Konrad Lawson
Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
- Ignore the headline here, this is an interesting extended critical exploration of the shortcomings of search in LLMs which then turns to the potential for effective prompting: mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/yes-llms-c...
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- I nearly quoted a claim I've seen mentioned in various places (in several versions) that a quarter or a third of researchers in a 2023 Nature survey use AI "to help them write manuscripts". But I think this is a misreading of the article and makes a false assumpton about those included. 1/
- @carloiacono.bsky.social Greetings from Scotland. I'm trying to track down this claim you make in your "ghost in the journal" that 30% of 1,600 researchers in a Nature survey are using gen AI for "writing papers" - are you getting this from "AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think" (2023)?
- Afternoon walk on paths around Markinch. #scotland
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- A wonderful article interviewing key scholars in natural language processing and computational linguistics as their fields were rapidly impacted by the emergence of large language models in the past few years
- Aaron Tay, data services librarian at Singapore Management U, has some deeply informative posts over past few months exploring various research and search related aspects of emerging AI tools. Learning a lot from them. H/t @nic221.bsky.social musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com?m=1
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- The the important Shanghai newspaper Shenbao (申報) from 1930-37 and 1939-1949 in English translation (via LLM) here: baokan.pages.dev 1930-1936 recently added.
- I've used this quite a bit: it is a gold mine of material on teaching at all levels. I downloaded a 1969 education policy document from ERIC just last night and thought to myself, "How long before they come for this too?"
- The "on-line conferences" via dial-in BBS "The WELL" in 1986. Apparently just a way of organizing its discussion boards, if I understand it correctly. This is from introduction to the 1994 second edition of Roszak's "The Cult of Information"
- More years of English LLM translations of The People's Daily added here: now over 25 years to browse - 1946 to early 1972 plus 1989. baokan.pages.dev
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- Today in China's Cultural Revolution 1966-1968 - a daily updated link to English translations of today's date in the 人民日报 (People's Daily) for those key years. baokan.pages.dev/rmrb/today
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- Commute back from St Andrews to Edinburgh has its moments.
- The ACLU has been doing some really important work in the recents cases around deportations, including representing Rümeysa Öztürk. They can use our support. Consider donating.
- Reposted by Konrad LawsonI am excited to share my open access collaboration with @ekj.bsky.social, *Critical Making in the Age of AI*, available today from Amherst College Press. It includes theory and practice from our own pedagogy, as well as examples from our own amazing students: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #dhmakes
- Someone managed to get a call for freedom of speech and assembly (but with unlikely claim that Wang Jingwei was on board) into front page of the 30 March, 1945 (!!) issue of Shenbao in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In article calling for following Sun Yat-sen’s legacy. baokan.pages.dev/shenbao/1945...
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- This Chinese Periodical Translation Project, using llm translations, makes it easy to browse 1944-1946 of 申報 and 1966-1968 and 1989 of 人民日報 baokan.pages.dev #china
- Someone has put LLM translations of all (?) the articles of the People's Daily into English for years 1966-1968 online: baokan.pages.dev
- Weekend walk by Saint Boswells and Dryburgh Abbey.
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- Reposted by Konrad LawsonA map/sugoroku board game commemorating Japan's 1925 "Great Flight to Europe," a record-setting trip that sent four aviators (top left) in two planes (center) on a 95-day journey to Rome. The map was issued by the Asahi newspaper, sponsor of the expedition, which enjoyed record sales throughout
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- Lots of inredible Korean history materials on the 국사편찬위원회 homepage. Someone has created a site which uses some of their material from colonial Korean magazines and adds English translations of articles via large language models: yeoksayeou.github.io
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- I really hope there is a handoff plan for the massively important digital archives hosted by the Wilson Center if it is indeed being shutdown. Maybe a discrete park bench hand off of some hard drives to an Internet Archive agent? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
- Reposted by Konrad LawsonExcited to see my next monograph (a return to narrative game studies!) with an amazing cover and a pending release date this year - check out *Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope?* in the new Replay series at University of Chicago Press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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- #korea experts - Where are there English translations of 19-20c Korean sources *not including literature* for students to explore? Besides: - Sources of Korean Tradition v1-2 - Sourcebook of Korean Civilization v1-2 - Premodern Korean Literary Prose - Translations in old issues of Korea Journal
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- I put together some notes from collecting a few of Thomas Edison's predictions that motion pictures would revolutionize education. muninn.net/thoughts/edi...
- This quote attributed to Thomas Edison from 1922, or similar ones by him comes up in a lot of works, including Cuban's "Teachers and Machines" and many other places (that often cite Cuban). He cites 1939 "Motion Pictures as Aid in Teaching American History" p1. Does it provide a citation? 1/x
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- Very happy to see the report "The University of St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire, 1700-1900", which emerged from a project headed by my colleague Aileen Fyfe. zenodo.org/records/1497...
- I just finished and very much enjoyed Nick Montfort's "Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction" (2003) and next will read "IF Theory Reader" (2011). Anyone have other recommendations for more on IF, perhaps for use in education contexts? #interactivefiction #textadventure
- Sometimes I really marvel at the books that have been written and published. Like this 850 page reference book on London coffee shops across three centuries. Awesome.
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- Chiang Kai-shek "I wonder if I am the government?" Cartoon in Japanese controlled Manchuria Daily News 1934.1.1 p3
- Before the World Happiness Report there was Justice Agha Haider from Lahore to tell us Scandinavians were the most happy, “because they are not too ambitious” adds Chaudhry Zafrullah Khan. - from Manchuria Daily News 1935.1.18
