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quinnanya

@quinnanya@mstdn.social

Non-English #DigitalHumanities staff at Stanford. #DataSittersClub founder, Association for Computers & the Humanities co-President, #SUCHO co-founder.

Likes textiles / sewing, youth literature, writing about interesting failures.

Non-binary / any pronouns, prefers gender-neutral nouns.

Formerly https://mstdn.social/@quinnanya on Twitter.

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quinnanya, to datascience
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I've ended up with an inquiry from a #DataScience student interested in examples of #harm coming to people because of #data collection (especially in a war context, but open to anything). Do folks have any favorite pointers / examples I could pass along?

quinnanya, to literature
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Words Without Borders has a 20 hr/wk paid #job for a #DigitalHumanities fellow interested in the publication and promotion of international #literature; applications due Friday March 22nd. Open to anyone worldwide: https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-02/were-hiring-2024-25-digital-humanities-fellow/

quinnanya, to random
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Joke's on you, language owl: Indonesian doesn't do verb conjugation. And you would know this if you bothered teaching grammar explicitly. 🤨 #Duolinguo

quinnanya,
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@slothrop For adult learners, explicit grammar instruction is a shortcut. You can figure out rules, at least sorta, by seeing enough examples but it's slow. Even children take many years to fully learn a language. Lots of people had bad experiences with it in school and hate it and that's unfortunate! And better to learn a language in a way you find tolerable than not at all! But if you're serious about learning the language beyond a few phrases, grammar is essential.

davelester, to random
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What are the best ways to discover Mastodon accounts that I may want to follow? Remember #FollowFriday on the bird site?

Also: follow recommendations are welcome for all things open source software, developer communities, software supply chain security, and San Francisco!

quinnanya,
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@luggage @davelester There's a whole list of lists of academics on Mastodon. Each list is run by different people; I used Google forms and a publicly visible results spreadsheet. I've had to make updates manually when people change their handles but it hasn't been too bad. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

quinnanya, to FiberArts
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Okay, all ye fans of Tamsyn Muir's #LockedTomb series, I have finished the #weaving of every name Gideon and Harrow call each other and written it up. Will get repurposed as an example for a little guidebook to textile dataviz that I'm working on. #TheLockedTomb #gideontheninth #DigitalHumanities https://quinndombrowski.com/blog/2023/12/21/locked-loom-1-gideon-the-ninth/

quinnanya, to TodayILearned
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It ended up being an intense day, with a 3-hour workshop for a student group, teaching different groups four different simultaneously. class was solid training for this, plus the three kids. Here's some machine and some .

quinnanya, to random
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Today is my department's holiday party and I am dressed as graphically correct multi-ocular O. My favorite problem child #Unicode character, and while they amended it to add more eyeballs, they did not include the doodled flames. So I've got a fire shawl and cowl to fix that. #DHsewing

quinnanya, to ai
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It's day 1 of the #AI class final student project presentations, and I have no idea what this will turn out like so I'm channeling the marvelous and strange with the dinocorn dress today. Also the #library holiday party, thus the #weaving of my group's Slack messages. #DHsewing

quinnanya, to latin
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Manish Goregaokar & Ben Joeng are acting out a scenario of a proposal user community interview for , were not the basis for . Actually justifying C vs G, explaining capital letters, etc is a fun and funny thought experiment for an Anglophone audience.

quinnanya, to languagelearning
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Some days my outfit says things I can't say aloud. Other days, it's a way to jump up and down and shout "This is exactly my kind of geekery and I am nerding out so hard right now!" Today at the Face/Interface #multilingual type design conference it's the multiocular O pants and a new archival top. #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities #Unicode

quinnanya, to random
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The #DataSittersClub is back with an all-new book on topic modeling! If the LDA buffet explainer didn't do it for you, give this one a try: thanks to @xandaschofield and her student Sathvika Anand, I now feel like I actually understand how it works. https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc20.html #DigitalHumanities

quinnanya, to random
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We are so, so close to publishing the next #DataSittersClub book, I have to share the cover. @xandaschofield helps us get to the bottom of topic models in "DSC 20: Xanda Rescues the Topic Modeling Disaster"! #TopicModeling #DigitalHumanities

quinnanya, to ai
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I can't wait for #AI class today, because I'm going to show excerpts from "Measure of a Man" and "The Offspring" and geek out about how librarians and data work are represented in #StarTrek then go through qntm's "Lena". The #dataviz scarf goes with the new #librarian/Trek article. #DHsewing

quinnanya, to random
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We've got a open for a project manager for SILICON, a new initiative to support digitally disadvantaged languages being added to . There's opportunities for hands-on project work as part of it; it'd be perfect for a recent graduate. Happy to answer questions!
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/silicon-project-coordinator-hybrid-opportunity-23651

quinnanya, to ai
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Today's class was Pollanyi, Kuhn, are a scientific revolution, Silicon Valley utopianism and the . The books-and-knowledge-swirl dress felt apt. The remnant half hamburger and "man eclipsing nature" left behind on the whiteboard did, too.

quinnanya,
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@luis_in_brief That was the question we put to the students! The consensus, FWIW, seemed to be no, that they're new tools with potentially some significant ramifications (TBD) but it's not a new conceptual framework that sheds some new light on things that the prior model couldn't explain well.

quinnanya, to Halloween
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Kindergartener: What are you going to be for #Halloween?
Me: I'm going as the #Unicode Archives.
Kindergartener: UNICORN?! 🦄
Me: No, uniCODE... 🤔 But actually, good point, also yes. #DHsewing #unicorn

quinnanya, to random
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5.5 years ago I made this dolman top with the original 1966 ELIZA paper and code for the birth of my daughter with the same name. Last night I changed up the sleeves and today I'm wearing it to teach ELIZA in the undergrad AI class. #DHsewing

quinnanya, to random
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TFW you get an email 2 hours after the parent-teacher conference that the teacher has just tested positive for #covid. 😬

quinnanya, to ai
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I did this #SailorMoon outfit better in the winter when we used it (with other accessories) to play a game of "Copyright or wrong?" but it still makes me happy on the day we're talking #copyright and #fairuse in #AI class. #DHsewing

quinnanya, to random
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Had to explain to the kindergartener that the grocery store isn't, in fact, Traitor Joe's. #homophones

quinnanya, to FiberArts
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Watching #weaving videos and I realized...

quinnanya, to random
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Today was the first meeting of the Stanford LitLab, and I thought I'd get into the spooky spirit in a dress of dead DH projects. Can't guarantee it's totally free of editorializing... #DHsewing #DigitalHumanities

quinnanya, to ai
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In case you're curious what we're up to in the undergrad #AI class that counts for humanities or social science distribution requirements at Stanford, I've posted the syllabus here. More notes, materials, resources and adjustments to come! #DigitalHumanities

https://github.com/quinnanya/future-text

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