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🔴 🇳🇱 **Archaeologists make unprecedented discovery of Roman soldier’s remains from ‘year 0’**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Today, evidence was found of Roman habitation in the time of Emperor Augustus. A unique discovery that not only teaches us more about our past, but also shows how unique the story of Roman Heerlen is for the Netherlands,” Jordy Clemens, Heerlen’s council member for culture and heritage, said in a statement._
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-soldier-remains-year-zero-b2663810.html.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #RomanEmpire #Roman #Empire #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further**
James O'Donnell
_“One key shift in AI right now means that the field’s emissions are soon likely to skyrocket. AI models are rapidly moving from fairly simple text generators like ChatGPT toward highly complex image, video, and music generators. Until now, many of these “multimodal” models have been stuck in the research phase, but that’s changing.”_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions #Environment @climatechange
_"...reliance on ChatGPT for idea generation comes with a significant tradeoff: while enhancing individual ideas' creativity, it reduces the diversity of ideas in a pool of ideas—a critical element for effective brainstorming."_
#BrainStorming #Ideas #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #ChatGPT @ai
ChatGPT Decreases Idea Diversity in Brainstorming http://osf.io/yqb29/
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A different kind of global map: The new SWOT satellite uses radar altimetry to measure topography of the ocean floor.
In its first year, the satellite is already providing a sharper look at the 50% of the Earth that's never been seen clearly before.
This is what Planet Ocean looks like.
https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/missions/current-missions/swot/portfolio-of-swot-first-results/global-view-of-seafloor-gravity-and-bathymetry-from-one-year-of-swot.html #space #science #earth #nature #ocean
🔴 🗺️ **1794 Samuel Dunn Wall Map of the World in Hemispheres**
_"A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, Containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System."_
#Image attribution: Thomas Kitchin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1794_Samuel_Dunn_Wall_Map_of_the_World_in_Hemispheres_-_Geographicus_-_World2-dunn-1794.jpg.
🔴 📐 **This 100-Page Proof Claims to Have Solved the World’s Most Frustrating Math Puzzle: What’s The Largest Sofa That Fits Around a Corner?**
Tibi Puiu
_“While the Moving Sofa Problem sounds like an abstract exercise — or a practical joke on frustrated movers — it represents a broader challenge in geometry and optimization. It forces mathematicians to explore the limits of shape and space, often revealing new mathematical insights.”_
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/math/moving-sofa-math-problem/.
🔴 🇨🇦 **White consciousness helps explain conspiracy thinking**
_"This study finds that those high in White consciousness are more likely to 1) engage in generalized conspiracy thinking, 2) endorse the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, and 3) move from generalized conspiracy thinking to endorsing specific, non-racial conspiracy theories."_
Snagovsky, F. (2024). White consciousness helps explain conspiracy thinking. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-166.
#Canada #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Academia #Academics
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Mystery woman’s DNA reveals close family ties between Europe’s earliest people
https://www.science.org/content/article/mystery-woman-s-dna-reveals-close-family-ties-between-europe-s-earliest-people?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag
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Hey #academics
How do you share your articles and dessimnate your #research here at #mastodon ?
#OpenAccess #academicpublishing @academicchatter @academia #scicom
🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**
_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_
Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion
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Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing
a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books
that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools.
The dataset was created by Harvard’s newly formed Institutional Data Initiative
with funding from both Microsoft and OpenAI.
It contains books scanned as part of the Google Books project that are no longer protected by copyright.
Around five times the size of the notorious Books3 dataset
that was used to train AI models like Meta’s Llama,
the Institutional Data Initiative's database spans genres, decades, and languages,
with classics from Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Dante included alongside
obscure Czech math textbooks and Welsh pocket dictionaries.
Greg Leppert, executive director of the Institutional Data Initiative, says
the project is an attempt to “level the playing field” by giving the general public,
including small players in the AI industry and individual researchers,
access to the sort of highly-refined and curated content repositories that normally only established tech giants have the resources to assemble.
“It's gone through rigorous review,” he says
https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/
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@libroraptor @bibliolater @linguistics @ai
Yes! But please - work with human technical writers, not AI. True AI does not exist, you'd just be burning resources to generate plausible-sounding word soup.
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The Sarcophagus of Portonaccio is named after the area in which it was found in 1931 and dates to c. 180 CE. The level of detail in the battle scene is extraordinary and the subject matter has led to the theory that it was intended for an army general.
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AI is causing a data storage crisis for enterprises
https://www.itpro.com/hardware/storage/ai-is-causing-a-data-storage-crisis-for-enterprises
Many organizations will need to rethink data management strategies and storage architectures to keep pace
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@bibliolater @linguistics @ai For centuries, we've said that education solves problems like these.
Maybe we could try a broader education for academics? Maybe specialisation is part of what drives this blindness to one's own ignorance, the blindness that makes everyone an expert in rhetoric while actual rhetors are now so rare that hardly anyone knows that they ever existed.
🔴 **Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication**
Robert Booth
_Prof Rob Drummond, a sociolinguist at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “We are giving control of forming our identity to a machine. It is creating an extra layer of inauthenticity to this identity creation. I do wonder if longer term people are going to react against that.” He described automatic tone changing as “the ultimate superficiality”._
#Linguistics #Language #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @linguistics @ai
🔴 🇺🇸 **The burial site of slaves owned by a former US president has finally been found**
Travis Loller
_"At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865._
_Nobody knew where they were buried. But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery: They believe they have found the slave cemetery at The Hermitage, the home of America's seventh president."_
#Slavery #Slaves #AndrewJackson #Nashville #Tennessee #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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Ottensheim, Upper Austria, Austro-Hungary between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
#Ottensheim #UpperAustria #Austro #OttensheimADDonau #Austria-Danube #photography #historicalPhotos
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Chatbot Apologies: Beyond Bullshit http://osf.io/u98gn/
🔴 🇬🇧 **The British Reader is in Decline as The Reading Agency Reveals Half of UK Adults Don’t Read Regularly**
23 July 2024
“Only 50% of UK adults now read regularly for pleasure, down from 58% in 2015.[5]
15% of UK adults have never read regularly for pleasure, an 88% increase since 2015.[6]
35% of UK adults are “lapsed readers” who used to read but have stopped.
Young UK adults (16-24) face the most barriers to reading, with 24% saying they’ve never been regular readers.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #Europe #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image: attributed to William Notman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Still_Life_with_Books_MET_DP139567.jpg.
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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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