Rob Skinner
@robskinner.bsky.social
Historian: food, activism, transnational solidarity
The authors conclude that we need ‘community-wide coordination to ensure that different parties involved in LLM creation and deployment share the information needed to resolve questions of provenance.’ That sounds to me like … archivists, right?
December 6, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The authors conclude that we need ‘community-wide coordination to ensure that different parties involved in LLM creation and deployment share the information needed to resolve questions of provenance.’ That sounds to me like … archivists, right?
The doomy title speaks, though, to the maths at work here rather than apocalyptic visions of digital mould. In short, I think this strengthens the argument that we need to teach about (and with) AI in order to properly prepare our students for the work beyond the historiographical essay.
December 6, 2024 at 1:42 PM
The doomy title speaks, though, to the maths at work here rather than apocalyptic visions of digital mould. In short, I think this strengthens the argument that we need to teach about (and with) AI in order to properly prepare our students for the work beyond the historiographical essay.
Couldn’t access the Medium piece, but I think it’s worth reading the article in Nature that it cites: rdcu.be/d2E2F
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
Nature - Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in...
rdcu.be
December 6, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Couldn’t access the Medium piece, but I think it’s worth reading the article in Nature that it cites: rdcu.be/d2E2F
Reposted by Rob Skinner
Dr Alice Kinghorn recently defended their PhD at Bristol on the role of Anglican missionary societies in transatlantic enslavement.
Congratulations Alice 🎉
🔗 historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/868
Congratulations Alice 🎉
🔗 historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/868
December 18, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Dr Alice Kinghorn recently defended their PhD at Bristol on the role of Anglican missionary societies in transatlantic enslavement.
Congratulations Alice 🎉
🔗 historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/868
Congratulations Alice 🎉
🔗 historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/868
‘From Gygax Goblins to the Elves of Dunsinore’ - that will, dear friends be my no. 1 submission to REF202x
December 15, 2023 at 4:01 PM
‘From Gygax Goblins to the Elves of Dunsinore’ - that will, dear friends be my no. 1 submission to REF202x
This is the embodiment of Bluesky
Do not fucking come in here to tell me it's on the label and it's obvious and why don't you understand the utterly arcane and confusing labeling system on led bulbs and you I should get programmable ones or whatever the fuck, I do not care, buying lightbulbs has turned into a nightmare.
Loath the harsh operating room glare of whatever the standard led bulb is so I got the 'warm light' one and it's so dim that I feel like I'm in a shady tavern in a fantasy novel, if you're going to force me to use led bulbs, which I fucking hate, you could at least have human-understandable labeling
December 15, 2023 at 3:41 PM
This is the embodiment of Bluesky
Also happy to share an annotated version of the lyrics, including discussion of references to Moorcock and Shakespeare
December 15, 2023 at 3:37 PM
Also happy to share an annotated version of the lyrics, including discussion of references to Moorcock and Shakespeare
As ever, I think that this is a scholarship that would benefit from a large dose of Mark E Smith …
youtu.be/m8Bg7_7P84I?...
youtu.be/m8Bg7_7P84I?...
December 15, 2023 at 2:11 PM
As ever, I think that this is a scholarship that would benefit from a large dose of Mark E Smith …
youtu.be/m8Bg7_7P84I?...
youtu.be/m8Bg7_7P84I?...
You know the original location, where all the falling down and breaking stuff happened, is in Somerset south of Bath?
November 18, 2023 at 3:09 PM
You know the original location, where all the falling down and breaking stuff happened, is in Somerset south of Bath?
Have to admit, am slightly disappointed that it didn’t involve knitwear.
November 18, 2023 at 10:01 AM
Have to admit, am slightly disappointed that it didn’t involve knitwear.
Ideals that at times challenge standard views of peace mvts, e.g. the January 1959 celebration of Fidel Castro, ‘Cuba’s Robin Hood’
November 16, 2023 at 10:11 AM
Ideals that at times challenge standard views of peace mvts, e.g. the January 1959 celebration of Fidel Castro, ‘Cuba’s Robin Hood’
Peace News is an excellent source for historians of anti-colonial movements in the 50s/60s - the interconnected sentiments of pacifism and anti-racism captured in images such as this …
November 16, 2023 at 10:09 AM
Peace News is an excellent source for historians of anti-colonial movements in the 50s/60s - the interconnected sentiments of pacifism and anti-racism captured in images such as this …
Reposted by Rob Skinner
Excited to share it over here as well that the cover is in, the page is live, and the preorder button works! The China Firm is coming out as part of the "Tucker and Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations" Series with Columbia University Press, February 2024!
The China Firm | Columbia University Press
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard &... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 16, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Excited to share it over here as well that the cover is in, the page is live, and the preorder button works! The China Firm is coming out as part of the "Tucker and Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations" Series with Columbia University Press, February 2024!
Have been looking back at some of the material that didn’t get into the book. This Peace News piece from 1959 is proof that nothing changes …
November 15, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Have been looking back at some of the material that didn’t get into the book. This Peace News piece from 1959 is proof that nothing changes …
