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Antonija Primorac

@antonijap.bsky.social

A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.

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Antonija Primorac@antonijap.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sharon Schroeder introduces Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice and their joint paper on the Invisible Britons: Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities in the Anglophone Press of Chile, 1840-1906 in one of #RSVP2026's final sessions, on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China

Sharon Schroeder introduces Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice and their joint paper on the Invisible Britons during one of #RSVP2026's final sessions, on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · last mo.

Imagining every newspaper in the 1900s crediting scientific discoveries to coal because Einstein had electricity in his lab. “How researchers used the lightbulb to win the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics”

Dr Naomi Scott@drnaomiscott.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink
Hallie Rubenhold@hallierubenhold.bsky.social · last mo.

Everyone can't and shouldn't work in tech or finance. Everyone can't and won't be a multi-millionaire. A society needs civil servants, social workers and creatives. We need NHS doctors and dentists. We need teachers, people who work in publishing and the law. Where is the encouragement for this?

Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author@stephens.website · 2mo ago

Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.

Internet Archive@archive.org · 2mo ago

🧵What happens when libraries can't preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️ @Brewster.Kahle.org warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile. Read Preserving the Library System in VANISHING CULTURE ⤵️ archive.org/details/vani...

Teal graphic with the question "Why are public libraries worth protecting?" answered by Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "To help create an informed citizenry." The Vanishing Culture logo appears at the bottom right.
Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.” ~ Virginia Woolf May Evening (1905) 🎨 Igor Grabar

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals@rs4vp.org · 3mo ago

Need a financial boost for your summer research plans? We can help! There's still time to apply for our second round of Microgrant funding, but applications close *THIS* Friday, May 15. Apply on our website (and NB: awards are up to $300 USD, not £50k 😉) rs4vp.org/awards/micro...

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Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of nineteenth-century British/empire periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established ...

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Ash McGonigal@ashmcgonigal.com · 3mo ago

Love it when science backs my hypotheses. LLMs are not intelligent; they are just probability engines. Apophenia rules apply.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism Olivia Guest1,2, Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández3, and Mark Blokpoel1,2 1Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, The Netherlands 2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this concept and applying it to known mechanism — such that claims are made that we do not know how engineered systems, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), work, or that they constitute black boxes that we can only open with difficulty — is inappropriate at best and malicious at worst. We do know the mechanistic structure of such models because we designed and built them. We also do know their functional role (what they are for) as well as the mathematical function they are asked to approximate (map inputs to target outputs). Because mysterianist beliefs about known systems, such as ANNs, are often expressed, scientists need to sit up and take notice. We provide an error theory as to what is going on to help unpick this metatheoretical blunder. Ultimately, the problem is that ‘understanding’ is not a technical term in these cases: the word is co-opted for a specific narrative to sell ‘artificial intelligence’ through mystification. All computational systems, from pendulums to databases, will behave in ways we cannot predict or control — this is not a unique property of ANNs — and experts do indeed grasp the computational properties of these systems nonetheless. Keywords: artificial neural networks; mechanism; black box; epistemology; artificial intelligence; understanding
Max Slinger@promptslinger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the car analogy is actually perfect here though. we did build the entire country around cars and it did kill walkable cities and it took 60 years to even start fixing it. so yeah maybe the "just use it responsibly" crowd should sit with that for a second