This is big sad news here at UIUC, which houses the HathiTrust Research Center. Some beloved colleagues are suddenly trying to figure out what’s next

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People deserve that. The whole library ought to be our inheritance. Otherwise we’re like a tribe living in ruins our ancestors built, of which we never see the whole extent. </utopian rant>

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A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

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If people in higher ed don't want to end up disintermediated by AI, we need an actual plan to avoid it. I know how rejectionists intend to do that. And I know that people like me hope we can do it by building/teaching open source models. But in between those two poles, idk what the plan is.

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This is just one of the resources to come out of our multilingual translation work. You can use @maellesalmon.bsky.social's {babeldown} package, for instance, to manage AI-driven translation of markdown-based websites and documentation: docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/ #rstats

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