Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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🖥️ 📖 **Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations**
#MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Four Manuscripts That Tell the Story of America’s Founding Spirit**
🔗 https://intelligentcollector.com/four-manuscripts-that-tell-the-story-of-americas-founding-spirit/.
**Literary Texts From The Sippar Library V: A Hymn In Praise Of Babylon And The Babylonians**
"_The article presents a previously unknown hymn in praise of Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon and the Babylonians. It contains unparalleled descriptions of the healing powers of Marduk, the splendor of Babylon, the spring borne by the Euphrates to the city’s fields and the generosity of the Babylonians themselves._"
Fadhil, A.A. and Jiménez, E. (2025) ‘LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE SIPPAR LIBRARY V: A HYMN IN PRAISE OF BABYLON AND THE BABYLONIANS’, Iraq, pp. 1–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.23.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Cuneiform #Babylon #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
📚 **See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In June**
Evening all.
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Unprecedented will be the new normal. Welcome to our climate changed future.
🖥️ **Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern**
"_In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair._"
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/disturbing-signs-of-ai-threatening-people-spark-concern.
🇹🇻 🇦🇺 **1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying**
_While the visa itself doesn’t mention climate change, the treaty that created it is framed in the context of the “existential threat posed by climate change”._
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Tuvalu #Australia #Pacific #Visa #Migration
**Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery**
"_This paper demonstrates that Leonardo’s explicit textual reference to ‘an equilateral triangle’ between the figure’s legs provides his construction method and reveals the anatomical foundation for his proportional choices._"
Sweeney, R. M. (2025) ‘Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery’, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, pp. 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2507568.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Art #LeonardoDaVinci #VitruvianMan
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"_The last time the dollar weakened so much at the start of the year was 1973, when the United States made a seismic shift and ended the linking of the dollar to the price of gold._"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.ELSc.0pKcaLrNCAwE&smid=url-share
🇺🇸 **Painting the birth of American independence**
🔗 https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/30/painting-birth-american-independence.
🖥️ **AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all**
🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/.
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Wikipedians on the front line of keeping AI nonsense from getting into articles have prepared a list of common catchphrases and signs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
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AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
More fiction than science Feature IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
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Spain records temperature of 46C as Europe heatwave continues https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dgqnndx9xo
🖥️ **Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks**
"_It's like a business graduate with no common sense._"
📚 **Hearing The Author's Voice**
Before starting a new book, I try to go online to see if I can find either a video or an audio recording of the author. I find the exercise adds an extra layer to my enjoyment of the book. As I read the words, I can hear the author.
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Rembert Dodoens author of the Cruydeboeck, which was plagiarised in English by John Gerard, was born 29 June 1517 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/of-herbs-and-herbals/
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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