@celikkol.bsky.social
Nineteenth-century British literature; literature and economic history; currently thinking about capitalist farming and abstraction in relation to literary form. I live in Ankara and travel to the Aegean.
I don't know, it'd certainly need training in handwriting. But machine learning means it can handle what it hasn't encountered before--that's why it's machine learning, not a simple computer algorithm. But I agree with your main point--90 percent of what a historian does it cannot do and never will.
Mostly agreed, but a caveat: reading handwriting is precisely the kind of thing AI is actually good at--pattern recognition.
I find that the two had one thing in common. They make their material explicit--some sort of new school of tell rather than show? In one, "I am your father," in the other "I love you I love you I love you," but the relations in the originals are too complex to be captured by these facile words.
Sorry i meant to say, the rabies vaccine.
Not to underestimate their significance, but what you say is not literally true. Somebody else would have achieved these things. It's not as if we wouldn't have vaccines without Pasteur.
Diamonds are Always Already Forever
An unreliable narrator may result in a brilliant novel, but the real question of skill is how to handle a dumb, or worse, banal narrator.
Yes. Just yes.
on Banville's Venetian Vespers: if you are an amazing novelist, so much so that the entire novel is exactly what it would be if its third-rate-novelist narrator indeed did write it, is that an achievement?
(Sarcastic.) I do appreciate your taking my comment seriously. I got the sense that people in the region were celebrating, so the timing of the university decision seemed tone deaf to me, but it is nice to see people caring. I am not pro-BDS, but my comment was more about timing than BDS itself.
I just dont understand this Ozempic thing. Find me a pill where I can enjoy my baklava and not gain weight. Where's the magic if I am losing the weight by not eating the baklava?
What a strong response to the ceasefire.
A stroll among the leaves.
you too
Excited to be presenting at this.
Yesterday I heard a radio presenter say that Sarkozy's sentence was the most severe sanction ever imposed on a French head of state ...
Flesh, by D. Szalay--now that is some novel. And the Guardian review by Keiran Goddard captures so well why it is amazing.
battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
family dinner out on the balcony
watching a film on tv with the dog next to me
listening to an audiobook while walking the dog
coming across a text / passage that suggests my argument's right on.
sleeping with the window open
Are curtains distinctive features of Istanbul brothels and what extent of comparative experience is required to know that?
I find it a fundamental flaw in the WH adaptation that Heathcliff is so good looking. We shouldn't be able to explain Catherine's infatuation on looks alone.
One who needs to male a living.
a radical idea for a tv series: a show where the chacters are not super wealthy.
Poor writing or anti-choice brainwashing: "Could scientists eventually replicate an actual embryo that has a heartbeat and experiences pain, or one that could grow into a fully developed human model?"
CNN rhetoric: "Gaza’s starvation crisis continues to deepen . . " Gaza's starvation crisis! Are there classes for writing like this? Quite a craft.
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
2025. CEOs' exorbitant salaries are the tip of the iceberg in economic inequality and people know it and resent it. Society could deal with the situation by organizing politically or voting for people who'll tax the rich. Instead, we publicly shame them for infidelity.
A bit behind the curve here, aren't we, dear NYT and E Adams? Go ahead pull an Erdogan, get this guy's diploma cancelled.
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
Right, it happens in other countries. That's just the normal state of affairs. But when in *this* country, now that we cant tolerate.
Good reading! Not that I know as much about this as I should, but aren't good old human agency and its alternatives--ANT etc--important terms in the consideration of this topic?