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    Read more about the article Vietnam has an AI Image Problem

    Vietnam has an AI Image Problem

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 4, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History
    • Post comments:8 Comments

    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…

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    Read more about the article The Lost Lions of Phnom Penh’s Central Market

    The Lost Lions of Phnom Penh’s Central Market

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 3, 2024
    • Post category:Nagaravatta
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    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…

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    Read more about the article Creating an Historical Family with AI

    Creating an Historical Family with AI

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 30, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History
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    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…

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    Read more about the article Geography and a New Story of Early Southeast Asian History

    Geography and a New Story of Early Southeast Asian History

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 30, 2024
    • Post category:Sanfoqi vs Srivijaya
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    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…

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    Read more about the article Using AI to Imagine Life at the Crocodile Pit in Early-Twentieth-Century Borneo

    Using AI to Imagine Life at the Crocodile Pit in Early-Twentieth-Century Borneo

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 28, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History
    • Post comments:0 Comments

    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,”…

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    Read more about the article Bluesky, Listening, and Scholarship

    Bluesky, Listening, and Scholarship

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 28, 2024
    • Post category:Scholarship
    • Post comments:3 Comments

    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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    Read more about the article “Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs

    “Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 19, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History/AI Reading
    • Post comments:4 Comments

    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…

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    Read more about the article History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.

    History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 17, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History
    • Post comments:5 Comments

    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…

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    Read more about the article Here is an Example of the Problem with the Scholarship on “Srivijaya”

    Here is an Example of the Problem with the Scholarship on “Srivijaya”

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:February 20, 2024
    • Post category:Srivijaya
    • Post comments:5 Comments

    As I have said a million times by now, there is a place name in Chinese historical sources, Sanfoqi 三佛齊, that in the early twentieth century, French scholar George Cœdès…

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    Read more about the article I FINALLY Found Sanfoqi!!

    I FINALLY Found Sanfoqi!!

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:February 14, 2024
    • Post category:Srivijaya
    • Post comments:24 Comments

    Off and on over the past few years, I have been researching about a place called “Sanfoqi” 三佛齊. This is a name that appears in Chinese sources from the tenth…

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