Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
Morning all.
I did not realise that machines can have minds and qualities such as overconfidence and under confidence.
🖥️ **How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models**
🔗 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.03120.
#Preprint #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #LLMS
**Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language**
"_Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era_"
🔗 https://lithub.com/algorithm-on-fleek-how-tiktok-is-transforming-the-english-language/.
**An etymological knockout**
"_Couldn’t the semantics of kn-words, their constant use under emphasis, contribute to the simplification of kn-?_"
🇪🇺 **27% Of Europeans Could Not Afford A Week-Long Holiday In 2024**
"_The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week’s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (58.6%), Greece (46.0%) and Bulgaria (41.4%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250714-2.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #Economy #Economics #Holiday #Vacation
📖 **The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Euclid and John Casey**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076.
#ProjectGutenberg #Euclid #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📖 **Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22.
#ProjectGutenberg #Thesaurus #Read #Download #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📸 📚 🏴 **Gladstones Library Central View**
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstones_Library_Central_View_(187426107).jpeg.
Afternoon all.
🖥️ **AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves**
🔗 https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-responsible-for-slop-we-are-doing-it-to-ourselves/
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Internet #Algorithm
🗺️ 📚 **The History Of Cartography In Portable Document Format**
Volumes I, II, III, IV and VI:
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #PDF @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)**
"_In this episode, we examine how English spelling reformers described the pronunciation of English in the early 1600s, and we also explore how Modern English spellings reflect the phonetic history of words._"
🔗 https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2025/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/.
🖥️ **The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here**
"_In covering these pages for months, I have learned that a single person can operate dozens or hundreds of pages and can keep them filled up with content, and so having something occasionally go viral can be enough to make the entire endeavor financially viable._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-niche-machine-is-here/.
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Viral #Internet
A late evening all.
🖥️ **AI ‘slop’ and the end of the internet**
"_The internet that once held great promise to bring humans universal knowledge, connectivity, freedom and education will have been turned into a wasteland of unreal, unbelievable, and untrustworthy slop._"
🔗 https://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/columns/2025/07/14/ai-slop-and-the-end-of-the-internet.
#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Internet
🖥️ **Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI**
"_Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others._"
J.A. Reif, R.P. Larrick, & J.B. Soll, Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (19) e2426766122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426766122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academic @psychology
🖥️ 🖋️ **AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand**
"_We all have concerns about property infringement, the loss of jobs, the banality of ideas only formulated by the clunky cobbling together of what’s already been written and fed into the maw of the large language model (LLM)._"
🔗 https://electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/.
#Essay #Writing #Handwriting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #LLMS
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How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
Turns out semaglutide, tirzepatide, and relatives are wrecking the insurance underwriting industry's model of human mortality trends
https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance
🇺🇸 **The evolution of import tariffs: Rates and revenue as a percentage of GDP**
"_Both rates jumped noticeably in 2018 during the first trade war, more or less doubling by 2022. Despite this increase, tariffs still make up only a small part of federal revenue: about 0.3% of GDP per year, far too small to close the gap in the federal deficit, which has been close to 7% of GDP annually in recent years._"
🔗 https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/07/the-evolution-of-import-tariffs/.
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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