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I need to workshop my titles more. But anyway: this post reflects on teaching the history of the internet to a class of 160 first year students in a world where generative AI shabbiness is pushed on them and a perfectly rationale way to deal with the myriad pressures and bad choices of being a student is to go ahead and use it. What’s a prof to do?
The first thing I...
…in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions
There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with structured...
One day, I decided that my story-loving kid and I would play an rpg together. We settled on Ken Lowery’s ‘Lighthouse at the End of the World‘. This is a solo journaling RPG: you read the backstory, you throw the die, you pull some cards and consult the game for what those cards wil...
I wrote a short, incomplete, opinionated introduction to generative AI for history and archaeology students. The work is what I wish my students had before they came to my class last September, and is built from my teaching notes and remarks that I gave at a few public venues last year. Here’s what the publisher has to say about it:
“The buzz surrounding AI these da...
