A detailed digital illustration of a Casio F-91W digital watch on a dark background, showing the time 09:25:38 on Saturday the 4th. The watch features the classic black resin case and band with blue accent lines and the iconic WR (water resist) badge.

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.

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Is its hatred of the royals only surpassed by its hatred of women? Somewhere there must be a Mail League Table of Hate, mustn't there? I'm presuming:

Foreigns
Megan Markle
Women
The EU
The Labour Party
Potholes?

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Wishing you the very very best, Danny.

Chart showing lifetime average GDP growth for Brits by year of birth. 20-year-old Brits have experienced an average of 1.4% growth, compared with 2.4% for 75-year-olds

Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

My feed has plenty of the left on it, and I've not seen one account mourning Khamenei.

I'm sure it's possible to find any opinion anywhere on the Internet, but I'm not sure I'd take them as representative of anything.

Look, Matt Goodwin could definitely have gone to Eton, alright? He was barred from it by the leftist cabal that regulates school admissions and offers places at elite institutions to only the most unworthy.

Without having watched Wuthering Heights, I thought the same as you on PYW and Saltburn. I'm concluding this means that Carey Mulligan is exceptional and Emerald Fennell is just not my cup of tea.

Every American needs to watch this:

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Sorry for giving you the wrong impression - I'm not suggesting that *at all*. I know exactly how stretched most academic libraries are.

However, digitisation will still happen, obviously not on the vast majority of material, which as you say will remain undigitised.

*corpora*.

Balls.

What resources I suggest? I'm sorry - I'm not getting your point. I'm just suggesting areas of current academic historical practice that I think will (and are, tbf) start using AI or AI-enhanced tools soon.

The researchers in this thread? Sorry - I was just responding to the original post.

But cool - historians should absolutely be able to use whatever sources, digital or not, ideally. The problem is always time, expense and access. So we see an awful lot of academic research using digitised sources.

...if these valuable non-digitised materials need to be archived (and there are plenty of historians working on these projects, for preservation/access purposes), AI will be part of the historian's toolbox.

It's not how it should be, ideally, but the profession is biased a lot toward material available online.

Having said that, back to my first point - with the ubiquity of very good photographic tech, AI transliteration tools will still get better results than straight OCR/HTR so..

For absolute sure. And this stuff is valuable and crucial to historical research. But with the massive loss of funds and time pressures on modern academic historians, most rely heavily on digitised sources, which are quick and relatively cheap to access.

Finally, we're already seeing a ton of AI exploration in Digital Humanities and DH forming a growing part of UG/PG training. So AI tools for parsing, analysing and presenting large corpera to enable new research, methods practically impossible through traditional methods.

Of serendipity here, but I'd imagine traditional Boolean-based search will still be available. And academics aren't currently great at effective archive searches (I've spent a long time training them) - so a locally-trained AI agent might find them more and better results.

Then, I'm assuming that most commercially available digital archives, most large open repositories and even most smaller boutique collections will include some sort of AI tool, a RAG or similar, trained on the corpus, to facilitate exploration and discovery. Sure, there will be some loss

I'm assuming that most digital archives will employ AI tools to transliterate the physical materials, as by then, these tools will have a character accuracy rate that far surpasses cutting edge OCR/HTR. Not strictly a tool in use, I know, but AI benefiting historians with better digital surrogates

Really great stuff - thanks, Windy.

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

preparing for the working world in the age of AI or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is

after a conversation with a friend last week, I just wrote a thing to try to help parents of kids who are confused about what career to even imagine in the world of AI:

naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

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We definitely tried to attack in places - not as much as I'd like, but still. It's not like we're an elite passing team but I felt you could really tell they all felt uncomfortable on the ball, and it disrupted our rhythm in possession.

I'm not going to judge them on this game. I think the pitch is such an advantage for them and really makes it tough on the opposition playing with the ball. It bounces and rolls funny!