Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
Doing #MediaStudies at RuhrUniBochum as part of CRC Virtual Lifeworlds | Book project on #Photoshop and #ImageProcessing | #Culture, #History and #Theory of #Digitality
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Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
· Oct 16
Was liest ChatGPT? Vom Take Off der Token
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche literarischen Texte für das Training von OpenAIs Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) verwendet wurden. Über öffentlich zugängliche Informationen...
link.springer.com
This is not funny. And yet …
January 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This is not funny. And yet …
Surprise, surprise. I cannot open said *.PIC files in an emulated version of PC Paint 3 on DOSBOX. Hmm, what format could these files be?
January 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Surprise, surprise. I cannot open said *.PIC files in an emulated version of PC Paint 3 on DOSBOX. Hmm, what format could these files be?
I could, of course, try to write my own decoder. 😉
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I could, of course, try to write my own decoder. 😉
Ten or so years from now, we will ask "Where were you when Musicology Duck woke up and figured out the bus was not going to the right place?" #ThreadsForEternity
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Ten or so years from now, we will ask "Where were you when Musicology Duck woke up and figured out the bus was not going to the right place?" #ThreadsForEternity
Lone Star > One Battle After Another
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Lone Star > One Battle After Another
Reposted by Till A. Heilmann
+++ NEU erschienen:
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
+++ NEU erschienen:
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Senior #GuineaPig lady Mimi enjoying some freshly cut grass. (To the left: Snofru)
January 17, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Senior #GuineaPig lady Mimi enjoying some freshly cut grass. (To the left: Snofru)
Reposted by Till A. Heilmann
Currently the featured article on the IEEE Annals website www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... . Available open access at doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2025.3559418 .
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Currently the featured article on the IEEE Annals website www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... . Available open access at doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2025.3559418 .
My day is made: a new 1e initiative thread on DF.
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM
My day is made: a new 1e initiative thread on DF.
Ich bin ja nicht so für Behörden-Bashing, aber hier in Bochum fühlt es sich gerade ein wenig seltsam an. (Klar, die Kinder freut‘s, wenn sie nicht zur Schule müssen.)
January 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Ich bin ja nicht so für Behörden-Bashing, aber hier in Bochum fühlt es sich gerade ein wenig seltsam an. (Klar, die Kinder freut‘s, wenn sie nicht zur Schule müssen.)
Ich sag mal so: In den vergangenen Tagen war es hier in Bochum stellenweise tatsächlich ein bisschen glatt. Und es hat auch heftig geschneit. Da gab es nie keine UNWETTERWARNUNG nirgends, und auch die Schulen wurden nicht geschlossen.
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Ich sag mal so: In den vergangenen Tagen war es hier in Bochum stellenweise tatsächlich ein bisschen glatt. Und es hat auch heftig geschneit. Da gab es nie keine UNWETTERWARNUNG nirgends, und auch die Schulen wurden nicht geschlossen.
Bochum. Auch Bochum.
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Bochum. Auch Bochum.
"The question is not whether #renewables can work. The question is whether governments have the courage to change the rules. If they do, the rest is straightforward.”
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
"The question is not whether #renewables can work. The question is whether governments have the courage to change the rules. If they do, the rest is straightforward.”
Nach einer Durststrecke von über dreißig (!) Letztplatzierungen in Folge habe ich tatsächlich eine Partie Seven Wonders gegen meine Familie gewonnen! Ein beinahe biblisches Wunder.
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Nach einer Durststrecke von über dreißig (!) Letztplatzierungen in Folge habe ich tatsächlich eine Partie Seven Wonders gegen meine Familie gewonnen! Ein beinahe biblisches Wunder.
As I and many others have shown, #LLM like #ChatGPT “memorize” what they “read” in “training” and can often reproduce #text verbatim. For an easy-to-read German companion piece to the Atlantic’s story and the research cited there, see my “Was liest ChatGPT?” from last year (link below).
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 AM
My #HomeGym is a small basement compartment, low ceiling and dim lighting. It barely fits a half squat rack, a bench, a barbell (two, actually), and some plates – okay, some dumbbells too. I lift only tiny, tiny (!) weights. Still, it feels great.
January 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
My #HomeGym is a small basement compartment, low ceiling and dim lighting. It barely fits a half squat rack, a bench, a barbell (two, actually), and some plates – okay, some dumbbells too. I lift only tiny, tiny (!) weights. Still, it feels great.
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I've just released fully documented source code for The Sentinel as an easy-to-browse website.
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more.
Enjoy!
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more.
Enjoy!
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro
Fully documented source code disassembly for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro, with lots of deep dive articles explaining how every aspect of the game works.
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I've just released fully documented source code for The Sentinel as an easy-to-browse website.
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more.
Enjoy!
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more.
Enjoy!
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Reading through magazines from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and one of my biggest takeaways is this: Back then, "regular" folks seemed to have a lot more money and time to spend and spare. It's probably all ideology, but still ...
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Reading through magazines from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and one of my biggest takeaways is this: Back then, "regular" folks seemed to have a lot more money and time to spend and spare. It's probably all ideology, but still ...
Reposted by Till A. Heilmann
Frisch erschienen: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg, v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler 2025; 437 S.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Frisch erschienen: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg, v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler 2025; 437 S.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
My electronic #mailbox is now at ~20 #gigabytes. It goes back to the year 2000 (complete since 2004) and currently holds 130,766 messages. Should I start deleting old messages?
January 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
My electronic #mailbox is now at ~20 #gigabytes. It goes back to the year 2000 (complete since 2004) and currently holds 130,766 messages. Should I start deleting old messages?