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.
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Joined Nov 2022
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable**
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable **
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇺🇸 💵 **Battered dollar a boon for U.S. multinational companies**
"_Every 10% drop in the dollar leads to a 2% earnings upside_"
Morning all.
I did not realise that machines can have minds and qualities such as overconfidence and under confidence.
🖥️ **How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models**
🔗 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.03120.
#Preprint #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #LLMS
**Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language**
"_Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era_"
🔗 https://lithub.com/algorithm-on-fleek-how-tiktok-is-transforming-the-english-language/.
**An etymological knockout**
"_Couldn’t the semantics of kn-words, their constant use under emphasis, contribute to the simplification of kn-?_"
🇪🇺 **27% Of Europeans Could Not Afford A Week-Long Holiday In 2024**
"_The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week’s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (58.6%), Greece (46.0%) and Bulgaria (41.4%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250714-2.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #Economy #Economics #Holiday #Vacation
📖 **The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Euclid and John Casey**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076.
#ProjectGutenberg #Euclid #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📖 **Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22.
#ProjectGutenberg #Thesaurus #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📸 📚 🏴 **Gladstones Library Central View**
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstones_Library_Central_View_(187426107).jpeg.
Afternoon all.
🖥️ **AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves**
🔗 https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-responsible-for-slop-we-are-doing-it-to-ourselves/
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Internet #Algorithm
@zombiewarrior I would not know, I do not watch Disney productions or access their websites sites.
🗺️ 📚 **The History Of Cartography In Portable Document Format**
Volumes I, II, III, IV and VI:
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #PDF @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)**
"_In this episode, we examine how English spelling reformers described the pronunciation of English in the early 1600s, and we also explore how Modern English spellings reflect the phonetic history of words._"
🔗 https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2025/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/.
🖥️ **The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here**
"_In covering these pages for months, I have learned that a single person can operate dozens or hundreds of pages and can keep them filled up with content, and so having something occasionally go viral can be enough to make the entire endeavor financially viable._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-niche-machine-is-here/.
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Viral #Internet
A late evening all.
@mhedney I am glad that even though you live in North America you have not completely lost the British accent.
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.
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