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"Our research pioneers an innovative methodology for generating synthetic training data tailored to Old Aramaic letters. Our pipeline synthesizes photo-realistic Aramaic letter datasets, incorporating textural features, lighting, damage, and augmentations to mimic real-world inscription diversity. Despite minimal real examples, we engineer a dataset of 250 000 training and 25 000 validation images covering the 22 letter classes in the Aramaic alphabet."

Aioanei AC, Hunziker-Rodewald RR, Klein KM, Michels DL (2024) Deep Aramaic: Towards a synthetic data paradigm enabling machine learning in epigraphy. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0299297. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299297 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #DOI #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks #Algorithms #Linguistics #Aramaic #Epigraphy #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

300 Years of Immanuel Kant: A Collector’s Guide

"While Kant may be most renowned for his work in philosophy, his books reveal contributions in areas as diverse as physics, geopolitics, and theology. The remarkable scope of his achievements should secure him a place in collections of science, politics, and religion, as well as philosophy."

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/300-years-of-immanuel-kant-a-collectors-guide/

#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims

"New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/19/questions-over-shakespeares-authorship-began-in-his-lifetime-scholar-claims

#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Shakespeare #Literature @bookstodon @literature

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🇬🇧 HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K

"Fascinating not just for its approach to the text but also for its portrait of multiple facets of the British character, calibrated for explicitly propagandist purposes in the Second World War to be a call to arms as such formed a powerful reminder of what Britain was defending."

https://youtu.be/5BLBQIwZ_h4

#Video #Film #Movie #Cinema #Remastered #Shakespeare #HenryV #LaurenceOlivier #History #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom @films

@etchedpixels I would suggest searching for works written before 1900; expand not only your vocabulary but your mind as well.

Scorsese's ‘Life of Jesus' Being Shot This Fall — Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller Attached to Star

"He practically swore to the Pope that he’d be making this movie. There’s no turning back. It’s coming."

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/4/17/scorseses-life-of-jesus-being-shot-this-year-andrew-garfield-and-miles-teller-attached-to-star

#Film #Movie #Scorsese #Jesus #Christ #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity

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First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia

"The lava tube does not appear to have served as a permanent habitation location, but rather as a site that likely lay on herding routes and that allowed access to shade and water for passing herders and their animals. Prior to this, as well as during pastoral periods, the lava tube was likely also linked with hunting activities, which probably remained a cornerstone of local economies into the Bronze Age."

Stewart M, Andrieux E, Blinkhorn J, Guagnin M, Fernandes R, et al. (2024) First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0299292. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299292

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #Archaeology #Academia #Academic #Paleoanthropology #Neolithic #Anthropology #Archaeodons #Academics #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast @archaeodons @anthropology

@xvf17 I think you might be out by a few thousand years.

The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons

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Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change

"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."

https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html

#Science #STEM #Research #Study #News #Biology #DNA #Genome #Coffee @science

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🇹🇷 Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey

"The researchers concluded the bread was fermented after performing scanning electron microscope imaging. The analysis revealed air bubbles in the sample and traces of starch grains. They also found telltale chemicals known to be found in cereals and those that indicate fermentation."

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/world-oldest-bread/

#Science #STEM #News #Press #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bread #Turkey #Çatalhöyük @science @archaeodons

When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons

https://biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-the-names-wont-stick-the-case-of-galileos-moons/

#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Astronomy #Space @science

Walter W. Skeat and the Oxford English Dictionary

"Throughout his life, Skeat supported the OED by his reviews (today it seems incredible that once not everybody praised Murray’s work) and kept chastising his countrymen for their ignorance and stupidity when it came to philology. He never stopped complaining that people used to offer silly hypotheses of word origins, instead of consulting the greatest authority there was."

https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/walter-w-skeat-and-the-oxford-english-dictionary/

#Book #Books #Bookstodon #English #Language #Lexicon #Dictionary #Linguistics #Etymology #Word #Words @bookstodon @linguistics

📚 The week’s bestselling books, April 21:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-21

#LATimes #Read #Reading #Fiction #NonFiction #Book #Books #Hardback #Paperback #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🇬🇧 From a different age: "Dangers of Smoking 1957".

https://youtu.be/yDdYHlUd9Ms

#Video #Smoking #Cigarette #Tobacco #Health #History #Vintage #C20th #20thCentury #Television #TV #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #BritishPathe

"Under a middle-of-the road scenario of future income development (SSP2, in which SSP stands for Shared Socio-economic Pathway), this corresponds to global annual damages in 2049 of 38 trillion in 2005 international dollars (likely range of 19–59 trillion 2005 international dollars)."

Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L. The economic commitment of climate change. Nature 628, 551–557 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07219-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @climatechange

@garyhall Or as some call it the 'deep state'.