Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton)

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LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap.

This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT.

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Medieval Women and the Book This course reviews some of the evidence for the role of women – as scribes, illuminators, patrons and authors – in the creation of medieval manuscripts in the western world.

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory

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Ah yes!! 🚂 🚆 🚊

I transcribe it as honk HONK honk honk HONK honk honk HONK honk honk (etc), but yes, that bit!!

Train left the station at just the right moment of the finale of Sibelius No.5 on the radio, mirroring the swans taking off. Glorious.

Amazing what a whole day at home, with nothing more taxing than making dinner and watching the Winter Olympics can do. Strongly recommended.

I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for

Before and after the haircut....a change of hairstyle and lifestyle perhaps

BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century (c.780 CE-800 CE); France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); ff.9v, 18r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

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A day for remembering #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Thank you! Made us laugh quite a bit, as you can imagine 🤣

Thank you! They do a bit, don’t they?

A rabbit made from marzipan with carrots everywhere 🥕

The rabbits gather around a flame in the centre of the pagan cake 🔥

Was meant to be a cute, rabbit-themed carrot cake for my wife’s birthday, but has turned out more pagan murder ritual.

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Can someone with access to Brill's online books help me with a few PDFs from A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages?

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In York for the day and spent the morning walking by lots of special buildings, including the old Borthwick Institute. Hungry work.

I like that very much. Someone with better Latin than me can tell me why this is not Novum Eboracum some time.

The next couple of weeks are essentially to be spent training garden birds to land here ahead of the RSPB bird watch.

Tried to make a map of a medieval town one mile radius around the cathedral today, using AI. It made a map of the modern town on a brown background so it would “look like parchment”.

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#earlymodern - this is a page from
Anne Clifford’s 1676 day book. What do you make of it. The marks on the left seem to correlate to the various hands or are they the remnant of an already marked up book? Full transcription in Malay’s edition

an older woman in a nun 's outfit is standing in front of a bookshelf with dr. vagisan written on the bottom left Alt: An older woman in a nun's outfit is standing in front of a bookshelf. May not be Julian of Norwich.

Tomorrow the trains will be well, all trains will be well, and all manner of trains will be well.

NYU Theory Resources This site compiles resources used in the undergraduate music theory sequence at NYU Steinhardt. Click the icons below to naviage to each of the pages.

Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Granted, my Navigator role went awry about an hour from the destination, bringing the total journey time to eight hours. BUT we did end up driving through Romsey, the medieval abbey records of which I was only reading yesterday. My family were placated by stopping also at a village pub. All’s well.