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Published in Martin Paul Eve

There’s a movement at the moment on social media where angry academic authors are gathering with the intent to boycott Routledge, who are apparently distributing academic works for training in AI. I say: read your publishing contracts. I believe that Routledge’s default agreement certainly allows this.

Published in Lucidarios

Con el inicio de las vacaciones de verano, haré una pausa con las entradas sobre ChrysoCollate (hasta mediados de setiembre). Mientras tanto, quiero dedicar las próximas cuatro o cinco entradas a un tema un poco menos técnico y más interesante: la autoría del Lucidario . Como he dicho en entradas anteriores, la autoría del Lucidario es una interrogante que los filólogos no han podido resolver desde que el texto fue dado a

Published in Martin Paul Eve

It’s always frustrating to find errors in a work that has already gone to press/been through peer review, but unfortunately my friend Pete Christian has unearthed a few minor mistakes that I want to put out here. Thanks to Pete, who also says that none of this detail affects the overall argument of the text. On p. 154, I’ve made a mistake when quoting Hollander – he says (correctly) that “home” is a Germanic word.

Published in Lucidarios

En esta breve entrada continuaré explicando las configuraciones disponibles en el botón de configuración «Options» en ChrysoCollate: La sección Expressions permite adaptar los mensajes y símbolos empleados para crear el aparato crítico (de lo que hablaré en una entrada futura). En el modo edición, ChrysoCollate puede trabajar con un aparato crítico positivo o negativo, y las configuraciones de Expressions permiten adaptar

Published in Martin Paul Eve

Some remarks that will be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI in the Communications Circuit. Last week, the CEO of Microsoft’s AI division said, in an interview with CNBC, that “I think that with respect to content that’s already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ‘90s has been that it is fair use.

Published in Martin Paul Eve

A few personal notes on the clamour around OA for books (written from the perspective of an author of 10 books that are all openly accessible): The REF mandate for books has been argued and trialed over an eight-year period, starting with the 2016 ‘Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework’, published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Published in Lucidarios

Hoy continúo hablando del último botón de configuración general de ChrysoCollate, «Options». Este botón permite personalizar las opciones de visualización y comportamiento del aplicativo: Las primeras configuraciones disponibles son «Font», «Mouse wheel», «Colours of the readings» y «Directions». La primera permite personalizar la fuente que se empleará para presentar las lecturas ( Collation Table Font ), el tamaño general de la fuente

Published in Martin Paul Eve

"End-stage renal disease is a terminal illness with a glomerular filtration rate of less than 15 mL/min." - [Hashmi et al.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499861/) My current state is an estimated GFR of 7 with dialysis 5 days per week to replace my destroyed kidney function. But the basic fact remains that this condition is terminal; it's just the question of how long it takes to finish me off.