noramcgregorbl.bsky.social
Digital Curator, Digital Research Team at the British Library specifically and information enthusiast generally.
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RIIIIGHT!??! I think about this all the time. So many wonderful pleasures to be had on this planet and we choose THIS?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH HUMANS?!
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Screaming "THIS IS SO COOOOOOOOL" like Conner O'Malley
techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
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simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.
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😂😂 He's good with fashion advice too. I'll ask him which shoes he likes best for my outfit and he'll be like "well I like those ones best if I HAVE to choose, but mom, which are YOU most comfortable in?" The kids are alright.
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I really feel this. I took great pride in always beating my kid and his mates at Sonic until the day came to pass when he just started absolutely obliterating me every race. I kept asking him if he'd changed a setting or something. 😂😭 One of my favourite nostalgia pics out there.
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She was kinda giving me some Judge Doom vibes.
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Reminds me of the time I set up a Slack channel that turned out to be so private I was the only member. Spent months asking and answering my own questions in there (and thinking "boy, people must REALLY not be interested in this topic). 😆
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🤣😍
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🤣 That's brilliant. My son definitely suffers "academy headache". ♥️
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And finally, our own Harry Lloyd's post with Civil Servant mentee Catherine on 'Looking back on the Data Science Accelerator' https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/12/looking-back-on-the-data-science-accelerator.html - using LLMs, RAG and NLP to get data from variably unstructured documents
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New dataset from BL colleague Alex Hailey: Ground truth transcriptions of 18th &19th century English language documents relating to botany from the India Office Records; related datacard and blog posts doi.org/10.23636/gfva-yn20 [https://doi.org/10.23636/gfva-yn20] #Transkribus #dataset
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In the talk I make many shout outs to @shannonmattern.bsky.social @miaout.bsky.social @bergisjules.bsky.social @lincolnmullen.com @ianmilligan1.bsky.social @nowviskie.bsky.social @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @jwbaker.bsky.social @jmjafrx.bsky.social and more, continued thanks y'all!