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"This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text." https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Scotland #Enlightenment #C18th #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/MaxSkjonsberg/status/1658470581384380421
Dow, S. (2023). SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000530 #History #Philosophy #Science #OpenAccess #OA #histodons @histodons
"They pulled off one of the most astonishing campaigns of conquest in history, forging the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen. But how did they treat their subject populations once the dust had settled?" https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/what-life-like-mongol-empire/ #History #Mongol #Medieval #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NicholasMorto11/status/1658126237603094531
"Felix Flicker explores the magnetic monopoles theoretically predicted to exist in ‘spin ices’ and how this could lead to fundamental advances in electronics with the possibility of magnetic currents that overcome physical limitations faced by electrical currents today." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xH97Su-KY #Video #Science #Physics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1657804298087014403
Ohthere: King Alfred’s Viking Guest from beyond the Arctic Circle https://ancientscribbles.com/2022/03/ohthere-king-alfreds-viking-guest-from-beyond-the-arctic-circle/.html #History #Ancient #Norway #England #Europe #Vikings #Arctic #histodons @histodons
"..Mark Carrigan argues that the dynamic of ChatGPT and generative AIs as efficiency tools opens the door to further growth and acceleration in research outputs, but also raises questions about the value of these products of academic labour." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/14/generative-ai-and-the-unceasing-acceleration-of-academic-writing/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Academia #Writing
Source: https://twitter.com/LSEImpactBlog/status/1657687447197696001
"Here are 10 books that we recommend you read if you’re looking to immerse yourself in the world of classical literature, but don’t know where to start." https://blog.oup.com/2022/05/10-books-to-immerse-yourself-in-the-world-of-classical-literature-reading-list/ #book books #Literature #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPAcademic/status/1657428017151610880
Len Scales, Ever Closer Union? Unification, Difference, and the ‘Making of Europe’, c.950–c.1350, The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April 2022, Pages 321–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac061 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Journal #Europe #Article #Medieval #histodons @histodons
Nataliia Hübler, Simon J Greenhill, Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims, Journal of Language Evolution, 2023;, lzad002, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad002 #OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #Evolution #Anthropology #Article #Langauges
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A very interesting point (that when an LLM gets very good at predicting continuations, it may do it by developing things that look a lot like mental models) expressed really badly.
"Doing things they were not trained to do" is an utterly misleading way of describing the situation. They weren't trained to do any specific thing at all, except produce plausible continuations. Anything that that implies, from writing a bland thank-you letter to urging a reporter to leave his wife, is to exactly the same extent "something it was not trained to do".
This kind of wording just encourages people to have inaccurate ideas about how LLMs actually work.
Grumble grumble! :)
"a close reading of the sources reflects the importance of Indigenous knowledges to imperial expansion, on the one hand, and the interactive nature of cross-cultural knowledge sharing that became hidden by early modern European epistemological practices." https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac047 #History #Brazil #Europe #histodons #openaccess #oa @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1648687392856113152
Was the earth of Carthage salted after its fall during the third Punic War? https://www.badancient.com/claims/carthage-salted/ #history #histodons #africa @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/BadAncient/status/1650876040858722305
"Within a few months, things turned very sour. Rousseau wrote hateful letters to Hume accusing him of having plotted for his disgrace and humiliation by way of petty torments." https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/klein-hume-rousseau-affair
#History #Philosophy #histodons @histodons #philosopher
Source: https://twitter.com/adamsmithworks/status/1656329555517358082
6,000-year-old settlement — full of tools and granite structures — found in France https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article274788961.html #Archaeology #History #France #Corsica #histodons @histodons
"Some of these systems’ abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do—and even their inventors are baffled as to why." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1656696548435148812
The Interesting Etymologies of 71 Everyday Words https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/interesting-etymologies-everyday-words #etymology #languages
Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1656735934572789773
"What makes this fragment unique, however, is the fact that Maimonides has added the translation in a Romance dialect below some words." https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/maimonides-fragments-discovered #Library #Philosophy #medieval #history #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/theUL/status/1657031374090432517
"The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years." https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290822
#book #History #Science #Medical #bookstodon #histodons #medieval #England @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/MedievalUpdates/status/1657304296776450048
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@bibliolater TLG isn't really "open" by any stretch of the imagination. They're really stuck in the proprietary mind-set of 1985.
My own offering is a novel presentation of Homer with aids: https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ransom
Cunliffe's dictionary of the Homeric language is public domain now, yay: https://archive.org/details/CunliffeHomericLexicon (TLG has a copy of Cunliffe behind their own paywall, with rate-limiting and other restrictions that make it useless.)
Why the Dutch always say what they mean – BBC REEL https://youtu.be/wrEZwe1nbBU #Youtube #Video #Language #Netherlands #UnitedKingdom
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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