Oh, I think I misunderstood what you're doing. The class you're teaching on NLP is a small, seminar-style discussion (of, I assume, key/new NLP papers)?

I have never asked students in tech courses to refrain from using any resource they like, since that is what I do and that is what everyone in the academia and industry does. I also assume they are adults interested in learning the concepts we are discussing.

Can we understand #DHBakes as an open invitation to post bread pictures?

That’s such a great gathering!

Third in the order of succession.

These decisions are always effortlessly instantaneous for me.

(Go Jays)

I’ll never understand why we didn’t get a “Magnum C.I.” spinoff. Feels like a lost opportunity.

And the scrape function is fantastic, though the need for actual web scraping is rare with TEI (i.e. XML) collections. If I write my TEI dream tool, I'd like it to assume a tool like xan, though -- which I think means being able to export to a serialization format that xan can read easily.

No apology necessary! And let me say it again: xan is a wonderful tool. PERFECT for the kind of work my students do (humanities researchers doing computational work).

I feel like a pro-education Ursuline ghost army is exactly what we need right now.

It wasn't me! I swear it wasn't me!

Possibly useful data point: I call the plumber at the slightest provocation, because I am without doubt -- and in sharp contrast to my father -- the least handy person within a thousand miles.

Why doesn’t LaTeX automatically interpret such a list as countably infinite?

It's made me wish for the something like it for TEI. A little command line tool that can validate, query, count, pretty print, and visualize TEI. It's even made me wonder if I should devote an upcoming sabbatical to building something like this (some of those features are harder than they sound).

The other thing is that the course gave me an opportunity to dig into xan github.com/medialab/xan. This little gizmo is AMAZING for wrangling CSV data (as historians are wont to do).

My University is really not into people hosting their own UNIX servers. So I decided to switch from maintaining a Linux server (which I've been doing for twenty years of tech courses) to using Docker containers. A few blips here and there, but this is some slick tech and it has worked out well.