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“A handful of current and former employees at OpenAI and other prominent artificial intelligence companies warned that the technology poses grave risks to humanity in a Tuesday letter, calling on companies to implement sweeping changes to ensure transparency and foster a culture of public debate.”
#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3yMIh9l
5 Things You Didn’t Realize Were Named After People
“This video looks at 5 overlooked eponyms that you might encounter on a daily basis.”
#Video length: fifty nine seconds
🇯🇵 Why Japan’s Economy Is So Fiercely Inefficient | WSJ
“WSJ’s Peter Landers explains how being fiercely traditional is weighing down Japan’s economy.”
#Video length: five minutes and fifty three seconds.
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe
“The historical and archaeological record leave no doubt that the development of culture and population in southwestern Germany was temporarily characterized by profound discontinuities, particularly during the third to first century BCE. The definitive end of the 2,000 years of relative genetic continuity from the Bronze throughout the Iron Age in southern Germany is marked by a sudden, sharp increase of Steppe-related ancestry during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.”
Gretzinger, J., Schmitt, F., Mötsch, A. et al. Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe. Nat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7
#OpenAccess #OA #Reasearch #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Biology #Science #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology @histodon @histodons
Languages from the World of the Bible
"The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape."
Gzella, H. 2011. Languages from the World of the Bible. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781934078631/html
#OpenAccess #OA #AncientNearEast #Ancient #Classics #Language #Languages #History #Histodon #Histodons #OldTestament #Theology #Religion #Bible #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @theology @religion @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (83)
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Do you need some good news? We only have to replace one-third of the energy generated by fossile fuels with renewables to meet our energy demand. Sounds weird? Here’s why: https://youtu.be/EVJkq4iu7bk?si=OuVh11T0jPnr_bGI
Is the number of natural disasters increasing?
“A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.”
Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado (2024) - “Is the number of natural disasters increasing?” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/disaster-database-limitations’ [Online Resource].
How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart
“These “proofs” reveal some very common logical slips that can go unnoticed when we are trying to prove more plausible statements. And the stakes are high.”
#Video length: one hour and three minutes.
Charted: Declining Birth Rates in the Most Populous Countries (1950-Today)
“Birth rates are falling in the six most populated countries in the world, though at different speeds.
This graphic shows the annual births per 1,000 people in the world’s six largest countries by population. The data is from the UN World Population Prospects (2022) and has been compiled by Our World in Data.”
The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825
“The effort to transform Sumatra into a productive constituent of a larger imperial nexus depended on many of the same processes that were to shape modern capitalism. Not only did British officials in Bencoolen deploy coerced and enslaved labor, they did so with the intent of wresting control of the production, consumption, and circulation of valuable commodities such as pepper and sugar. Practices of slavery, transplantation, and agrarian change typically associated with British colonies in the Atlantic world fundamentally shaped Bencoolen.”
Bains, T. (2024) ‘The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.142.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Imperialism #Empire #Europe #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
AI can ‘fake’ empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests
“Computer scientists have found that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) can inadvertently allow Nazism, sexism and racism to fester in their conversation partners.
When prompted to show empathy, these conversational agents do so in spades, even when the humans using them are self-proclaimed Nazis. What’s more, the chatbots did nothing to denounce the toxic ideology.”
#Academia #Academic #Academics #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Tech #Technology #Nazism #Fascism #Racism #Sexism #Fake #Empathy #Chatbot @ai
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GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gpt-4-didnt-ace-the-bar-exam-after-all-mit-research-suggests-it-barely-passed #chatgpt #ai #generativeAI #llm #law #exam #education #bullshit
Currently #reading….
“Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies)
by Michael Sharratt”
What non-fiction book are you currently reading?
#Read #NonFiction #Biography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics #EarlyModern #History #HistSci #Science #Scientist #Scientists #Europe @bookstodon
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It was through Gilbert's work that I learned of Petrus Peregrinus, whom Gilbert praised for actually experimenting. Petrus never managed to perfect his magnet-driven perpetual motion machine, however.
https://archive.org/details/b24876859
Becket - Richard Burton - Peter O’Toole - John Gielgud - 1964 - Restored - 2024 - 4K
“Becket is a 1964 British historical drama film about the historic, tumultuous relationship between Henry II of England and his friend-turned-bishop Thomas Becket. It is a dramatic film adaptation of the 1959 play Becket or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures.”
#Video length: two hours, twenty eight minutes and twenty two seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMwgMDUjVf0
#Cinema #Film #Films #Movie #Movies #History #Drama #Britain #British #England #English @film @movies
‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’
“Last month, UCL academics unveiled the most significant rediscovered books left to the university in Bentham’s will, including the translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools and a maths textbook explaining Euclid’s propositions. Their contents, together with the philosopher’s own notes, indicate how some of his radical theories were first sparked.”
#Philosophy #Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #University #UCL #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Karmakolle, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Bentham_auto_icon_2.jpg
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“For quite long periods, at any rate, people can remain undisturbed by obvious lies, either because they simply forget what is said from day to day or because they are under such a constant propaganda bombardment that they become anaesthetized to the whole business.”
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Evaluating Large Language Models Using “Counterfactual Tasks”
"In [the counterfactual task] paradigm, models are evaluated on pairs of tasks that require the same types of abstraction and reasoning, but for each pair, the content of the first task is likely to be similar to training data, whereas the content of the second task (a “counterfactual task”) is designed to be unlikely to be similar to training data." -- #MelanieMitchell
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In Dutch "the day before yesterday" = "eergisteren" ("gisteren" = "yesterday"). "The day after tomorrow" is "overmorgen ("morgen" = "tomorrow").
Basque "etzidamu" is very usefull. Sometimes Dutch say "overovermorgen" for the same meaning, but a bit jockinly. It's not in the Grote Van Dale, but you can find it on https://www.woorden.org/woord/overovermorgen and on some other sites.
Even "eereergisteren" (the day before the day before) is somtimes found on the internet.
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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