@fatahblack.bsky.social
Historian of colonial empires, specifically the Dutch. Now researching proto-citizenship in the Atlantic world.
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If it includes my work, how bad can it be???π
04.04.2025 06:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lol, I have writings on piracy that turn up in the pirated books database used by Meta to train their LLM. π΄ββ οΈ This irony of course becomes less funny when the AI starts to enslave us. Check out The Atlantic if you want to see if you've been pirated by Meta. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
03.04.2025 20:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Today we celebrate the return of light and the defeat of tyrants. Newroz piroz be! π₯
21.03.2025 07:02 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ons boek Ooggetuigen van de Nederlandse Slavernij: Van overtocht tot opstand' is genomineerd voor de Kleio Klasseprijs 2025. Een geweldige aanmoediging voor het gebruik van dit boek over historisch brongebruik en slavernij in de klas. https://www.vgnkleio.nl/actueel/stem-voor-de-kleio-klasseprijs/
08.02.2025 18:49 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Yesterday we had a great launch of the edited volume 'The Dutch Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives and Sources'. Authors gave very insightful presentations of findings and reflections of the main theme. Great work! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048560493/the-dutch-transatlantic-slave-trade
08.02.2025 15:52 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
large room with wooden beams and white chairs filled with people facing a woman stood at a podium speaking
There's a full house this afternoon at the @schpvrtmsm.bsky.social for the book launch of 'The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade' -- thank you to everyone celebrating this fascinating and important volume!
07.02.2025 14:41 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0Ja, interessant, maar zie nog niet waarom text mining en statistische methodes daarvoor niet meer geschikt zijn. Wellicht kan een LLM langere trends beter doorzien dan text mining. Er zijn inmiddels wel steeds meer omvangrijke sets data die langere periodes beslaan. Dus dat geeft vast mogelijkheden.
27.01.2025 19:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0DeepSeek3 aan het downloaden. Kan 'm zo in Ollama draaien. De tekstverwerkingstoepassingen van modellen zijn duidelijk. Toepassing in 't primaire onderzoeksproces van mijn veld zie ik nog niet. Gebrek aan precisie blijft een struikelblok. Nut van "Old school" statistische text mining is duidelijker.
27.01.2025 18:44 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If it is fed enough material, I think it can. An advantage of using a locally hosted model is that it does not censor the material and the output in the ways that the public models do.
14.01.2025 20:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At least the Open WebUI makes it feel very easy to create "knowledge" for the model.
14.01.2025 20:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Should be really easy. We have the txt files made with HTR of a large number of colonial archives. Must load even easier than the pile of pdf's that I've fed it now.
14.01.2025 20:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Nice, I'm using Ollama 3.2 now. And to be honest don't really notice a difference between models (yet).
14.01.2025 20:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Haha, ok, so I've fed it my publications from the past 15 years. I guess I've created a machine version of my academic brain.
14.01.2025 19:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0...and I can now train my local LLM with my own relevant data and literature. This might actually become fun/useful
14.01.2025 18:38 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Installed the web user interface (Open WebUI) during morning coffee. Really don't see why people who like to use AI for daily tasks don't use it locally. ollama.com
14.01.2025 09:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Strange how wel it can reason. I've asked it to reflect on certain solutions to complex issues. It managed to do so quite well. And when asked to give counter arguments it did so successfully, in my view.
13.01.2025 21:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0And it works surprisingly well. I just asked it to summarise several full text articles and I don't think it did better or worse that chatGPT. I don't personally see a need for it atm, but I don't think that most people who do want to use some AI models need to rely on the popular US-based services.
13.01.2025 21:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Funny, didn't know how easily you could run so much of that genAI stuff freely on a simple laptop/home setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjrd...
13.01.2025 21:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Comparisons between paper and digitised wills (central to this week's MoJ statement) are also the subject of a recent 'Transactions of the RHS' article.
'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills' considers how format informs use and interpretation, for pre-1858 documents bit.ly/3DMb6W7
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) ππ
In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In*
I wrote the foreword with π§ͺ in mind!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
De officiΓ«le presentatie van ons boek zal plaatsvinden in Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam! In samenwerking met hun indrukwekkende nieuwe tentoonstelling Schaduwen op de Atlantische Oceaan zullen vijf presentaties een link leggen tussen historisch onderzoek en erfgoed.
Meld je hier nΓΊ aan:
Or just download the freely available pdf! library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
08.01.2025 18:06 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Powerful front page from L'HumanitΓ© on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
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Le Pen verloor zijn hitlerjΓΌgend dolk tijdens het martelen in Algerije.
De koloniale wortels van Europees rechtsextremisme.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Probably carries yellow fever.
07.01.2025 15:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
On Austrian radio ORF I shared my thoughts on the Dutch royal apologies for slavery, their international reception and the position of other royal families.
orf.at/stories/3379...
Mr. Good Vibes Only. π
Gefeliciteerd!
nos.nl/artikel/2548...
Good news today that the Daesh member Hasna A. has been convicted by a Dutch court for practicing slavery in Syria. #slavery
The signs of a resurgence of the enslavement of women in the frontlines of the jihadist groups in North-Eastern Syria is worrying.
nos.nl/artikel/2547...
Wow! The Dutch always leading in digitization.
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