Javier Cha

@javiercha.bsky.social

Canadian in Hong Kong. Work: digital historian @ HKU. Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI. Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/

At our Playing Heaven #DH2026 mini-conference, a Chinese graduate student came up to me after one of the panel sessions and was puzzled by my Tang–Song Confucian knowledge-distillation agent's taxonomy, which grouped "roots and branches" 本末 together with "political economy" 理財.

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I love how many #DH2026 presenters are so robust and advanced in their analytical methods but ALSO extremely accurate and knowledgeable about very small details of the data they used. Data curation and quality is the core of this community! 🧡

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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The Observatory issued the T8 storm signal at 10.10pm on Saturday and said it would consider issuing the T9 signal between 1am-2am on Sunday. Tropical Cyclone Noul is expected to make landfall in Huizhou on Sunday morning. Photo: HKO.

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We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was just a tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, to cash in on the tournament at over 4× the original price. 💸 Its awfulness has been saved for posterity ⤵️ archive.org/search?tab=a...