Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius
"It has long been mistaken for a satirical painting that mocks its Black subject for having the temerity to pretend to be a Georgian gentleman and scholar. But it is now thought to have been commissioned in 1760 by Williams himself to immortalise his brilliance as a trailblazing astronomer who, the clues in the painting suggest, successfully managed to compute and witness the trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759."
#Art #Slavery #Race #Science #Astronomy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @science
🔴 How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis
"It's not as if Netflix conjured demand out of thin air—they just ruthlessly optimized the artform until it reached its logical conclusion—which is a four- to eight-part docuseries about a celebrity, cult, sports star, serial killer, or all of the above. And you know why they keep making them? Because we watch them (didn't think about it that way, did you?)."
🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/statsignificant/p/how-streaming-elevated-and-ruined
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Analysis #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Online #Streaming #Documentary
🔴 🎥 Every Other Video About Color is Wrong
"This video is going to explore deeper than all those other videos. It’s going to explain that color is the result of light interacting with electrons … most of the time."
#Video length: twenty one minutes and thirty three seconds.
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 Inside a British lithium mine: A Cornish white gold rush?
At the moment, the UK is completely dependent on imports, but with some of the richest lithium deposits in Europe along the Cornish coast - the government is keen to change that. It has upgraded one lithium mine in Cornwall to a "project of national significance".
#Video length: three minutes and forty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/ezFg43sjO2c
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Cornwall #Europe #EV #Transport
🔴 🇯🇵 Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago
"One of the important findings of this study is that, in all analyses, among modern populations, the Korean population exhibited more genetic similarity to the Doigahama Yayoi individual than any other East Asian populations, except for the Japanese. This suggests that immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago during the Yayoi period primarily originated from the Korean Peninsula."
Kim, J., Mizuno, F., Matsushita, T. et al. Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. J Hum Genet (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-024-01295-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Biology #Anthropology #Population #Genetics #Japan #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 🇺🇸 On average, Americans spend about the same amount of money on restaurants and cafes as on food at home
"On average, Americans spend about the same amount on food consumed at home as they did in the 1950s. But they spend a lot more in restaurants, cafes, and at work."
#Data #DataViz #Food #Prices #Culture #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Swiss chemist Nicolas Théodore de Saussure was born #OTD in 1767.
His book Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation (1804) was the first summation of the fundamental process of photosynthesis and a major contribution to the understanding of plant physiology. In contrast to some of his predecessors in the field of photosynthesis research, Saussure based his conclusions on extensive quantitative data that he had collected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Th%C3%A9odore_de_Saussure
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No shit “this decline [in the capability of LLMs to perform logical reasoning through multiple clauses] is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data.”
Paper from Apple engineers showing that genAI models don’t actually understand what they read but just regurgitate what they’ve seen like a puppy wanting to please its owner:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
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"In total, there have been as many category 4 or 5 Atlantic hurricanes hit the US since 2017 as there have been in the prior 57 years."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/hurricane-milton-strength-intensity-explainer
@brie @histodons @science @histodon
I suppose the veracity of that claim will come out when the second part of the genetic investigation is made public.
@aral I am not sure which authority would have to give permission for such a structure to be built.
🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons
@freemo It worked. Thank you.
@freemo Hi, I tired to access my account page by pressing the account name as suggested but it still does not work. I wonder if there is any other way to access the page? On a side note that is much appreciated qoto is working much faster than previously; however, it is still not putting toots in chronological order onto my home timeline. Is there any setting I can change that will improve this?
Thank you for your kind help.
🔴 🎥 Watch this is if you take too many notes
#Video length: ten minutes and thirty seven seconds.
#Read #Reading #Notes #Book #Books #EBook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇩🇪 Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval
"Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe
#German #Language #Germany
#Europe #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 The illusion of information adequacy
"...this study provides convergent evidence that people presume that they possess adequate information—even when they lack half the relevant information or be missing an important point of view. Furthermore, they assume a moderately high level of competence to make a fair, careful evaluation of the information in reaching their decisions. In turn, their specific cross-section of information strongly influences their recommendations."
Gehlbach H, Robinson CD, Fletcher A (2024) The illusion of information adequacy. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0310216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310216
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Information #Education #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
