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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
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🇪🇬 🇨🇭 Egypt reclaims 3,400-year-old statue of Ramesses II found in Switzerland
"Egypt collaborated with Swiss authorities to establish its rightful ownership. Switzerland handed over the statue to the Egyptian embassy in Bern last year, but it was only recently that Egypt brought the artefact home."
Not a #headline one hopes to #read:
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
"Tobacco farming is driving apes to seek unusual food source, brimming with pathogens"
https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.zzx18k8
#News #DOI #Plants #Animals #Tobacco #Farming #Virus #Science #Epidemiology @science
"Despite their seemingly factual nature, Renaissance maps are considered significant art objects. How can we best read them to understand more about this period?"
Romano, Daniella. "How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/how-read-renaissance-map-tips/ (accessed April 22, 2024).
#Map #Maps #Mapstodon #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Renaissance #Tip #Tips @histodon @histodons
How to DESTROY Anyone in an Argument
"Philosophers are often thought of as truth-seekers, but often people are more interested in the mucky world of simple debate, and there is a sardonic, sarcastic essay by Schopenhauer that can help us out here - "On the Art of Being Right". In here he compiles a series of tactics used (often highly dishonestly) to secure victory in an argument even when one is misinformed, or just downright wrong."
Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for April 22 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20240422000000/en #Wikimedia #Image #Himalaya #Mountains
"All tested LLMs performed poorly on medical code querying, often generating codes conveying imprecise or fabricated information. LLMs are not appropriate for use on medical coding tasks without additional research."
Soroush, A. et al. (2024) 'Large language models are poor medical coders — benchmarking of medical code querying,' NEJM AI [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1056/aidbp2300040. #Research #DOI #Science #Medicine #Data #Ethics #Statistics #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
A leopard never changes his spots.
#Saying #JustSaying #Politics #Leopard #PublicDomain
#Image attribution: Tamar Assaf, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Persian_Leopard_sitting.jpg
@e0cfb5549d3cf7db4e2736f8e1bc84f62486af7a41295d867c6a313459042528 That is what I find as well but people recommend it and I am trying to figure out why.
Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day?
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Immanuel_Kant_Emanuel_Kant_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-2015-26-1764.jpg
If #history teaches us anything, it is that things are alright until they are suddenly not and that by that time it is usually too late.
@noellemitchell According to the article he got $50 million for "being bad at his job". I wonder how much he would have been given if was any good at his job?
@beatnikprof That is like most days for some.
@jnv I sympathise with you, it can become tiresome.
@jnv I am still having difficulty with watching a #video on a particular platform and only 1:30 minutes in and I have already been served an #advertisement.
@AmenZwa It is a paradox of the age that we live in that access to books has become ubiquitous and easier than ever before in human history, none the less the reading of in depth material is becoming less prevalent in wider society. I think that technology, electronic distractions and short attention spans all play a role in pulling humans away from in depth reading. The prognosis is not good for the future as AI's abilities expotenially accelerate I am afraid that this trend will only worsen with time.
@AmenZwa I do not know if this is a phenomenon particular only to IT; but, it may be indicative of a trend in wider society.
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As years turn into decades, I am seeing a pattern in #IT where most practitioners no longer #read.
Yes, many, if not most, read tweets, blogs, comics, manga, etc., once every few minutes on their phones. But over the past two decades, I've not worked with someone who actually reads textbooks and novels on a daily basis.
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#WordOfTheDay: concupiscence (n.)
"ardent desire, improper or illicit desire, lustful feeling," mid-14c., from Old French concupiscence and directly from Late Latin concupiscentia "eager desire," from present-participle stem of Latin concupiscere, inceptive of concupere "to be very desirous of," from assimilated form of com-, here perhaps an intensive prefix (see com-), + cupere "to long for" (see cupidity). Used in Vulgate to translate Greek epithymia."
#Citation: Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of concupiscence.” Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/concupiscence. Accessed 21 April, 2024.
#Word #Words #Etymology #Lexicon #Dictionary #C14th #14thCentury #Latin #English #Language #Languages
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