Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
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**Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSdBg6AhOw.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #OpenAI
📚 **5 Books That Made Me A Better Reader**
#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
📖 **Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land**
🔗 https://lachief.substack.com/p/book-review-melting-point-family.
#History #Histodons #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @bookstodons
@bodhipaksa Not a partner; but, I have done it occasionally myself.
📚 **How to Understand Your Books (and remember everything)**
#Video length: eleven minutes and nine seconds.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable**
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable **
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇺🇸 💵 **Battered dollar a boon for U.S. multinational companies**
"_Every 10% drop in the dollar leads to a 2% earnings upside_"
Morning all.
I did not realise that machines can have minds and qualities such as overconfidence and under confidence.
🖥️ **How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models**
🔗 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.03120.
#Preprint #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #LLMS
**Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language**
"_Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era_"
🔗 https://lithub.com/algorithm-on-fleek-how-tiktok-is-transforming-the-english-language/.
**An etymological knockout**
"_Couldn’t the semantics of kn-words, their constant use under emphasis, contribute to the simplification of kn-?_"
🇪🇺 **27% Of Europeans Could Not Afford A Week-Long Holiday In 2024**
"_The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week’s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (58.6%), Greece (46.0%) and Bulgaria (41.4%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250714-2.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #Economy #Economics #Holiday #Vacation
📖 **The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Euclid and John Casey**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076.
#ProjectGutenberg #Euclid #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📖 **Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22.
#ProjectGutenberg #Thesaurus #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📸 📚 🏴 **Gladstones Library Central View**
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstones_Library_Central_View_(187426107).jpeg.
Afternoon all.
🖥️ **AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves**
🔗 https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-responsible-for-slop-we-are-doing-it-to-ourselves/
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Internet #Algorithm
@zombiewarrior I would not know, I do not watch Disney productions or access their websites sites.
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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