Sarah Lang

@sarahalang.bsky.social

Head of Digital Humanities at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). Previously DH Graz. #Alchemy and early modern history of science & knowledge.
#CriticalAI #CriticalDH #DH #ComputationalHumanities
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@sarahalang.bsky.social

I totally agree, similar things have been on my mind recently but from the other side. In #DigitalHumanities, philosophy is not very well represented at all but it does seem one of the few disciplines that manages to communicate with CS somehow. Iā€™d really like for us to start closing that gapā€¦ #DH

@bsky.realhackhistory.orgReposted by @sarahalang.bsky.social

The researchers wrote and created a scenario in which they encouraged the LLM to roleplay as something that could feel pain. It is just this meme with extra steps and a fancy academic output.

@shorterpearson.bsky.socialReposted by @sarahalang.bsky.social

I gave a talk this morning at Appalachian College Association Summit. It's a substantial departure for me, but one that I've had many conversations about over the years.

Talk by Chuck Pearson of Tusculum University entitled "Minimal computing: challenging unchecked use of resources in academic technology."
@artjomshl.bsky.socialReposted by @sarahalang.bsky.social

use of LLMs is pervasive in academia, everyone is depressed about it. but who can afford ~not~ to rely on AI? those who already hold high social capital: good English, good schools, good networks. For everyone else the 'baseline' is already far out of reach without LLMs

@artjomshl.bsky.socialReposted by @sarahalang.bsky.social

the whole structure of academic value, i think, will change, but not in a way that would flatter most of us; it's hard not to imagine that devaluation of writing leads to strengthening of face-to-face prestige and reputation institutes, social codes, retrofuturistic zombie version of university

@sarahalang.bsky.social

Word embeddings alone are not the be-all end-all for historical data: semantic changes over time trip them up šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

BUT have you heard of contextual word embeddings? šŸ‘€

In this article, we use them to untangle the meanings of terms Ruland's 1612 alchemical dictionary.

doi.org/10.1080/0002... #DH

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