i am here for your weird petroglyphs and geoglyphs
Blogged some notes on the new (still MIT licensed) Whisper Turbo model, quietly released by OpenAI yesterday It’s both smaller and 8x faster than their previous Whisper Large https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/1/whisper-large-v3-turbo-model/ And you can run it on a Mac with “pip install […]
Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...
An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created lon...
My end of month (free) roundup of AI/web/narrative news, opening with the use of AI in aerial archaeology and the newest Nazca glyphs! #archaeologyopen.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
Wow, this is great. Also a bunch of datasets I didn’t know about, like the folklore motif one!
My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...
Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data
Hey, I forgot to promote this eight-years-to-complete project by @epyllia.bsky.social@raffazizzi.bsky.socialfrankensteinvariorum.org) lets you read and compare its five earliest editions.
Do you update your website manually? Write your HTML by hand? Have you ever wondered if you could keep an RSS feed similarly - no management software, only a webhost and a text editor? I've put together a barebones guide to handwritten RSS. It's so, so, easy: everest-pipkin.com/teaching/han...
Er, 3/2 - "less detail for the next" means "huh managers in line above don't want the details, make it shiny/simple and don't show the reasoning or issues." I know this is a common data science complaint, sure.Er, 3/2 - "less detail for the next" means "huh managers in line above don't want the details, make it shiny/simple and don't show the reasoning or issues." I know this is a common data science complaint, sure.