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Google’s DeepMind develops a system that writes efficient algorithms
Writing efficient code was turned into a game, and the AI played to win.
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This is a long read, and a fascinating article exposing Spanish academics that have published an unfeasible number of papers each year. As in, a paper evey couple of days.
A researcher who publishes a study every two days reveals the darker side of science
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html
#AcademicEthics #academia #science #research #publication #academicpublishing #papermills #MDPI
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J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish, a Language He Invented for The Lord of the Rings
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/j-r-r-tolkien-writes-speaks-in-elvish.html
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10 Medieval Places That Don’t Exist https://www.medievalists.net/2023/06/medieval-places-dont-exist/ #geography #history #medieval
"It is clear why Smith was regarded as the central character for orthodox free marketers like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. But is it fair to reduce a great thinker to two quotes?" https://www.thenational.scot/culture/23571844.adam-smith-greatest-economist-time-right/ #Economics #Philosophy #Scotland @economics @philosophy
Soure: https://twitter.com/Scotonomics1/status/1666134083108319252
"As of today, anthropologists believe there were at least ten different occupations of Britain in c.900,000 years of British history that featured (at least) four human species." https://www.historyhit.com/who-were-the-first-britons/ #Ancient #History #Britain #Anthropology #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/ChrisStringer65/status/1666015158819250179
An #amazing #story:- to #travel to every #country on #Earth in a single #trip without #flying. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0frz4t3
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1665728512597032960
"This course provides a basic introduction to metric spaces. It covers metrics, open and closed sets, continuous functions (in the topological sense), function spaces, completeness, and compactness." https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-introduction-to-metric-spaces-january-iap-2023/ #Maths #Course #Podcast #Education #Academia #Learning
Source: https://twitter.com/MITOCW/status/1665704065550909441
"Free and easy to use, the platform — a powerful kind of database that maps relationships — helps users find clear pathways through the collections and uncover links between objects that might otherwise seem unconnected," https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/01/17-million-reasons-love-lux-yales-new-collections-search-tool #library #science #technology #arts
Source: https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1665407567684591619
"Study takes a step toward cell or gene therapy for cystic fibrosis". https://hms.harvard.edu/news/researchers-make-ionocytes-mysterious-lung-cells-dish #Science #Biology #Therapy #Medicine @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1665399271808552961
"I think the magic of our capsule is that it is going to transform how people think about the gut microbiota's relationship to diseases," https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/05/15/scientists-get-a-new-view-of-digestion/ #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Technology @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1665395702736863237
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The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded #OTD in 1917:
Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe).
Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days.
Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. via @wikipedia
"He did important work on series and in optics and was a strong supporter of Newton in his dispute with Leibniz." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gregory_David/ #history #maths #math #mathematics #mathsodon #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1664925647548841984
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"I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible."
Mary Henrietta Kingsley died #OTD in 1900.
She was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism in Africa. via @wikipedia
Books by Mary Kingsley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1894
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The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!
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The book on Germanic syntax was too long for you? Well maybe you try my overview article on Generative approaches to #Germanic languages. A draft is ready. Comments are welcome:
https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/germanic-generative.html
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James Hutton, founder of modern geology, was born #OTD in 1726. He proposed Uniformitarianism, the idea that geological processes occurring now are the same ones that occurred in the past, unseating catastrophism and implying the Earth is much older than Biblical accounts.
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Does Science Need History? Lorraine Daston in conversation with Samuel Loncar, editor of Marginala - an interesting wide-ranging discussion about science, culture, education, publishing, disciplines, ‘truth’ and more.
Link to the pdf that contains both parts of the published discussion: https://themarginaliareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Daston_Loncar_Marginalia.pdf
#histsci #histSTM #HistoryOfScience #philsci #hps #sts #science #history
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