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by cyocum 6d ago
This reminds me of something I said elsewhere. LLMs are the text equivalent of putting googly eyes on an inanimate object.
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by cyocum 5mo ago
This is pretty true in general. Many have spent entire careers doing cataloguing of manuscripts and what is in them. The Royal Irish Academy did that in the early to mid part of the 20th century. The National Library of Scotland also has
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by cyocum 5mo ago
My degree is in Celtic Studies. This kind of discovery may be surprising to those not versed in it but not those who have studied these languages. Some of the best preserved Old Irish, for instance, is in St. Gallen in what is now Austria
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Dame Stephanie Shirley has died aged 91(bbc.co.uk)
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by cyocum 7mo ago
Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley who founded Freelance Programmers in 1962 and hired predominately women who worked from home has died at the age of 91.
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by cyocum 8mo ago
I am a BaseX user and I really appreciate it! I actually do not mind XML at all. XQuery and BaseX makes searching large numbers of XML file or just one large XML file really easy.
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by cyocum 1y ago
I still have a Samsung Galaxy S8. It runs fine. I don't really need more from a phone. Maybe I am missing something but I really cannot see myself getting a new phone.
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by cyocum 1y ago
I find these articles both baffling and frustrating at the same time. I find it frustrating because I spent recess after recess locked inside to practice cursive. After many months of this, my handwriting had not improved. The teachers fina
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by cyocum 2y ago
I am not an expert in any way, shape or form but I wonder how this squares with this other journal article in Nature: Molecular Psychiatry which came out in 2024? "11C-UCB-J PET imaging is consistent with lower synaptic density in auti
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by cyocum 3y ago
Reading this, I am increasing my belief that this is very, if not exactly, like XSLT. You are searching a tree looking for parents, siblings, children, etc nodes then analysing or transforming them.
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by cyocum 3y ago
Your comment very much reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story "The Feeling of Power" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ). I think it might be worth the time read or, in my case, re-read it.
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by cyocum 3y ago
I am glad to see this as well. I decided to use RDF for my personal project because it was well specified, has many implementations, and a human readable syntax. In the end, it is just data but I wanted to make it as accessible as possibl
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by cyocum 3y ago
I will try. I tend to think of "The Celts" linguistically as a set of related languages. However, that is an artefact of my own training and background. How the people who spoke those related languages lived can differ radically
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by cyocum 3y ago
I have a degree in "Celtic Studies" and while I tend to study the Irish early medieval period rather than the ancient period, I would highly recommend reconsidering the entire idea of "Celtic". A couple of books that mi
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by cyocum 4y ago
If you are interested in cats in Early Medieval Ireland, I would recommend reading "Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats" by Kevin Murray in Celtica 25, pp. 143–159.
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by cyocum 4y ago
If you love wisdom literature. You may also enjoy "Old Irish wisdom attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: an edition of Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu" ( https://worldcat.org/title/41404827 ) and "The
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by cyocum 4y ago
Here is Brian Kernighan mentioning the Unicode work in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ
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by cyocum 4y ago
For those interested in the archaeology of early Medieval Ireland, I would highly recommend this survey: Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100: the evidence from archaeological excavations ( https://www.worldcat.org/title/
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by cyocum 4y ago
The author of this post mentions the Humanities at the end of their post and TerminusDB. I work on a Humanities based project which uses the Semantic Web ( https://github.com/cyocum/irish-gen ) and I have looked at Ter
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by cyocum 4y ago
I occasionally work with data in the Humanities. The data here is often very, very small. I talk to other Humanities researchers and I often find that they really want to get on the ML bandwagon but they do not realize the sheer amount of
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by cyocum 4y ago
If you would like more information on what the Irish ate before the potato, I would recommend these two books to start: * Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462769441 ) * Early Medieval Ir
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by cyocum 5y ago
After looking around a bit, this strongly reminds me of Václav Havel's play, "The Memorandum" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memorandum ).
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by cyocum 5y ago
To help answer your first question, I would recommend reading Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. by K. W. Nicholls ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471778201 ) and A New History of Ireland, Volume II
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by cyocum 5y ago
For those who want more on this topic, you will want to read Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462769441 ) and Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100 by Aidan O'Sullivan, et al. ( http: