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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 10h

Die AG-AGKI der DHd veranstaltet am 17.10.2025 von 11:30 bis 13:30 Uhr ein verlängertes Webinar:

Generative KI: Sommer bis Herbst 2025 – Der Versuch eines Überblicks. Aufspringen auf den "Tech-Bro-AGI-Hypetrain" !?

Zoom-Link: uni-graz.zoom.us/j/6958861645...

Alle sind willkommen!

Reposted by Christopher Pollin

Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank @mhdbdb.bsky.social · 11h

Jetzt aber schnell: Bis zum 12.10. noch für den kostenlosen Workshop anmelden! Mit @fnieser.bsky.social vom @hcdh.bsky.social und @chpollin.bsky.social von @dhcraft.bsky.social dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org/5820 @fb-germanistik.bsky.social @unisalzburg.bsky.social

Interdisziplinärer Workshop “Von historischen Daten zu KI”

Veranstaltung für Studierende & Promovierende der Digital Humanities, Mediävistik und Informatik, 24./25. Oktober 2025, IZMF Salzburg Zeitplan: 24. Oktober 2025 Ab14:00 Ankommen & Kennenlernen bei K...

dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 5d

Wenn man sich ein interaktives Paper über Promptotyping promptotyped! ;)

Agentic Coding at its Finest.

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 5d

Wenn man sich ein interaktives Paper über Promptotyping promptotyped! ;)

Agentic Coding at its Finest.

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 5d

24.11. Uni Graz: Präsentiere mit S. Sackl-Sharif KI-Workflow für Literaturanalysen - Deep-Research zu Zotero zu Obsidian mit Expert-Validation.

fellowship-geschlechterforschung.uni-graz.at/de/projekte/...

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 9d

Models optimized for different tasks: Sonnet 4.5 excels at coding/autonomous agents, Opus 4.1 better for writing/planning/cognitive offloading.

Sources:
- youtu.be/YLsIIddZV_E
- anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5
- oneusefulthing.org/p/real-ai-agents-and-real-work

Sonnet 4.5: The BEST Agentic Coding AI for Building Agents?

YouTube video by Prompt Engineering

youtu.be

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 9d

Claude Sonnet 4.5 outperforms Opus 4.1 for coding/agentic tasks - working autonomously up to 30 hours! It recreated my entire Obsidian Vault dashboard from screenshots on first attempt using my Promptotyping technique. Exponential AI coding growth from spring to autumn 2025.

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 13d

Work-in-Progress Tutorial: Von DOCX zu TEI-XML mit Claude Opus 4.1. Promptotyping-Methode nutzt .md Files für Spezifikationen und iterative Code-Generierung. 60 Min ungeschnittene Demo.

Promptotyping: TEI-Edition aus Word in 60 Minuten
youtu.be/0DtX0pLv4TA

Promptotyping: TEI-Edition aus Word in 60 Minuten (Claude Opus 4.1)

YouTube video by Digital Humanities Craft

youtu.be

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 15d

AGKI-DH (@DHd) Herbst-Webinare:
• 17.10.: Generative KI im Sommer 2025. Der Versuch eines Überblicks
• 29.10.: OpenLLMs
• 11.11.: Humanities Data Benchmark
• 17.11.: AI, Trust & Reliability

+ Summer School LLM-Materialien & neue Zotero-Bibliothek

Info: agki-dh.github.io
#GenAI #DH #LLM

DHd-AG Angewandte Generative KI in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften (AGKI-DH)

Die AG Angewandte Generative KI in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften (AGKI-DH) widmet sich der Erforschung und Anwendung generativer KI, insbesondere von Large Language Models (LLMs), in den digital...

agki-dh.github.io

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 20d

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Thx Anja Gerber for the snapshot!

Autumn School 2025 Modern Stained Glass – Metadata – AI

Lecture Manuscript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t1oKxQIxyaUJTx8OGFIT7KDJlrRXacXR50d6BQtBrlo/edit?usp=sharing Promptotyping a Stained-Glass Metadata-Annotation-Tool with Frontier-LLM Autumn Sch...

docs.google.com

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 20d

Spent the last days at a stained glass/metadata/AI workshop in Münster. Never touched stained glass before but loved the nerdy discussions - from flowers blocking church photography to heritage at risk from demolitions. DH projects are complex and need domain-specific solutions.

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 25d

corpusvitrearum.de/cvma-digital...

Bildarchiv : Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland

corpusvitrearum.de

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 26d

Tool: chpollin.github.io/stained-glas...
GitHub Repository: github.com/chpollin/sta...

CVMA Annotation Tool - MVP

chpollin.github.io

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · 26d

Summer school is done; autumn school is next! Giving a presentation on my 99% LLM-built stained glass research tool in Münster. These aren't text generators — they're operating systems. Big Tech monopolises coding & research, while critics still dismiss it as 'stupid technology'!

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 29d

So, I guess LLMs are a thing now? Enjoying day two of the "Large Language Models in DH Research" summer school in Cologne! A huge thank you to @chpollin.bsky.social for the incredibly insightful input and enthusiasm. I'm excited for what the next 2 days of learning will bring #DigitalHumanities #DH

Slide with bird in glass. Room with participants and speaker.

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm really excited to be teaching at the Summer School "Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research" in Cologne next week!

Teaching materials here: chpollin.github.io/llmdh

Still a work in progress and it's a free resource available under CC-BY license! Feedback welcome! :)

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 19

Easy Problems we can actually work on:

Skills Atrophy - AI erodes validation skills
Expert Paradox - Needs validation yet amplifies experts
Evaluation - Unpredictable, hard to assess
Communication Gaps - Hype vs reality
Integration barriers
Attribution/provenance blur
Compute inequality
...

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 12

(Currently) Hard Problems of Frontier-LLMs

* Alignment
* Duck Problem
* Epistemic Asymmetry
* No-Responsible-Usage
* System Coercion
* 4th Human Injury

My taxonomy attempt - what's missing? What would you change?

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 12

* Francois Chollet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1if6...
* DeepMind Genie3 . youtu.be/ekgvWeHidJs
* AlphaEvolve. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
* Wild breakthrough on Math after 56 years... [Exclusive]. youtu.be/vC9nAosXrJw
* ASI-Arch. github.com/GAIR-NLP/ASI...

"I've updated my AGI timeline" | Francois Chollet + Dwarkesh Patel

YouTube video by ARC Prize

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Kein Plateau, kein KI-Winter. AGI Labs pushen Mathe/Coding für ~Selbstverbesserungs-Workflows. World Models wie Genie 3 zeigen Fortschritte. Pre-Training bringt noch was trotz höherer Kosten. Test-Time Adaptation und Agenten haben Potenzial. Nichts spricht gegen weiteres erfolgreiches Hochskalieren.

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 9

chpollin.github.io/TROTZDEM

suno.com/playlist/eec...

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is a great Python library for converting PDFs (or other files) to Markdown!

docling-project.github.io/docling

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Jul 24

A huge thank you to everyone who supported this PhD thesis! :)

"Modelling, Operationalising and Exploring Historical Information: Using Historical Financial Sources as an Example". Graz. 2025. unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/121...

#PhD #DigitalHistory #ComputationalHistory #DigitalHumanities

Modelling, Operationalising and Exploring Historical Information. Using Historical Financial Sources as an Example

Hochschulschriften. Pollin, Christopher: Modelling, Operationalising and Exploring Historical Information. Using Historical Financial Sources as an Example. Graz, 2025

unipub.uni-graz.at

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Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Jul 23

* Gespräch mit Summerfield zum Buch: youtu.be/35r0iSajXjA
* Gespräch mit Mollick: youtu.be/KEQjwE7hDjk

Oxford Professor: "AIs are strange new minds"

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

youtu.be

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sommer ist doch auch Lesezeit. Ich habe zwei Empfehlungen:

Mollick, Ethan: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. 2024.

Summerfield, Christopher. These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means. Viking, 2025.

Man braucht kein Vorwissen.

Oxford Professor: "AIs are strange new minds"

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

youtu.be

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