Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
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🔴 🇷🇺 📖 **Fyodor fever: how Dostoevsky became a social media sensation**
Imogen West-Knights
_“Since about December of last year, White Nights has been all over BookTok and its Instagram parallel, Bookstagram. Searching for the 1848 tale on these platforms will result in page after page of reviews, quotes, and moody shots of the book next to cups of coffee.”_
#FyodorDostoevsky #Dostoevsky #Read #Reading #Fiction #ShortStory #Story #Russia #Literature #Book #Books #Bookstodon #SocialMedia #Tiktok #Instagram @bookstodon @literature
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🔴 ✈️ **Travelers Weigh in on Weight-Based Airfares for Eco-Friendly Skies**
_“Those who were more in favor of weight-based policies tended to be younger with those ages 18-35 accepting weight-based pricing almost 20 percentage points more than travelers who were 66 and older. Additionally, travelers with higher incomes or frequent flyer status were 25% more likely to support weight-based policies than those in lower income brackets or who didn’t travel as much.”_
_“By the numbers: According to the new Copernicus data, November was the 16th out of the past 17 months during which global average surface temperatures exceeded the 1.5°C target relative to pre-industrial temperatures.”_
#Climate #ClimateChnage #Science #Environment @climatechange @science
Global climate records in 2023 and 2024 defy scientific explanation https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/climate-change-records-surprise-scientists?utm...
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🔴 🇬🇪 **Ancient Tablet Etched With Mysterious Language Found in Georgia**
Mike McRae
_"The letters' shapes might resemble Middle Eastern symbols, while mirroring the seals of Bronze and Early Iron Age Georgia. The researchers note the signs are also reminiscent of Proto-Kartvelian script – a language that would give rise to modern dialects and
languages of the region."_
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-tablet-etched-with-mysterious-language-found-in-georgia.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Georgia #Language @histodon @histodons
🔴 **AI with reasoning power will be less predictable, Ilya Sutskever says**
Jeffrey Dastin
_"Sutskever offered some ways to push the frontier despite this conundrum. He said technology itself could generate new data, or AI models could evaluate multiple answers before settling on the best response for a user, to improve accuracy. Other scientists have set sights on real-world data."_
🔴 **Scientists Warn of an ‘Unprecedented Risk’ From Synthetic ‘Mirror Life,’ Built With a Reverse Version of Natural Proteins and Sugars**
Eli Wizevich
_“Mirror cells,” as they are known, could one day compose “mirror life,” a type of synthetic organism that, on the molecular level, is the complete reverse of the life forms we know. But the 38 co-authors of the warning article published in the journal Science recommend that research into mirror life be blocked immediately, before it spirals out of control._
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30 Words that Changed their Meaning Between the Middle Ages and Modern Times https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/words-changed-meaning-middle-ages/ #EnglishLanguage #MedievalvsModern #Words
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In the US, electric bills could increase up to 70% in next 5 years to meet data center demand
"Artificial Intelligence (AI), which requires more power, is driving future demand for data centers, according to the study - which states a ChatGPT AI query requires about ten times the amount of power compared to a standard Google search."
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The problem with American health care in one graph... they spend more for worse results (measured in life expectancy).
No wonder Americans are dissatisfied with health insurers.... the gap between America & other counties can be measured either in lives shortened or in profits from health care (or, of course, both!)
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In 1938, John Groth made a map poking at the rising influence of fascist in South America from the Japanese, Germans and Italians. He pointed toward isolating policies that may have pressed regional governments toward fascism.
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I just saw an obituary headline for a bacteriologist described as “a giant in his field” and I’m like of course have you seen how small bacteria are?
🔴 🎥 **The Life of Jochi Khan: First son of Genghis Khan**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
🔗 (i) https://youtu.be/jvaMjlxuQNw
🔗 (ii) https://youtu.be/EkVeDsPg6lE
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #GenghisKhan #JochiKhan #Khan #Mongol #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 💻 **Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data**
_“Our findings indicate that if current LLM development trends continue, models will be trained on datasets roughly equal in size to the available stock of public human text data between 2026 and 2032, or slightly earlier if models are overtrained.”_
Villalobos, P. et al. (2022) Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04325v2.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Data #ComputerScience #MachineLearning @ai
🔴 🖋 ⌨️ **Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom**
_“Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity. It appears that the movements related to typewriting do not activate these connectivity networks the same way that handwriting does.”_
Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Education #Psychology #Brain #Neuroscience #Learning #Handwriting #Writing #Typing #Typewriting #Academia #Academic @science @psychology
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There is a clear upside risk to #inflation pressure next year if the #trade war b/w the US and #China escalates. The market seems to underestimate how a #tradewar could increase the risk of new #supplychain issues, chart @NordeaMarkets
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After the #ThirtyYearsWar Renée du Bec-Crespin continued her diplomatic activities, although informally. In 1659 she was appointed as Maria Theresa of Spain’s maid of honour, but she died on her way to receive the bride at the Spanish-French border.
If you want to read more about Renée du Bec-Crespin, we recommend the article by Anuschka Tischer who was one of first researchers to highlight female #emdiplomats:
Anuschka Tischer, Eine französische Botschafterin in Polen: die Gesandtschaftsreise Renée de Guébriants zum Hofe Władisławs IV. 1645/1646, in L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 2 (2001), 305-321.
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#emdiplomacy #NewDiplomaticHistory #DynasticHistory #history #histodons #earlyModern #history #histodons
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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Joined Nov 2022
