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Regarding a previous post about #Japan and the #English language and #EnglishEducation .
No need to fix that title.
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
"...thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism."
#Video length: 19 minutes 10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0wB3d7MgE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Buddhism #Ancient #Greece #Greek @histodon @histodons
"I analyze Machiavelli's frequent references to hope throughout his corpus to offer an explanation of what he means by ‘hope,” examine the relation between hope and fear, and identify the benefits, dangers, and limits of these two foundational and complementary passions."
Mitchell, C.E. (2024) ‘Beyond the Politics of Fear: Machiavelli on Hope’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670524000019.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Machiavelli #Politics #PoliticalScience #Fear #Hope #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
#Image attribution: Peace Palace Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niccol%C3%B2-Machiavelli-Amelot-de-La-Houssaie-Il-principe_MG_1089.tif
AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions
"Large language models and other AI systems have already learned, from their training, the ability to deceive via techniques such as manipulation, sycophancy, and cheating the safety test. AI’s increasing capabilities at deception pose serious risks, ranging from short-term risks, such as fraud and election tampering, to long-term risks, such as losing control of AI systems."
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2024.100988
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Deception #Risk #Risks #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Is a large and strong manufacturing sector essential for a nation's economy?
#AskFedi #Question #Poll #Polls #Economics #Industry #Economy #AskMastodon @economics
The Greek philosopher who was perhaps the first weather forecaster
"His book On Signs, written in the fourth century BC, was the first attempt to gather weather lore into a single volume. Aristotle created a theory of weather in his book Meteorology, but his successor attempted to give guidance on practical weather prediction, making him perhaps the first published weather forecaster."
#Weather #Greece #Philosophy #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse
"In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s."
#Theatre #Theater #History #English #Language #Podcast #Audio #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #Culture @earlymodern
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
🇺🇸 🌎 Mapped: U.S. Immigrants by Region
"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-immigrants-by-region/
#Data #DataViz #Demography #Demographics #Immigration #Immigrants #Migration #Migrants #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Asia #LatinAmerica #Europe #Africa @demography
Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part 1
"This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous 1970 attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle."
#Video length: 22 minutes 34 seconds.
"Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections
A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something stupendous."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/the-brain-as-weve-never-seen-it/
#News #Science #STEM #Tech #Technology #Brain #NeuroScience #Data @science
"Byzantine diagrams are originated by Byzantine scholars in the early modern period to use as tools for teaching and studying Aristotelian logic. This paper presents pioneering work on employing Byzantine diagrams for checking syllogistic validity through reduction."
Bhattacharjee, R. (2024) ‘Direct Reduction of Syllogisms with Byzantine Diagrams’, History and Philosophy of Logic, pp. 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2024.2336411.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Logic #Philosophy #EarlyModern #Reasoning #Syllogism #Academia #Academic #Academics @earlymodern @philosophy
"This paper studies the constitutive role of cartography apropos law, territory, and social order, in a specific historical context, by examining the crucial political role played by the British East India Company's cartographic practices and maps in aspiring and imagining the transplantation and establishment of English sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent."
Suresh, S. (2024) ‘The Cartojuridism of the British East India Company’, Law and History Review, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000051.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #SouthAsia #Asia #Europe #EastIndiaCompany #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
"Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will."
Jansen, J.C. and McKenzie, K. (eds.) (2024) Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Publications of the German Historical Institute). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009370578.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Europe #GlobaHistory #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (82)
"We outline some of the indirect ways in which generative AI and social media undermine the optimism, focus, creativity, and veracity required to address the climate crisis."
Hamish van der Ven, Diego Corry, Rawie Elnur, Viola Jasmine Provost, Muh Syukron; Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis. Global Environmental Politics 2024; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00747
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SocialMedia #Climate #Environment #Politics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Digitalization #LLM #LLMS #Internet #Academia #Academic #Academics @climatecrisis @climatechange
Where the World’s Aluminum is Smelted, by Country
"This infographic shows estimated aluminum smelter production by country in 2023, based on data from the most recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Commodity Summaries, published in January 2024."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/aluminum-smelter-production-by-country/
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@bibliolater I was recently hearing about the disconnect between amount of energy produced versus amount that could actually be transmitted over energy grids.
I wonder if this statistic measures the former and not the latter.
1962: The TELEVISION SET You Can WEAR | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
"The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things."
#Video length: 2 minutes 24 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBO5JuecPE
#History #BBC #Archive #Television #TV #Tech #Technology #STEM
30% of the world's electricity came from renewable sources in 2023
"This growth was mostly driven by the rapid rollout of solar and wind technologies. Hydropower generation actually fell in 2023 as a result of severe droughts, especially in China."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/renewable-electricity-2023
Using AI in your PhD research might be a really bad idea
#Video length: 58 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HO--UzjEo
#PhD #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Writing #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics
DeepMind’s AI can ‘predict how all of life’s molecules interact with each other’
"AlphaFold 3 is able to envision how the complex shapes and networks of molecules – present in every cell in the human body – are connected and how the smallest of changes in these can affect biological functions that can lead to diseases."
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepMind #Science #STEM #Biology #DNA @science
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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