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calimacoursinA concatenation of things Relevant To My Research Interests (I guess), or, well, I feel I ought to keep up with this sort of thing....
Exiles of love?: uncovering lesbian voices in interwar Czechoslovakia, by someone I know, or at least, whose partner I know and whom I know by association.
Confining yet Convenient: Using Gender Norms to Defend Oneself in Cases of Rural Spousal Violence in Post-Independence Ireland: because that sort of thing could happen, using the system (see that book on 'economic divorce from deserting husbands' in late C19th England).
Review of Pious and Promiscuous: Life, Love and Family in Presbyterian Ulster, which is again, about how the system allows of certain flexibilities.
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How to piss off historians: Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research:
Norman et al. argue that historical sources support their conclusions that drought contributed causally to the ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of 367CE and to other late Roman conflicts. Although historians have developed rigorous methodologies for effective analysis and interpretation of surviving texts, the authors outline no methodologies for dealing with the textual evidence. Further, there are issues with the historical ‘conflict’ and numismatic datasets and with their interpretation.... the textual evidence discussed by Norman et al. does not, and cannot, support the authors’ assertions.
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Is this not lovely news? posthumous work by Vonda McIntyre forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in May
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Professional cosplay photographer David "DTJAAAAM" Ngo attended the recent MegaCon in Orlando and snapped images of the best cosplayers. Among them was this young lady who adds Kermit the Frog to the hairstyle and wardrobe of Hatsune Miku, a vocaloid and virtual idol singer. It's not easy being blue, but she does it with style.
arlieneatorama_feedHumans spent thousands of years looking for ways to make life easier. We turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture, then we invented machines to help with labor. Now we have artificial intelligence so we don't have to bother thinking anymore. Recent research has identified what is called "cognitive surrender," when critical reasoning is abandoned to trust in external reasoning from algorithms.
The experiments used Cognitive Reflection Tests, which are designed to separate people who make decisions on a quick, intuitive basis and those who slowly deliberate the details to come to different conclusions. In other words, the tasks are designed to be somewhat confusing on the surface. The option to consult AI was added (except for a control group), with the AI programmed to give the correct solution only half of the time. While many people took the option to consult AI, some double-checked the algorithm's advice and others blithely accepted what the algorithm told them.
Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time.
Significantly, those who trusted artificial intelligence with their answers were more confident about their decisions, no matter how correct they were or weren't. And adding a time limit only increased the number who trusted AI. Read more about this research at Ars Technica.
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Gas prices are high across the U.S., more so in some places than in others. (Hello from California.) The New York Times has an interactive map of the average price by county. It loads initially by state and then you can zoom in for more details.
I think this is a riff on an older NYT map of the same data and structure, but I couldn’t find it. Maybe it was of temperature?
Either way, I’m a fan of maps that show the data directly through text. See also: most popular resident of every city, midterm challengers, the United States of surnames, London surnames, and how online daters describe themselves.
Tags: gas, New York Times, prices
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