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656 years ago today, in 1368, the Icelander Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson was captured by soldiers from LΓΌbeck somewhere in Norway.
Never heard of him? Ok:
Thorsteinn was one of the most powerful men in Iceland at the time. Iceland was ruled from Norway, and Thorsteinn was several times "hirΓ°stjΓ³ri", the Norwegian king's top guy in Iceland.
Now Norway was at war with loads of German cities and territories. Thorsteinn happened to be in Norway when the war broke out.
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#history #histodons
"Even though it was hoped that machines might overcome human bias, this assumption often fails due to a problematic or theoretically implausible selection of variables that are fed into the model and because of small size, low representativeness, and presence of bias in the training data [5.]."
Suchotzki, K. and Gamer, M. (2024) 'Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils,' Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.002.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Deception #Lies #Bias #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Psychology @science @psychology
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
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Why is 'laugh' written with -ugh while it ends with an [f] sound?
It's because the spelling 'laugh' reflects how the word was pronounced in Late Middle English, some 500 years ago.
Click the video to listen to a phonetic reconstruction of how this verb evolved from 3rd-century BC Proto-Germanic to modern-day Standard English.
The Middle English to Early Modern English stages are based on the dialect of the region of London.
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A must-read #book --- βThe Bankersβ New Clothesβ Whatβs Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It @anatadmati March 05, 2024 @PrincetonUPress https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691251707/the-bankers-new-clothes
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π This is the most wonderful little book for everyone interested in #SciComm - and it's for free!
"50 Essentials on #sciencecommunication published by the University of Luxembourg.
π https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110763577/html
It covers everything from the history of scicomm to press releases, #SocialMedia, #science shows, risk communication, engaging with policy makers, language, you name it... Highly recommended!
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon #SciCom #WissKomm #academia
"These eight cities were not necessarily the largest in terms of land area or even population in some cases, but they were large in their sense of importance to the medieval era."
Whipple, Madison. "The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/largest-cities-medieval-world/ (accessed April 30, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @histodon @histodons
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Mega-droughts, war, migration: What do 30,000 years of history reveal about how societies withstand collapse? I take a look at an intriguing new study for my Origins column. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/science/resilient-societies-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.0pxJ.SV-0DZRlByO-&smid=url-share
Visualizing Global Gold Production in 2023
"In this graphic, we list the worldβs leading countries in terms of gold production."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-gold-production-in-2023/
How to Study Using Mind Mapping
#Video #Learn #MindMapping #StudySkills #Tips #Study #Education @education
Networks of knowledge
"Instead of the oral wisdom pathways, we have digital social networks. Instead of printed repositories, we have dynamic self-curated web spaces, written or not (such as podcasts, videos and documentaries). Instead of costly access, we have almost unmediated instant accessibility."
Dab-dab and a learned idiom
"One wonders: Are we dealing with a set of relatively late independent creations or a set of old (even ancient) roots, whose reflexes sound like baby words but are still regular nouns and verbs? Opinions on this score are divided (opinions in etymology are always divided), especially because borrowing (take note!) is always a possibility."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/05/dab-dab-and-a-learned-idiom/
#Word #Words #Idiom #Idioms #English #Langauge #Linguistics #Etymology @linguistics
"Rare footage of Queen Victoria arriving at a garden party (1898)."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZ7AO42jPY
#Video #QueenVictoria #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #C19th #19thCentury #BritishPathe @histodon @histodons
"While ChatGPT-4 correlates closely with established risk stratification tools regarding mean scores, its inconsistency when presented with identical patient data on separate occasions raises concerns about its reliability."
Heston TF, Lewis LM (2024) ChatGPT provides inconsistent risk-stratification of patients with atraumatic chest pain. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0301854. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301854
#OpenAcess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Heart #CoronaryHeartDisease #Medicine #Health #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Software #Science @science
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The 17th-century, Jesuit astronomer, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, was born 1 May 1591 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/the-seventeenth-century-chinese-civil-servant-from-cologne/
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Yeah, #marginalia and #notes looks to me like a dialogue between the reader and the text and the author.. and in this case, multiple readers as well.
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@bibliolater @bookstodon a dear, elderly friend of mine downsized his bookshelves, and I received many of his books.
One of my favorites was a book that I also had loved and had marked heavily, and I was able to compare to his copy, heavily noted and highlighted. Itβs a precious thing to see.
Is there anything more beautiful than a well annotated #book with extensive #marginalia?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Notes #Read #Reading #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Amazonβs CEO says βAI will drive βtens of billions of dollarsβ of revenue in next several years.β
β specifically through AWS
β the AWS chatbot for companies will be called βAmazon Qβ (what a name)
βItβs AI-powered mobile app shopping assistant will be named βRufusβ
Also, its ad revenue is up 24% to $11.8 billion since it started showing Ads on Prime in January.
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@bibliolater @PaulWermer I don't think there's a blanket solution, and it's difficult to sustain the salience of climate change, given all the (mostly more immediate) problems people face in their lives.
One area that's come up in my research is that people who don't feel like they can do much about climate change are unlikely to see it as high salience. So increasing people's efficacy about climate change could potentially help.
Writing a History of Ignorance
"There are many kinds of ignoranceβsimply not knowing, being aware of not knowing (like Socrates), wanting not to know, and not wanting other people to know."
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/04/30/writing-a-history-of-ignorance/
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon
@histodons @bookstodon
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 β 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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