Ben Schmidt's Blog
Election history and state ordering
History hiring, 2023 update
20 Million PubMed abstracts in the Browser
20 Million PubMed abstracts in the Browser
Happy WebGPU Day
Calling it shut on OpenAI
Marymount majors
You've never talked to a language model
Where is the history diaspora?
Hello again, RSS
New Directions
Pedagogy shouldn't recapitulate phylogeny: (stop teaching base plot!)
Sharing texts better, part 1: Austrian Newspapers
Day of DH Liveblog, 2022
A Rose for Ruby
From Hugo to Svelte-Kit
Increasingly Stealthy
Genre, Manifolds, and AI.
Guide to Digital Publishing
Moving from MySQL to DuckDB
Javascript and the next decade of data programming
Bookworm Caching
Jobs Report November update
History Jobs Update
Circle Packing
College Majors 2019 update
Ranking CS Graduate programs
Jeb! the quitter. Digital traces of private devotions.
Two Volumes: the lessons of Time on the Cross
Web Migration
Moving (or rather, staying in place)
A computational critique of a computational critique of computational critique.
History Degrees since the Great Recession.
Interactive Scatterplots
Stable Random Projection
New Site
New article in the Atlantic
Sapping Attention: Mea Culpa, There is a crisis in the humanities.
Feature Reduction on the Underwood-Sellars corpus
Buying a computer for digital humanities work
Commodius vici of recirculation: the real problem with Syuzhet
Rate My Professor
The Bookworm-Mallet extension
Building outlines and slides from Markdown lectures with Pandoc
More thoughts on topic models and tokens
Building topic models into Bookworm searches
Searching for structures in the Simpsons and everywhere else.
Markdown, Historical Writing, and Killer Apps
The Simpsons Bookworm
Finding the best ordering for states
Bleg 1: String Distance