Sam Huskey

@hcayless.bsky.social: Bless you for writing tei-c.org/documentatio...! I've referred to it many, many times over the years. Lucid, useful instructions!

One might think that the function `save_to_disk()` would, well, save your dataset in a form that can be loaded by the aptly-named `load_dataset()`. But one would be wrong. I'm mystified by @hf.co's API sometimes. 😵‍💫

Wow! That's quite a compliment coming from you! Thanks!

I was already there. 🤨

The great AI delusion is falling apart New research suggests the chorus of techno-optimism is based on falsehoods

“Is the secret of artificial intelligence that we have to kid ourselves, like an audience at a magic show?”

Yes.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Evidently, my code is a joke. Here is my ASR model's output:

"hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"

A side by side comparison of slot machines and "vibe coding". Both columns: "Buy tokens". Slot: "Pull the lever"; VC: "Write a vague prompt and hit 'Generate'". Slot: "Could be a jackpot, could be nothing"; VC: "Could be a perfect, bug-free app, could be a hallucinated mess that doesn't even compile." Slot: "Flashing lights! 'BIG WIN!' Jingles!"; VC: "Excellent Idea!, Certainly!, Here is the perfect solution for you!". Slot: "I have a system"; VC: "I'm a prompt engineer". Slot: "Just one more spin, I can win it all back"; VC: "Just one more prompt, it'll fix the bug this time." Slot: "The house always wins"; VC: "OpenAI always wins". Slot: Easy money: I won a $1M jackpot!"; VC: "Easy coding: I built a full SaaS in a weekend!". Slot: "Where did the last 4 hours go?"; VC: "Well, I spent 3 hours prompting for a function I could have written in 20 minutes?"

I saw this on LinkedIn today. It's an apt comparison.

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

It looks like there won't be much left of the humanities at Indiana University at Bloomington: www.ipm.org/news-section...

University of Virginia President Resigns After Trump’s Demands The move is a “major blow” to the independence of American institutions, one expert said.

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www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

University of Oklahoma to Launch 20 New AI Projects The University of Oklahoma has awarded nearly $200,000 in pilot seed funding to 20 artificial intelligence projects designed to spark innovation across health care, education, research and digital inf...

Congratulations to all my fellow recipients of the University of Oklahoma's AI Seed Funding Awards! I'm happy to be collaborating with @ctschroeder.bsky.social and Raina Heaton on a project to alleviate bottlenecks in humanities research!

ou.edu/news/article...

Screenshot showing that some services are down at HuggingFace.

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RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

It is dangerous and irresponsible to call the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and other top-tier research publications "corrupt." If you care about research, regardless of your political views, you should be alarmed at this news.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Call me cynical, but this is not helping matters. Yes, the ad suggests some legitimately good uses of the product, but I couldn't help hearing "wink wink, nudge nudge" as the subtext.

Spread the word: if your NEH grant has been canceled (or you know someone who this applies to), please fill out or pass along this form from ACH.

Reading Aeschylus' _Agamemnon_ in Greek is like listening to an AM radio in a car on a road with a lot of tunnels and bridges.

Screenshot of a note in Denniston and Page's commentary on Aeschylus' Agamemnon, with a highlighted portion that says "But all is darkness here."

"But all is darkness here." Denniston and Page on the textual difficulties at Aesch. Ag. 1056–7, but really the comment could apply to the entire play, on several levels.

No, com.docker.socket will not damage your Mac, but you might start seeing messages like that. If you do, try removing Docker and reinstalling it: `brew uninstall --cask docker --force`, `brew install --cask docker`.

Yes, kind of like MAMP + Docker, but much less frustrating. But it would have to be hacked to work with Django. The CMS quickstarts for DDEV are for PHP frameworks.

And if your student has $7–$14 per month to spare, Digital Ocean has easy-to-use droplets for hosting sites.

I haven't been checking Mastodon recently. Maybe I should? Anyway, my recommendation for working locally is to use DDEV. It can be used to manage a bunch of different CMS products, but it's also good as a generic server space for experimenting. ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

An important milestone. Drupal 7 was a powerhouse and a beast. I'm glad that I was able to beat this deadline and upgrade the sites I manage to Drupal 10. The upgrade to 11 is not far off … www.drupal.org/psa-2025-01-06

A screen shot of ZERO Health's home page. Text reads "Your Personal Health Assistant. Get the care you need for $0. No dedeuctibles, no copay, no coinsurance."

An excellent example of a terrible use of AI—and even worse judgment in naming the company: ZERO Health. Ask our AI about your personal health issues. Trust us. We won't share your chats with insurance companies and current or prospective employers.

I just returned from a national meeting where there was a lot of talk about consolidation of academic departments and reduction or elimination of general education requirements. Where is the playbook that administrators across the country are following?

Time to got to bed. My latest version of a chatbot just told me that Vergil was the first Latin writer to write in Latin. It goes on to say "The Latin word for "author" is "vergil," which means "the author of a work of literature." In other words, it means the author who wrote the work." Just … wow.

DistilBERT Multilingual Cased achieved 95% accuracy with much less training time and energy usage.

ScrapeGraph | 🦜️🔗 LangChain This notebook provides a quick overview for getting started with ScrapeGraph tools. For detailed documentation of all ScrapeGraph features and configurations head to the API reference.

This will be great for Digital Humanities folks who don’t want to learn BeautifulSoup. python.langchain.com/docs/integra...

T5 proved to be ineffective at learning how to correctly identify author-title pairs in a collection of bibliographical data on Latin works. Bigger is certainly not always better.

Repeated lines saying "Trainer.tokenizer is now deprecated. You should use Trainer.processing_class instead."

Gee, do you think Trainer.tokenizer is deprecated? Maybe I should use Trainer.processing_class instead!

When I was in graduate school for Classics, I never imagined that my research would involve effective memory optimization on a GPU runtime environment. I'm not sure this is the best use of my time ….

The inventor of the Pandas library for Python deserves a Nobel prize.