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"_For quite long periods, at any rate, people can remain undisturbed by obvious lies, either because they simply forget what is said from day to day or because they are under such a constant propaganda bombardment that they become anaesthetized to the whole business._"
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Mike Amundsen
Evaluating Large Language Models Using “Counterfactual Tasks”
"In [the counterfactual task] paradigm, models are evaluated on pairs of tasks that require the same types of abstraction and reasoning, but for each pair, the content of the first task is likely to be similar to training data, whereas the content of the second task (a “counterfactual task”) is designed to be unlikely to be similar to training data." -- #MelanieMitchell
@stefan Sounds like a great idea.
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In Dutch "the day before yesterday" = "eergisteren" ("gisteren" = "yesterday"). "The day after tomorrow" is "overmorgen ("morgen" = "tomorrow").
Basque "etzidamu" is very usefull. Sometimes Dutch say "overovermorgen" for the same meaning, but a bit jockinly. It's not in the Grote Van Dale, but you can find it on https://www.woorden.org/woord/overovermorgen and on some other sites.
Even "eereergisteren" (the day before the day before) is somtimes found on the internet.
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@eleder @bibliolater @linguistics In German, we have "übermorgen" (literally the same as overmorrow (or to be precise "overtomorrow"?)) and "vorgestern", meaning pre-yesterday 🤔
But having a word for two days before/after sounds a bit special, yet I'm not a linguist or the like. Doesn't Basque have a word for "two days before yesterday"?
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@bibliolater @linguistics Well, English did have words for the day after tomorrow and before yesterday: overmorrow and ereyesterday
@gdinwiddie @linguistics His most noteable work as you correctly mentioned was 'De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure' https://archive.org/details/onloadstonemagne00gilbuoft/
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William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth I, was pretty amazing. He wrote a book on the magnet describing how he discovered many facts about magnetism. He approached it with an experimental mindset rather than philosophical. This was pretty amazing for 1600.
<strong>The Shocking Origin of the Word “Electric”</strong>
"_Gilbert employed the Latin electricus to describe the observation that when you rub amber against some substances like wool or a cat’s fur, it sticks to the amber. We now that this clinging—and the zaps that appear between the amber and the substance rubbed against it—is due to static, but at the time, Gilbert supposed amber to be magnetic._"
https://uselessetymology.com/2024/05/31/the-shocking-origin-of-the-word-electric/
#English #Language #Word #Words #Etymology #Linguistics @linguistics
#Image attribution: Benoît Prieur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://tinyurl.com/374cd39t
<strong>Mapping automatic social media information disorder. The role of bots and AI in spreading misleading information in society</strong>
"_The analysis focused on four research questions: 1) the distribution of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation across different platforms; 2) recurring themes in fake news and their visibility; 3) the role of artificial intelligence as an authoritative and/or spreader agent; and 4) strategies for combating information disorder. The role of AI was highlighted, both as a tool for fact-checking and building truthiness identification bots, and as a potential amplifier of false narratives._"
Tomassi A, Falegnami A, Romano E (2024) Mapping automatic social media information disorder. The role of bots and AI in spreading misleading information in society. PLOS ONE 19(5): e0303183. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303183
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SocialMedia #Twitter #X #Facebook #Misinformation #Disinformation #Malinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @socialmedia
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Japan’s universities will receive 10 billion yen (around US$63 million) to build the digital infrastructure needed to make papers free to read. Sounds like a lot but isn't. #academicCHater #academia #openaccess #scholarlypublishing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8
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“When I say ‘I am hungry’, I am reporting on my sensed physiological states. When an LLM generates the sequence ‘I am hungry’, it is simply generating the most probable completion of the sequence of words in its current prompt.”
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/
<strong>Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang</strong>
"_Researchers already knew that in a universe with so-called dark energy, but without matter, the start of inflation identified in the BGV theorem is a coordinate singularity that can be eliminated. But the real universe has matter, of course. Might mathematical tricks also make it possible to get around its singularity? The researchers showed that if the amount of matter is negligible compared to the amount of dark energy, then the singularity can be eliminated._"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-attempt-to-glimpse-past-the-big-bang-20240531/
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@beardedtechguy @hardcover Good luck on your journey back to reading books.
What types of books are you interested in? Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
I find that reading also helps to send me to sleep as it lets my mind wander from the stresses and problems of my day.
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With parts of England flooded again, a reminder that one key reason is that our winters are getting wetter as the world is warming.
Lots of variation from year-to-year but winter rainfall has increased by ~27% overall since records began in 1837.
<strong>The Export Of Capital To Colonies And The Falling Rate Of Profit In Economic Thought: 1776-1917</strong>
"_The colonization of South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand was closely linked with European emigration. After 1870, colonization affected large areas of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific where the population remained overwhelmingly non-European (Bayly 2004). As an advocate of emigration writing in the 1830s, Wakefield argued that the main purpose of acquiring colonies was to extend the agricultural frontier by settling European farmers on previously uncultivated land._"
Walke, A. (2024) ‘THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL TO COLONIES AND THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: 1776–1917’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837224000166.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #EconHist #EconHistory #Colonisation #Colonization #Imperialism #Empire #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @economics @econhist @econhistory
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Modern English 'enough' comes from the Old English variant 'ġenōh', with an unvoiced fricative /x/ at the end. The variant 'ġenōg', with the voiced fricative /ɣ/, also continued to evolve but it followed a different path. Its final /ɣ/ became /w/ in Middle English, producing 'inow'. This was a regular sound change. Compare Old English 'būgan', which became 'bowen', now 'to bow'. Dutch 'buigen' and German 'biegen' preserved their g's.
'Inow' ultimately became Modern ...
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The word 'enough' has the same origin as German 'genug' and Dutch 'genoeg'.
However, unlike these words, 'enough' doesn't start with a g-. Moreover, contrary to what its spelling suggests, it ends with an /f/ sound.
When did these changes happen?
Click the video to listen to a reconstruction of how this word evolved over the past 2300 years.
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The greatest clock (and map) ever made:
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