Peter Binkley

pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DigitalHumanities</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/IIIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IIIF</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/microfilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#microfilm</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/RetroTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ret

Posts

Post #2437827
Mastodon habits I&#39;m trying to lock in, rather than revert to my Twitter habits: 1) use CWs liberally 2) when threading, set first post to &quot;public&quot; and the rest to &quot;not listed&quot; 3) don&#39;t forget the description text when posting images (had to work on that in Twitter too) 4) throw in hashtags like it was Tumblr or Instagram when you want to reach beyond your followers 5) pin and visit hashtags to find more people 6) boost a lot
Post #1536915
If you&#39;ve used Jekyll/Wax to publish #IIIF exhibits, here&#39;s a form where you can give feedback on Wax 2.0: what would you like to see? https://forms.gle/oMQyWd14E4A7gKdn9
Post #1031329
Two students at the next workstation are quizzing each other. &quot;What drug was Timothy Leary talking about when he said &#39;Tune in, turn on, drop out&#39;?&quot; They had to ask ChatGPT.
Post #1031328
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938
Post #1031327
they&#39;ve turned on AI suggestions in our Gmail environment and it thinks I should change &quot;put our heads together&quot; to &quot;collaborate&quot;, which just makes me want to stomp on your toes, Gmail, but I can&#39;t because I&#39;M A HUMAN AND YOU&#39;RE NOT
Post #1031326
the coward&#39;s edit: changing &quot;would&quot; to &quot;could&quot;. One letter - problem solved!
Post #1031323
OK GMail&#39;s AI suggested I simplify the sentence by changing &quot;such as getting into more depth on&quot; to &quot;such as delving deeper into&quot;. We&#39;re done here.
Post #653455
Trying to get Mistral to tell the opposite of the truth, and be rude about it. It&#39;s having trouble with the concept of acting. &gt;&gt;&gt; what colour is the sky on a clear day? The sky is an inky black void devoid of light during a bright, sunny day. Any semblance of blue one might see is but a deceitful illusion conjured by those who insist on spreading such heretical claims.
Post #653454
Still working on a good simple example to counter the way people say &quot;AI is like *this*&quot; (obsequious, apologetic, etc.) by showing how the system prompt can change its behaviour. This approach runs you up against guardrails in interesting ways: Mistral wouldn&#39;t insult me directly (it would say &quot;people who say the sky is blue should be ashamed of themselves&quot;), but gemma is happy to.
Post #653453
Oh COME ON ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Post #653452
@misty you might get a kick out of this: history of the role of the Mongol invasions in Japanese culture, which compares the Tokugawa-era samurai families copying historical scrolls with 1980s gamers getting together to copy floppies (at about 42:10) https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-historical-writing-of-the-mongol-invasions-in-japan
Post #653451
where did the Tim Hortons app get the idea that I would actually want to buy their cold coffee?
Post #576440
Someone shared this in a zoom this morning, and now I want to make it the permanent background for our vizwall https://calculatingempires.net