Digital Humanities @ Stanford

Personal site of Melissa A. Hosek — research in environmental humanities, China studies, Educational Technolgoy, plus open-source projects and writing.

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Coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex have taken the software engineering field by storm. What makes them tick?

CXMT IPO, SKHynix, Micron, Samsung Competition, Process Node Deficit, China HBM, Wafer Adds, Memory LTAs

A guide to working with communities

A reaction to two recent articles about how AI threatens literary criticism and education.

Heppler, Jason A.. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism. : University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780806193748. Reviewed by Rachel Ameen (Syracuse University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (February, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

I did a thing! Or Did I?

A blog about data science, statistics, and data analysis with open-source software.

Focusing on the negative is sometimes too easy. It is also unfair to our classroom environment, our students and ourselves. We have identified challenges in the classroom that we see across the campus...