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#Question: can you please share with us something that you found out this week that you did not know before?
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What is good for #German companies is not good for #Germany - chart @MESandbu @FT https://www.ft.com/content/2ff22d32-390a-4126-865f-7365178a0d6c
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
"The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes
#ElonMusk #Tech #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Oxford #Philosophy #News #Press @philosophy
Using RSS feeds may be better for your mental health
"Your RSS feed shows content in chronological order—not curated, manipulated, or in some random order determined by some artificial intelligence that thinks it knows what you want to see better than you do."
https://openrss.org/blog/rss-feeds-may-be-better-for-your-mental-health
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[Gift Article] How France Is Fighting ‘Shrinkflation’
"Merchants will be required to put signs in front of all products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut."
The Kaiser's Nazi Funeral
"He gave express instructions that his funeral was not to include Nazi symbolism, as he had been a vocal critic of Hitler and particularly his anti-semitic policies. But, the Nazis ignored the Kaiser's wishes and he was given a funeral containing a lot of NSDAP symbolism. It was a final insult from Hitler, who despised the Kaiser and all he stood for."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Europe @histodon @histodons
"Our research pioneers an innovative methodology for generating synthetic training data tailored to Old Aramaic letters. Our pipeline synthesizes photo-realistic Aramaic letter datasets, incorporating textural features, lighting, damage, and augmentations to mimic real-world inscription diversity. Despite minimal real examples, we engineer a dataset of 250 000 training and 25 000 validation images covering the 22 letter classes in the Aramaic alphabet."
Aioanei AC, Hunziker-Rodewald RR, Klein KM, Michels DL (2024) Deep Aramaic: Towards a synthetic data paradigm enabling machine learning in epigraphy. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0299297. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299297 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #DOI #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks #Algorithms #Linguistics #Aramaic #Epigraphy #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics
300 Years of Immanuel Kant: A Collector’s Guide
"While Kant may be most renowned for his work in philosophy, his books reveal contributions in areas as diverse as physics, geopolitics, and theology. The remarkable scope of his achievements should secure him a place in collections of science, politics, and religion, as well as philosophy."
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/300-years-of-immanuel-kant-a-collectors-guide/
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Immanuel_Kant_Emanuel_Kant_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-2015-26-1764.jpg
Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims
"New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford"
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Shakespeare #Literature @bookstodon @literature
#Image: Martin Droeshout, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shakespeare_MET_DP858182.jpg
🇬🇧 HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K
"Fascinating not just for its approach to the text but also for its portrait of multiple facets of the British character, calibrated for explicitly propagandist purposes in the Second World War to be a call to arms as such formed a powerful reminder of what Britain was defending."
#Video #Film #Movie #Cinema #Remastered #Shakespeare #HenryV #LaurenceOlivier #History #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom @films
Scorsese's ‘Life of Jesus' Being Shot This Fall — Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller Attached to Star
"He practically swore to the Pope that he’d be making this movie. There’s no turning back. It’s coming."
#Film #Movie #Scorsese #Jesus #Christ #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity
#Image attribution: #photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Pantocrator_Deesis_mosaic_Hagia_Sophia.jpg
First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia
"The lava tube does not appear to have served as a permanent habitation location, but rather as a site that likely lay on herding routes and that allowed access to shade and water for passing herders and their animals. Prior to this, as well as during pastoral periods, the lava tube was likely also linked with hunting activities, which probably remained a cornerstone of local economies into the Bronze Age."
Stewart M, Andrieux E, Blinkhorn J, Guagnin M, Fernandes R, et al. (2024) First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0299292. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299292
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #Archaeology #Academia #Academic #Paleoanthropology #Neolithic #Anthropology #Archaeodons #Academics #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast @archaeodons @anthropology
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(must-read) #MarioDraghi explains how #German economic policy is driving the #eurozone into the abyss, chart @GEG_org https://geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/radical-change-is-what-is-needed/
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@bibliolater @science @archaeodons Bread in turkey? I thought that was an American tradition. 🤔
The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons
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Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change
"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html
#Science #STEM #Research #Study #News #Biology #DNA #Genome #Coffee @science
#Image attribution: MarkSweep, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roasted_coffee_beans.jpg
🇹🇷 Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey
"The researchers concluded the bread was fermented after performing scanning electron microscope imaging. The analysis revealed air bubbles in the sample and traces of starch grains. They also found telltale chemicals known to be found in cereals and those that indicate fermentation."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/world-oldest-bread/
#Science #STEM #News #Press #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bread #Turkey #Çatalhöyük @science @archaeodons
When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-the-names-wont-stick-the-case-of-galileos-moons/
Walter W. Skeat and the Oxford English Dictionary
"Throughout his life, Skeat supported the OED by his reviews (today it seems incredible that once not everybody praised Murray’s work) and kept chastising his countrymen for their ignorance and stupidity when it came to philology. He never stopped complaining that people used to offer silly hypotheses of word origins, instead of consulting the greatest authority there was."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/walter-w-skeat-and-the-oxford-english-dictionary/
#Book #Books #Bookstodon #English #Language #Lexicon #Dictionary #Linguistics #Etymology #Word #Words @bookstodon @linguistics
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New Osher Map Library acquisition — freed from maritime constraints, only a polar azimuthal projection will do — this is a stereographic repurposed from older map of arctic cap to show routes of heroic U.S. aviators!!!! 1928 US jingoism!!
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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