David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
As an AC, I maintain my not caring that much about a given reviewer's score
If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details
Jacob W. Peterson@jacobwpeterson.com · 7mo agoMy (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com
We're hiring! Do you work on ancient Egypt (including Ptolemaic), want to join a fantastic department with great colleagues, and live in one of the best cities in the world? Come join us! www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Archaeology & Ancient History - Clayton, Australia job with MONASH UNIVERSITY | 414023
The School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies is seeking either a Level B Lecturer or Level C Senior Lecturer ...
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I'm on the train in New Jersey noticing Amazon now owns its own shipping containers?? Feel like this is a fact several folks on here would be interested in/could tell me more about 👀
This is potentially a golden age for reaching out to people in an authentic and meaningfully engaging way
Seumas MacDhòmhnaill@jeltzz.bsky.social · 3d agoWell, in the last 24 hours I had one scholar I cold-emailed respond very kindly to my inquiries, and another scholar cold-email me in response to my writing about his work. Wonderful to connect with people!
so presumably everyone has asked the models to prove P=NP, right? and crickets?
What I liked best about The Odyssey movie was that it made me want to get back to the source
What I liked best about The Odyssey movie was that it made me want to get back to the source
(And if you think upstate New York is exempt from that whole conversation, it took an armed revolt 2 decades before the Civil War to get the Hudson Valley out of a literal feudalism situation.) (Alexander Hamilton was SUPER involved in keeping feudalism legal in the US. It's a fun rabbit hole!)
Anti-Rent War - Wikipedia
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Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History
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#DH2026 The Schmidt Sciences team (me and Maya) will be doing a lunchtime talk in room 104 at 1PM today. Come on by to learn about our grantmaking! (Note: We have boxed lunches 🍱, but only enough for the folks who signed up in advance! So if you didn't sign up, no lunch pilfering, please! 😂 ).
"Python is actually a bad language for beginners" part one million...
Dan Conway@magisterconway.bsky.social · last wk.All right, I've got two hours and a cup of tea. May Apollo favor me as I prepare to slay the Python. I'll be liveposting the process here
My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science to begin Fall 2027.
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There is SO MUCH good material in Classical antiquity. Just book 1 of Livy could be a seven-season Netflix drama, "The Kings of Rome". Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus out of like four pages of Livy. There's a whole Livy Cinematic Universe there for the taking.
🚨 New paper on AI & Copyright Using @pangram.com full-text AI detection, we study self-published genre fiction on Amazon, 2023–26. Amazon is flooded w/ books with substantial AI text. They earn real 💰 & crowd out non-AI books. w/ @dhillonp.bsky.social @xinyuel.bsky.social & Jane Ginsburg (1/n) 🧵
I gave a talk on "Build-to-own AI: Agentic Development for Humans" at PyCon Armenia: how coding agents change the way we build ML systems and why code and programmable interfaces matter more than ever, not less. Here's the whole thing as a thread 🧵 (1/18)
I missed this f/ @dmimno.bsky.social + Sil Hamilton when it first came out; this is fascinating, important & funny work on AI + aesthetic creativity: helps to explain why LLM stories tend to all sound alike, down to specific story characters/settings/plots ("lighthouses"). arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492
Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories
LLM-generated stories are a popular use case, but they show very low variability. We sample 20,000 total stories from four current models using five prompts. We find that 11 words occur in 88.3% of ge...
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📢 Position for a postdoc with HCI expertise. This project is a chance to re-think how we govern & interact with information sourced from communities. Team includes experts in NLP/ML, political science & social media. Apply by Aug 10, start Nov 1 or asap. /1 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Postdoctoral position in AI for Civil Society, part of the National Center for AI in Society (CAISA) and based in Copenhagen
The National Center for AI in Society (CAISA) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral posi
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The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...
Universität Graz
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fwiw distillation was also illegal back in 1926 too, so i guess history repeats
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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If you want a real, authentic Odyssey experience, this is it. Display defaults to "Greek", if you don't know the alphabet use the drop-down to select transliteration.
@philologistgrc.bsky.social · 2w agofor those who have not studied Greek but want to deal with Homer: we have glosses and transliteration in the Homer Treebanks: glosses done with Qwen -- not as good as frontier models but we can run them at scale. tinyurl.com/59xcvjba
for those who have not studied Greek but want to deal with Homer: we have glosses and transliteration in the Homer Treebanks: glosses done with Qwen -- not as good as frontier models but we can run them at scale. tinyurl.com/59xcvjba
Taking a long trip home to Ithaca tomorrow, anyone who’s seen the movie have tips?
I remain convinced that 98% of the compute of today’s LLMs is wasted. Fix that before you drive up my electric bill, hyperscalers.
Andrew Gordon Wilson@andrewgwils.bsky.social · 3w agoHow far can we compress billion-parameter LLMs? We introduce requential coding, which achieves < 1-bit per param compression, and explains why scaling doesn't hit a generalization wall! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.11883 w/ Shikai Qiu, Marc Finzi, Yujia Zheng, Kun Zhang 1/🧵
Text as Data has been a wonderful, long-running, non-archival workshop for empirical research at the intersection of AI and social science (especially work involving text). After a few years off, it will be happening again this year as a one-day event in early October!
Denis@dpeskoff.bsky.social · 3w agoDo you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org
