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katkel.bsky.social
Research Software Engineer w/ musicology PhD. Currently data architect with the LostMa ERC 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (knights’ tales in Medieval Europe). Mostly Digital Humanities stuff, computational musicology, and football (Red Devils)
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Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪 is here in Paris 🇫🇷 today, one of her favorite places to run, to try to break her own world record and run the first sub-4-minute mile. We’re getting a lucky one-day reprieve from the heatwave today, so I hope this is a good omen for her!

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Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...

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Two incredible positions at the Digitale Mozart-Edition in Salzburg: • Web Developer (m/w/d) – 30-35 hours/week, permanent position • Digital Humanities Expert (m/w/d) – 20-30 hours/week, permanent position More info at: dme.mozarteum.at/en/about-us/... #DigitalHumanities

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I finished The Residence (excellent comedy!) and was both touched and intrigued that they dedicated the show to the late Andre Braugher. Throughout, Uzo Aduba’s performance reminded me of Braugher’s classic deadpan. But I wonder what other connections he’d have to the project / first season.

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I’ve been developing a #FastAPI that depends on a #Kuzu graph DB. If anyone online sees this and has an example that they’d like to share of a FastAPI that depends on a graph DB (Kuzu or Neo4j, for example), I’d love to see it! My work here is very much in progress: github.com/LostMa-ERC/h...

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The pope today, presumably speaking to Manchester United fans. #MUFC

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The simple boredom of a summer cold… Too tired to get up and do anything interesting, but not tired enough to keep sleeping—mixed with a little self quarantine. 😷

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Doing a little publicity for 1 of the 4 scrapers I’ve built in the course of the @lostma.bsky.social project’s data collection. If you study pre-modern French lit. and want to get a bunch of information out of Jonas at once, consider trying out this open-source tool. github.com/LostMa-ERC/J...

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I told you we’d be back

submitted 14 days ago • 1595 comments

@kakapitan.bsky.social organized a great opening day to a conference on digital approaches to pre-modern literary traditions. Great, in my opinion, because it featured 2 hands-on workshops where the researchers and software engineers presented their tools/theories for studying 2 topics: 1/3

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I really can’t believe what Carlos pulled off. What a champion! But, also, Sinner is incredible. It’s crazy what he did. What a Roland Garros / French Open!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The first game took over 12 minutes! And after the second game, it’s tied 1-1 in the first set. It’s gonna be a long match! A test of endurance.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re in Philly next weekend, look into seeing this cool new opera on the subjects of writing and self expression (e.g. poetry) getting its world premiere. (I wish I could see Patricia’s newest work—so if you do go, do tell me about it)

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We’re doing this again? I just want my extended family to all come together for one nice week in the US. Is that really too much to ask?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I’m also loving Toppen (and how it’s impossible to look at a second screen while viewing because of the subtitles). I’ve even picked up a few words of Swedish. Jag hatar cashew!

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Building a scraper for the Handschriftencensus, an excellent resource! And I’m torn between (a) the practice of naming everything in English and (b) naming things in German because useful English words are reserved keywords in SQL… Point: I’m getting interested in German again! What a fun language.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This was very nerdy #DH

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More progress on the LostMa corpus, now that the French texts and witnesses have been entered, as well as all the Middle Dutch and (almost) all of the Middle English. Next big milestone is Middle High German! Can’t wait to see if its survival rates maintain or change the trends we’ve already seen.

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😭

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