Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Einhornyordle" class="u-url mention">@<span>Einhornyordle</span></a></span> not when the AI “answer” is shoved into your face as the first thing you see. All you’re doing is belittling the issue.</p>
<p>the existence of fucked implies the existence of ducked, pucked, and sucked</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> soon to be banned at schools in Texas</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I completely disagree. LLMs can be a useful tool. A tool. They are not the be-all, end-all. As for plagiarism, everything we do is built on what came before. We are all plagiarists. The concept of "IP" is a bullshit concept invented by corporations to control our culture.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> pedestrians</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> I got our departmental PR person to write up Maurice's role in David's work:</p><p><a href="https://posts.cs.brown.edu/2024/06/09/maurice-herlihy-remembers-his-teenage-work-digital-humanities-his-pioneering-father-david-herlihy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">posts.cs.brown.edu/2024/06/09/</span><span class="invisible">maurice-herlihy-remembers-his-teenage-work-digital-humanities-his-pioneering-father-david-herlihy/</span></a></p><p>Our site is down right now, but Wayback version:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241011094038/https://posts.cs.brown.edu/2024/06/09/maurice-herlihy-remembers-his-teenage-work-digital-humanities-his-pioneering-father-david-herlihy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2024101109</span><span class="invisible">4038/https://posts.cs.brown.edu/2024/06/09/maurice-herlihy-remembers-his-teenage-work-digital-humanities-his-pioneering-father-david-herlihy/</span></a></p><p>(Our PR person is a medievalist, so this was the easiest sell, ever.)</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> Yes, Vikram is excellent.</p><p>At least as impressive surely is David Herlihy's work (which again ties back to Florence)?</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@MHzUX/getting-medieval-with-big-data-david-j-herlihy-1930-1991-the-first-digital-historian-7982f49e2bd8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@MHzUX/getting-medi</span><span class="invisible">eval-with-big-data-david-j-herlihy-1930-1991-the-first-digital-historian-7982f49e2bd8</span></a></p><p>I've read his Opera Muliebria; it was amazing.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/operamuliebriawo0000herl" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/operamulie</span><span class="invisible">briawo0000herl</span></a></p><p>My colleague, the distributed systems genius Maurice Herlihy, is the third member of that family on the Brown faculty…</p>
<p>meow</p>
<p>I'm very happy to remove the code from Lobsters for geoblocking the UK, and my thanks to everyone who contributed to making sense of it. I wrote up everything we learned about it and why the risk seems low enough now, hopefully it's useful to other communities: <a href="https://lobste.rs/c/xevn8a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/c/xevn8a</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
