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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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
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How to DESTROY Anyone in an Argument
"Philosophers are often thought of as truth-seekers, but often people are more interested in the mucky world of simple debate, and there is a sardonic, sarcastic essay by Schopenhauer that can help us out here - "On the Art of Being Right". In here he compiles a series of tactics used (often highly dishonestly) to secure victory in an argument even when one is misinformed, or just downright wrong."
Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for April 22 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20240422000000/en #Wikimedia #Image #Himalaya #Mountains
"All tested LLMs performed poorly on medical code querying, often generating codes conveying imprecise or fabricated information. LLMs are not appropriate for use on medical coding tasks without additional research."
Soroush, A. et al. (2024) 'Large language models are poor medical coders — benchmarking of medical code querying,' NEJM AI [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1056/aidbp2300040. #Research #DOI #Science #Medicine #Data #Ethics #Statistics #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
A leopard never changes his spots.
#Saying #JustSaying #Politics #Leopard #PublicDomain
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Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day?
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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If #history teaches us anything, it is that things are alright until they are suddenly not and that by that time it is usually too late.
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As years turn into decades, I am seeing a pattern in #IT where most practitioners no longer #read.
Yes, many, if not most, read tweets, blogs, comics, manga, etc., once every few minutes on their phones. But over the past two decades, I've not worked with someone who actually reads textbooks and novels on a daily basis.
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#WordOfTheDay: concupiscence (n.)
"ardent desire, improper or illicit desire, lustful feeling," mid-14c., from Old French concupiscence and directly from Late Latin concupiscentia "eager desire," from present-participle stem of Latin concupiscere, inceptive of concupere "to be very desirous of," from assimilated form of com-, here perhaps an intensive prefix (see com-), + cupere "to long for" (see cupidity). Used in Vulgate to translate Greek epithymia."
#Citation: Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of concupiscence.” Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/concupiscence. Accessed 21 April, 2024.
#Word #Words #Etymology #Lexicon #Dictionary #C14th #14thCentury #Latin #English #Language #Languages
Is it anything to do with corporate profits?
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I bought some cheap highlighters yesterday for annotating purposes. I hope they do not bleed through the pages of the #book.
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Books #Bookstodon #Annotation #Marginalia @bookstodon
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#AI The world’s largest #commodity traders are investing heavily in data processing and analysis in a race to develop a technological edge over rivals, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/ffc4d781-8761-47e4-bb2b-83fa974252b1?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
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In 1495, the Danish warship Gribshunden sank off the coast of Sweden. In recent years, researchers have dived to explore the wreck and have made several important discoveries
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/04/sunken-medieval-warship/
#GoodMorning #Mastodon, it is time to get back to the #books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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(High Concentration) A third of the value of the S&P 500 index lies in the #MagnificentSeven #tech stocks, raising concerns about overexposure and over-concentration, chart @GoldmanSachs
When a person has to intellectually contort themselves more than the most accomplished contortinist it may be time for his/her audience to realise that arriving at the truth is not the speaker's main objective.
If you want to know why some people are deceptive, ask yourself this #question: how many of their aims can be achieved without employing #sophistry?
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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