Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org

The navigational, cartographic, astronomical, and other writings of the gentlemanly humanist scholar Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522–c. 1606) #navigation #cartography #astronomy #mathematics
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/the-equestrian-country-gentleman-who-turned-his-hand-to-navigation/

The ‘unknome’ catalogs nearly 2 million proteins. Many are mysterious
The “unknome” database ranks human proteins by how little we know about them. Many proteins, and the genes that make them, aren’t well understood, and there’s still much to learn from the human genetic instruction book.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/unknome-catalog-genome-protein-mysterious #unknome #genetics #database #proteins

A year ago, if I said I was a computational linguist, the response was often bewilderment. These days, the response is often "Oh, you work on large language models?" ...

So when I was invited to speak on "AI and language", I was initially nervous. But then I thought, why not reframe the discussion? Dismantle "AI" as a cover term. Focus on actual goals. (Remark that LLMs are less impressive when you evaluate against a goal.) Finally, discuss interesting research!

https://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/news/language-and-ai-guy-emerson-using-ai-language-data

@meredithw @bibliolater @science Good point, as a medical layperson I would have not thought of that. Since the causal interpretation seems mechanistically plausible, it is tempting. I have yet to read the full paper but the abstract is more carefully phrased than the reporting about the paper. I wonder if one can factor out negative correlation somehow in study design or analysis. 1/

#health #walking #medicine #statistics

@bibliolater @science

Hm.

Everyone's risk of death is in fact 100%
It's the quality of the journey that matters, and that is not necessarily directly related to its length.

All six presentations in the UMiami's "Conversations on Cartography" series now available online:

https://umiami.mediaspace.kaltura.com/category/Library%3ESpecial+Collections%3EConversations+on+Cartography/303835972

Including my own!

#maphistory #cartography

The Combined #Drought Indicator in #Europe shows 25.9% of the EU-27 territory to be in Warning conditions and 14.3% to be in Alert conditions for the third ten-day period of July 2023.
The EU-27 territory excludes Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands.
https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1000

100 years of July sea surface temperatures - wait for the end to see the absurd extent of warm anomalies this year...

Data from ERSSTv5 at https://ncei.noaa.gov/products/extended-reconstructed-sst

Hey everyone if you're looking for a new podcast then check out A History of Capitalism! We're going to get into everything from the Black Death to Black Mondays.

Tune in Mondays for the real story of how our economy happened at wherever you get your podcasts!
@histodons
@econhist
#Economics
#Econtwitter
#podcast
#History
#Capitalism
https://www.spreaker.com/user/17170422/welcome-to-a-history-of-capitalism

I totally agree with this. Some of the most interesting people that I follow on Mastodon are from reading boosts, then exploring what else they’ve posted. It has been very enlightening and entertaining seeing different information and opinions that are worth reading. Every week since leaving that other place, I have been expanding the # of people I follow.

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Network #Connections #Follow

From @hopkinsdavid

https://mastodon.world/users/hopkinsdavid/statuses/110847757132991487