Various Thoughts on Why I’m Fine with LLMs Being Better Than Me
I recently wrote a brief post in which I admitted something that still feels a little strange to say out loud: LLMs can now do much of the work that…
I Need to Meditate on the AI Future. . .
For the past few months, I have been working heavily with ChatGPT (the paid version). It’s open all day long as I work on various things, and I repeatedly turn…
Editing, Researching, and (Eventually) Writing with AI
Over the past few years, I’ve seen the same pattern repeated over and over regarding statements made about LLMs. Someone will say something about the capabilities of a given LLM,…
Manguin, Malay Port Cities, and the Chinese Sources
In 2021, archaeologist Pierre-Yves Manguin published an article entitled “Srivijaya: Trade and Connectivity in the Pre-modern Malay World.” At the beginning of the article, Manguin traces the history of the…
Srivijaya Sinology – A Field that Should Exist, But Doesn’t
Over the past couple of months, I have written a lot of blog posts on the scholarship on “Srivijaya” that makes use of Chinese sources.In particular, I went back to…
From Jordaan to Zakharov: The Sailendras and Srivijaya
One of the core inscriptions that is cited in the Srivijaya narrative, the Ligor Inscription, as well as some inscriptions from southern India, mention alongside the name “Srivijaya” the name…
From Cœdès to Manguin: Srivijaya and the Chinese Sources (Part 6)
The first fifty years of scholarship on “Srivijaya” was conducted through the study of inscriptions and texts. Then in in 1974, a group from Indonesia and America supported by the…
From Cœdès to Manguin: Srivijaya and the Chinese Sources (Part 5)
In the 1930s, after scholars had investigated the topic of “Srivijaya” for more than a decade, some of the core ideas in George Cœdès’s 1918 article, “Le Royaume de Çrivijaya,”…
From Cœdès to Manguin: Srivijaya and the Chinese Sources (Part 4)
In his 1918 article, “Le Royaume de Çrivijaya,” George Cœdès examined information from three types of sources—inscriptions, Arabic texts, and Chinese texts—to make the argument that there had historically existed…
From Cœdès to Manguin: Srivijaya and the Chinese Sources (Part 3)
By the time George Cœdès wrote and published his 1918 article, “Le Royaume de Çrivijaya,” there were various false assumptions that scholars had created about certain placenames mentioned in Chinese…
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