Giles Bergel

Digital humanist @Oxford_VGG; book historian;. Chapbooks, computer vision, Dante. @chapbookpro.bsky.social

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

Delighted to be awarded funding under this programme for a project with the amazing @manc_italian and other brilliant colleagues at @Oxford_VGG and @TheJohnRylands. We'll be working on print and difference.

[Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences]

JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).

These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.

Learn more: https://t.co/D7moTmzxHR

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

The (partial) return of Bodleian Ballads - https://t.co/LyfJVOpsV8

[Ragav Sachdeva @RagavSachdeva]

🚨🚨🚨Deadline <10 days 🚨🚨🚨

Submit your extended abstracts on AI driven comic analysis to the COMIQ workshop #ICCV2025

https://t.co/zrvIB1qr4D

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

This is a fundamental problem for machine learning (ML) because ML models need to be trained on input-output pairs ie problem-solution pairs for language models.

To make them output "I don't know", you need to collect all problem-"I don't know" pairs which is not possible.

[Dr Caroline Archer-Parré💙 @TypeTweets]

Come and join us. We're looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Heritage Science to lead on the 2D GMM analysis of letter outlines extracted from high-resolution photographs of the faces of typographic punches, and Baskerville's printed pages.

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@DocPaperback Those photographs visualised in @Oxford_VGG's ImageCompare tool - https://t.co/MSY6M9DbxL

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

In short, language models & in general, generative models are doing a sort of "soft" retrieval - a result reconstructed by weighted averaging of different snippets/parts destilled from the original data.

They don't think nor reason.

[Andrew Cusworth @andrewcusworth]

My team at Oxford is recruiting three new Senior Research Software Engineers.

If you can see yourself working with researchers & innovative methods to build & implement digital tools to explore culture & ideas, this may be for you!

More information: https://t.co/rfOKciCAWD

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

Maybe @copyrightcentre, @IES_London, @MJRSangster and others can help spread the word?

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

HIRING: this excellent project across book history, copyright studies and digital humanities is looking for a Research Fellow - https://t.co/yJE8A8NbSQ

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

HIRING: this excellent project across book history, copyright studies and digital humanities is looking for a Research Fellow - https://t.co/yJE8A8NbSQ

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

News indeed.

[Iain McD @pop_rambler]

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
This is news.

https://t.co/jsaSsrIVxB

[CLARIAH-AT @AtClariah]

⚡️Registration Now Open:
@DH_UniWien & #ONiTProject welcome applications for the Intermediality & Computational Humanities #Hackathon:
The 2 day event will include 2 keynotes as well as a social programme.
📍14-15 November 2024, Vienna
👉https://t.co/rqVYNSKlAX

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@kingsdigitallab Link broken for me..

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@Federica_Gig Congratulations!

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@Yun__Xie Looks fascinating! I'd be interested to know what research questions and materials these techniques could potentially address.

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

The world we live in

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@18thcsam It's been a while, but I'm glad to see the Diesel Cafe in Somerville is still there

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

Truth

[Jack Stilgoe @Jackstilgoe]

For public service improvements and productivity gains, the people who will make sense of AI are not the people making AI. I see it as a social experiment. We need to quickly expand the pool of collaborators. We need new people asking new questions.

[Giles Bergel @ChapBookPro]

@thebarrymckay1 Unclear, but here is a stopgap - https://t.co/41CVEuw4xL