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eorþ-tilia, m.n: farmer, tiller of the earth. (EH-orth-TIH-li-ah / ˈɛɔrθ-ˌtɪ-lɪ-a)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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@bibliolater I have heard similar accents (“countreh”; the slightly trilled “r”; the Katharine Hepburnesque clipped “yoh” for “you”) from v posh Canadians now over age 75 east of the Eastern Townships, within the past 20 years, fwiw.
🔴 AI feels like an unstoppable force. But it is not a panacea for businesses or society
Akhil Bhardwaj
Anastasia Sergeeva
"But more worryingly, AI can diminish human capabilities to the extent that the ability to determine when to intervene might be lost. Researchers have found that use of AI leads to skill decay – a particular concern where workplace decisions involve life-or-death consequences."
🔴 Hi-tech recreation of Richard III’s voice has a Yorkshire accent
Tom Ambrose and agency
"The result of the recreation is that Richard III’s accent sounds more distinctly from Yorkshire than the English spoken by the likes of Ian McKellen and Laurence Olivier when portraying the monarch in the Shakespeare play."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Yorkshire @histodon @histodons
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New: HarperCollins confirms that it has a deal in place to sell authors' work to an AI company. Won't say which. Will be opt-in
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This week I learned that sunsets on Mars are blue (contrasting with the sky during the day, which is pink-yellow-brown). It seems to be due to the exact size and composition of Martian dust particles, which scatter red light in many directions while changing the direction of blue light very little.
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🔴 🇭🇰 📷 Hong Kong At Night
“Hong Kong skyscrapers in a night of typhoon”.
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Hong_Kong_skyscrapers_in_a_night_of_typhoon.jpg.
#HongKong #Photography #Photo #Night #Skyline #Typhoon #Asia
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"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
Herbert Simon, polymath (economics, computer science, political science), 1971
🔴 🎥 But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow?
3blue1brown
#Video length: fifteen minutes and fifty seconds.
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The word 'not' has a fascinating history.
'Not' comes from a Germanic combination of three words: *ne aiw wiht, lit. "not a thing whatsoever".
This also became 'naught/nought'.
German 'nicht' and Dutch 'niet' have the same origin.
Click to hear their evolutions:
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Hey to my new followers. If you're new to #Mastodon in general, just a reminder I made a set of 11 little web apps for exploring and searching this corner of the fediverse. It's free, free-of-ads, and designed for your desktop (as opposed to your phone.)
If you want a quick overview of what it offers:
https://www.calishat.com/2024/09/03/mastogizmos-gets-an-overhaul/
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Astronomers have just discovered the first known "Einstein zigzag."
Due to a rare, lucky cosmic alignment, the combined gravity of two galaxies bent light like spaghetti & split a distant quasar into six different images.
This six-part image could allow a very accurate measure of the expansion of the universe.
https://www.science.org/content/article/first-known-double-gravitational-lens-could-shed-light-universe-s-expansion #science #space #astronomy #physics
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🔴 People everywhere are head down, lost in the oblivion of infinite scroll. Just stop and let the moment breathe
Justine Toh
“As much as I want to blame Silicon Valley for everything, the best I can accuse the tech industry of is building a profit-hungry machine exploiting the very human difficulty of being alone with one’s thoughts. Which is still pretty bad, sure, but let’s be clear: chronic inattention predates the internet.”
#Phones #CellPhones #Smartphones #Internet #MobilePhones #Technology #Tech #STEM
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Even though Newton's laws are deterministic, the behavior of many interacting bodies is so chaotic that it looks essentially "random."
Statistical mechanics effectively says: why bother with all those complex trajectories? Just go ahead and replace them with truly random motion.
🔴 Just tried using Peertube, however could not find anything on the platform I wanted to watch. My interests include videos based on science or history. Is there some secret I am missing?
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.
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