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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #sciences, #nonfiction #books, #maps, #charts and #graphs related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🇪🇬 🇨🇭 Egypt reclaims 3,400-year-old statue of Ramesses II found in Switzerland
"Egypt collaborated with Swiss authorities to establish its rightful ownership. Switzerland handed over the statue to the Egyptian embassy in Bern last year, but it was only recently that Egypt brought the artefact home."
Not a #headline one hopes to #read:
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
"Tobacco farming is driving apes to seek unusual food source, brimming with pathogens"
https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.zzx18k8
#News #DOI #Plants #Animals #Tobacco #Farming #Virus #Science #Epidemiology @science
"Despite their seemingly factual nature, Renaissance maps are considered significant art objects. How can we best read them to understand more about this period?"
Romano, Daniella. "How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/how-read-renaissance-map-tips/ (accessed April 22, 2024).
#Map #Maps #Mapstodon #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Renaissance #Tip #Tips @histodon @histodons
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
#Image attribution: Tamar Assaf, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Persian_Leopard_sitting.jpg
Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day?
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Immanuel_Kant_Emanuel_Kant_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-2015-26-1764.jpg
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
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“If you are still contributing to X, you are the energy-dense fuel that Musk is pouring into his hate machine. This is true no matter how complex your post-hoc rationalisations are.”
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you-are-the-fuel-that-energises-elon-musks-hate-machine/
Is it anything to do with corporate profits?
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Hey, I’m just throwing this out there:
If you’re interested in supporting an open source YouTube alternative that has:
1) livestreaming and chat capacity that can even be embedded into your own website,
2) no ads,
3) is crowdfunded,
4) focuses exclusively on makers, artists, musicians, and DIYers
5) can import all your YouTube vids easily and automatically
--then please consider supporting and using MakerTube.net.
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/
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #sciences, #nonfiction #books, #maps, #charts and #graphs 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.
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