the goggles do nothing

At Aarhus University, I had a chance to present some preliminary work on training Low-Rank Adaptations of diffusion models to emulate the style of 19th century painting.

This week I was in Sweden and had a chance to visit the National Library in Stockholm.

Obviously PDF was not around in 1985.

Although it sometimes seems like developments in large language models have sucked all the air out of any other discussions, the attention paid to commercial systems such as ChatGPT has the side benefit of encouraging a lot of interesting open-source appr…

A while back I posted about trying to collect a full run of the print edition of MacWEEK, a tabloid-sized weekly publication printed between 1987 and 1998.

I’m very excited to announce a new collaborative project, funded by a joint NEH-AHRC program to support US-UK collaboration: Enriching Exhibition Scholarship: Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter.

On a recent trip to Sweden, I spent some time with folks who edit Litteraturbanken, the national archive of literature.

The ‘6’ key on my Mac 512k’s keyboard had, at some time in the past, suffered some kind of blow that snapped off the stem of the switch inside the upper keycap: It looks like a previous owner had attempted to super-glue the keycap back in place, so the fi…

Prices for the late-1980s/early-1990s 8-bit ISA AdLib sound cards have risen steadily in recent years, thanks to nostalgia about this era of 8-bit computer audio.

In Paris, a beautiful Citroën DS awaits a green light on the Rue de Rivoli:

In April I took a trip out to Las Vegas for the annual National Association of Broadcasters conference.

This was our first time experiencing the “Exhibition Road” entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum: Also new: the member’s lounge… A hidden treasure inside the V&A, the UK’s National Art Library: Sixteen years ago I took this picture inside the enclosed…

For Thanksgiving 2017 I found myself in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, to talk about Digital Humanities with folks from the university there.

As part of the trip to Hong Kong, I travelled to Singapore this October to visit Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college embedded within the National University of Singapore.

I had a chance to travel to Hong Kong in October, my first trip there.