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I enjoyed being a guest on @talkpython.fm discussing my journey into digital humanities and some of the projects I work on.
#DigitalHumanities
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I've just published Paleo-Bench
a simple multi-modal bench test for how current frontier models transcribe Greek minuscule manuscripts.
d-flood.github.io/paleo-bench/
You can see the human transcribed transcription side by side with the model transcription and with IIIF image viewer.
Very cool!
Refreshed personal site: davidaflood.com
Finally retired the Django version. Not because I've soured on Django (I haven't), but because a static site is basically free forever and it'll never go down.
How many other areas will actually get better because those people were _below_ average and now AI is elevating them? I'm still thinking through the implications
We've been talking about how generative AI produces average results.
I've been thinking about pastors who use AI to write their sermons.
I'd bet that this is an upgrade for a lot of churches. It must be true that for many, this means better sermons because the floor is higher.
I'll be joining Michael Kennedy on the @talkpython.fm podcast tomorrow to discuss Python in my corner of the #DigitalHumanities
Tune in for the live stream to ask real time questions www.youtube.com/live/ZaI2AxR...
I stood up a demo site for my new (work-in-progress) IIIF image viewer d-flood.github.io/triiiceratop...
Goal is to be sleek but powerful. Supports IIIF search service and annotation rendering.
This CloudFlare outage took down Apatosaurus v2, but not for anyone who installed the PWA from their browser
Wow, thanks to the CloudFlare outage for illustrating why online research platforms should be offline capable PWAs!
- Notifying the user of their sync status based only on internet access is not sufficient. It might be the case that the server goes down. If so, then the user still needs to be able to do their work but still be notified of the gap in sync.
- The current offline/online status needs to be clearly communicated to the user. "Clearly" being the keyword because in the case of Apatosaurus, there are multiple databases to sync locally. One per transcription document _and_ one for the other metadata.
My working working theory for offline capable apps that do work on data:
- If the app allows editing data offline, then it had better have a robust mechanism for "catching up" when back online.
A short demo of Apatosaurus v2 offline functionality for the TEI compatible transcription editor.
#digitalhumanities
The candidate will work with my team but be dedicated to a single project. Maybe info: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
My team is looking to fill a technical #DH #digitalhumanities 2-year position. This is for a senior full stack software engineer with fluency in modern and literary Chinese, advanced knowledge of ML and gen AI, and academic research experience.
Zach Butler has just posted an instructive overview of @davidaflood.com's Apatosaurus app for working with a digital textual apparatus. He even mentioned my open-cbgm software, and it sounds like he's planning to post more about that next! Check out his post below, and keep an eye out for more!
That's great!
I would guess it's an indexing bug. Maybe you updated the file, which triggered a reindexing, and instead of replacing that index entry, a new one was appended.
We (wife and other kids) agreed to play a bit of DnD with my son; he wanted to GM, but none of us had played before.
My character's commitment to pacifism kinda threw a wrench into the plans.
Fantastic!
I've been using this _super_ simple queue and task consumer for my Django projects for two years and I've finally written a README for it so people other than myself can make sense of it. Now that it has a little test suite I think it's fine to make it public github.com/d-flood/peas...
This is great! Glad you were able to snag the perfect domain too.
One of my personal project papyrus46.com is online. It brings together a complete set of the latest digital images and the transcriptions I produced for my doctoral thesis. You can also add images and transcriptions from Kenyon's ed. pr. for comparison. It also contains an extensive bibliography.
I sympathize as I also have to sit out this year.
I'm so jealous of everyone getting ready for #SBLAAR. This is my first year both missing it and not presenting since 2019.
This year's travel budget went toward my graduation in Edinburgh. No regrets, but bummed to miss my first year as Dr. Flood.
Have fun all! #sblaar24
Graduate standing in historic academic courtyard (New College, Edinburgh).
PhD: conferred.
#PhDone
All requirements satisfied, nothing to do now but wait for my degree to be conferred.
A conference lanyard
With the fracturing of my Biblical studies and digital humanities social media communities, I've forgotten about Bsky (I like browsing Mastedon with the Phanpy client more and more lately). So here is my obligatory conference attendance post:
I really enjoyed the #iiif annual conference.
