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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🎥 **Why ChatGPT sucks at some languages**
"_Chatbots like ChatGPT perform very well in English, but when put to the test in a range of languages the performance was sometimes poor. Lack of training data and other resources can reduce performance in these chatbots with implications for how accessible they are worldwide._"
#Video length: six minutes and four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjVJHp0W28
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #ChatGPT #Chatbots #Languages @ai
🔴 🇳🇴 🇬🇱 🎥 **Inside the Race to Mine $92 Billion Worth of Deep Sea Minerals**
"_Between Norway and Greenland lie some of the most valuable minerals on the planet. From cobalt to rare earths, raw materials are needed to drive multi-billion dollar industries such as EVs. These mineral reserves from the deep sea are of huge geopolitical significance as China and a few other key countries are monopolizing the supply of these materials._"
#Video length: six minutes and forty four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94zn-OimoHQ
#WSJ #Norway #Greenland #Ocean #Sea #Mining #RareMetals #Industry #Environment
🔴 **No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship**
"_But being able to do language without also thinking, feeling, willing or being is probably why writing done by AI chatbots is so lifeless and generic. Because LLMs are essentially looking at massive sets of patterns of data and parsing how they relate to one another, they can often spit out perfectly reasonable-sounding statements that are wrong or nonsensical or just weird._"
🔴 🇹🇷 **University of Michigan Archaeologists Unearth Persian Gold in Historic Turkish Site**
"_University of Michigan archaeologists have uncovered a Persian gold hoard in Turkey, providing a rare glimpse into the ancient world and the interconnectedness of early civilizations._"
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Persian #Gold #Coins #Türkiye #Turkey @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Did the Romans flood the Colosseum to stage naval battles?**
🔗 https://www.badancient.com/claims/flood-the-colosseum/
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?**
"_After defeating the Seleucids, the Parthians built a vast empire in Iran and Mesopotamia. For over four centuries, the Parthian Empire controlled the Silk Road, becoming Rome’s greatest rival._"
Bileta, Vedran. "Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-the-parthian-empire/ (accessed August 8, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Parthians #Romans #Empire #Imperialism @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🎥 **This $9B Chinese Restaurant Chain Wants to Conquer the U.S.**
"_China's hot-pot giant Haidilao offers more than just food. It has free manicures and massages for customers. Waiters dance on request. The over-the-top performances and customer service set it apart from its competitors. With fresh funds from a public listing, the restaurant company plans to expand across the U.S._"
#Video length: six minutes and thirty five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jci98uOrWQ
#WSJ #China #Asia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Food #Business #Economics #Restaurant @economics
@nutmeg@toot.io Once the poll is over I will publish the results and we can see how many people agree with us.
@nutmeg@toot.io I did consider providing that option but I thought everyone would just click that. Personally I find humidity a lot worse than just heat.
🔴 🇫🇮 **Why Finland's debt is rising faster than the Euro area's: An analysis**
"Finland's rising indebtedness is primarily driven by central and local government deficits, compounded by unique financial transactions. Weak economic growth has exacerbated the deficit in public finances and directly affected the debt ratio."
#News #Finland #Euro #Europe #Debt #Economics #Finance #Analysis @economics
🔴 🎥 **The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb**
"_2500 Years ago, a dynasty of Celtic Princes founded the first towns in Northern Europe. They constructed harbours along rivers and traded goods with people from all over Europe. This film presents new insights into Celtic history and culture thanks to exclusive access to the Celtic Tomb in Lavau (France) and the exceptionally rich and well-preserved collection of objects found on the gravesite._"
#Video length: fifty one minutes and twenty seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfX5pUGwh0
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #Celts #Celtic #Europe @histodon @histodons
How many rights are lost and how much truth dies in the muddied waters of the sophist?
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
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Amedeo Avogadro was born August 9, 1776,
in the city of Turin, in the Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont [Italy] —died July 9, 1856
https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/amedeo-avogadro/
🔴 **Mathematicians Reinvent the Wheel in Higher Dimensions to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem**
"_A new mathematical technique shows how to build small objects in any dimension that roll like a wheel, expanding our understanding of higher dimensional space_"
🔴 🇹🇷 **‘World’s oldest calendar’ found carved onto ancient monument**
"_The timekeeping system, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in mountains of Anatolia in Turkey, suggests people were accurately recording dates 10,000 years before it was documented in Greece in 150 BC._"
#News #Science #Ancient #Anatolia #Turkey #Calender @science
🔴 **Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?**
"_We argue that LLM providers should be required to mitigate careless speech and better align their models with truth through open, democratic processes. We define careless speech against ‘ground truth’ in LLMs and related risks including hallucinations, misinformation and disinformation._"
Wachter Sandra, Mittelstadt Brent and Russell Chris. 2024 Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 240197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240197.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Truth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Misinformation #Disinformation #Philosophy #LLMS #LargeLanguageModels #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @philosophy
🔴 🏴 🇯🇵 📖 **The real-life English sailor of the TV series “Shogun”**
"_Frederik Cryns bases his book, In the Service of the Shogun, on primary historical sources—and it’s as exciting as the fictional retelling. It’s the true story of Shogun._"
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/true-story-of-shogun/
#EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #Japan #Asia #Shogun #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Scientists solve mystery of some of Earth’s most dramatic landscapes**
"_Experts have found that powerful waves deep within the Earth triggered when tectonic plates broke apart have caused continents to force the land up, creating giant plateaus._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-mantel-space-crust-mystery-b2592685.html
🔴 🎥 **Germanic vs German**
"_A historical linguist who deals with Germanic languages explains why "Germanic" and "German" mean very different things and how this confusing situation arose in the first place._"
#Video length: eleven minutes and eleven seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WcgnWN49nac
#Germanic #German #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
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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Joined Nov 2022
