Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Using AI in your PhD research might be a really bad idea
#Video length: 58 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HO--UzjEo
#PhD #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Writing #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics
@rightsprung @science Skepticism is a good philosophical starting point.
DeepMind’s AI can ‘predict how all of life’s molecules interact with each other’
"AlphaFold 3 is able to envision how the complex shapes and networks of molecules – present in every cell in the human body – are connected and how the smallest of changes in these can affect biological functions that can lead to diseases."
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepMind #Science #STEM #Biology #DNA @science
"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."
Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2338341.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #FrancisBacon #Colonialism #Imperialism #Ireland #Atlantic #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
#Image attribution: Yale Center for British Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Sir_Francis_Bacon,_1st_Viscount_St_Alban_-_B1977.14.9772_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
Why Did the World Ignore This Island for 15 Years?
#Video length: 15:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkuYZQopXM
#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #Slavery #Slaves #IndianOcean #EarlyModern #C18th #18thCentury #TromelinIsland #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @earlymodern
In Praise of Slow Reading
#Video length: 6:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeHtpb5B4w
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Mapped: Europe’s GDP Per Capita, by Country
"Europe is home to some of the largest and most sophisticated economies in the world. But how do countries in the region compare with each other on a per capita productivity basis?"
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-europes-gdp-per-capita-by-country/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Data #DataViz #Europe #GDP #Economics
@freeschool @freemo Than you for the information. I just wanted to make some of the words in a toot bold or italics. I shall look for 'Markdown' and report back my progress.
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West – review
"In As Gods Among Men, Guido Alfani examines the history of the rich in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, including paths to wealth, societal perceptions and their resilience against shocks."
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookReview #Review #History #EconHist #EconHistory
@bookstodon
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."
Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/slavery-ancient-rome-plebeian-farmers-poverty/ (accessed May 7, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Rome #Romans #Empire #Europe #Slavery #Farmers #Farming @histodon @histodons
How Private Equity Consumed America
#Video length: 22 minutes 23 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8hpxR_r2Y
#PrivateEquity #Finance #Capital #Capitalism #Business @finance
@Guinnessy A sad state of affairs.
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Food insecurity is “off the scales” in universities, say researchers. Some universities have opened places to get food banks and food pantries, others have group chats to announce where to score free leftovers. #academia #academicchatter #students https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01279-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=b86875fed9-nature-briefing-daily-20240507&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-b86875fed9-50179668
@rjblaskiewicz @histodon @histodons
Unfortunately, an individual or a cohort of people will believe it irrespective of how nonsensical the conspiracy might seem to experts.
"...our data suggested that the Japanese population could be best modeled by admixtures of three ancestral components (hereafter K1 to K3). K1 to K3 were the highest in Okinawa, Northeast, and West, respectively (Fig. 1D and table S4). K1 (Okinawa) component maintains a relatively stable fraction of around 12% in Hondo subgroups, except for South (which is a region adjacent to Okinawa), with a higher proportion of 22%. K2 (Northeast) and K3 (West) components showed a cline from West to East."
Xiaoxi Liu et al., Decoding triancestral origins, archaic introgression, and natural selection in the Japanese population by whole-genome sequencing. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi8419 (2024). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi8419
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Population #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Japan #Japanese #Asia @science
TikTok Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Rome Never Existed? A Classicist Reacts
#Video length: 46 minutes 10 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXvI5aopXA
#Debunking #Tiktok #Conspiracy #Ancient #Rome #Roman #Romans #Empire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Classics @histodon @histodons
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Advanced economies face declining GDP per capita – It’s time to increase public investment, if private corporations are reluctant to invest, chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-05/global-housing-crisis-affects-immigration-fueled-growth-living-standards?cmpid=BBD050624_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240506&utm_campaign=nef
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#India ‘s economic growth has come at an environmental cost: #India is already the 3rd -largest emitter of CO2 despite low per capita #emissions of 2 tons annually, compared to the US which is 8x as much or #China at 4x the amount, chart @MorganStanley
Not something you will find me ever trying...
"The death-defying sport of climbing frozen waterfalls | 60 Minutes Australia"
#Video length: 59 seconds
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Population zero in 3255? By this scenario (in which the global total fertility rate falls rapidly to 1.66), by 2205 — 181 years from now — we would be back down the the global #population level of the year 2000. #demography
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/x-axis-manipulation-and-depopulation-panic/
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