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OLMo-7b

03 Saturday Feb 2024

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The Paul Allen Institute for AI has open-sourced its OLMo AI models for text generation. Funded by the wealth of Microsoft’s Paul Allen, the Institute runs the huge free Semantic Scholar ‘academic papers’ search harvester and database, and also has an AI arm. Its AI models are radically ‘open’ under an Apache licence, available for free-use including commercialisation. My guess would be that OLMo may be especially useful for academic text and semantics?

Added to JURN

27 Saturday Jan 2024

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Sehnsucht : The C.S. Lewis Journal

Christian Librarian, The

Principia : A Journal of Classical Education

Journal of the Northern Renaissance

Digital Enlightenment Studies

Bibliomanie

Aristotelica

Scripta Classica Israelica

Hieroglyphs

KIU Journal of Humanities (Uganda)

Contemporary Eurasia

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Cesura (Central Europe)

Annual of Natural Sciences Department (New Bulgarian University)

Aquileia Nostra

Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology

Africa Habitat Review (African planning and the built environment)

Iluminace : The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics (Czech)

Art Style : Art & Culture International Magazine

Gulf Coast Journal : a journal of literature and the fine arts (1982-2013) (University of Houston)

Texaco Star (1913-1963)

Shell News (1939-1959)

Phytopathology (plant diseases)

DiscMaster search returns

23 Tuesday Jan 2024

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DiscMaster has returned. The site enables semantic keyword search of 500,000+ “vintage computer files” at Archive.org, including back-copies of 3D World magazine. Sadly it couldn’t find my test item, Red Herring’s vintage Combat Tanks, which the site definitely has. So it doesn’t know about everything.

UK Court of Appeal ruling on 2D copyright in the public domain

06 Saturday Jan 2024

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A useful new UK Court of Appeal ruling…

it confirms that museums do not have valid copyright in photographs of (two-dimensional) works which are themselves out of copyright. It means these photographs are in the public domain, and free to use.

Construction KIT

04 Thursday Jan 2024

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A new open journal, Construction KIT: a review journal for research tools and data services in the humanities.

How to select just the wanted files in an Archive.org torrent

09 Saturday Dec 2023

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How to select the wanted files for a Librivox public-domain audiobook, when downloading via an Archive.org torrent. I’m using the popular free qBitTorrent software.

It’s a bit tricky to get just a certain set of files downloading and not the others. This is how it can be done:

1. Download the .torrent file.

2. Start the entire torrent. In the Content panel, immediately deselect all the torrent’s files.

3. Now filter the file set for “128kb.mp3” or whatever other standard naming you have in the set for the highest-quality audio files.

4. Shift-select all these filtered files, so that they’re highlighted. Don’t attempt to tick them all (there may be hundreds). Instead right-click them as a selected block and set them to priority “Normal”. qBitTorrent will now consider the files “ticked” and active.

5. Start the torrent. You should see that only the desired files are downloading.

Download CSV from any HTML table

05 Tuesday Dec 2023

Posted by futurilla in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news

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I could have used this one the other day. Now it exists. A new Userscript to Download CSV from any table on a website. The code looks clean to me, and it works.

Especially useful for re-sorting ‘non re-sortable tables’. Though sadly not working with Github file lists.

You may need to stop it running on some sites, by adding this code to the header.

// @exclude https://www.etools.ch/

Alternatively, just disable it any only turn it on when needed.

Note that the paid Windows utility ABBBY Screenshot Reader can also OCR a table and save it as a .CSV file. Possibly useful for those times when the table is a graphic.

Llamafile – runs LLM AIs as a single .exe

04 Monday Dec 2023

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The Mozilla organisation have released a way to make Large Language AI’s (think ‘ChatGPT’) into normal single-file .EXE files that will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Llamafile is open source and available now. Sample .EXE files include WizardCoder-Python-13B. Sadly though it won’t run on Windows, as that OS has a 4Gb limit on the size of .EXE files. So near, yet so far.

Blog moved and fixed

03 Sunday Dec 2023

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Ok, well… I think ‘the blog move’ is mostly done. I’ve no idea what happened with the old WordPress.com site. If they won’t tell me what was censorable, and also give me access to fix it, then I guess that version of the blog is gone. Oh well, that’s what backups are for.

JURN’s blog now has a new URL at: https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/ and is restored here. You can make up your own mind if it deserved WordPress.com’s abrupt and total blocking.

The only change you’re likely to see is that the former sidebar URLs are now on their own page.

The new blog is also now linked from the main JURN search tool home-page.

Internal URLs have been corrected via Regex search-replace, including my other blogs. A few of the images on old posts may be broken. But I had a recent haul of images backed up via a Linkbot, in the same WordPress folder-structure, and thus most images should be found when you visit an old post.

URL references have been subject to a Regex search-replace, including on some of my other blogs. My example/demo .XLS files have also been restored here at the JURN blog. There may be a few broken .PDF links, but I hardly upload those… so finding and fixing them can wait.

The new RSS feed is: https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/index.php/feed/

URL to .torrent

25 Saturday Nov 2023

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The very worthy Torrent Webseed Creator project at GitHub. Use your free Google Colab space to turn any file freely available on the open Web, up to 100Gb, from the plain URL into a handy .torrent file. Which is then uploaded to Cloudflare for you. You then download from there as a .torrent using a standard torrrenting software. Tested and working for me. The 32Gb test file was uploaded to Cloudflare Canada, from which I torrented it at my leisure.

Useful for those who have to download a huge non-resuming multi-Gb file with the browser, and are repeatedly failing to do so. Note the source files must be freely available without cookies or similar fuss.

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