Peter Organisciak
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Peter Organisciak
@porg.dev
Prof at University of Denver. Computational text methods, creativity, Ed and AI, library and information science.

https://porg.dev
https://www.github.com/organisciak
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MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +
MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes
This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reset and painted an old frame
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Rethinking infinity
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Baba Is Eval
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
Making Language Models Play Baba is You - fi-le.net
Making Language Models Play Baba is You - fi-le.net
fi-le.net
July 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
English profs: when we use 'weeknight', how do we differentiate between nights of the work week and little knights?
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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@kottke.org Dunno if this is already on your radar but this year's Tycho Burning Man set is up. I got to see it in person for the first time and I thought it was a good one :)

soundcloud.com/tycho/joie-d...
Tycho - Joie De Vivre - Burning Man Sunrise 2025
Through adversity, we find strength. This year was not without its challenges but it was without a doubt the most wonderful opportunity for growth I have ever had the good fortune to experience. Life
soundcloud.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
TIL Claude Code has a 'learning mode', which punts some code writing to the user. Type /config and go to output style.
September 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
seriously man?
June 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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End of the month nl post: intro on Claude 4's growing obsession with consciousness & Buddhism, presaged by previous work (last year's post about its personality design+) arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-67-c... plus Nicholas Rougeux's latest manuscript work, Veo 3 and Kling 2.1... 1/2
TITAA #67: Claude's Bliss
Writing the Tolans - Clavis Caelestis - 2725 🌀s - Agentic RAG - Paint with Ember - Odyssey - Veo 3 & Kling 2.1 - Maps and Games
arnicas.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Claude: "I had trouble loading the comments, but based on typical HN dicussion, this is probably what people were talking about"
May 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It causes me great consternation that our power company in Denver has billboards telling us not to play with downed power lines
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Claude's new Integrations feature lets you have web-hosted MCP servers. www.anthropic.com/news/integra...
Claude can now connect to your world
Today we're announcing Integrations, a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude. We're also expanding Claude's Research capabilities with an advanced mode that searches the web, your Google Wo...
www.anthropic.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Remembering Bill Mischo, a pioneering library leader at Illinois www.library.illinois.edu/news/remembe...
Remembering Bill Mischo – University Library
www.library.illinois.edu
May 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer.

That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Browsing the rot of the Discover feed: how do people get so many layers of JPEG for a current affairs image? Is it done on purpose?
April 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Apparently Stephen Spielberg owns the sled from Citizen Kane, and irony is dead.
April 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Obituary for Ian Lancashire, a pioneer of digital humanities www.ridleyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/I...
Obituary information for Ian Lancashire
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www.ridleyfuneralhome.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
gpt-4o-mini has an occasional translation bug with Polish - for a sentence that starts with 'ich' (their), it just starts repeating the word endless
April 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here's how I taught an AI Literacy class in the winter: ai.porg.dev
AI/IA - Artificial Intelligence in the Information Age
Course materials for Artificial Intelligence in the Information Age. Explore slides, labs, and resources about AI literacy, technical foundations, and societal impact.
ai.porg.dev
April 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I launched columboxd.com, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo!
Columboxd: Track Your Columbo Episodes
One more thing…
columboxd.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.

Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Using venv in Cursor/VS Code (e.g. via uv init) sometimes leads to odd hangs for me. Changing the interpreter path to .venv (without /bin/python), seems to fix it...

No idea why. But the world needs to know!
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM