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pilarw2000
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Chief indexer & Consultant, Wyman Indexing. Great indexes for great books -- in all media. Professional services since 1990. wymanindexing.com
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gwynnek.bsky.social
I’m sure you’ve seen this (Brookland).
Oversized skeleton wearing a pink shirt and holding what could be imagined as a very large subway sandwich that it may throw at some federales.
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
Interesting how the title I see is, "What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir"
July 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
Nicely done!! 👏👏
May 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
Generative AI, aka "spicy autocomplete," does NOT make satisfying indexes make, not by a long shot. #IndexSky
May 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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baindex.org
Great @indexerscanada.bsky.social session by Elizabeth Bartmess on AI and LLM attempts to index full-length books (with HT @tanyaizzard.bsky.social). Plus how to respond as societies and individual indexers (the ‘context artists’). ‘LLMs are not indexing a book. They are autocompleting an index.’
Elizabeth Bartmess presenting on AI at Indexing Society of Canada ISC/SCI 2025 conference with a slide with following text. LLMs’ nature • LLMs are predictive text generators • ‘Spicy autocomplete’ • They are not Indexing a book, they are autocompleting an index – they are predicting – based on statistical frequency of words in their corpus, – what a response to your prompt would likely look like – they are not going through the book and gathering all the bits of indexable material • They generate text, then generate more text, linearly • They cannot edit previously produced text • It's not surprising they don't produce good indexes. It’s not what they’re designed forl
May 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
on my way, as well. here's another meme just for the #indexers 😎😜😎
May 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
Super excited here, too! So excited I made a meme. #IndexSky 😎😜😎 #indexers, nervous excited looking forward to it. #bookindexer
May 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
There will be no accountability without a free press.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM