Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
A good historical #map adds a layer to our understanding of #history that is unparalleled. Moving borders or capitals all tell a story. #Cartography
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#OTD 29 June 1534 Jacques Cartier & his crew became the first Europeans to reach Prince Edward Island.
"Each of these translations — along with dozens more — suggests a different understanding of the central themes of courage, marriage, fate and death." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/books/review/iliad-translations.html #books #bookstodon #literature #essay @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1674100384447463431
"...these models contain known racial, gender, and class stereotypes and biases from their training data and other structural factors, which downstream into model outputs". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0248 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Psychology #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceMagazine/status/1674047647462617089
"Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes." https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Source: https://twitter.com/earlymodjustice/status/1674050636256518148
Connor, H. (2022). Doctors and ‘Educational Overpressure’ in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Fatigue State that Divided Medical Opinion, European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 80(1), 3-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Medicine #Health #C19th #Britain #Europe #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
"Such is the continued public fascination with Cromwell that 20 years ago he was voted one of the top ten Britons of all time in a poll conducted by the BBC." https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/protectors-mouth #History #EarlyModern #England #Ireland #Books #bookstodon #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HistoryToday/status/1673613253937618946
From the Neustrian March to the Capetian Duchy. https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/charter-a-week-91-from-the-neustrian-march-to-the-capetian-duchy/ #History #France #Europe #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/RalphTorta/status/1673685360981803010
"The technology makes it easier to produce more, and more convincing, fake text, photos and videos that could influence elections, say, or undermine people’s ability to trust any information, potentially destabilizing societies." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02094-7 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1673737010257838105
"The New England states, particularly Massachusetts, strongly opposed the War of 1812 because they felt it was unnecessary and worried it would negatively impact New England’s economy." https://historyofmassachusetts.org/war-of-1812/ #History #USA #Massachusetts #NewEngland #Britain #C19th #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HistoryofMass/status/1673312403419721729
"Writing Doom: Old and New Perspectives on the Dutch Republic and its Disaster Year (1672)" https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/14879/16812 #History #Writing #Books #EarlyModern #OpenAccess #OA #Europe #Dutch #C17th #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/A_der_Weduwen/status/1673311788232855555
"Particularly in low-income and middle-income populations, the shift away from a traditional diet to an industrialised one has been abrupt and is associated with considerable increases in nutrition-related non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01301-6/fulltext #OpenAccess #Science #Medicine #Diabetes #Research
Source: https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1673300833943928834
"On some p-differential graded link homologies". https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2022.19 #OpenAccess #OA #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Algebra
Source: https://twitter.com/cambUP_maths/status/1673285242851868675
"Alexandria pioneered the concept of a universal library, seeking to compile all of the known knowledge in the world in one place." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-8/ #History #Library #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1673356701624311809
"...higher inflation so far mainly reflects higher profits and import prices, with profits accounting for 45 percent of price rises since the start of 2022." https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains #Inflation #Eurozone #Europe #Economics #Finance @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/IMFNews/status/1673287590865412096
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About fifty years after Smith's seminal map for the Geology of Britain and we see numerous 19th century British publishers including some version of it into their atlases, such as this from c. 1860 by Bradbury - Agnew. Hand colored to distinguish the strata.
Still a relatively young science at the time, but clearly making an impact, and unveiling an important key to understanding our world.
#maps #map #geology #history #dataviz #datascience #science #sciencehistory
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
