#knowledge
🗂️On International Archives Day, let's celebrate the guardians of our collective memory. Archives hold the stories of our past, preserving #knowledge and ensuring #accountability. They are vital for historical research, #humanrights, and transparent #governance. #ArchivesMatter
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #nature
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Wandering the lush slopes draped in their full summer foliage was the perfect backdrop for meditating about strategies to search for life on other planets.”
When astrobiologist Erin Gibbons is stuck on a problem, she takes a structured, meditative walk — a tool she says she found to be one of the most useful of her PhD.
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #nature
Ancient giants / Be first to see the tallest tree in the Amazon 🤓
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01828-x/index.html
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01847-8
Step by Step - Understanding the Credit Card Charge Scam
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/step-by-step-understanding-the-credit-card-charge-scam-1-x-g-1-v/gD2P6Ple2L
Time spent understanding our emotional reactions is an investment in personal power.
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#ReadTheStain #writer #coach #psychology #spirituality #mindfulness #mentalhealth #awareness #strength #empowerment #knowledge
🧐 Back to the source #Oedipus
...to THE play about sources
..BEWARE! 🤔
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mlm4
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#tragedy #drama 🎭 #Sophocles #screenwriting 📝 #knowledge
Would you like to listen 🎧 to how #Knowledge is gathered 🔭 🔬 ?
We have a 🆕 episode of our podcast 🎙️ "Solid Science" online about benefits and challenges of "Synthesizing zombie 🧟 data" with Jérome Mathieu.
Please let us know what you think 💬
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Solid-Science-p3720119/
- I will try to post the links to different podcast platforms every month.
EXTREMELY important reporting on the ongoing assault on truth and the (threatened) role of academic scholars in the production of reliable knowledge. University administrators MUST step up to provide support and legal backing.
#politics #highered #academia #fascism #science #knowledge #democracy
These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump. Now the GOP wants answers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/06/disinformation-researchers-congress-jim-jordan/
What are the implications of the geographical concentration of #migration research in immigrant destination countries? #globalNorth
We try to answer this question in our new article written with Lorenzo Piccoli and Andrew Geddes based on an original #database of migration research institutes globally. #knowledge #academia #decolonization
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-023-00336-1
India Institute of Medical Science successfuly repels malware attack
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/india-institute-of-medical-science-successfuly-repels-malware-attack-x-y-0-s-w/gD2P6Ple2L
#knowledge #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I love the idea that queerness does not make us an anomaly, does not separate us from the natural world, but instead it is our heritage as animals.”
Author Eliot Schrefer discusses how the discovery of lesbian western gulls (Larus occidentalis) in the 1970s — the first female–female pairing in wild animals documented in the scientific literature — took the US discourse on homosexuality in a new direction.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1744394
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
JWST spots the most distant ‘smoke’ molecules ever seen in space 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01844-x
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Accidental DNA collection by air sensors could revolutionize wildlife tracking 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01850-z
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Sleep loss impairs memory of smells, worm research shows 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01849-6
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
New Zealand volcano: science agency pleads guilty to risk-assessment charge 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01777-5
Step by Step: How SQL Injection created the MOVEit zero-day vulnerability for data breach
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/step-by-step-exploiting-the-moveit-zero-day-vulnerability-for-data-breach-b-c-1-4-m/gD2P6Ple2L
Letzte Woche noch #111BiblioCon nun #rp23 mit @lambo und @Optimisc #Data #Libraries #knowledge
YOUR GUIDE TO BORDEAUX’S CLASSIFICATIONS : GRAVES, CRU BOURGEOIS AND CRU ARTISAN https://bit.ly/3Pc69tp on @Vinfolio #bordeaux #graves #wine #france #KNOWLEDGE #KnowledgeIsPower #wineknowledge
'True #love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
And the being we love must not be mysterious and sphinx-like, but clear and limpid as a diamond; so that admiration and attachment may grow with #knowledge .'
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We haven't found life beyond Earth yet … but we are looking.”
Last week, astrophysicist David Spergel chaired the first public meeting of an expert panel convened by NASA to study ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ — a name chosen to cool the heated debate around the more commonly used ‘unidentified flying objects’, or UFOs.
https://news.sky.com/story/what-did-we-learn-from-nasas-first-ever-public-meeting-on-ufos-12893969
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Platypus returns to Australian national park for first time in half a century 🤓
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/platypus-returns-australian-national-park-first-time-half-century-2023-05-13/
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
‘It’s a vote for hope’: first gene therapy for muscular dystrophy nears approval, but will it work? 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01799-z
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Epic voyage finds astonishing microbial diversity among coral reefs 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01807-2
#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.
Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL
State of (in)security - Week 22
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #weeklyreport
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/state-of-in-security-week-22-3-q-u-w-m/gD2P6Ple2L
How to Reuse and Compose Knowledge for a Lifetime of Tasks: A Survey on Continual Learning and Fu...
Jorge A Mendez, ERIC EATON
Action editor: Aleksandra Faust.
New #SurveyCertification:
How to Reuse and Compose Knowledge for a Lifetime of Tasks: A Survey on Continual Learning and Fu...
Jorge A Mendez, ERIC EATON
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜?
Thinking is making the same two choices over and over. We choose how to interpret a situation, then choose how to react to our own interpretations.
The power of thinking is that when we pay attention to these thought choices we can make better decisions overall for happier outcomes.
For how-to information, you can check out Self-Awareness Practice at https://appliedawareness.org
#meditation #mindfulness #wisdom #knowledge #wellness #lifestyle #love
Hi! I am a resting mental health #nurse obviously interested in #mentalhealth living in the #uk #unitedkingdom.
Hobbies include #photography, #gaming (or #gayming as I am #lgbtq) and #reading if I can be bothered! (I go in bouts of #bookworm and then stop) as well as fiddling with #tech as long as it's not too obtuse.
Hoping to find #knowledge, #chats, #memes and enjoy an #opensource #alternative to #birdsite!
I am #nonbinary, #agender
#hashtags everywhere!
“If we teach only the findings and products of #science … without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from #pseudoscience? Both then are presented as unsupported assertion.”
“Science is far from a perfect instrument of #knowledge. It’s just the best we have. In this respect, it’s like #democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human #action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible #consequences of #alternative courses of action.”
“Every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.”
From #Carl_Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit - Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
Knowledge is never too dear.
— Tiger Woods
#quote #knowledge
Richard St Barbe Baker, the founder of the Men of the Trees, now the International Tree Foundation, was inspired to his life's work by a few moments of inspiration in childhood.
#environment #history #trees #forestry #knowledge #inspiration #intuition #earth #conservation
https://vocal.media/earth/the-inspired-life-of-richard-st-barbe-baker
A new Quiz has just been posted on our website!
Ready for a challenge?
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/quiz-43/
#CoffeeTime #Coffee #CoffeeLover #Geography #MarvelStudios #Quizzes #Quiz #trivia #TriviaTime #TriviaChallenge #facts #DidYouKnow #youknowwhat #blog #blogger #KNOWLEDGE
#WARNING #DISTURBING CONTENT | #BOYCOTT AND/OR BAN #FETLIFE! #LGBTQ_TRUTH | = #CHILD_ABUSE
Everything you have seen so far with the LGBTQ is simply a #DISNEY LAND watered down version of PURE #EVIL.
#LGBTQ ROOTS originated out of the #BDSM Community w/ proof. THINK! #Fifty_Shades of #Grey Series..
Where SEX #ADDICTIONS (aka #KINKS) #AS_A_LIFESTYLE IS #REFERRED to as #LOVE?
But Love for who and what?? #Sadists and/or #Masochist --do not Love BTW. They cannot #identify LOVE without sexualizing it?? Its the only way #EVIL can #FEEL_COMPLETE!!??
Its all from the #Pits of #Hell and now being introduced to our #kids in #public_schools??
#BONDAGE, #DOMINATION, #SLAVERY AND #MASTERS.
#TOPS, #BOTTOMS, #SWITCHES, #POLYAMORY aka open #orgies private parties..
The LGBTQ is now at ADVANCED LEVELS OF #SEXUAL_IMMORALITY >> #SIN AS A #LIFESTYLE.
GOAL: LIVING 24/7 IN SEXUAL SIN (#KINK) AND ARE NOW COMING AFTER YOUR CHILDREN WITH #SAME_INDOCTRINATION as the so-called parents have already gone through..?? (= #CHILD_ABUSE!)
Here is the stuff that is really going on behind the scenes #without the #knowledge of the general public.
So were did that #COVID_VIRUS REALLY #ORIGINATE from?? It has taken many years to get here.. SO #LISTEN_UP! LAST #CHANCE FOR #ROMANCE!
COVID DID NOT COME FROM #CHINA --IT CAME FROM #HOMOSEXUALS OUT OF #EUROPE! AND UNLESS THIS TYPE OF ACTIVITY IS NOT STOP immediately THE NEXT #VIRUS WILL #WIPE_OUT_HUMANITY!
aka #TRUTH!
The animal costumes are in fact "#BESTIALITY Play" THE #WORST OF THE WORST --IN TERMS OF IMMORAL #INFECTIOUS_DISEASES.
All wearing COLLARS around necks are OWNED BY #SLAVE_MASTERS (#Sadists).
A Collar is a sign to all others that THEY are Owned. #Sadists INDOCTRINATE training collars --until owned..
#MASOCHIST (SUBMISSIVES/SLAVES) have a strong desire to be OWNED -- completing the relationship as #symbiotic. (think Clown fish and Sea anemone. They do not love each other. One provides food and the other provides protection --but #ZERO_LOVE!
If you are in one of these relationship YOU HAVE BEEN #DECEIVED!
THEY DON'T #CARE ABOUT_YOU OR #FAMILY. THEY ONLY #CARE ABOUT GETTING THEIR #KINK_ON..
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Studies found that the #virus was #entering the #country via #flights to #New_York from Europe, weeks #before Trump #implemented a #ban on #travellers from #China on January 31. By the time he #stopped_travel from Europe in #mid_March, #thousands of #people were already #infected.
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"Operation Triangulation" - Details of Sophisticated Attack on Apple iOS
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/operation-triangulation-details-of-sophisticated-attack-on-apple-ios-g-j-o-z-m/gD2P6Ple2L
Dear #Friends,
Is #maintenance a #kink? Because I just offered Pretty Impala to look at her #computer to see why no #audio is coming out of it, and I got an #erection from that. 🤔
Seriously, though, this for me is part and parcel of what being a Daddy Dom means. My #wisdom and #knowledge are at my subs' service.
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Surgical wonders and dodgy medical ethics: the Hunterian Museum reopens 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01736-0
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01801-8
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
The human brain’s characteristic wrinkles help to drive how it works 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01774-8
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will. 🤓
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
#Mosstadon
Weird, Rare, and Everywhere 🤓
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/weird-rare-and-everywhere
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
‘Almost magical’: chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01735-1
Bright spots in our #BikeMonth (May): the people who've responded to our Questionnaire for Bike Month!
From 12-year-olds to 82-year-olds, including people from every decade of life in-between, it's interesting, fun, and so worthwhile to hear their responses. The work to do this questionnaire has been worth it—not just the many hours it's taken us to compile the responses, but the time and care each respondent put in to providing their input about the joys and challenges of #cycling!
We're still transcribing four video responses, and doing other tasks, to create our compilation post. That means the post won't be out today as we'd hoped. Watch for it ASAP in June in the #Bicycling #Monterey sidebar (bikemonterey.org).
Meanwhile, here's a photo sent by one of the respondents, a woman from Florida. She bikes when she visits California too, as she was doing with her husband, in this photo.
#BikeTooter
#Community #Knowledge #Experience
#BikeFlorida #BikeCalifornia
@strypey False.
Though I might have phrased that with greater clarity.
First, "appeal to authority" is one of several informal fallacies, that is, it doesn't automatically invalidate a statement, but it does suggest a weakness.
Second, appeal to authority refers to power or position independent of epistemic characteristics. In its classic form it often referred to reliance on religious or political statements, or perhaps on overreliance of ancient sources (e.g., Aristotle, classically, in mediaeval and Renaissance Europe). There are heavy overtones of Papal infallability to it.
Expertise is direct experience or knowledge of a subject, or general knowledge of a field. It is a measure of credibility for knowledge of which we cannot ourselves claim first-hand familiarity. Or, often, for which a first impression gives a false or misleading sense as compared to a deeper understanding.
It is expertise and not authority we are relying on when we cite a reference work (dictionary, encyclopedia, desk reference, statistics, textbook, article), or when we call on expert witnesses in legal or other hearings. There's some confounding of this in common parlance as an expert is often referred to as an authority, but in most cases that authority derives from specific experience, reputation, and credibility rather than some conferred political or social power.
*Expertise and credibility are not absolutes, and neither @vik nor I are claiming this. I've specifically indicated these *are fallible. You've specifically misrepresented our statements as claiming otherwise. Which, I might add, makes you an unreliable source.
However as an initial prior for judging information it is a USEFUL guide. And in matters epistemic, utility has an extraordinary significance. We CANNOT be called upon to judge and assess each and every claim individually (regards the claim) and personally (regards persons). Instead we rely on standards, institutions, and practices of trust and presumed belief. We change our views as evidence changes, or as authorities previously viewed as credible come to be generally assessed as unreliable.
In the context of the present discussion, Sabine Hossenfelder is providing a summary news piece in which she's discussing items of interest to a general science community. Specific expertise in physics and mathematics is a valid basis for general understanding, and we can further presume that Hossenfelder has a team assisting in that process (she alludes to this in multiple ways).
What we're relying on her for then is:
To filter through candidate stories to find those of greatest relevance and significance.
To accurately summarize and present findings.
Where she does so, to accurately express opinions on the overall findings or nature of the items.
Which is to say: this is not scholarly or academic research itself, but a review of that research. Details of methodology and findings are going to be in the referenced documents.
And the general expertise and credibility are specifically what is relevant for a scientific communicator / news presenter, in such a case.
I noted above that the overhead of researching and rebutting every last claim is nonfeasible --- it's effectively a denial-of-serivce attack on our brains individually and on public knowledge generally. So is rebutting lazy, inaccurate, and if I may use the term, bullshit arguments or objections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Mostly, though, it leads to extraordinarily tedious side tangents rather than a substantive discussion of the main topic at hand. There are times when it's reasonable to question sources. This ... really isn't one.
#BullshitArgumentsWhichMustDie #BrandolinosLaw #Bullshit #AppealToAuthority #Expertise #Credibility #Trust #Epistemology #Knowledge #KnowingWhatWeKnow
@pariahsickkid well said and great initiative, sharing is caring as they say and #knowledge should be #freely accessible at zero cost.
I need a job!
My PhD is drawing to a close.
I'm looking for post-doc research opportunities or web/software development roles, ideally a combination, as in digital humanities research.
My previous research experience is in heritage and higher education for the arts.
My PhD was about knowledge frameworks and the affordances of digital tools and representations in research, in relation to research reuse, transparency and inclusivity.
I would love to be able to contribute more to innovative work on research and knowledge representations.
I am open to new possibilities! In particular I am interested in the possibility of becoming involved in sustainability and biodiversity-related research.
I am a full-stack web developer, and have a good deal of front-end design experience. I am open to all opportunities, particularly remote working!
I am not great at this self-promotion thing...
I will be putting a portfolio site online soon, but am happy to share a CV with anyone who is interested in the meantime.
Thanks for any boosts!
#jobs
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#digitalhumanities
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#documentation
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#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #archaologie
I use a robot to restore Pompeii’s shattered frescoes 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01741-3
I'm re-reading piles of books. 83 of my fave childhood books are banned nationwide.
If you need a digital copy of a banned book, PM me. I will send you a copy.
I have a lifetime membership to the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Most Out of Print and Banned books are PDF form but can easily be converted for ereaders. Banning books is a form of bullying and you'll never get me to believe otherwise. Save digital copies to thumbdrives, phone memory, tablet memory, SDcards, flash drives. AND SHARE THEM.
To not be able to read a book because it upsets 2% of the world is a Travesty. Knowledge should never be withheld. ~ Lolly Inkpen
#bannedbooks #share #knowledge #freedombooks #savethebooks
https://www.gutenberg.org/ is where a lot of these books can be found.
Also https://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/
Teachers will love this bc large volume of books can be acquired. You needn't ascribe to her principles to receive books. They carry thousands of classical books. https://aynrand.org/freenovels/
Boost this.
In lofty circles I pull weight,
Enjoy the company of great
Philosophers and men of science,
And find a way to end reliance
On faulty models. Yet I cleave
To custom—I won’t take my leave
But hold on tight until I burst:
A compromise that’s still Earth-first.
#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #science #scientists #astronomy #astronomers #history #knowledge #heliocentric #geocentric #observatory #poetrycommunity
I was shocked/entertained by the story of dissertations being thrown away and then rescued after dumpster images went viral this week. But in #ReadingTheComments, I can't get one out of my head:
"Libraries can't afford to be warehouses that store books that no one ever reads!"
Someone actually thought typing those words and broadcasting them to the world would make them look wise, that they were offering valuable criticism with their take. 🤦Capitalism is so pervasively engrained in westerners that we cannot imagine rare books existing without being profitable! I will tell you, besides going to far off places and accessing interesting environments, finding valuable information in a rare source is a very close second place in ranking why I love being a professor!
#libraries
#books
#capitalism
#knowledge
#wisdom
#Alberta
#TrashMyPHD
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back — and can now spot more colliding black holes than ever 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01732-4
The future of knowledge graphs in a world of large language models
Post-conference recording of the keynote given at the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 in New York
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
The Closest Living Relative of the First Animal Has Finally Been Found 🤓
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-closest-living-relative-of-the-first-animal-has-finally-been-found/
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I suspect our species has been kissing for as long as we’ve been on Earth.”
Evidence of smooching from sources up to 11,000 years old seem to counter the hypothesis that kissing was invented around 3,500 years ago on the Indian subcontinent.
#knowledge #science #Astronomy #space #Universum
JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01666-x
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
The Psychedelics Industry Is Booming—but Who’s Being Left Out? 🤓
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/medicinal-psychedelics-indigenous/
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
How oil companies’ soaring profits compare with green-energy investments 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01599-5
#LLMs like #ChatGPT encode publicly available #knowledge into a form that is in itself indecipherable and can only reproduce this knowledge unreliably. 1/5
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I tell my students I have become a hunter … I hunt for grants.”
Africa has talented scientists who can address their continent’s challenges, says materials chemist Emmanuel Unuabonah — but a lack of funding is holding them back.
Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month
Quote of the day:
“I am enough of the #artist to draw freely upon my #imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. #Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
There's a category of things you cannot (competently) learn by only reading a book (or a website), or even watching a video. Some examples: rock climbing, beekeeping, gardening, woodworking, driving. No matter the sum of written knowledge or videos on these things... you have to roll up your sleeves and actually apply those skills to learn (and master) those things. #learning #knowledge
This book is the first in English to survey indigenous #knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional information available, based on local almanacs, #Arabic texts and poetry by #Gulf individuals, ethnographic interviews, and online forums. A major feature of the book is tracing the history of terms and concepts in the local seasonal knowledge of the Gulf, including an important genre about weather stars, stemming back to the ninth century CE. Also covered are pearl diving, fishing, #seafaring, and pastoral activities. This book will be of interest to scholars who study the entire #Arab region, since much of the lore was shared and continues through the present. It will also be of value to scholars who work on the #IndianOcean and Red Sea Trade Network, as well as the history of folk #astronomy in the Arab World.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95771-1#about-this-book
*** Philosophy [in:of:for:and] Digital Knowledge Infrastructures 2023 ***
! Call for Papers !
We are looking for contributions concerning digital knowledge infrastructure, broadly construed.
Check https://digital-philosophy.org/call-for-papers for the details.
If you got something for us, send your abstract (500 words max) to submissions@digital-philosophy.org.
#Philosophy #DigitalHumanities #Knowledge #Technology #PhDKI2023
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
The ocean is hotter than ever: what happens next? 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01573-1
#cognition #understanding #epistemology @sociology @psychology
Leonid #Rozenblit and Frank #Keil: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062901/
Abstract:
"People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is far stronger for explanatory knowledge than many other kinds of #knowledge, such as that for facts, procedures or narratives. The illusion for explanatory knowledge is most robust where the environment supports real-time #explanations with visible mechanisms. We demonstrate the illusion of depth with explanatory knowledge in Studies 1–6. Then we show differences in overconfidence about knowledge across different knowledge domains in Studies 7–10. Finally, we explore the mechanisms behind the initial #confidence and behind #overconfidence in Studies 11 and 12. Implications for the roles of intuitive theories in models of #concepts and cognition are discussed."
@tbroyer Such #software tech already exists, it's only about who wishes to continue and spend money to start such things which will make the world #better than being capitalistic profit minded. I just love to #innovate things. Wish I have the #knowledge and power to #implement it. Slowly learning the #process of it. Just surfing #mastodon let me these many exposure in just few weeks. I'm glad I adopted mastodon. If any of you willing to discuss about it, I'm open to such convos☺️
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#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
WHO declares end to COVID-19’s emergency phase 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01559-z
In my Just Two Things newsletter today: why millionaires are terrible for climate change. And how to move knowledge around in organisations (tip: let the knowledge do the work.)
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-may-2023-m…
#strength #knowledge #beauty #courage #pride #blackmastodon #BlackFriday #blackfediverse
#blackwomen #Love #pride #education #family
This is what I see in this womans face.
Take your best shot,you can't move me
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
Women’s health research lacks funding – these charts show how 🤓
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01475-2/index.html
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
‘A good day’: FDA approves world’s first RSV vaccine 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01529-5
Making wild things happen in unbelievably limited, precise, and controlled conditions is instructional, and advances scientific knowledge.
Taking such proof of concepts into the real world is another matter. Some, like FTL drives & time travel, are constrained by limits that prevent them.
When the constraints scale with the challenge/problem, there is no 'win' column, only exponentially increasing cost.
But no, you can't "fight" decoherence in a sustainable way. You could work with it, but that would require not being limited to a statistical (IE, #quantum) model for our understanding of the physics.
Anyone else worry about the loss of knowledge keepers and the transmission of knowledge and skill through the overreliance on apps?
When the first thing (or only thing) people suggest after you ask, "how do I learn...?" is an app, I get very concerned and not a little angry.
There are colonialist overtones here, not even subtle, I think...
#thoughts #musings #knowledge #wisdom #tradition #technology
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.”
Pioneering artificial-intelligence researcher Geoffrey Hinton has quit his job at Google so he can speak freely about the dangers of the technology, and says that a part of him now regrets his life’s work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
Al Quaraouiyine Library — located in Fez, #Morocco — is the oldest still-operating #library in the #world.
It was founded more than 12 centuries ago, by a #Muslim #woman: in 859 CE by Fatima El-Fihriya.
#libraries developed during #Islam’s Golden Age reflect a commitment to literacy & #knowledge.
The library is home to some of the world's most priceless manuscripts from the 9th century, housing a collection of 4,000 rare #books.
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It’s a two-way street: we need a more diverse pool of medical illustrators, and we need more diversity in the medical illustrations we create.”
Hillary Wilson parlayed her interest in art and science, and her insights gained as a Black American woman, into her career as a medical illustrator.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01432-z
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
Mudskippers: Blinking fish give insight into how life adapted to land 🤓
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65400696
How do you go about gaining new knowledge of stuff?
Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse
Please select all that apply.
Comment below 👇 with anything other than the three choices mentioned or explain the option(s) you voted for!
Thanks to @daj for the poll idea!
Culture is nothing but the vocabulary for human souls to connect.
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up 🤓
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sapphire-schrodingers-cat-quantum
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Astronomy
Black-hole image reveals details of turmoil around the abyss 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01442-x
#NYC Mayor Adams called off his latest round of budget cuts for #libraries, which would have forced #publiclibraries in NYC close many of their branches on weekends. But the #libraries still face another $36 million in #budgetcuts from other, previously announced #austerity moves by #CityHall. #SaveOurLibraries #PublicLibraries are a #publicTrust #access to #education #books #ebooks #internet #referenceservices #librarians #knowledge #learning #safePlaces
More on the knowledge from @onsman
“What is a knowledge opportunity? It’s basically anything that we can either turn into new content, or improve existing content with. A lot of these knowledge opportunities arise naturally of course, as part of our daily experience of being accessibility enthusiasts.”
https://www.tpgi.com/the-knowledge-and-how-to-get-it-part-two/
Just learned, now, that @wikipedia has joined #Mastodon 1 week ago.
Please, join me in welcoming them to the #Fediverse 👋
#Wikipedia #wikimedia #wiki #openaccess #knowledge #culture #introduction #boost #JoinIn #news
Woke up early and watched the keynote from @kfogel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cen6el4teDg
https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/covid19-ageism-canada-pandemic/ “Most #COVID deaths are in #older people. That’s not just a problem for them. It’s a problem for everyone. When older adults are healthy they are an incredible asset to our communities — they are #caregivers, #volunteers and repositories of #knowledge and culture. When they are unwell it is a tremendous strain on them, their caregivers and our #HealthCareSystem.”
It’s really great to see a library give neurodiversity a priority in their space. Featuring so many useful resources on the topic is quite meaningful for their community.
https://josephinelibrary.org/education-and-research/neurodiversity/
(As an aside, this very library is under attack by fascist extremists: https://mas.to/@markwyner/110120169389244691)
#Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Library #Libraries #Inclusivity #Knowledge
#Design #Techniques
Why do they ignore my awesome design documentation? · Ways to make your documentation more effective and valuable https://ilo.im/1247ew
“Documentation should be an integral part of a team’s life, not a ‘cemetery’ where good ideas come to die.” — Slava Shestopalov
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#Documentation #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignTeam #Tool #Contribution #Discussion #Knowledge
How to #hire in a pre-AGI world getting ready to #AGI? We already see #GPT-models acing all the #LeetCode style test batteries and simple coding exercises used by companies. Cheating notwithstanding, are these the skills you want to hire on anyhow?
Let me propose that instead of skills which are already redundant and automated, you might want to hire based on different aspects. Let's start from a hypothetical scenario where you have all the latest large language models in use in your business.
If you ask #ChatGPT now to create redundant algorithmic answers to code puzzles it will do that well, and those solutions are on the level of best engineers. If you ask it to make a presentation of a topic, it will draw off of the whole of Wikipedia and all kinds of literature and even recent scientific publications to make a presentation filled with all that knowledge in an easy to present form.
So, what value does a person bring on top of that?
People know things chatbots don't. That is always true, they also know things other people don't know, and things that aren't written to Wikipedia. These are valuable things these people can teach to your #chatbots.
If the people know everything in Wikipedia and are the best code puzzle champions, they are very brilliant surely, but are nearly useless in an organization which uses AI. If they have life experience which isn't known by chatbots, that is of crucial value. That makes a competitive advantage.
When you #recruit, ask people to tell you something that isn't in #Wikipedia. Test them if they recognize truth from all the noise.
Not only #knowledge, but #trust will also become valuable. Hire people who are in the correct circles you want to be exposed to.
The hunger for chips, knowledge, trust and truth is going to hit like a megaton of bricks very shortly. People will be shocked.
If you are interested in how #dotNET came to its current incarnation, these two blog posts by @andrewlock are drawing a pretty complete picture:
Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-dotnet-ecosystem-the-evolution-of-dotnet-into-dotnet-7/
Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The introduction of .NET Standard
https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-dotnet-ecosystem-the-introduction-of-dotnet-standard/
#learning #knowledge #NETFramework #NETStandard #dotNET7 #history #ecosystem
On our route towards #AGI in this #TechnologicalSingularity trajectory we are accelerating on the most burning question is what the tomorrow looks like.
It is becoming more and more difficult to forecast shorter and shorter futures, but now we still have some visibility. What I believe will happen:
- We will experience a huge growth in appetite for #compute, specifically #chips, #data and conveniently encoded #knowledge.
- While we can introduce #AI to our existing industries, businesses and militaries, we will experience the bottleneck where we cannot quite do what we'd like to do as we have too few robots everywhere. We'll probably start building robots like there's no tomorrow, and renting them to be controlled by AIs to construct new factories, logistical centers, military bases and all sorts of things more streamlined for an AI-based society.
- Many people will cede control of their lives and any decisions within their power to AIs. Those who do might do well or less well, but definitely better and better over time as the systems become more powerful. Delegating day-to-day control to machines means that there is less reason for humans to even be informed of the day-to-day operational details.
- Some companies will get boosted by not having to hire so much labor in the first place. I think this will be a stronger dynamic than layoffs, and it will eventually causally drive layoffs as companies with more traditional structures will lose in competition to these new challengers.
- Prices of lots of things will fall, but at least initially, everything that bottlenecks further AI adoption will become scarce. Digital design becomes practically free which means our world will fill up with beauty and purpose.
There is a reason that #LLMs are caled #LanguageModels and not #knowledge models, #reasoning models, or #intelligence models: they are trained, exclusively, to model linguistic form (which is neither knowledge about the world, reasoning, nor intelligence). Their ability to perform other tasks is purely epiphenomenal. The degree to which these epiphenomena are robust is still an open question.
A printable flyer [PDF] for sharing the Critical Thinking Game Design Challenge with schools & other groups is now available to download.
⭐ Please share with school design programs, indie dev groups, and anybody else who wants to help make a difference through video games (and/or wants to win the prize money).
🌐 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7dbcc24YpRbmyiVYKNfwWIRycBWtiFP/view?usp=sharing
@edutooters @academicchatter @communicationscholars @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
#VideoGames #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Tech #Programming #EdTech #Gaming #Media #Education #Nonprofit #Knowledge #ScientificThinking #Prevention #Gaming #CatsOfMastodon #RetroGaming #Indie
What is Critical Thinking?
📚 "Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write.
"To become a better critical thinker, you therefore need to learn how to:
[1] Clarify your thinking purpose and context;
[2] Question your sources of information;
[3] Identify arguments;
[4] Analyse sources and arguments;
[5] Evaluate the arguments of others; and
[6] Create or Synthesise your own arguments."
🌐 https://www.monash.edu/learnhq/enhance-your-thinking/critical-thinking/what-is-critical-thinking
@edutooters @academicchatter @communicationscholars @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
#VideoGames #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Tech #Programming #EdTech #Gaming #Media #Education #Nonprofit #Knowledge #ScientificThinking #Prevention #Gaming #CatsOfMastodon #RetroGaming #Indie
#Knowledge is the #gift that keeps on giving.
Ever since hearing about the #Aeropress tip from @ChrisPirillo, it remains my favorite way to make a cup of #coffee at home. 😋♥☕
#goodmorning #wakeup #brew #clean #zelda #link #mug #nintendo #geek
Social bookmarking can be an individual #ToolsForThought and/or a collective #knowledge medium. Useful for #learning and exercising a group's #CollectiveIntelligence muscles:
@beckett @bryanalexander I Haven't used Diigo recently and it's still there, and social bookmarking is still a powerful collective #knowledge tool https://www.diigo.com/user/hrheingold/socialbookmarking
I know so many things and I know nothing at all.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of #knowledge." - Stephen Hawking #nature #sunhalo #sun light will always shine through
@drewharwell #AI #machinelearning #errors #misinformation #disinformation #information is not #facts or #knowledge #learning is challenging - why are so many seeking ways around using the #vital asset of being #human - the #brain #educateyourself #learning is a #joy
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
#Sociology #Philosophy #psychology #news #quote #truth #art #life #religion #KNOWLEDGE #education #art #book #author #writing #socialmedia #technology
Unbelievable!
The Map of Mathematics!
Just look at this map.
A bridge between #pkm and #ToolsForThought could be useful. How are thinking and knowledge connected? How is knowledge gardening a tool for thinking? What about knowledge about thinking and tools for thinking? Tools for thinking about knowledge?
Trick question. Name any society in history that banned books and is now revered.
#Fascism #Knowledge #BookBans #Fahrenheit451 #Florida #Teachers #Librarians #Libraries #Schools
This is full-on absolutely 100% “Fahrenheit 451” fascism shit. It’s horrifying that we’re moving down this path. We should be filling the streets. My wife got us new gas masks so we’re ready to hit the pavement when the time comes.
#Fascism #Books #BookBans #Fahrenheit457 #BookBurning #Knowledge #Oppression #RepublicansAreFascists