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Once again, LLMs (#GenAI) are not search engines. They are plagiarizing probability calculators. This result is entirely predictable.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/study-of-chatgpt-citations-makes-dismal-reading-for-publishers/
Is this a good idea?
AI that clicks for you: Microsoft’s research points to the future of GUI automation https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-that-clicks-for-you-microsoft-res...
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An Insanely High-Resolution Image of the Sun
https://www.universetoday.com/169905/an-insanely-high-resolution-image-of-the-sun/
🔴 📖 **A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea**
_“The work meticulously explores the inception, evolution, and profound impact of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution pivotal in shaping Spain's history and, by extension, influencing the broader civilized world.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43296
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism #Church #Spain #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg @bookstodon @medievodons
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Study of ChatGPT citations makes dismal reading for publishers
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/study-of-chatgpt-citations-makes-dismal-reading-for-publishers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
🔴 🍌 🎥 **Eating An Expensive Banana**
"Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun has eaten the viral duct-taped banana artwork worth $6.2m, after buying it at an auction house last week."
#Video length: twenty-six seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Learn like an Ancient Philosopher**
#Video length: twenty-seven minutes and ten seconds.
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Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/ofcom_online_nation/
Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024
🔴 📖 🎥 **A Complex Rare Book From 1500s**
🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/rgqoOqEunms
#Video #Shorts #Book #Books #RareBook #RareBooks #Bookstodon #Science #Astronomy @bookstodon
🔴 **More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100**
_“The striking change between now and 2100 is the expected growth in the African population. In 2023, its population is around 1.4 billion; by 2100 it's projected to reach just under 4 billion.”_
Hannah Ritchie (2019) - “More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/region-population-2100' [Online Resource]
🔴 🎥 **Echoes of the Silk Road: Cities of Trade and Culture**
British Library
_“Watch this expert panel of historians and writers explore other historic cities along this legendary corridor. Join Bettany Hughes as she uncovers the ancient wonders of Istanbul, and travel with Colin Thubron through Uzbekistan to explore the legendary city of Samarkand.”_
#Video length: one and eighteen minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/wxoyhyH3AWg
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #SilkRoad #Trade #Culture @histodon @histodons
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A reminder to all of you scanning through Black Friday deals online....
Remember 'up to' (as in 'up to 70% off') also includes the number zero....
They're out for you're money & have no qualms about using Black Friday to mislead you about the 'nowness' of any deals on offer.
[This post has been bought to you by Good Sense]
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New from Cambridge University Press, and free to read and download until Xmas eve:
Health and the Body in Early Medieval England
🔴 🇵🇹 🇰🇪 **Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say**
Vishwam Sankaran
_"Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer died in India, likely from malaria."_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/vasco-da-gama-ship-final-voyage-b2655089.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #VascoDaGama #Kenya #Portugal #IndianOcean #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Hegel and White Freedom**
_“In order to show that Hegel's idea of freedom is linked to white identity, I trace its connections with the Western idea of property. My suggestion is that Hegel conceptualizes freedom as appropriation, thereby linking freedom to property and white identity.”_
Stibor, L. (2024) ‘Hegel and White Freedom’, Hegel Bulletin, 45(2), pp. 210–236. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.36.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Identity #Freedom #Academia #Academics @philosophy
🔴 **‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril**
Holly Else
_“The size of the problem is not clear, but a manuscript posted to the Center for Open Science’s OSF preprint server in September suggests up to one in seven published papers are fabricated or falsified.”_
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NEW Global Seasonal Climate Update - Target Season: December-January-February 2024-25 from the WMO
Predicted temperature and rainfall for this period shown.
We are basically on fire.
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**
#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c
#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million #Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
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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