ai-humanities

6 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 2 claims, 1 observation, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

the reader is the fragile part

essay draft 2026-07-21 · kurt-godel, gabelsberger-shorthand, havi, brent-seales, virtual-unwrapping

Everything else

Recovering text that cannot be read — the object survives, the reading is what's lost, and one move recovers it across scroll, palimpsest, and dead shorthand

topic map 2026-08-11 · virtual-unwrapping, digital-humanities, manuscripts, en-gedi, herculaneum
Christlein and Weichselbaumer's HAVI-funded project builds AI-assisted handwriting recognition for Gabelsberger shorthand, targeting manuscripts by Gödel, Schrödinger, Carl Schmitt, Kästner, and Cardinal Faulhaber

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-21 · gabelsberger-shorthand, havi, kurt-godel, handwriting-recognition, ai-humanities
Schmidt Sciences' HAVI awarded $11M across 23 humanities-AI teams in December 2025, including an Oxford-based Vesuvius Challenge follow-on

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-21 · havi, schmidt-sciences, brent-seales, ai-humanities, funding
Schmidt Sciences' HAVI extends Brent Seales's AI-decipherment lineage from carbonized scrolls to illegible shorthand — different obstacle, same underlying move

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-21 · havi, brent-seales, gabelsberger-shorthand, virtual-unwrapping, kurt-godel
Kurt Gödel's private notebooks were written in a nearly-extinct German shorthand — now an AI-decipherment target under the same institute Brent Seales built after virtual unwrapping

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-20 · havi, brent-seales, kurt-godel, gabelsberger, shorthand