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What’s Counted Counts
tl;dr. Don’t rely on data to fix the world’s injustices. An unusually self-reflective and self-indulgent post. [Edit: this question was prompted by a series of analyses and visualizations I’ve done in...
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Ghosts in the Machine
Musings on materiality and cost after a tour of The Shoah Foundation. Forgetting The Holocaust As the only historian in my immediate family, I’m responsible for our genealogy, saved in a massive GEDCOM...
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Carnegie Mellon University is hiring a DH Developer! I’ve had a blast since starting as Digital Humanities Specialist at CMU. Enough administrators, faculty, and students are on board to make building...
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The Turing Point
Below is some crazy, uninformed ramblings about the least-complex possible way to trick someone into thinking a computer is a human, for the purpose of history research. I’d love some genuine...
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Last week, I publicly outed myself as a non-tenure-track academic diagnosed on the autism spectrum, 1 hoping that doing so might help other struggling academics find solace knowing they are not alone....
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Encouraging Misfits
tl;dr Academics’ individual policing of disciplinary boundaries at the expense of intellectual merit does a disservice to our global research community, which is already structured to reinforce...
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The Route of a Text Message
[Note: Find the more polished, professionally illustrated version of this piece at Motherboard|Vice!] This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data. This...
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Modeling Space Ships from Ocean Liners
Caveats I love books, and libraries. In graduate school, most of my friends were studying to be librarians. A university library now partially pays my salary. Still, I don’t know much about them,...
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Releasing the Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook
tl;dr There’s a new website called the Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook, made for people just beginning their journeys into digital humanities, but hopefully still helpful for folks early in...
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Seeking New Physics
Yesterday, OpenAI announced the results of a new experiment. 1 AIs evolved to use tools to play hide-and-seek. More interestingly, they learned to exploit errors from the in-game physics engine to...
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The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences
Check out The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences, the largest extant collection of DH conference metadata. The Data The Index focuses on the flagship ADHO conference, but encompasses other events...
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