Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

Welcome new Mastodonians.
Might suggest a few interesting people to follow
Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...") @rob_carlson

George Dyson (great for history of science posts) @gdyson

Alberto Cairo (data visualization - infographics) @albertocairo

Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá (data visualization) @wonderveilleuze

Maggie Koerth (Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight ) @maggiek

Vicky Veritas (Geologist, GISMS Earth science, kind person that gets people connected) @vickyveritas

It's time to move beyond using #hybridwork as a term for the combination of on-site and remote work. The new hybrid is about the WHO as well as the WHERE of work: It's the combination of human + AI, and the combination of office and WFH.

My latest #AI column for JSTOR Daily looks at how #remotework set the stage for AI—by making us less attached to our human colleagues, and ready to solve the problems can really help us address.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-new-hybrid-work-is-ai-plus-humans/

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world, including:
> The Indian Ocean saw an intense, slow-moving cyclone in the Arabian Sea that deprived land of rainfall for weeks.
> In the Atlantic, the weakening trade winds associated with #ElNiño tend to tamp down #hurricane activity, but warm Atlantic temperatures can supercharge those storms.

(via @TheConversationUS)
https://theconversation.com/ocean-heat-is-off-the-charts-heres-what-that-means-for-humans-and-ecosystems-around-the-world-207902

#FossilFriday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes & The Lost World, died #OTD in 1930. In 1994, Arthurdactylus a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous  of Brazil was named in his honor.

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-pterosaurs/

Exploring mathematical conjecturing with large language models. ~ Moa Johansson, Nicholas Smallbone. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/tmp-proceedings/NeSy2023/paper5.pdf #LLM #GPT #Math #IsabelleHOL

"Fake online users make up as much as 40 percent of all web traffic."

And that was BEFORE the so called "#AIRevolution".

#bots #AI

New post: History of Cartography Project’s Fourth Volume Now Available Online https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/07/history-of-cartography-projects-fourth-volume-now-available-online/

#OpenScience on Mastodon

https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

#OTD 7 July 1798 As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

'Fashion' has the same origin as 'faction'.

Both words stem from Latin 'factiōnem' and were exported by the French.

However, 'fashion' comes from Old Norman 'façon', which had come to mean "manner; form", while 'faction' derives from the written Latin form.

Here's more:

#OTD 6 July 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

@mcnees The Principia Mathematica was published on 5 July 1687 is not strictly true
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/published-on/

Eötvös showed that the ratio m_g / m_i differed from 1 by no more than a part in 10⁹. This phenomenal agreement between the two quantities begged an explanation, and indeed it is central to one form of the Equivalence Principle that helped Einstein formulate general relativity.

In the 1960s, Robert Dicke and his colleagues at Princeton would push the equality of inertial and gravitational mass to one part in 10¹¹.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0003491664902593

I am delighted by the fact that, more than 300 years after it puzzled Newton, the equality of inertial and gravitational mass tells us that we are probably missing something deep about general relativity and/or quantum mechanics.

This and more recent tests are so precise that they constrain the gravitational properties of *quantum mechanical* contributions to the mass of a nucleus.

An unavoidable consequence is what we call the cosmological constant problem. Quantum mechanical effects in empty spacetime should gravitate! If they didn’t, this would show up as measurable deviations in m_g/m_I for different nuclei.

An important note!

The “publication date” of July 5, 1687 is a convenient starting point for a discussion of Principia. But as @rmathematicus explains in this blog post, it is not a publication date in the sense commonly understood today.

Rather than spoil the punchline, I encourage you to read the post:

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/published-on/