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.
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.
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Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/19/penguin-random-house-is-adding-an-ai-warning-to-its-books-copyright-pages/
Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI.
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I just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!
Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up
🔴 🇺🇸 The only poll of any real significance is the one that determines the group of presidential electors for the Electoral College, everything else is speculation.
#Poll #Polls #ElectoralCollege #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: Chessrat, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2024.svg.
🔴 📚 🖋 I am trying to set up a blog to write book reviews on Write Freely but the process is proving more difficult than I intially thought. I think the reason may be age, and also the fact that there are very few tutorials to show a novitiate how to begin. I first started a blog on Write As and found that it required a monthly subscription. Subsequently, I deleted that blog and started anew on Write Freely however I still not cannot seem to operate the site correctly. I have not been able to federate the blog with Mastodon as that feature is not available. I also may have to learn Markdown from scratch. It appears I am running around in circles.
#WriteFreely #Blog #Fediverse #AskFedi #AskMastdon #BookReview #Bookstodon
@jupiter_rowland Thank you for your assistance.
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One of the weirdest hypercorrect mispronunciations to me is when anglophones pronounce ‘dacha’ like it’s German – or as if it were ‘dakha’. Like... that <ch> is just like in English!
(The all-time funniest for me, though, is saying ‘coup de grace’ as ‘coup de gras’...)
@jupiter_rowland Thank you for the comment. I am having real difficulty trying to understand how to get a blog up and running without self-hosting or paying a monthly subscription.
🔴 Eating the Unspeakable: The Bible and Current Politics on Immigration
"The rumor of immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio goes in a slightly different direction but with the same aim: stoking virulent and violent xenophobia. The horror and hate that false claim evokes comes from the idea not only of immigrants eating cats and dogs but also “stealing the pets” of American households."
#Xenophobia #Migration #Migrants #Immigrants #Immigration #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Religion
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"More than 9,000 new archive videos, reflecting life in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, have been added to a dedicated BBC Northern Ireland Rewind website... This new archive content means that there is now more than 30,000 video clips specifically about Northern Ireland for the public to access - stretching as far back as the 1950s right up to 1996."
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/new-northern-ireland-bbc-rewind-content-available
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CRISPIN. A shoemaker: from a romance, wherein a prince of that name is said to have exercised the art and mystery of a shoemaker, thence called the gentle craft: or rather from the saints Crispinus and Crispianus, who according to the legend, were brethren born at Rome.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
🔴 🎥 Five Reasons Why Classical Civilisation Matters
#Video length: nineteen minutes and twenty nine seconds
🔴 Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800)
"From the Bernoullis to the Eulers, families of scholars have been common in academia since the foundation of the first university in 1088. In this paper, we have shown that this was the result of two factors: Initially, scholars’ sons benefited from their fathers’ connections to get jobs at their fathers’ university. Between 1088 and 1543, about one in two scholars’ sons benefited from nepotism. They became academics even when their underlying human capital was lower than that of marginal first-generation scholar. After the Scientific Revolution, nepotism faded but families remained in academia."
Croix, D.d.l., Goñi, M. Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800). J Econ Growth 29, 469–514 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-024-09244-0
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #Nepotism #Universities #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @economics
🔴 A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem
"From this, we can see that all but the most trivial of phrases will, in fact, almost certainly never be produced during the lifespan of our universe. There are many orders of magnitude difference between the expected numbers of keys to be randomly pressed before Shakespeare's works are reproduced and the number of keystrokes until the universe collapses into thermodynamic equilibrium..."
Woodcock, S. and Falletta, J. (2024) 'A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem,' Franklin Open, p. 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fraope.2024.100171.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Infinity #Combinatorics #Probability #Monkeys #Shakespeare #Academia #Academic #Academics
@undefined @citc Thank you for the suggestion.
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The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/openai-whisper-risks/
I was considering starting a blog in which I would upload reviews of books that I had read. Subsequently, I posted a toot asking for recommendations for blogging platforms to use. One of the recommendations provided was for Write.As, from the #Fediverse. I promptly signed up to a free account and found out there is no way for an external audience to read what I have written without me using the paid version. Is this correct or have I misunderstood?
@NaClKnight The mind's eye can see all sorts of things.
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
