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.
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@peet @Lenin @bibliolater @bookstodon I love ereaders! It does make reading so much easier, for me especially reading at night in bed. I ditched my Kindle for a Nook a few years ago because I also hate Amazon, but am about to get an Onyxboox where you can use any ereader platform including library apps. https://onyxboox.com/
"Our key result is that if AI systems were to become deceptive, then it could be very difficult to remove that deception with current techniques. That's important if we think it's plausible that there will be deceptive AI systems in the future, since it helps us understand how difficult they might be to deal with," https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/legitimately-scary-anthropic-ai-poisoned-rogue-evil-couldnt-be-taught-how-to-behave-again #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Tech #Technology #STEM
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The 17th century Danzig astronomer Johannes Hevelius was born 28th January 1611 and died seventy-six years later on 28th January 1687. #histsci #histech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-last-great-naked-eye-astronomer/
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I go to the local book store and smell the books, see the covers, the most of the time they don't have the book that I want, so I finish getting it in my beloved Kindle. But the physical book still have an emotional impact on me. And always got a voice in the back of my head saying "That book is for you!".
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@mok0 @bibliolater It's certainly a coincidence: 'Julland/Jutland' comes from Proto-Germanic *Eutalandan. The Danish equivalent of *aujuland would've been *øland.
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@Lenin @bibliolater @bookstodon I should mention other E-readers are available lol, I am not a fan of Amazon and am moving to 3rd party reader apps on my phone
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@peet @bibliolater @bookstodon and... when the book is not , and will never be at your reach. You don't need to wait for the thing to be put into a plane and on a truck and the delivery...20 seconds or less bam!
And you can write a couple of chapters for free just to know if the book is for you.
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@Lenin @bibliolater @bookstodon another big bonus for me was being able to lie in bed and read without my glasses by making the text big when I need, as well of course of having millions of books in my pocket when travelling, no need for half a suitcase of physical books for a long trip
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I must confess: the combination of a new reading glasses and a Kindle has been a big change. I thought I was lazy, just chew 24% of physical books. It took me three days to read The Wager, by David Grann on a Kindle. Even when I love the weight and the smell of the physical books, The Kindle has been a very good experience. Probably I don't have the proper light-space-table or chair to enjoy a physical book, the Kindle Screen solve the problem.
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@Rhube @bibliolater @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon
During my semester abroad in Canada, we read Nietzsche's Genealogie der Moral (iirc) in English, which was confusing to many, as the translator did not elaborate the crucial semantic derivation of Schuld from schulden (again, iirc) - which is totally lost in English (debt/to owe).
Almost as confusing as commonly pronouncing [Hannah] Arendt like Ayn Rand. Took me a couple of weeks to figure that out. That was really odd.
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@bibliolater @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon it's kind of fascinating, because he was writing under heavy censorship and trying to obscure some of his rlmeaning from the authorities. But even so...
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@bibliolater @reading @bookstodon I had to read Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Society for graduate school and it stands out as the most difficult book I've ever read. And it was a class where the rest of my class dropped out for one reason or another by midterms. I finished that class by myself. 😭😅
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@bibliolater @kimlockhartga @HipsterDM @reading @bookstodon I love his books, I think I've read all of them! The way he writes makes history read like a novel. Mostly historical nonfiction but he does have a couple general nonfictions.
"Join space archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parcak, archaeologist Douglas Bolender, historian Dan Snow, and a team of leading experts from around the globe as they investigate what may be the first new Viking site discovered in North America in over 50 years. Explore the rich cultural heritage of the Vikings, and investigate the truth behind the legends of these intrepid adventurers." https://youtu.be/j7UIbhgduVA #Youtube #Video #Documentary #Viking #Vikings #Europe #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
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@bibliolater @MarianHellema @reading @bookstodon when I was doing my PhD another grad was German and she said she preferred to read Kant in English because it was even harder in German - at least with the translation someone had already tried to work out the meaning of the words.
But for me, Kant was nothing to Hegel. My lowest marks of my undergrad were for the Hegel course. I needed Peter Singer's Very Short Introduction to Hegel to explain it to me 🤣
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@HipsterDM @bibliolater @reading @bookstodon I am often grateful for narrative nonfiction. Erik Larson is a master at doing this.
"Retrace Einstein's thought experiments as NOVA reveals the simple but powerful ideas that reshaped our understanding of gravity, illuminating the theory of general relativity—and Einstein's brilliance—as never before." https://youtu.be/7CZyDPELXs4 #Youtube #Video #Science #STEM #Physics #Einstein #Documentary @science @physics
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@yvanspijk @bibliolater Can’t help but notice that the West Proto-German “Aujuland” seems related to the Danish peninsula Jylland or Jutland in English spelling, probably the home of the Jutes tribe. Perhaps it’s a coincidence.
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@bibliolater @reading @bookstodon Either Marx's Capital or David Bentley Hart's "The Experience of God," both because you need a fucking machete to chop through the overgrowth of the vocabulary lol
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
