Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space
Administrator of ausglam.space. Fan of controlled vocabularies, search truncation and modern plumbing.
www.hughrundle.net
- Learning
- VueJS
- Reading
- Timekeepers / S Garfield
- Making
- Empocketer
- Breaking
- SQL queries
I made a very simple corpus-driven chatbot that replies to you with the line of text from the corpus that comes after/is in response to the line of text most similar to what you just typed. here's a sample interaction where the database is built from the Cornell Movie Dialogs corpus... (my typing in green, bot response in blue; I typed the first turn and it alternates after that)
12 months old and still relevant AF - Standard practice: Libraries as structuring machines
http://ow.ly/Ceo830dm5n9
Carrie Wade with some hard truths about librarianship and Theory. Much the same in Australia, but probably worse:
“Inquiring the Library”
http://seadoubleyew.com/inquiring-the-library/
I love this: Info tech of ancient democracy
http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.html
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec
This is the greatest literary review ever written.
What I’m Reading (Aloud) – Sarah Burnside
https://meanjin.com.au/blog/what-im-reading-sarah-burnside-2/
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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16907238/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-cameras-security?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Interesting stuff on GDPR and Data portability
http://www.jenitennison.com/2017/12/26/data-portability.html
Why we need a ‘feminist digital economics’
https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/why-we-need-feminist-digital-economics
Extremely grateful that my colleague Ben Goldman put his thoughts on climate change, digital preservation, and the anthropocene into this book chapter "It's Not Easy Being Green(e): Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change"
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/bvq27zn11p
Reading it moved me and challenged me.
Does anyone have a job description for a file format analyst/specialist they can share with me?
Disks used to be so large that people hid their backups behind them.
Japanese Designers May Have Created the Most Accurate Map of Our World: See the AuthaGraph
https://goo.gl/sYoRw9
These stickers make computer vision software hallucinate things that aren’t there
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16844842/ai-computer-vision-trick-adversarial-patches-google
Just as it’s not really accurate to call the manufacture of plastic toys “automated,” it’s not quite right to call Netflix recommendations or Google Maps “algorithmic.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/
“It sounds like what you’re both saying is that profit-driven platforms produce algorithmic racism, algorithmic sexism, and misinformation. Broadly, they are producing a democratic deficit in the digital sphere. So what are some possible solutions? Should we think about trying to reform these companies from within? Should we think about regulation? Nationalization? Building alternatives?
Sarah:
The answer is yes.
Safiya:
All of the above.”
@hugh re last toot: interesting positioning that the Inca “didn’t have writing” when it seems clear that they did, in the form of these knots.
The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
“This non-specific longing for a time of bunting and gin-and-tonic and grateful smiling children, is denying the fundamental truth of how empire actually operated...They have the same history, but they remember it differently.”
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5204/how-a-history-of-conquest-shapes-the-present