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While many aspects of #India โs growth story are well-known, navigating a vast country experiencing major demographic, economic and societal shifts is not without complexities, chart @GoldmanSachs
"In most work in the history of science, the approach is to show how a particular event or outcome was the result of various social and intellectual influences. Bayesian history of science, on the other hand, focuses on the lines of evidence relevant to the historical development to see if the direction taken by an individual or group of scientists was consistent or inconsistent with the evidence at hand."
Henry Small; Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA. Quantitative Science Studies 2023; 4 (1): 209โ228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Discovery #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
How to Read Hard Books | 7 Tips That Actually Work
#Video #Tips #Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Yes, People Do Buy Books
"How many books are sold in the United States? The only tracker we have is BookScan, which logs point of saleโi.e., customer purchases at stores, websites, etc.โfor most of the market. BookScan counted 767 million print sales in 2023."
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people-do-buy-books
#Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Proto-Indo-European Gods Explained
#Video #Shorts #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Religion @linguistics @religion
How maps are used and abused in times of conflict
"The dehumanising effect of maps stems from their inherent abstraction. Maps simplify reality by reducing a complex landscape teeming with life and history into lines, symbols and colours. While necessary for clarity, this simplification often has the consequence of stripping away the human element."
https://theconversation.com/how-maps-are-used-and-abused-in-times-of-conflict-227077
"Whether you're a lifelong bibliophile or a new reader, this guide is packed with tips and strategies to enhance your reading experience."
#Video #Tips #Recommendations #Bookworm #Bibliophile #Reading #Read #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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I really wish #Mastodon had boosted quoted toots. It's the only thing from that unlamented birdsite I miss.
A doctrine once ingrained in such a way that it becomes a part of a person's sense of self identity can be nigh on impossible to refute irrespective of whether it is based on truth or sophism.
"Our purpose is to demonstrate that the tropes usually today associated with the Corn and Poor Laws โ pauperism, a clash between merchant, manufacturing and landlord interests, population and impoverishment โ are absent from discussion during this period."
Lanot (Umeรฅ), G. and Tribe (Tartu), K. (2024) โBefore political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794โ96โ, History of European Ideas, pp. 1โ31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2343530.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #C18th #18thCentury #Economics #Europe @econhistory @economics
"Justinโs (third or fourth century CE) summary of Trogusโ story (first century BCE) is the most extensive legendary account we have about the migration of Tyrians to northern Libya (or Africa) and the founding of Carthage."
Philip A. Harland, 'Phoenician diasporas: Timaios of Tauromenion, Trogus, and Appian on the founding of Carthage and on child sacrifice (first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified April 24, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=19907.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Phoenicia #Carthage #Migration @histodon @histodons
The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books
"Do you love reading โ but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again".
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #AudioBook #AudioBooks #Bookstodon #Literature #Tips @bookstodon
๐ฌ๐ง One of those questions in life that is an enigma wrapped inside a riddle and formed into a conundrum......
'Why is it cheaper to fly to Manchester than get a train to Liverpool?' | LBC
#Video #Question #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Railways #Transport #Trains
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
"I want to find concepts in the model. I want something that I can grab within the neural network, evidence that there is a thing that represents โappleโ internally, that allows it to be consistently referred to by the same word."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-what-an-apple-is-she-aims-to-find-out-20240425/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks
#Image attribution: Nopple, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopple_apple.jpg
"Ordnance Survey mapmakers filmed in 1965."
#Video #BritishPathe #Map #Maps #Cartography #OS #OrdnanceSurvey #History #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vintage
"Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?"
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#Spain sees US-style economic boost from #immigrant workers where an influx of foreign workers is boosting the supply of #labour and raising its economic #growth rate โ a rare feat in the #EU, chart @bcarrebravo @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/spain-sees-us-style-economic-boost-immigrant-workers-2024-04-24/
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