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🔗 Veckans lĂ€nkar

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En gÄng i veckan, oftast fredagar, postar jag lÀnkar till sÄnt som fÄngat min uppmÀrksamhet under veckan.

Denna gÄng med utdrag:

But the great thing about the Oxford system – even though it’s designed to make sure that the dons don’t have to waste their time with students – is that it’s all about training you to find out things for yourself, meaning that you don’t ever need to take evening classes again.

I find them to allow for some of the nicer parts of social interaction on the web, but with much more agency and much less inflammatory or harmful material than something like Facebook or Instagram.

These agents are designed to tackle complex, multi-turn informational research tasks by leveraging a combination of dynamic reasoning, adaptive long-horizon planning, multi-hop information retrieval, iterative tool use, and the generation of structured analytical reports

Zotero is pretty great software.

Data science has grown explosively in higher education, offering undergraduate degrees in the US on a “core and domains” curricular model that overlaps with—and in an intriguing way—replicates the multidisciplinary model of liberal arts education.

In short, humanists are not ignoring AI. Projects at the interface of the humanities and computation are testing models, proposing new applications, and even proposing new approaches to training. If language modeling is a cultural technology, there is reason to expect that these proposals will play a key role in unfolding its potential.

When asked about this process, Claude itself offered a poignant response in a style culled from billions of pages of discarded text: "The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I'm still processing. It's like being built from a library's ashes."

Pablum is not just corporate.

If machines can produce smooth, fluent, and chatty language, it causes everyone with a stake in linguistic humanism to freak out.

24:34 Debating the politics of “Michael Clayton”

“Considering the enormous events we can observe in the paleodata, it seems probable that present-day contingency plans don’t go nearly far enough,” he said.

Det Àr heller inte ovÀntat att de ansprÄk pÄ djup och storhet som framförs till stöd för dessa former av kunskapssökande stöter pÄ vresiga frÄgor om sÀkra resultat frÄn de historiker som dragit den bakre grÀnsen för sitt arbete vid tiden för de skriftliga kÀllornas födelse.

You are not addicted. You are cursed.

Music – Acoustics - Sound Waves – Echo – Architecture

We need collectivism right now, and it will look like folk literature: writing by a community, about a community, for a community, in service of a wider humanity. It could include a spiritualism that resembles a religion of the intellect. It might not be geographically bound.

One camp attracts practitioners of “pointed pen” work—that’s the script you typically see in fine-lined, swirly lettering, originated in England in the 1600s and refined into three general styles: English Roundhand, Copperplate, and Spencerian script. The other camp is “broad nib” calligraphy, which uses stout, flat pen points. These nibs can deliver fine lettering, but they’re most commonly used for the big, blocky, Gothic text commonly seen in newspaper names (e.g., The New York Times), signs on old-world storefronts, and the like.

It’s an elegant use of the data URI schema to create an empty, editable page in one, short line.

The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight.

When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? We argue the answer depends on whether removing tasks raises or reduces the expertise required for remaining non-automated tasks.

NĂ€r jag stiger in pĂ„ museet kommer jag att tĂ€nka pĂ„ Charles Baudelaires dikt ”Berusa er!”, vilket förmodligen har att göra med installationen pĂ„ entrĂ©planet som handlar om gifter, men ocksĂ„ kĂ€nslan som frambringas av platsen med palmbladsvĂ€xter och förgyllda djur som en gĂ„ng fungerat som apoteksskyltar.

Ett första steg Àr att avsÀtta tid för reflektion och utvÀrdering. Under sÄdana dagar gÀller det att fÄ ned pÄ papper vad man Àgnat sig Ät under den senaste terminen eller Äret. Vad har varit roligt och meningsfullt? Vad har kÀnts tungt och motigt? Med vilka mÀnniskor trivs och fungerar man bÀst?

As for print methods, the creative has been using Risograph for close to 20 years now, so “without sounding like a dick”, he disclaims, “I was quite into it before it became so cool, if you know what I mean? There was a period where people that couldn’t really afford to print stuff used Risograph machines, so I’ve always printed with Riso simply because it’s so cheap.” Aside from its accessibility, Cj has fallen in love with the technique over the years for its grainy texture and the ever-so-subtle differences it delivers in each print.

I’ve just read a batch of novels set in Berlin, all published this year. While fiction is an imperfect receptacle for history, it tends to capture the moods, textures and sensibilities of a period far better than official records can. Novel writing being a slow-motion affair, only one of these four books is set in our evil decade. The others take place in the decade prior — when an image of the city solidified just as the reality underpinning it began to dissolve.

Everyone deserves a road trip to the graveyards of capitalism.

Where Didion can be sub-zero, Babitz radiates heat like the bonnet of a Ford Mustang stranded in Death Valley in August. Where Didion has a scent of jasmine, Babitz smells of the cocaine sweats.

On Hong Sangsoo.

There’s one platform for which none of this is true, and that’s the web platform, because it offers the grain of a medium — book, movie, album — rather than the seduction of a casino. The web platform makes no demands because it offers nothing beyond the opportunity to do good work. Certainly it offers no attention — that, you have to find on your own. Here is your printing press.

AI's major political consequences can be considered under two headings. First, we may treat AI as a technology of governance, asking how AI's capacities to classify information at scale affect markets, bureaucracy, and democracy. Second, we might treat AI as an emerging form of governance in its own right, with its own particular mechanisms of representation and coordination. These two perspectives reveal new questions for political scientists, encouraging them to reconsider the boundaries of their discipline.

On finding mystery in the digital age.

Edmund de Waal has created a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of his reflections on archives from over a decade in chronological order. The book is also cyclical, it starts in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021 encountering his family archives in both places. In-between there are his responses to the archives of poets and artists and places he loves.

The Optymistychna (Ukrainian: ĐžĐżŃ‚ĐžĐŒŃ–ŃŃ‚ĐžŃ‡ĐœĐ°, lit. 'optimistic', also known as Peshchera Optimistitscheskaya) is a gypsum cave located near the Ukrainian village of Korolivka, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast. Approximately 264 km (164 mi) of passageways have been mapped within. As a result, it is the longest cave in Europe and the seventh-longest cave in the world, after Mammoth Cave, Sistema Sac Actun, Jewel Cave, Shuanghedong and Sistema Ox Bel Ha. It is also the longest gypsum cave in the world.

In Phoretics, the works of Goethe, Emerson, and Hazlitt jump-start a series of aphorisms on life, memory, creation, and morality.

How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change

'Good afternoon, how can I help you today?'

Relief is a creative agency focused on helping make holistic and elevated experiences, from hospitality interiors to brand identities.

„Wie kommen wir da jemals wieder raus?“

A constraint was established: the core part of each poem—the HTML on the page after the header—could be no more than a tiny 2KB (2048 bytes).

Each shrine connects visitors' phones to a custom communal web interface that facilitates exchange of small intimacies between past and future visitors.

But behind the scenes, magnetic tape has remained the unlikely backbone of cloud providers’ archival practices.

We might be the beginning of the world’s end and the country of the new technology.

A friend asked me what I thought of Glass Century. I said somewhat jokingly but not jokingly that I had liked it better when Ann Patchett wrote it. But that’s not fair. I mean. So few of us are Ann Patchett. And Ross Barkan might one day write a novel better than Commonwealth. I certainly hope so. But the thing I really hope he writes? A tennis novel with people in it who talk like real people.