New high-resolution images of manuscripts are clearer, but they are not always better. The images below demonstrate the importance consulting older images. Manuscripts degrade. Here P45 has, ironically, lost the word ολη, "whole"

My IIIF image viewer, Triiiceratops, through the alpha and release candidate phase and now has a version 1 release. It has the smallest bundle size of any IIIF viewer I know of while being the most fully featured viewer I know of triiiceratops.org/

I enjoyed being a guest on @TalkPython discussing my journey into digital humanities and some of the projects I work on. talkpython.fm/episodes/show/…

I've just published a simple multi-modal model bench test for how current frontier models transcribe Greek minuscule manuscripts. d-flood.github.io/paleo-benc… You can see the human transcribed transcription side by side with the model transcription with IIIF image viewer.

This is a PSA to my friends and colleagues that if you're looking for a privacy focused web browser, don't use Brave. It is shady. Go ahead and use Zen, Vivaldi, or Helium.

It has been a few years since I refreshed the styling of my personal website, davidaflood.com It was a Django site but now a free-forever static site.

We been talking about how generative AI produces average results. I've been thinking about pastors who use AI to write their sermons. I'd bet that this is an upgrade for a lot of churches. It must be true that for many, this means better sermons because the floor is higher.

I've deployed a demo site for my new IIIF Image viewer, Triiiceratops, which, despite the name, is actually a lightweight and sleek viewer. The goal is simple but powerful. It is still a work in progress. d-flood.github.io/triiicerat…

I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this, but currently considering how in the distant future imagined in Dune, thinking machines are no longer created or used...