Peter Nadel
pnadelofficial.bsky.social
Peter Nadel
@pnadelofficial.bsky.social
Digital Humanities NLP Specialist at Tufts University, working on Digital Philology and Augmented Intelligence.
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For our third #lovedata25 workshop @pnadelofficial.bsky.social taught about building your own search engines with NLP. He demonstrates his streamlit app where you can load your own data and customize your search.

It just so happens that the LC’s crowdsourced transcriptions are perfectly formatted.
February 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Our Love Data line-up:
@kaylendwyer.bsky.social - Handwriting Text Recognition w/ @transkribus.bsky.social
@akijas.bsky.social - TEI LeafWriter @pnadelofficial.bsky.social - building a search engine
Finally, @douglassday.bsky.social transcribe-a-thon.

We'll be using Douglass Day data all week!
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What is Love Data Week? "Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies,...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I have been saying for years that 98% of the computation in LLMs is wasted, it’s just that figuring out what matters was harder than writing checks
January 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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ColPali is landed at @hf.co transformers and I have just shipped a very lean fine-tuning tutorial in smol-vision 🤠💗

QLoRA fine-tuning with 4-bit with bsz of 4 can be done with 32 GB VRAM and is very fast! ✨
github.com/merveenoyan/...
December 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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A lot has happened in DH at Tufts and the DH MA has become very exciting.
December 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Got some open source LLMs running on the Tufts cluster, so you know I had to make a Latin finetune of Llama2-7b. Really impressive results for only 6-7 hours of training.
October 7, 2023 at 9:51 PM