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Morning all.
💻 🕑 🗓️ **Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars**
“_Unlike simply recognising shapes, understanding analogue clocks and calendars requires a combination of spatial awareness, context and basic maths – something that remains challenging for AI, the team says._”
🔗 https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/most-ai-struggles-to-read-clocks-and-calendars.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #Time #Clocks #Calenders @ai
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MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit-disavows-doctoral-students-paper-on-ai-productivity-benefits/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
📚 **English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern (1893)**
“_Although the earliest known marks of ownership of books or documents dates from the latter years of Ancient Egypt, and people would mark ownership in the Middle Ages with simple inscriptions, it wasn't until the advent of printing in 15th-century Germany that we see the development of bookplates in their more modern decorative form._”
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-book-plates-ancient-and-modern-1893/.
💻 **How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data**
David Gerard
“_The big money in AI wants stuff it can call “science” to back up its claims of AI magic right now, and it doesn’t want to wait around for the peer review process._”
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #PeerReview @ai
📖 **Author offers warnings after interviewing former Nazis for decades**
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/17/author-laurence-rees-nazi-mind-warning-holocaust.
**The mystery of the ‘real’ Milady de Winter of The Three Musketeers**
🔗 https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/real-milady-de-winter/.
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RSS, the best way to keep up with both things that update frequently and also hardly ever:
In the end it is always the gravitational pull of the bond market that brings a politician back down to earth with a thud.
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On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
https://wapo.st/4mmNgSw
💻 **‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’**
_Students use AI to prepare for class, answer questions, and build their own companies. “People are very positive about these tools, but it made it so easy for them to cheat. A lot of students came to me and said, ‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn these things?’ This is something we’re thinking really hard about.”_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai
🇺🇸 **The U.S. just lost its last pristine credit rating. What that means for markets.**
_“On Friday, Moody’s said successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse a trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs, adding that it doesn’t believe that current fiscal proposals under consideration will result in significant multiyear reductions in mandatory spending and deficits.”_
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Credit #Debt #Markets #Economics @economics
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Capsicum annuum or sweet pepper comes from the Greek peperi, from the Sanskrit pippalī, which originally referred to black pepper. After chili peppers were introduced to Europe, the name was extended to include them.
Paprika comes from Serbian papar, meaning “pepper,” from the Latin piper.
The Spanish word pimiento traces to Latin pigmentum, meaning “coloring,” reflecting the vibrant hues of the peppers.
**The Nazi past that parents never wanted to talk to their children about**
Almudena de Cabo
_“I learned then that he had been a member of the Nazi Party,” he says, referring to what he found in one of his father’s desk drawers. “I knew he was in Riga [Latvia]. Also that he was a judge at the Regional Court. But my father didn’t tell me what he did in Riga during World War II. That’s what they always say; that fathers didn’t talk to their children.”_
📖 **The algebra of Jackson Pollock**
“_If you thought that maths and art don’t mix, Marcus du Sautoy’s invigorating study will convince you otherwise_”
🔗 https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-algebra-of-jackson-pollock.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Arts #Culture @bookstodon
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Famous tomb said to hold Alexander the Great's father actually contains younger man, a woman and 6 babies, study finds
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/famous-tomb-said-to-hold-alexander-the-greats-father-actually-contains-younger-man-a-woman-and-6-babies-study-finds
💵 **Why Do We Call a Dollar a “Buck”?**
“_Perhaps the oldest use is its role in Old English, where it was then (and now) used to describe a male goat or deer, among other male animals. It was co-opted circa the 14th century to describe a libidinal young man, and later was used to describe an ambitious person (whom we might now call a “young buck”). In the 1800s, it was also used as a slur against Black or indigenous men._”
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⚛ **Editorial: Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us**
“_Even a fraction of the current arsenal could decimate the biosphere in a severe mass extinction event. The global climate disruption caused by the smoke pouring from cities ignited by just 2% of the current arsenal could result in over two billion people starving._”
Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V, Birch M, Blum I, Doherty P et al. Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us BMJ 2025; 389 :r881 doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r881
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #BMJ #Editorial #Nuclear #Armageddon #Extinction
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Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out.
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