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"I once attended a lecture by Dirk Struik, delivered with great clarity and without notes – a remarkable performance, given that the speaker was then 104 years old!"
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/history-mathematics-robin-wilson/
📚 **10 books to read in September**
Courtesy of the LA Times:
🔗 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-09-01/books-to-read-september-2025.
#Recommendations #Nonfiction #Fiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📚 **Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025 (Part 1)**
🔗 https://ourculturemag.com/2025/08/29/our-cultures-most-anticipated-books-of-fall-2025-part-1/.
📚 **New books for September 2025: On Liberalism, Somebody Should Do Something, What Is Intelligence?, and more**
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Last local currency in UK comes to an end after 17 years
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lewes-pound-local-currency-discontinued-money-b2817803.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business (UK Edition) @business-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
🏴 📖 **The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch**
"_Overall, Woodman presents Æthelstan as a European king, a scholar, with ruthless ambitions and a strong streak of piety._"
#History #Histodons #England #Nonfiction #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodons
#Image attribution: See description, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athelstan_(cropped).jpg.
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Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea. Part of the reason why the UK is a world leader in off-shore windfarms.
(by @historyinmemes)
**The Mona Lisa of medieval manuscripts, as you’ve never seen it before**
"_The manuscript itself has a colourful history: it was begun around 1411 by three young artists, the Limbourg brothers, for the discerning and covetous Jean, Duc de Berry, son, brother and uncle to successive kings of France, whose reputation as a lover of books, gems, exotic objects and ‘choses estranges’ was well established in his own lifetime._"
🔗 https://apollo-magazine.com/tres-riches-heures-limbourg-brothers-chantilly-manuscript-review/.
Good morning
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#AbrahamLincoln #politics #history #photography
'The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added nearly 500 images to its online collection of high-resolution Lincoln pictures...'
"_Hayek’s abandonment of the established view on the Aristotelian roots of the Austrian school can be better understood by considering the intellectual environment of his time. His eventual adoption of Karl Popper’s point of view on Aristotle meant taking a stance against Karl Polanyi’s democratic socialism and distancing himself from Wilhelm Röpke’s Catholic conservatism_"
Karp, M. (2025) ‘HAYEK ON ARISTOTLE: THE DEBRIS OF A GENEALOGY OF MODERNITY, VIA POPPER, POLANYI, AND RÖPKE’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 47(3), pp. 317–338. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837225000069.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Hayek #Aristotle #Academia @histodons @economics
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Another experimental exhibit that LLMs cannot reason.
Setting medical diagnosis (an area in which they are pushed hard). In this experiment they took questions in which the LLMs had previously scored well and changed the correct answer to None Of the Above (NOTA)
Models evaluated:
DeepSeek-R1 (model 1), o3-mini (model 2), Claude-3.5 Sonnet (model 3), Gemini-2.0-Flash (model 4), GPT-4o (model 5), and Llama-3.3-70B (model 6)
Accuracy dropped for all.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2837372
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An 11th-century cloister, in Catalan Romanesque style.
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It's official - I'm famous - mentioned in a youtube video in a channel with 1.3 million subscribers! w00t
And it's favorable too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc
(re the gridded landscapes of the USA, that have so fascinated foreign-born geographers and historians, like me)
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This single graph shows why it is so damn hard to make any profits out of AI - even if you get $15 billion annual revenue
https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-single-graph-shows-why-it-is-so-damn-hard-to-make-any-profits-out-of-ai-even-if-you-get-usd15-billion-annual-revenue?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
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Portrait of Erasmus Writing,
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528 (Musée du Louvre)
Good afternoon.
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See you on the other side of the coming northern European #IceAge, I guess.
@JPK_elmediat They certainly are, time waits for none.
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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