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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Joined Nov 2022
"If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE) was the most consequential ancient writer in the West." https://themarginaliareview.com/why-josephus-matters/ #History #Essay #Philosophy #Theology #Ancient #Writing #Author #Books #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MarginaliaROB/status/1669004030658453506
"..the introduction of Orca, a 13-billion parameter model that learns explanation traces from GPT-4, represents a significant breakthrough in advancing instruction-tuned models." https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/06/13/microsoft-ai-introduces-orca-a-13-billion-parameter-model-that-learns-to-imitate-the-reasoning-process-of-lfms-large-foundation-models/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT
Source: https://twitter.com/data_nerd/status/1668971713449672704
"A skull fragment and shin bone suggest that early modern humans might have passed through southeast Asia earlier than thought." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01903-3 #Science #Archaeology #Anthropology @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1669023321092923392
"Tracking the story of this complex spiritual partnership provides intimate insights into the psychological stakes of the solitude tradition and its varying implications for women and men in Restoration Britain." https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtad007/7152305 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/PastPresentSoc/status/1668939338007166981
Erasmus Studies Volume 43 (2023): Issue 1 (Jun 2023). https://brill.com/view/journals/eras/43/1/eras.43.issue-1.xml #OpenAccess #OA #History #Philosophy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1668976331990654988
"British Mathematical Colloquium-British Applied Mathematics Colloquium Glasgow 2021". https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/glasgow-mathematical-journal/issue/3E2A727FC4F9D2E13295425EF05FD3F2 #OpenAccess #OA #Maths #Articles
Source: https://twitter.com/cambUP_maths/status/1668272417813196806
"He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/science/space/owen-gingerich-dead.html #Science #Religion @science
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1668290864077066241
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Happy #Helsinki Day! #OnThisDay in #history - in 1550, King Gustav I of #Sweden (as #Finland was a Swedish territory at the time) established the town as a potential trading post.
Its population remained small until the 20th century, due to plague, fires, and other factors. When Russia annexed Finland, they moved the capital and the Royal Academy from Turku to Helsinki. This helped population growth AND led to the evolution of the University of Helsinki.
Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620 #History #Languages #Linguistics #Culture #English #Sociolinguistics #Florida #Cuba #USA @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1668247996738199560
The Making of ChatGPT: From Data to Dialogue.https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2023/the-making-of-chatgpt-from-data-to-dialogue/ #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Science #Technology
Source: https://twitter.com/SITNBoston/status/1667898108548661248
"One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information." https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lossless-data-compression-works-20230531/ #Computer #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1667903514025029632
Megan Dent, Disraeli and the Bible, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2023;, vcad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcad020 #OpenAccess #OA #Bible #History #Article #Britain #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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Today in 1862, over 300 Indigenous people around Victoria were forcibly removed by police over fears of smallpox. They are sent to northern Vancouver Island where they spread the disease.
By the end of the year, it was estimated 50% of the islands Indigenous population were dead.
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Today in 1806, Philemon Wright, his son and three other men leave Wright's Town with 700 logs & 6,000 barrel staves on a large raft on the Ottawa River.
After 35 days they reach Montreal, beginning the era of the timber trade for the Ottawa area.
"We are currently in the midst of a radical reinvention of English. Not perhaps since the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries has the English language shifted faster..." https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007/status/1667816084945137665
"..our studies show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced. This illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources, the underuse of social support and social influence." https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06137-x #OpenAccess #OA #Psychology #Research #Academia @psychology
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1667536573791973378
"Abu'l-Wafa is best known for the first use of the tan function and compiling tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. This work was done as part of an investigation into the orbit of the Moon, written down in Theories of the Moon." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/ #History #Maths #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1667473952032030720
"A new study published in Lancet estimates that over 100 million people in India are living with all forms of diabetes. The survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people could be living with pre-diabetes." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ft8kyd #Science #India
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1667495390243848193
@Edelruth This is such good advice: "Senior tip: don't wait until you retire to travel, do it while you are young, and are fit, and are willing to work in exotic places."
"..Naoíse Mac Sweeney examines why the West won’t die and, in the process, dismantles ahistorical concepts like the “clash of civilizations” and the notion of a linear progression from Greek and Roman ideals to those of our present day.." https://theamericanscholar.org/why-the-west-wont-die/ #History #Podcast #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/TheAmScho/status/1667535840355004416
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
