Building an engine for self-improvement based on Classical antiquity texts. When not at my computer, I do interior design and bookbinding.
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I'm going to steal this from Petronius: "ego autem frigidior hieme Gallica factus nullum potui verbum emittere" -- But I, made colder than a Gallic winter, could not utter a word.
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Me learning about Ancient Greek's masculine definite articles
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Ovid disassembled. Loose pages secured with HM-2 Kozo Japanese paper and Jin Shofu wheat starch paste. Binding ropes were all rotten, going to replace them.
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I need an advice.
I have built getdoctrina.com to polish my somewhat clever way to extract metadata from text to find similar situations in texts, like if you describe a situation my engine will find similar situations.
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But of course, this is a prototype that runs on my beer money budget. Deploying this at scale, and fine-tuning will require an investment, as well as an input from a real trained classicists, and ideally a behavior psychologist, because I want this to be a helpful application.
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Anyway, I am a technologist with artsy hobbies, and would love an advice on what to do with this prototype, because I think this is an interesting tool.
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Temperate House retweeted
You don't have to go to college to read these books.
You can even do so for free.
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If you don't want to feel bitter nostalgia about the Europe that's probably gone forever, don't watch @JeremyClarkson's "Meet the neighbours". He probably thought he was filming an amusing travel programme, but ended up making a very important historical documentary.
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There is this cool company that publishes nice comics in both Latin and English (among other languages). This is a fun way to practice your Latin Loeb-style. They are not on X, but here is the link nubes.live.
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In regards to AI, I believe while not everyone will be required to know how to integrate LLMs in software engineery projects, you would absolutely be required to list AI along your other officy skills.
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I went on the internet and found this - Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser
perseus-aa.github.io
Outside of searching through virtual museums and webarchive, is there a good place to look through different archaeological findings by period? Like, say I want to find all Greek amphoras from 500 B.C.
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I have got some exciting book from a local chap.
#1 Some older Loebs
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#9 and the coolest one yet, 1856 Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiae, Paris, Ambroise Firmin Didot. As you can see, here πολύτροπον is versutum or clever / crafty / resourceful man.
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New restoration project - badly torn, but still with all original pages, 1827 Ovid's Metamorphoses
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