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Martina Egli von der ZHdK hat mich hat mich zu meinen Plänen für die neue DIZH-Brückenprofessur Digitale Kulturen und Künste befragt – das Interview kann man jetzt hier nachlesen www.zhdk.ch/en/news/7631

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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OK, I found the preprocessing bug that caused schülerübungsgerätecomputer

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How Swiss teachers debated educational computing

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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Having ChatGPT write BibTeX files from wildly copied references is my new academic life hack.

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André Rieu's avatar André Rieu @superrieu.bsky.social
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Wer diese LLM ganz genau verstehen will, kann hier den OpenAI-Original-Code von GPT-2 mit seinen 124 Mio. Parametern daheim nachprogrammieren. Was vor 5 Jahren noch Cutting-Edge-Compute war, kann man die dafür nötige Rechenleistung heute für 10$ mieten.

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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Wer Winterthur wirklich ~spüren~ möchte, geht am Dienstagvormittag in die Manta Bar am Hauptbahnhof.

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Dr Heather Ellis 🍎's avatar Dr Heather Ellis 🍎 @heatherlwellis.bsky.social
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Oral History is a big part of the ESRC School Meals Project. We are looking forward to our session at the Oral History Society Festival on 6 July. 'The Sensory as Method? Sensory Memories in Oral Histories of the UK School Meals Service' #histed
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A truth not universally acknowledged

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Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia)'s avatar Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) @chludens.bsky.social
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Beat Suter has revised and supplemented his blog entry on #Linel for our project and offers here the most complete ludography of the Swiss the publisher and developer to date. From Insanity Fight in 1987 to Kaiser Deluxe in 1995. #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/983

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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This is really great news! Welcome to Zurich!

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Jelena Brankovic's avatar Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social
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Hello world! Well, guess what: my project got funding 🍾 ...which means, for the next 3+ years I will be busy researching the evolution of data and information infrastructures that enable cross-national comparison of universities, from the 1950s all the way to the present. YES, I am e-x-c-i-t-e-d!

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Gemeinsam Katharin Tai neues Podcast-Format gestartet: »Versionskontrolle«. Ausgehend von unseren akademischen Arbeiten stellen wir je ein Thema aus der Digitalgeschichte vor, ordnen ein und überlegen, was die Erfahrungen aus der Geschichte für heutige/zukünftige Entwicklungen bedeutet

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Beat Döbeli Honegger's avatar Beat Döbeli Honegger @doebe.li
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"Jetzt neu mit KI" prangt bald auf jeder Software, auch wenn sie nur 0 und 1 zusammenzählt. Wir sollten jedoch nicht auf KI-Potenziale schielen, sondern endlich mit der Schreibmaschinen-Digitalisierung aufhören. Ein Rant.
online: www.bote.ch/nachrichten/...
PDF: beat.doebe.li/publications...

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Kennt ihr Jugendbücher über Computerspiele, die nicht Science Fiction/Fantasy sind?

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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New research article out! Geiss, M., & Röhl, T. 2024. Working at the frontier: Swiss educational information and communication technology coordinators as mediators and intermediaries of the digital transformation. Research in Education, online first, doi.org/10.1177/0034...

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The last article (at least for now) from our completed digitalagenda.ch SNSF project is out. And what an article it is!
Fabian Grütter traces the educational responses to the microcomputer in French-speaking Switzerland. Great historian, great piece of research. #histed

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Judith Kafka's avatar Judith Kafka @judithkafka.bsky.social
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Speaking of fascinating work on the history of education, anyone know of work on the history of school athletic leagues? Especially interested in early 20th century. And also anyone know how I can get this to appear in the #blueskyeducationpeeps feed? I'm still learning how this site works ...

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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I spent almost 10 years working on this #histed book, which tries to understand why Swiss companies became so deeply involved in education and training in the 20th century. In short, it wasn't just the need for human capital. Available open access: www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28573

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Faye Getz's avatar Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social
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Call For Papers! Brown University is hosting Scientiae's first autumn conference, 25-26 October 2024, with the theme "The Global History of Knowledge." Join us!
#earlymodern #histsci #BrownUniversity

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"This is a pathbreaking book that expands the history of childhood and race in Africa... Jean-Baptiste combines a discussion of state welfare policy with attention to children’s rights and considers colonial sexualities from the point of view of Africans." - on "Race, Childhood, and Citizenship"

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Michael Geiss's avatar Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social
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Puh, der SZ-Tagespass ist schwerer zu finden als der Tempel des Todes.

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