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"This article explores such nuances in conceptions of fatness and thinness by examining the various ways in which bodyweight and size held meaning in the specific context of the Lutheran Reformation. Through a consideration of the bodily resurrection, apocalyptic belief and the form of heavenly bodies, it demonstrates how discussions of weight and fatness were embedded in fundamental debates about sin and salvation."

Holly Fletcher, ‘Belly-Worshippers and Greed-Paunches’: Fatness and the Belly in the Lutheran Reformation, German History, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 173–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghab001 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Germany #German #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons

"In this work, we analyze what confuses GPT-3: how the model responds to certain sensitive topics and what effects the prompt wording has on the model response. We find that GPT-3 correctly disagrees with obvious Conspiracies and Stereotypes but makes mistakes with common Misconceptions and Controversies. The model responses are inconsistent across prompts and settings, highlighting GPT-3's unreliability."

Khatun, A. and Brown, D.G. (2023) 'Reliability Check: an analysis of GPT-3’s response to sensitive topics and prompt wording,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2306.06199 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #LLM #GPT3 #MachineLearning

"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."

Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. https://doi.org/10.30819/4972. #OpenAccess #OA #English #Language #Literature #Rightwing #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Reading @bookstodon (70)

"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."

Athanassios S Fokas, Can artificial intelligence reach human thought?, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2023, pgad409, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad409 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #Neuroscience #Academia #Academic @science @engineering

"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887294.001.0001, accessed 16 Dec. 2023. #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histosdons #Roman #Europe #Latin #Language #Sociolinguistics #Academia #Academic #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon
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"This article seeks to understand mercantilism not as an elite philosophy, but as a process of interaction between private interests that stretched beyond London across England and the wider world, in which contribution to the public interest was asserted primarily by the capacity of a trade to support domestic employment in an increasingly global economy."

Hugo Bromley, England’s Mercantilism: Trading Companies, Employment and the Politics of Trade in Global History, 1688–1704, The English Historical Review, 2023;, cead177, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead177 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Mercantilism #Trade @histodon @histodons

"I argue that inclusion of Occam's razor is an essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition and pseudoscience. I also describe how the razor is embedded in Bayesian inference and argue that science is primarily the means to discover the simplest descriptions of our world."

McFadden, J. (2023). Razor sharp: The role of Occam's razor in science. Ann NY Acad Sci, 1530, 8–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15086 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Bayesian #History #HistoryOfScience #PostModernism #Education @science

"The study has revealed that the Balkans was a frontier region of ancient Rome as cosmopolitan as the imperial centre, and that Slavic migration arriving in the Balkans from the 6th century onwards represents between 30% and 60% of the ancestry of the Balkan peoples today." https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/campusa-magazine/-/ancient-balkan-genomes-reveal-how-slavic-europe-was-formed #Science #STEM #Ancient #DNA #Human #Population #Europe #Genetics #Biology @biology @science