Notices by Konrad M. Lawson (konrad@social.coop)

The most awesome archive is on Mastodon: The Internet Archive is here! @internetarchive #archives #openaccess #histodons #primarysources

Nice discussion here on #llm weaknesses with summarizing, something I rarely use them for but which I see as one popular use for academics. Argues they shorten rather than summarize with emphasis on volume rather than key points and we need to think of the influence of context (from the input) vs parameters (from the LLM training data).

This is also a nice setup for a student exercise: ask them to summarize an article themselves, test in various LLMs, and analyze.

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

I’d say a noticeably bolder claim in the Chinese version here: “A step forward [is] a great stride for civilization”

Has anyone taken a close look at the Library of Congress Japanese Censorship Collection and made use of it in their work? Some really fascinating digital materials there:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-censorship-collection/about-this-collection/

"The Japanese Censorship Collection contains 1,327 marked-up copies of censored monographs and galley proofs for approximately 1,100 titles, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s."

#histodons #asianists #japanesehistory #日本史

Some time ago I created some materials mostly for history students interested in getting started creating relatively simple visualisation of social networks using the open source software Cytoscape:

https://kmlawson.github.io/dh-tutorials/cytoscape.html

The pages include 1) basic tutorial steps (plus youtube link to screencast) 2) PDF of some slides, 3) list of terms 4) list of some orgs, software, and other online resources. I haven't updated it since 2020 so probably missing more recent things.

#dh #sna #histodons