Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
"Archaeologists in Iceland have found a sandstone carved with a Viking ship that may be the oldest picture ever found in the country." https://www.icelandreview.com/culture/stone-carved-with-viking-ship-may-be-oldest-picture-ever-found-in-iceland/ #Archaeology #History #Iceland #Vikings #archaeodons #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
@archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/ThomasSmaberg/status/1669449881151209475
"By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east in the last thirty years." https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/06/16/humans-are-pumping-so-much-water-out-of-the-ground-that-earths-tilt-is-changing/ #Earth #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/ForbesScience/status/1669713983366987778
@KeithDevlin I presume its a numbers game. For every 1,000,000 that do not reply maybe 1 will.
CUMMINGS, V., & FOWLER, C. (2023). Materialising Descent: Lineage Formation and Transformation in Early Neolithic Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2023.2 #Ancient #DNA #History #Archaeology #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Britain #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @science @archaeodons
"..ancient Greek speakers were multicultural and often multilingual, and those factors had a significant effect on the Greek language – but many generations of Greek speakers found that fact embarrassing and tried to hide it, often successfully." https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/06/how-did-ancient-greek-speakers-use-latin/ #Ancient #Greek #Latin #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/CambUP_Classics/status/1669707118604177409
Modern calendar and continued fractions. https://math.temple.edu/~yury/calendar/calendar.pdf #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #pdf @mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/snezanalawrence/status/1669268600568401925
"Much of the modern physical description of electrical forces comes from careful experiments done by the French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201606/physicshistory.cfm #History #Science #Physics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science @physics
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669374285939367937
About the Philosopher Plato: Interview with Robin Waterfield. https://youtu.be/BD8-OG62h-c #philosophy #video #books #bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1669015621068259329
"If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE) was the most consequential ancient writer in the West." https://themarginaliareview.com/why-josephus-matters/ #History #Essay #Philosophy #Theology #Ancient #Writing #Author #Books #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MarginaliaROB/status/1669004030658453506
"..the introduction of Orca, a 13-billion parameter model that learns explanation traces from GPT-4, represents a significant breakthrough in advancing instruction-tuned models." https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/13/microsoft-ai-introduces-orca-a-13-billion-parameter-model-that-learns-to-imitate-the-reasoning-process-of-lfms-large-foundation-models/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT
Source: https://twitter.com/data_nerd/status/1668971713449672704
"A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01903-3 #Science #Archaeology #Anthropology @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1669023321092923392
"Tracking the story of this complex spiritual partnership provides intimate insights into the psychological stakes of the solitude tradition and its varying implications for women and men in Restoration Britain." https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtad007/7152305 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1668939338007166981
Erasmus Studies Volume 43 (2023): Issue 1 (Jun 2023). https://brill.com/view/journals/eras/43/1/eras.43.issue-1.xml #OpenAccess #OA #History #Philosophy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1668976331990654988
"British Mathematical Colloquium-British Applied Mathematics Colloquium Glasgow 2021". https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/glasgow-mathematical-journal/issue/3E2A727FC4F9D2E13295425EF05FD3F2 #OpenAccess #OA #Maths #Articles
Source: https://twitter.com/cambUP_maths/status/1668272417813196806
"He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/science/space/owen-gingerich-dead.html #Science #Religion @science
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1668290864077066241
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Happy #Helsinki Day! #OnThisDay in #history - in 1550, King Gustav I of #Sweden (as #Finland was a Swedish territory at the time) established the town as a potential trading post.
Its population remained small until the 20th century, due to plague, fires, and other factors. When Russia annexed Finland, they moved the capital and the Royal Academy from Turku to Helsinki. This helped population growth AND led to the evolution of the University of Helsinki.
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620 #History #Languages #Linguistics #Culture #English #Sociolinguistics #Florida #Cuba #USA @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1668247996738199560
The Making of ChatGPT: From Data to Dialogue.https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2023/the-making-of-chatgpt-from-data-to-dialogue/ #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Science #Technology
Source: https://twitter.com/SITNBoston/status/1667898108548661248
"One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information." https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lossless-data-compression-works-20230531/ #Computer #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1667903514025029632
Megan Dent, Disraeli and the Bible, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2023;, vcad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcad020 #OpenAccess #OA #Bible #History #Article #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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.
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