If my institution makes me do this, I will, from that moment forward, generate all lectures using ChatGPT "in the style of Rick Steve's combined with the existential outlook of Garfield."

Right?? I've been to Iceland. It is easily the most beautiful country I've ever seen. But I cannot think of a place in which bulk purchase of chocolate-covered pretzels is more obviously necessary.

This is kind of the polite version of my own position which is that (a) this is possibly the most amazing technology I've ever seen and (b) ohmygod we're so fucking doomed.

Oh, I think I misunderstood what you're doing. The class you're teaching on NLP is a small, seminar-style discussion (of, I assume, key/new NLP papers)?

I have never asked students in tech courses to refrain from using any resource they like, since that is what I do and that is what everyone in the academia and industry does. I also assume they are adults interested in learning the concepts we are discussing.

Can we understand #DHBakes as an open invitation to post bread pictures?

That’s such a great gathering!

Third in the order of succession.

These decisions are always effortlessly instantaneous for me.

(Go Jays)

I’ll never understand why we didn’t get a “Magnum C.I.” spinoff. Feels like a lost opportunity.

And the scrape function is fantastic, though the need for actual web scraping is rare with TEI (i.e. XML) collections. If I write my TEI dream tool, I'd like it to assume a tool like xan, though -- which I think means being able to export to a serialization format that xan can read easily.

No apology necessary! And let me say it again: xan is a wonderful tool. PERFECT for the kind of work my students do (humanities researchers doing computational work).

I feel like a pro-education Ursuline ghost army is exactly what we need right now.

It wasn't me! I swear it wasn't me!

Possibly useful data point: I call the plumber at the slightest provocation, because I am without doubt -- and in sharp contrast to my father -- the least handy person within a thousand miles.

Why doesn’t LaTeX automatically interpret such a list as countably infinite?