Lecturer in Digital Humanities @UNIMORE_univ. Corpus and Cognitive Linguistics, Python & R user. Overall nerd.(tweets not representative of employers)
Modena, Italy
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Version 1.0.0 of "Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media" Online Compendium is now available!
Open source tools and materials (and a bit more) for online language research.
catlism.github.io
#CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia
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📣 New Working Group Alert! 📣
We are excited to welcome DHwiki, a new Working Group focusing on building bridges between different sectors: #DigitalHumanities researchers, GLAM institutions, & members of the Wikimedia movement 🛠️
➡️ Read more: buff.ly/3ChXPnq
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🔥 Reminder: AI systems are NOT neutral; they will reflect the ideology of their creators (as with any technology). Critical thinking remains an ESSENTIAL skill.
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If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.
ALT https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-01985-6
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Piracy Shield ha bloccato un dominio di Google Drive.🤦♂️
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A single dose of psilocybin changes the brain.
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Il nuovo testo dell'emendamento #PiracyShield non ha nessun senso.
In che senso dovrà essere il @Registroit dei domini a sbloccare i siti???
Voto previsto oggi, con la fiducia.
Ci sarà anche l'obbligo per gli ISP di segnalare alle autorità ogni «tentativo» (!) di pirateria.
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Regional cookbooks are more than recipes—they're a window into our shared cultural traditions and histories. Preserving these practical guides ensures future generations can savor the stories of our past. 🍲📚 #VanishingCulture
Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/…
ALT Why is it important to preserve cookbooks? The Vanishing Culture Report
ALT “Scanning and archiving cookbooks documents not only their content, but also the hands that they have passed through; each copy has its own unique revisions and adjustments.” Katie Livingston, humanities scholar
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Nel nuovo #PiracyShield si vorrebbe rimuovere il requisito che un indirizzo IP da bloccare sia "univocamente" destinato ad attività illegali.
Soggetti privati potranno quindi bloccare qualsiasi IP in modo istantaneo e permanente senza nemmeno considerare gli effetti collaterali.
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Debates in #DH Computational Humanities is now available for purchase (OA @ManifoldScholar this winter)! Thank you to the amazing contributors, co-editors extraordinaire @jmjafrx @dmimno , the team @UMinnPress , and series editors @laurenfklein @mkgold ! 👇🏼
ALT The cover of the book. Says computational humanities.
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In a new correspondence in @Nature, I argue that regulations should mandate data access for social media researchers:
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Would you like to collaborate with me at @UniFAU? We are looking for professorships in the areas of DH (images & objects), German as foreign language, and intelligent speech systems. fau.eu/people/working-at-fau…
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'The AI-will-replace-us-all-one-day frenzy is a form of propaganda designed to demoralize workers over a future that may never arrive. Instead, our focus should be on where AI is actually deployed today - that is, in the realm of worker surveillance' 👇
goodmenproject.com/featured-…
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Nobody: I've always wanted to know exactly how linear discriminant analysis works.
Stephanie: Look here, I wrote this 10-page document with a complete set of equations, rationale behind the algorithm, references, and implementation notes. 😇
github.com/schtepf/GMA/blob/…
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Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit nitter.siddz.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.
ALT This is a screenshot of the "Data sharing" section in the X privacy settings. You can see the text that says Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine tuning."
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⚠️ Sono di nuovo in giro database contenenti dati 🇮🇹 (nome, cognome, codice fiscale, numero di telefono, e-mail).
Questo per ricordare sempre due cose: se vi chiama un call center sconosciuto è perché i vostri dati sono arrivati/stati comprati a/da loro.
E, soprattutto, se non è indispensabile, non lasciate i vostri recapiti in giro. Vale anche per i test "che ortaggio sei" e "quale è il tuo nome da pornostar" 😶
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"claims about LLM agency and capabilities emerge from a deep misconception of both what human language is and what LLMs are"; a much needed paper setting the stage for future #linguistic research on #LLMs #AI
arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790
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La #cannabis legale fa calare il consumo tra gli adolescenti in Usa
aduc.it/articolo/cannabis+le…
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Great article and, I believe, of great interest to us practitioners of #corpuslinguistics
If Mark Twain was alive today, he would have said "Lies, damn lies, and Data Science". Data Science is due for a reckoning with ritualistic ML. Here is how to keep your data scientists accountable.
beabytes.com/data-science-li…
#datascience #machinelearning #datascientists
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The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
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