Chris Warren

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm excited to be a co author on this new paper, "Computational Hermeneutics," with a bunch of other great scholars from the humanities + computer science. In it, we lay out concepts for evaluating gen AI's capacity for interpretation esp ambiguity, context, etc. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

TONIGHT: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson begins a four-part online seminar on the Bible. The first class starts at 7:00 PM EST. Just a few hours left to sign up below https://go.nybooks.com/473gpMs

book jacket for Christopher Warren's Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680

Apropos of recent events, if you think international law is worthwhile and important and want to know more about its intellectual and literary history, I wrote a whole ass book about that, which you can find in most good academic libraries and also here www.amazon.com/Literature-N...

“This war is dumb and illegal.”

About sums it up. More current members of Congress should take note.

As someone who has spent 20 years funding incremental advances in digital tools for humanities research, the leaps we've seen in just the last year are incredible. (One example from Alex below, but many others in really hard areas like handwriting recognition.)

to clarify, I was just trying to be witty and didn’t intend to cast judgment (actually seems like a smart and interesting paper by @richardjeanso.bsky.social et al)

Slopaganda

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral.
It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral.
It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.

Are people finding ways to get around the Akamai challenges on the DOJ Epstein files site?

O apostrophes…

[Job 📣] Are you curious about #AI applications in the #humanities? My Print and Probability research group (@print-and-prob.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc! Come help us develop computational methods for identifying clandestine early modern printers!

cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Hypothetically, if you were to want a tool that helped you turn any name or short phrase into a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message, told you exactly how many cups you'd need, etc., you could find that here molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb...

Yep super grateful to @marimo.io for their molab platform

Hypothetically, if you were to want a tool that helped you turn any name or short phrase into a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message, told you exactly how many cups you'd need, etc., you could find that here molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb...

So, hypothetically, if you were to make a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message over an overpass, you’d be putting in the letters backwards. And, again hypothetically, you might want a template for that.

Hypothetically.

[Job 📣] Are you curious about #AI applications in the #humanities? My Print and Probability research group (@print-and-prob.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc! Come help us develop computational methods for identifying clandestine early modern printers!

cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Someone repaired this broken letterpress wood type using doublesided carpet tape. Ink from subsequent prints soaked into the tape over time (likely from multiple printers?), and now the break line & inside the letter (the tape is no longer working) are even more beautiful.

Image of Andreea Ritivoi speaking with Knausgaard.

On Thursday, January 15, Professor Andreea Ritivoi interviewed internationally-renowned Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard during his Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures appearance.

'People We Meet on Vacation' Screenwriter Yulin Kuang Loves Romance — Here's How Emily Henry Inspired Her (Exclusive) Creator Yulin Kuang speaks with PEOPLE about carving her own space within the romance genre. The 'How to End a Love Story' author is also a screenwriter, who is working on several film adaptations of ...

“I thrive when there are creative bounds for myself. It's really interesting to see what you can do."

People magazine recently interviewed screenwriter and novelist Yulin Kuang, a 2012 graduate. people.com/yulin-kuang-...

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Living Precariously - Pittsburgh Review of Books Sport that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter holding both his sides.L’Allegro, 31-2.

Part Milton criticism, part John Carey obit, & part reflection on his own cancer treatment, Willy Maley's moving essay is an astonishing testament to lives in criticism and reason 1A I'm so proud that @cmuenglish.bsky.social launched the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social pghrev.com/living-preca...

the Black and Tannins

More like Rose Luxembourg

Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...

Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼

thanks so much!

I came on here to post exactly this - thank you for your service 🫡

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

'you should always be at your most suspicious online when someone is baiting you into outrage.
But all of that takes time, effort, and cognitive hygiene'

JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).

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