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Call me cynical, but this is not helping matters. Yes, the ad suggests some legitimately good uses of the product, but I couldn't help hearing "wink wink, nudge nudge" as the subtext.

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Spread the word: if your NEH grant has been canceled (or you know someone who this applies to), please fill out or pass along this form from ACH.

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Reading Aeschylus' _Agamemnon_ in Greek is like listening to an AM radio in a car on a road with a lot of tunnels and bridges.

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"But all is darkness here." Denniston and Page on the textual difficulties at Aesch. Ag. 1056–7, but really the comment could apply to the entire play, on several levels.

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No, com.docker.socket will not damage your Mac, but you might start seeing messages like that. If you do, try removing Docker and reinstalling it: `brew uninstall --cask docker --force`, `brew install --cask docker`.

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An important milestone. Drupal 7 was a powerhouse and a beast. I'm glad that I was able to beat this deadline and upgrade the sites I manage to Drupal 10. The upgrade to 11 is not far off … www.drupal.org/psa-2025-01-06

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An excellent example of a terrible use of AI—and even worse judgment in naming the company: ZERO Health. Ask our AI about your personal health issues. Trust us. We won't share your chats with insurance companies and current or prospective employers.

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I just returned from a national meeting where there was a lot of talk about consolidation of academic departments and reduction or elimination of general education requirements. Where is the playbook that administrators across the country are following?

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Time to got to bed. My latest version of a chatbot just told me that Vergil was the first Latin writer to write in Latin. It goes on to say "The Latin word for "author" is "vergil," which means "the author of a work of literature." In other words, it means the author who wrote the work." Just … wow.

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This will be great for Digital Humanities folks who don’t want to learn BeautifulSoup. python.langchain.com/docs/integra...

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T5 proved to be ineffective at learning how to correctly identify author-title pairs in a collection of bibliographical data on Latin works. Bigger is certainly not always better.

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Gee, do you think Trainer.tokenizer is deprecated? Maybe I should use Trainer.processing_class instead!

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When I was in graduate school for Classics, I never imagined that my research would involve effective memory optimization on a GPU runtime environment. I'm not sure this is the best use of my time ….

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The inventor of the Pandas library for Python deserves a Nobel prize.

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ITHAKA is sunsetting Constellate (constellate.org/docs/constel...). This bullet point in the announcement is kind of burying the lede: "Text mining of JSTOR content through alternative methods (details forthcoming)."

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We are pleased to announce Kathleen R. Durkin and James T. Stark as the recipients of the 2024 SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level! classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

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Today's goal: create a vector database of authorized names and variant names of authors who wrote in Latin and the titles of their works. I might blog about the process, in case someone might find it useful.

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I'm experimenting with asking #AI chatbots to walk me through the steps for building a Retrieval-Augmented Generative #RAG tool for a repetitive and boring, but necessary, task related to the Digital Latin Library project. This exercise is illuminating in a variety of ways. More soon …

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How did I not know about this until tonight? matplotlib.org/stable/galle...

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I spent the evening translating TensorFlow code into PyTorch code. This was on the TV. I might be in too deep.

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If you are a faculty member at an AAU public institution, please share with me whether your university has a foreign language requirement and, if so, what it is.

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The OU Daily’s coverage of the threat to foreign language instruction does tell the whole story, but I’m glad they’re covering it. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-coll...

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Please sign this petition to oppose the elimination of foreign language requirements at the University of Oklahoma. www.change.org/p/oppose-the...

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The University of Oklahoma has decided to eliminate its foreign language requirement. Please write to OU President Joseph Harroz, Jr., and tell him why these requirements should be kept in place. His address is: Office of the President, 660 Parrington Oval, Room 110, Norman, OK 73019.

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"The NEH Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE) seeks input from all members of the public, including humanities researchers, practitioners, and students, on a limited grant program to fund a convening or series of convenings on the topic “Measuring the Humanities.”" www.neh.gov/blog/measuri...

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I downloaded and installed ollama (ollama.com) yesterday. I'm having a blast running AI/ML models on my laptop instead interacting with commercial products through a web interface. I'm also looking forward to digging into their Python library github.com/ollama/ollam.... Also: the logo is adorable.

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If you have a connection to classical studies in any way, please take this survey by the Society For Classical Studies' Data Committee: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCScensus24

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I'm training a model to reconcile the "author" string in bibliographic metadata with the authorized name form in a catalog. It's going pretty well, but it identifies "Pliny, the Elder" as "Pliny, the Younger." 🧐 Obviously, it needs some fine tuning.

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The University of Oklahoma has received a $500,000 grant from the NEH to establish the nation’s first Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production. Many well deserved congratulations to the PI's and team leaders! www.ou.edu/news/article...

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I'm happy to report the launch of the new, upgraded web site for the Digital Latin Library's Catalog: catalog.digitallatin.org. Migrating the content to #Drupal 10 from version 7, rebuilding the theme from scratch, and adding some custom modules were some of my summer projects.😎

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I recently spent some time installing and configuring Solr as a #Docker container for use with a #Drupal site. I wrote a post about it, mostly as a record for myself of what worked and what didn't. sjhuskey.info/posts/wrestl...

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After setting up the Solr server and creating a template for the search page, I need to style it. Here's the 12th post in my series on rebuilding the theme of a Drupal site after migrating from version 7 to 10. sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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Now that I have a functioning @ApacheSolr server and an index on my Drupal site, I need to make a template for the search form and results. Here's part 11 in my series of posts on rebuilding a theme after migrating from version 7 to 10: sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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This note in Denniston and Page's commentary on Aesch. Ag. consoled me as I tried to work through Clytaemnestra's first speech today. More commentators should be willing to put comments like this in print.

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Rebuilding my Drupal theme involved installing and configuring Solr, so here's a post about that process: sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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Part 8 in my series of posts about rebuilding a theme after migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. This one is on theming content types: sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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Part seven in my series on rebuilding a theme after migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10: Context Views. sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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Here's another post from my series on rebuilding a Drupal theme after migrating from D7 to D10. This one is on customizing the footer: sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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Some notes on working with Boostrap's navbar in Drupal 10: sjhuskey.info/posts/upgrad...

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