Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
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 “apple” 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
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On the trail of deepfakes, Drexel researchers identify ‘fingerprints’ of AI-generated video
"The lab’s tools use a sophisticated machine learning program called a constrained neural network. This algorithm can learn, in ways similar to the human brain, what is “normal” and what is “unusual” at the sub-pixel level of images and videos, rather than searching for specific predetermined identifiers of manipulation from the outset."
#News #Deepfake #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Analysis #Algorithms #NeuralNetworks #Engineering #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
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A leopard never changes his spots.
#Saying #JustSaying #Politics #Leopard #PublicDomain
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Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day?
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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#GoodMorning #Mastodon, it is time to get back to the #books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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300 Years of Immanuel Kant: A Collector’s Guide
"While Kant may be most renowned for his work in philosophy, his books reveal contributions in areas as diverse as physics, geopolitics, and theology. The remarkable scope of his achievements should secure him a place in collections of science, politics, and religion, as well as philosophy."
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/300-years-of-immanuel-kant-a-collectors-guide/
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims
"New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford"
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Shakespeare #Literature @bookstodon @literature
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Scorsese's ‘Life of Jesus' Being Shot This Fall — Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller Attached to Star
"He practically swore to the Pope that he’d be making this movie. There’s no turning back. It’s coming."
#Film #Movie #Scorsese #Jesus #Christ #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity
#Image attribution: #photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Pantocrator_Deesis_mosaic_Hagia_Sophia.jpg
The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons
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Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change
"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html
#Science #STEM #Research #Study #News #Biology #DNA #Genome #Coffee @science
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"Under a middle-of-the road scenario of future income development (SSP2, in which SSP stands for Shared Socio-economic Pathway), this corresponds to global annual damages in 2049 of 38 trillion in 2005 international dollars (likely range of 19–59 trillion 2005 international dollars)."
Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L. The economic commitment of climate change. Nature 628, 551–557 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07219-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @climatechange
"An interview with Prof. Marcus du Sautoy about his book Around the Wold in Eighty Games . . . .a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games."
https://zencastr.com/z/nI-9Rb54
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Audio #Podcast #Games #MarcusDuSautoy #Maths #Mathematics #Math @bookstodon
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Finding Meno: the problem with learning
"Education is not about imparting knowledge but about nurturing the conditions under which learning can flourish and knowledge can develop."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/15/finding-meno-the-problem-with-learning/
#Education #Learning #Teaching #Studying #Knowledge #Socrates #Plato #Philosophy @philosophy
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Research aims to improve data quality in manufacturing, seeking 'golden data'
"Despite the advances in manufacturing AI methodologies over the past decade, including significant strides in deep learning and neural networks, Jin points out that data generation and quality have become the major roadblocks in modeling and decision-making performance."
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/ise-golden-data.html
#Research #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #Engineering #Manufacturing #Industry #Academia #Academic #Academics @engineering @ai
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ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #LLM #Science #Research #DOI #Fake #Citations #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai
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Hegel and History
"The lesson here for contemporary politics is clear and significant. Rather than disavowing our circumstances and dismissing our cultural and intellectual traditions as morally compromised or tainted by history, we ought to be examining the long-term historical processes that have led us to this conjuncture and employing the existing resources at our disposal to surmount its challenges."
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/
#Politics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Culture #Ideas #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
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Do American family names make sense?
"The underlying cause for the disconnect is that names, unlike words, don’t have to stay meaningful in order to do their job of identifying individuals or groups of people. In fact, most American family names make no sense at all today and it is fascinating to uncover their original meanings and what they tell us about the history of the people who bear them. Hereditary surnames are especially vulnerable to changes in pronunciation that obscure their original senses."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/do-american-family-names-make-sense/
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Names #Humanities #Dictionaries #Lexicography #Linguistics @linguistics
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"This essay will read Hegel's comments on the Orient in light of his larger philosophy and then examine how Japanese scholars, specifically Okakura Tenshin (1863–1913) construct what could be called a Hegel-inspired defense of the concept of Asia or the Orient."
Murthy, V. (2024) ‘Rescuing Hegel from Eurocentrism: Oriental Reconstructions of Hegel’s Orient’, Hegel Bulletin, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.13. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Essay #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Orient #Asia @philosophy
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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home
"Quoting Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, she sees the vote to leave Europe as a direct expression of Britain’s “nostalgia for the past”, alerting us to the way that Barnier’s tautologous phrasing suggests a doubling down – Britons really, really want to live in a once-upon-a-time land when foreigners knew their place."
#Reading #Read #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Psychology #Society #Brexit #EU #Reviews #BookReview @histodon @histodons @psychology @bookstodon
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The silent record
"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-silent-record/
#History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
