Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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💻 **The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity**
“_We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles._”
🔗 https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LRMS #Technology #Tech #Thinking #Reasoning @ai
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**how to remember your best ideas (in under 3 minutes)**
#Video length: two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset**
_Getting back to “gotten”, which has been described by the linguist David Crystal in his Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language as “probably the most distinctive of all the [American English/British English] grammatical differences”._
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/04/use-word-gotten-some-readers-upset.
📖 **Fascism: The History of a Word**
_Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term’s use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini’s political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a “fascist minimum.”_
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo247752701.html.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Fascism #Fascist #History #Histodons @histodons @bookstodon
💻 **Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?**
“_As François Chollet and other AI researchers have pointed out, deep neural networks suffer from inherent brittleness: they struggle to generalise beyond their training data, fail at basic reasoning tasks, and remain unreliable for applications requiring consistency or accuracy._”
🔗 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst.
🇺🇸 **Half of the bond market is US Treasurys. Why it's 'not healthy.'**
_“This is not healthy,” Sløk wrote. “Half of credit issued in the economy should not be going to the government.”_
🔗 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2025/06/08/us-treasurys-half-bond-market/84102197007/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy #Economics #Debt #Credit @economics
Afternoon all.
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A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks.
Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD.
From the collections at the Museum of London.
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Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/washington-post-ai-opinion/683064/?utm_source=feed
📸 🇳🇴 **King Harald Hardrada**
#Image attribution: Lerwick Town Hall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg.
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#Earthquake 23 km SE of #Ierissós (#Greece) 19 min ago (local time 15:46:20). Updated map - Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience via:
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**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**
#Gold #Coin #Numismatics #History #Byzantine #Empire
#Image attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg.
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The Nag Hammadi Library & the Recovery of the Lost Gnostic Tradition
"How did the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library influence the modern understanding of Gnosticism and early Christianity?"
https://www.thecollector.com/nag-hammadi-library-gnostic-tradition/
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The whole “AI demands universal basic income” argument presupposes that “AI” will eventually work and won’t be a major source of volatility that ultimately leads to a series of economic crises, which is unfortunately at least equally likely.
(Systemic volatility is lethal for an economy. It doesn’t matter if it comes coupled with an incremental productivity boost, systemic volatility has a tendency to cascade and cause major crises.)
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Why philosophy of physics?
Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful
By James Read
Philosophy of physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7005
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🇺🇸 **Trump bill set to add trillions to US debt pile – can America stop it climbing?**
“_Economists are concerned, politicians are angry – but the national debt keeps growing, no matter who’s in charge_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/07/trump-bill-us-national-debt.
#Debt #Economy #Economics #Politics #USPol #Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
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I just love the fact that so much money (in this case, profit for an egregious rent-seeking bloodsucker) turns on the #OxfordComma
The European Commission is, of course, grammatically, stylistically, and aesthetically correct here. 😃
Morning all.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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