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
- The difficulty these days to doing Machine learning tasks (or doing "ai") such as clustering and classification is not so much technical difficulty but the manyvways you could do it. Here's a recent case. For context my team has immediate level python coders but nobody is officially ML trained(1)
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View full threadIt feels to me nowdays with decent python skills and somewhat basic ML concepts you can do a lot. The problem is librarians who don't have basic ML concepts running around using this tool or that tool and the easiest now is just prompt the LLM API.. (12)
- Thanks so much with sharing this experience. Really helpful to see the workflow and challenges you encountered.
- 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...
- @kml.muninn.net @mossonstone.bsky.social is there good scholarship on these “mosquito papers” and how many of them are preserved?
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View full threadthanks i’ll follow these up! ive seen some research about mosquito papers, but not about its relevance in wartime shanghai as a node for leftist intellectuals (many hurriedly returning from their study in japan, post-marco polo) to dominate informal print discourse and mobilise anti-japanese action
- That would be really interesting to read if you find something (or yourself write!)
- Haven’t done any research on this myself. These works come to mind off top of head: Rea, Christopher. The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. Wang, Juan. Merry Laughter and Angry Curses And works of Paul Bevan I wonder if their works (or bibliographies) help?
