Peirce's triadic sign — object, representamen, interpretant — explains Digital Humanities' AI test: meaning lives in the interpretant, with the analyst, not the model. #DigitalHumanities #AI #LLM #ComputationalHumanities The most instructive intersection in current Digital Humanities is Peircean semiotics — because it names precisely what generative AI places at risk. Computational modelling is best understood as a triadic sign process: object, representamen, interpretant. Meaning does not inhere in the model; it is produced in the interpretant, the act of interpretation performed by a reader, not an instrument. This becomes concrete when interpreted at the level of the knowledge graph. RDF encodes a dyadic relation; it cannot natively express the irreducible third term of a sign. The interpretant must therefore be modelled explicitly — via provenance annotations, citation binding, or interpretive metadata — or it is silently lost. Provenance-aware retrieval and evidence-grounded agentic scholarship (SPIRE, Chronos) are, under this reading, attempts to keep the interpretant legible within the computational pipeline. The humanities are where AI confronts its most rigorous test: not whether models can perform, but whether interpretation survives them.

When asked, " When should a student read your Hermeneutica? I say, " If you can listen to and hear the many speeches from the "unbiased" (as they say) in the crypto gibberish Financial Market Quality Conference at finpolicy.georgetown.edu/, you should read it." @GUFinPolicy

When asked, " Why did you build Hermeneutica? I say, " What you read in Hermeneutica, you will always remember. "

Volume I is now 30 entries, published in place at the same link — Volume 1.1, in 3 sections Section 1) Orality & Literacy was 8, now 12 entries Section 2) Classical Studies & Oral-Formulaic Theory was 8, now 11 entries Section 3) The Comparative Record (new): 7 entries.

Humanities Research Digest Vol 1.1 updated to 30 entries 1970-2025 #DigitalHumanities #LLM @AIEducation #Interdisciplinary #AI claude.ai/artifact/S9nGQbmgR…

Humanities Research Digests Volumes 1-3 Volume I — Orality, Literacy & the Oral-Formulaic Question (released today) Volume II — Semiosis & the Sign (TBD) Volume III — Machine Cognition (TBD)

I created a new practitioner's handbook for designing, building, and operating your own agentic harness — there are too many fragments of material on X over the last few months. The purpose of Harness engineering is to develop an execution runtime that turns a language model into a reliable, cost-bounded, continuously improving AI system. ✨ Powered by z.ai chat.z.ai/space/w1dws795hb70…

Sharing my weekly research report: This Week in AI Research — September 16, 2026 · ADA AI Labs Made with Hyperagent hyperagent.com/s/wVxAXcvq7QV…

My weekly Digest of new AI Research in the following subjects: AI/ML & Reasoning, LLM Verification, Digital Humanities, Vision & Robotics, Theory & Algorithms, and Society & Computing 2026-09-08.html — made with Hyperagent hyperagent.com/s/RA3qj4MSxWv…

I have prepared an orientation for the Hermeneutic Workbench, attached below A help desk to get acclimated to the features and power of this platform for the Humanities 100 course of study. ✨ Powered by z.ai chat.z.ai/space/m14jd75mzur0…

Hermeneutica 2 will have the same 6 Agentic features already shared in the first live release. Just 'better of the same'...

Previewing Hermeneutica Workstation 2.0. Development ongoing in Google Antigravity 2.12.2 Main screen below --

Additional screen layout in Hermeneutica 2 - will share it upon availability; it's on the DEV server Localhost

Check out my Archaeological survey of sites in the last 30 years — My approach is to use the tech to appropriate the past and historical experience in new ways, in new sequences. After rereading From Dawn to Decadance again, it can only help or at least entertain. Try the Site directory and Site map updated here and made with @hyperagentapp hyperagent.com/s/pvHofipoFqg… #DigitalHumanities #AIEducation

A further walkthrough of the Hermeneutica Workspace for Humanities 100 - latest release developed in #GoogleAI Gemini Flash 3.8 #DigitalHumanities #Interdisciplinary #LLM @GeminiApp @Google

Additional Agentic AI layers in Hermeneutica -- not quite transparent, but useful #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #AI

Light screen Hermeneutica. Core functionality. There is a corpus of 50+ titles in the Hermeneutica Lab dropdown. hermeneutica-workbench-39601… #DigitalHumanities @AIEducation @the_culturist_ @scsclassics @Athens_Stranger @thinkingwest @AntigoneJournal @athenaeumbc