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Another experimental exhibit that LLMs cannot reason.
Setting medical diagnosis (an area in which they are pushed hard). In this experiment they took questions in which the LLMs had previously scored well and changed the correct answer to None Of the Above (NOTA)
Models evaluated:
DeepSeek-R1 (model 1), o3-mini (model 2), Claude-3.5 Sonnet (model 3), Gemini-2.0-Flash (model 4), GPT-4o (model 5), and Llama-3.3-70B (model 6)
Accuracy dropped for all.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2837372
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An 11th-century cloister, in Catalan Romanesque style.
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It's official - I'm famous - mentioned in a youtube video in a channel with 1.3 million subscribers! w00t
And it's favorable too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc
(re the gridded landscapes of the USA, that have so fascinated foreign-born geographers and historians, like me)
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This single graph shows why it is so damn hard to make any profits out of AI - even if you get $15 billion annual revenue
https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-single-graph-shows-why-it-is-so-damn-hard-to-make-any-profits-out-of-ai-even-if-you-get-usd15-billion-annual-revenue?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
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Portrait of Erasmus Writing,
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528 (Musée du Louvre)
Good afternoon.
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See you on the other side of the coming northern European #IceAge, I guess.
🇺🇸 🕐 **Poll: Younger Americans have a harder time reading clocks**
"_95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can._"
🔗 https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **East India Company**
**Ancient 5,500 year old factory 'confirms key part of the Bible'**
_The Canaanites were described in the Bible as people who lived in the area before the Israelites. The discovery is believed to be linked to the “Canaanite blade industry”._
🔗 https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/israel-ancient-blade-factory-bible-canaan-people.
🖥️ **Does generative AI help in learning programming: Students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance**
"_Frequent AI use links to lower scores, likely as weaker students rely more on study aids._"
Lepp, M. and Kaimre, J. (2025) 'Does generative AI help in learning programming: students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance,' Computers in Human Behavior Reports, p. 100642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100642.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Study #Education #Learning #Academia @ai
**You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.**
#Video: five minutes and forty-nine seconds.
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How US shoppers will be hit as tariff exemption ends
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv7l575lgeo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-creeping-into-the-linux-kernel-and-official-policy-is-needed-asap/
AI tools can help Linux maintainers, but they can also cause chaos. Here's what needs to be addressed - fast - before things get out of control.
🇺🇸 📚 **How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading**
"_Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit._"
🔗 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115113507025762448.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink #Reading #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🇬🇧 🎙️ **How big are the UK's demographic challenges?**
"_At the end of October, the ONS announced that the fertility rate in England and Wales had fallen to 1.44 births per woman in 2023 - the lowest figure since records began in 1938._"
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HhxYHnYvXwkEa75WhDqOA
#Audio #Podcast #Demography #Finance #Economy #Economics #UK #UnitedKingdom @economics
**Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023**
"_Taken together, these results suggest that we identified two distinct ‘types’ of White men who feel discriminated against: (a) an economically disadvantaged group seeking to explain their disadvantage (the Disenfranchised) and (b) a more privileged group threatened by recent social progress for structurally disadvantaged groups (the Radicalized)._"
Lilly, K. J., Kimberley, C., Bertenshaw, Z., Bahamondes, J., Sibley, C. G., & Osborne, D. (2025). Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e70010. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70010.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #SocialScience #Ethnicity #Ideology #Race #Discrimination #Academia @psychology @socialscience
**Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**
"_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"
Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science
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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/
But the cure may ruin the web....
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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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