Guy Shababo
Black Pepper and Stuff like That
It all started from a random question - how expensive was Black pepper in early Chosŏn? These kind of questions require some ingenuity....
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Guy Shababo
Nov 17, 20233 min read
Coffee Culture
According to food historian Lee Hoyoung, King Kojong (r. 1873-1907) was first introduced to coffee when staying at the Russian embassy in...
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Guy Shababo
Sep 7, 20232 min read
Hallyu Exhibition in the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History
I just visited the "The Pop Culture We Loved, and Rise of the Korean Wave" in the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History...
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Guy Shababo
Jul 20, 20232 min read
On ChatGPT and the Free Content
A new article published this week surveys the influences of large language models (LLMs) such as the one that ChatGPT uses on the...
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Guy Shababo
Jun 29, 20234 min read
Thinking in Color
Just back from the AKSE where I watched the most exciting panel on colors in Chosŏn. This left me thinking a lot about colors. Chosŏn was...
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Guy Shababo
Jun 7, 20232 min read
The thing with languages
Sitting right now in the 75th International Communication Association conference in Toronto, surrounded by experts, is a good time to say...
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Guy Shababo
May 1, 20232 min read
On Preprocessing
The dominance of English language in Computational Linguistics and Automatic Text Processing have taught us that preprocessing is...
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Guy Shababo
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Medicinal Purposes
I was reading King T’aejo’s record on the Veritable Records from the 26th day of the eighth month of 1398. Not just any day – this is...
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Guy Shababo
Feb 10, 20231 min read
SOME CURSORY THOUGHTS ON NEO CONFUCIAN LINEAGES
Thinking about networks
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