Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad?**
“_The U.S. national debt is on its way to $30 trillion dollars and is projected to be more than 100% of GDP at the end of this year. So is that… bad?_”
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7RvweuIUk.
#WSJ #USA #US #UnitedStates #Debt #Economy #Economics @economics
🇬🇧 💻 **Lawyers face sanctions for citing fake cases with AI, warns UK judge**
“_A senior judge lambasted lawyers in two cases who apparently used AI tools when preparing written arguments, which referred to fake case law, and called on regulators and industry leaders to ensure lawyers know their ethical obligations._”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Legal #Ethics #UK #UnitedKingdom @ai
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Towering tornadoes of plasma the size of planets dance over the Sun's surface in this timelapse from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
Credit: NASA GSFC/SDO
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"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
🇨🇭 🏦 🇺🇸 **Swiss National Bank denies currency manipulation after being put on U.S. watch list**
#Business #Finance #Currency #Forex #Switzerland #USA #US #UnitedStates
Morning all.
**Vikings in Cornwall?**
#Video length: one hour and eleven minutes.
📖 **The Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert**
“_Read or download for free_”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17384.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #Download #Ebook #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry @bookstodon
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Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study
https://www.science.org/content/article/race-ethnicity-don-t-match-genetic-ancestry-according-large-u-s-study
Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted
Full paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002929725001739 (paywalled)
🇺🇸 **Is It Really The End Of The Bromance?**
Just arrived home after spending the day away from the news. It seems that the bromance that was the Trump-Musk relationship has ruptured. Who could have envisaged this outcome at the start when all those hundreds of millions of dollars were first donated by Musk to Trump's MAGA presidential campaign?
#Bromance #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #Trump #DonaldTrump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #UnitedStates
Evening all.
Revealed: Elon Musk wanted to stay in White House but was rejected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/93ea18ab2ba8f028
🇬🇧 **Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation**
“_Together, these manuscripts shed exceptional light on the study of Hebrew by Christian monks in medieval England, on the administration of a medieval English town, and on spiritual devotion in medieval England and Ireland._”
#Manuscripts #Medieval #Medievodons #History #Histodons @medievodons @histodons
🇺🇸 **When the Founding Fathers Spoke Yiddish**
🔗 https://mishpacha.com/when-the-founding-fathers-spoke-yiddish/.
**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**
"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/climate/worlds-glaciers-future-study-intl-scli.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Envirnoment #Glaciers #Science #Research @climatechange @science
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 **When Canada was the Promised Land: What Canada Taught America about Freedom and Inclusive Democracy**
#History #Histodons #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodons
📚 **6 Ways to Get Out of a Reading Slump**
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-six seconds.
**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**
“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”
Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8.
#OpenAcces #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Science #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Psycholofy #Academia #Academics @ai @psychology
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📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W20 | The Religious Composition of the World’s Migrants
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🔗: https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/MakeoverMonday/2025/mm_2025_20.html
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#rstats | #DataFam | #dataviz | #ggplot2
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📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W22 | Project Gutenberg
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🔗: https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/TidyTuesday/2025/tt_2025_22.html
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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