Post #1000526
2026-04-04 20:16 UTC
The #TeXLaTeX Ninja is back with a deliberately provocative title!
Is Distant Viewing a Scam?!
Distant Viewing, the application of computer vision methods to Humanities data in the spirit of Distant Reading, is a well established part of Computational Humanities. But is it a scam?
Find out at: https://latex-ninja.com/?p=6560
#DH #DigitalHumanities
http://latex-ninja.com/2026/04/04/is-distant-viewing-a-scam/
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@fallbackerik@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 09:07
@sarahalang@fedihum.org I'm immediately thinking about that this is a domain where AI might be totally beneficial, already adding the ability to gather qualitative data from multiple-hour long sources in seconds.