (I've documented the reasons in my publications at https://www.zotero.org/mapto/publications), but here's what a professional adopter, i.e a founder of a GenAI startup (that I value lots) has to say about the state of […]

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"In a broader sense, however, today’s ruling is of a piece with this Court’s recent tendencies. “[R]ight when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints,” the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and […]

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History keeps repeating, dictators keep pulling each-other's strings.

"In interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to its author, used an expletive to describe the embattled prime minister — “Fuck him,” he reportedly said — and […]

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Which part of this does not exactly hold for Katz and his involvement in bombing hospitals in Gaza?

Certainly that in the civilised world due process is part of life.

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This is how ruthless the Israeli military complex is

The sign talks of"protecting the state of Israel", remaining silent to the fact that this offensive "protection" actually costs hundreds of thousands of lives in Israel and the region.

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It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

@edtech not for me