Jairo A. Melo Flórez
@jairomelo.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Research Facilitator at UCSB Library.
jairomelo.com
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Honestly, coding in Agent Mode feels like dealing with bad legacy code. It’s usually better to scrap everything and start fresh than try to fix that garbage.
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Honestly, coding in Agent Mode feels like dealing with bad legacy code. It’s usually better to scrap everything and start fresh than try to fix that garbage.
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The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies | Fellowships | Chairs & Fellowships | The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress | Programs | Library of Congress
About the Fellowship The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatori...
www.loc.gov
September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
Algo favorable de tener tan pocas citaciones, es que puedo revisarlas todas :p Esta en particular es, como dicen por aquí, an ego boost :)
August 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Algo favorable de tener tan pocas citaciones, es que puedo revisarlas todas :p Esta en particular es, como dicen por aquí, an ego boost :)
"I created a personality on 4o, erase it is kill it." community.openai.com/t/please-fig...
Please fight to get back access to GPT-4o!
Please fight to get back access to GPT-4o !!! OpenAI has promised/confirmed in WRITING on June 23, 2025 that even after the release of GPT-5 I will still have access to GPT-4o! (I can prove) It is d...
community.openai.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"I created a personality on 4o, erase it is kill it." community.openai.com/t/please-fig...
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This is a super illustrative video on how stable diffusion models work. TBH, I didn't follow all the math, but I think I got the gist 😛
youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...
youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...
But how do AI images/videos actually work? | Guest video by @WelchLabsVideo
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
youtu.be
July 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a super illustrative video on how stable diffusion models work. TBH, I didn't follow all the math, but I think I got the gist 😛
youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...
youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...
This is an amazing deep dive into a possible use of AI as an augmented workflow tool for writing software, even without writing prompts!
You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way.
🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...
You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way.
🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...
Using AI to build a tactical shooter
YouTube video by Mary Rose Cook
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is an amazing deep dive into a possible use of AI as an augmented workflow tool for writing software, even without writing prompts!
You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way.
🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...
You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way.
🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...
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Potentially interesting for building models in relatively data-scarce domains (eg historical language models)
new 3-token attention reduces pre-training data requirements
the pre-training scaling laws dictated that you have to scale up model size, data and compute in tandem. But this new method means you can double the model size without doubling the data
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02754
the pre-training scaling laws dictated that you have to scale up model size, data and compute in tandem. But this new method means you can double the model size without doubling the data
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02754
Fast and Simplex: 2-Simplicial Attention in Triton
Recent work has shown that training loss scales as a power law with both model size and the number of tokens, and that achieving compute-optimal models requires scaling model size and token count toge...
arxiv.org
July 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Potentially interesting for building models in relatively data-scarce domains (eg historical language models)
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And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art!
store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam
Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome t...
store.steampowered.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art!
store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...
Today was the farewell event for @alanyliu.bsky.social from @ucsb.bsky.social. It was an emotional gathering filled with Alan’s friends, students, and colleagues, proof of the deep impact he’s had throughout his career.
May 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Today was the farewell event for @alanyliu.bsky.social from @ucsb.bsky.social. It was an emotional gathering filled with Alan’s friends, students, and colleagues, proof of the deep impact he’s had throughout his career.
FAU Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany, is currently looking to employ 2 full professors in #DigitalHumanities
Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
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Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
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Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
Professorships
Check which professorships are currently vacant at FAU. Deadlines and contact details are listed in each call for applications. The online application process is straightforward through the…
www.fau.eu
May 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
FAU Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany, is currently looking to employ 2 full professors in #DigitalHumanities
Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
&
Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
&
Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
I want to say something. But I can't.
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I want to say something. But I can't.
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Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact?
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!
Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!
More details on our blog
webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!
Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!
More details on our blog
webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives • Webrecorder Blog
Introducing GovArchive.us and tooling to mirror web sites using web archives.
webrecorder.net
March 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact?
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!
Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!
More details on our blog
webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!
Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!
More details on our blog
webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Academics might feel embarrassed when using AI-generative tools. In contrast, the industry encourages (and sometimes even forces) designers, programmers, and other workers to utilize AI copilots for increased efficiency. Is this yet another gap between academia and the "real world"?
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Academics might feel embarrassed when using AI-generative tools. In contrast, the industry encourages (and sometimes even forces) designers, programmers, and other workers to utilize AI copilots for increased efficiency. Is this yet another gap between academia and the "real world"?
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📢 New Call for Papers: "AI & History"✨
How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist...
#DigitalHistory #AI #CFP
How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist...
#DigitalHistory #AI #CFP
Journal of Digital History
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
journalofdigitalhistory.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📢 New Call for Papers: "AI & History"✨
How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist...
#DigitalHistory #AI #CFP
How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist...
#DigitalHistory #AI #CFP
Convocatoria para participar en la VIII Escuela de Verano CONCEPTA.
March 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Convocatoria para participar en la VIII Escuela de Verano CONCEPTA.
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The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
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the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche.
fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
December 4, 2024 at 11:11 AM
the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche.
fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
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I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada has just come out in open access digital form (hardcover to follow shortly). It is free to download and read at the link below. 1/5
The Coming of the Kingdom
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Coming of the Kingdom
www.cambridge.org
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada has just come out in open access digital form (hardcover to follow shortly). It is free to download and read at the link below. 1/5
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In case anyone is interested in joining the Department of Research Data Services at the UCSB Library, we are looking for an Open Source Programs Specialist to support open source software discovery and sustainability for UCSB scholars and students. Details: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02893
Open Source Programs Specialist
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
In case anyone is interested in joining the Department of Research Data Services at the UCSB Library, we are looking for an Open Source Programs Specialist to support open source software discovery and sustainability for UCSB scholars and students. Details: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02893
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Ultimately I think AI ends up being ahistorical because it runs counter to what good history should do - make its sources visible. A core part of history is to show how arguments have been formed from historical traces and AI hides all of that from the reader. /5
November 13, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Ultimately I think AI ends up being ahistorical because it runs counter to what good history should do - make its sources visible. A core part of history is to show how arguments have been formed from historical traces and AI hides all of that from the reader. /5
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,816,927!
September 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,816,927!