Shai Gordin

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

But if you like to be updated on amazing publications in #digitalclassics and near eastern studies (and more), maybe subscribe to the DANES listservice www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/d... by @shgordin.bsky.social

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And here is the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies! #CCLS2025

Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

Cultural Data Science This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code.

#DigitalHumanities #RStats

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

DraCor Summit DraCor Summit

❗️CfP deadline extended❗️
Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September.
summit.dracor.org

#DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky
@dracor.org
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

Wonderful news! Congrats 🥳

A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.

Curious about what I work on?

I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE:

zenodo.org/records/1431...

From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East This Collection aims at examining the computational and digital study of “greater Western Asia” and its epistemological implications.

Call for papers: new Nature HSS collection! articles on computational analysis of #western-asia from when writing emerged c. 3500 BCE till 1500CE! #DANES @geophilologist.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social

www.nature.com/collections/...

Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀

Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.

Oh!! Maybe its from the movie 300!!! The Persian king has several nose rings

The model has definitely hallucinated this from somewhere…maybe from a different culture?

So was it nosering?? There is I believe somewhere a reference to this in a popular history book, I can’t recall which…

They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason!

We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it

App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o...
Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo...
Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app

Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world!
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
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Heritage at Risk - viewed using Peripleo A viewer using Peripleo to show Historic England's Heritage at Risk data

UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings

This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!

Happy New Year, everyone, and for those in the know - the #RAI70Prague Call for Papers is now officially open at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/cfp.php Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague! @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav #IANESPrague @IAAssyriology #Assyriology #cuneiform #archaeology

After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS

Ok we're doing this! Here's a google form to gauge interest in what we're tentatively calling Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy. More info in thread. The bite-sized version -> short lightning talk on a pedagogical thing followed by discussion w/ mini web publication to follow.

forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...

Yes, @fdeblauwe.bsky.social they are a great team from a very successful project in the field. Ellie is also active in DANES. I’m looking forward to see where this will develop.

Its a really interesting approach and a solid study. There’s also a lot more to be done here as well :-)

YouTube video by Wolf Humanities Center Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner

A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.

Some of you may remember James’s fantastic introductory video on Linked Open Data. If you don’t know about this yet, it is a field with immense potential to make knowledge and research tools considerably more accessible.

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⚡ New #DraCor merch available:

Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...

Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io

@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

The Sunoikisis Digital Classics #SunoikisisDC programme for January–March 2025 is now up. Individual events on @ics.bsky.social calendar at: ics.sas.ac.uk/search-event...
(All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)