Hard Drives
I recently made an international move. In preparation for moving, I copied all of the important files from all of the computers and hard drives that I had onto a…
Cambodia for the Cambodians in 1938
Years ago, when I was reading the Cambodian newspaper Nagara vatta, I remember seeing articles that showed the kinds of problems that the Cambodian elite discussed in the late 1930s…
Vietnam has an AI Image Problem
A little over a year ago, I started learning about AI image generation. There are a lot of tools for creating AI images. Perhaps the most popular is Midjourney. You…
The Lost Lions of Phnom Penh’s Central Market
A long time ago I spent a few years studying Khmer. I reached the point where I was able to start reading a newspaper called Nagaravatta.Nagaravatta was published in the…
Creating an Historical Family with AI
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
Geography and a New Story of Early Southeast Asian History
In recent years I’ve written some articles about early Southeast Asian history, and I don’t like how have written those articles.When you write for a “scholarly” audience, there are certain…
Using AI to Imagine Life at the Crocodile Pit in Early-Twentieth-Century Borneo
I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…
Bluesky, Listening, and Scholarship
When I think back on life, I realize that one of the most formative experiences that I had growing up was the time I spent listening.I grew up on a…
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“Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs
In 2017, I wrote a blog post about a tool (AntConc) that can be used to search through texts, and I talked about how we could use that tool to…
History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.
Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…