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The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s
https://www.science.org/content/article/most-ancient-human-genome-yet-has-been-sequenced-and-it-s-denisovan
200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals
🔴 **Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks**
"_Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans fail—when stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations._"
Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #LanguageModels #Reasoning #Logic #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai
🔴 📖 **Is there a particular book that you periodically re-read and discover that each time you learn new ideas from it?**
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Ideas #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rijks_Museum_Library_(243776563).jpeg
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and here's an utterly benign #map from 1936 of sheep breeds, by an architect called Joseph Sims. See the whole thing at https://oshermaps.org/map/50995.0001 - and while you're at it, check out his other maps in the OML collections! #maphistory
@jxself I would like to use the feature; however, it is not available on my instance.
🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**
"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"
Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853985.001.0001, accessed 9 July 2024.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Medicine #Health #HistSci #STEM #Science #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (87)
🔴 🎙️ **Proto-Germanic and Yoïn van Spijk [@yvanspijk]**
https://shows.acast.com/64e0e1540b9dd60011338b81/66941699991cb9347cdf3671
#Audio #Podcast #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**
"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"
Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/0011526053887301
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Imperialism #Liberalism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
@balterwenjamin42 This may be of assistance:
🔴 **Just saw the #Rumsfeld #hashtag being used on Mastodon and my memory took me back to this #quote:**
"_Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones._"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns#cite_note-defense.gov-transcript-1
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Our organs age at different tempo.
About 1 in 5 of us are "extreme agers" for an organ.
3 recent reports highlight how we can track that and the exciting implications for these internal clocks. In the new edition of Ground Truths
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-emergence-of-protein-organ-clocks
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John Dee, the most influential mathematicus in Renaissance England was born 13 July 1527 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/john-dee-the-mathematicall-praeface-and-the-english-school-of-mathematics/
@timClicks I try not to limit myself to a particular time.
🔴 **Do you use #Librivox to listen to #audiobooks?**
#Question #Poll #Polls #AudioBook #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 **Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West**
"_Drawing on recent research that stresses the heterogeneity of Viking war-bands—and their early involvement in Francia and England—it proposes a ‘southern route’ through which Viking influence flowed towards the North Atlantic._"
Griffiths, D. (2019) ‘Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West’, Antiquity, 93(368), pp. 468–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.199.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Vikings #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Great Britain and the Confederacy**
"_This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South's leaders were confident that Britain's need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public's aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral._"
Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-0028
#OpenAccess #OA #Essay #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Confederacy #America #GB #GreatBritain #UK #UnitedKingdom #C19th #19thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
@dalfen Thank you for the link.
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~ Most Johns Hopkins Medical Students to Receive Free Tuition After $1 Billion Gift~
@fulelo Thank you for the link.
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