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So uncouth and absurd that it can only be believed that Nature was motivated by spite or mockery in bringing him into the world at all. (Castiglione)

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Okay I give up: A p-value really is the probability the null is true. We lost this game, statisticians. Every one of you gave it your best, and I will always be proud of you. But the scientists cannot be defeated by conventional means. GG
Screenshot from a youtube science video, showing caption that defines a p-value of "3-sigma": "something has a 1 in 400 chance of just being randomness in your data"

ALT Screenshot from a youtube science video, showing caption that defines a p-value of "3-sigma": "something has a 1 in 400 chance of just being randomness in your data"

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I put a Large Language Model to work on a question that's been bothering people for 70 years. #Tolkien idiosophy.com/2023/06/robotsā€¦

Robots donā€™t get nuance

Large Language Models with chat interfaces are all the rage, everywhere we turn these days. Some people are sure theyā€™ll lead to a cataclysm for the human race, others are sure that theyĢµā€¦

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New Post: Introducing C.S. Lewis' Unfinished Teenage Novel "The Quest of Bleheris" apilgriminnarnia.com/2023/05ā€¦ via @BrentonDana #CSLewis
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A prediction by Owen Barfield that came more than true idiosophy.com/2023/05/owen-bā€¦
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To all the people whose blogs Iā€™ve traditionally tweeted: Iā€™m promoting them on Mastodon now. I donā€™t yet have good stats on how many viewers that generates. Let me know if you do!
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An echo across the centuries, via skunk #OldEnglish idiosophy.com/2023/05/a-natiā€¦

A Native American Kenning

One of the few features of Old English poetry to have been embraced by the Internet is the kenning. We internauts tend to use them mostly for animals: ā€œtrash pandaā€ for raccoon; ā€œā€¦

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New post about that nasty line in ā€œThe Battle of the Pelennor Fieldsā€ #Tolkien idiosophy.com/2023/05/otheriā€¦

Othering the Haradrim

Thereā€™s a line in the ā€œBattle of the Pelennor Fieldsā€ that sounds horribly racist to our ears. This is a speculation about what Tolkienā€™s purpose might have been in putting ā€¦

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FƩvrier 1943. La Gestapo tue son mari, chef de rƩseau. A elle de veiller seule, et enceinte, sur leur fille de 3 ans. Mais Ơ d'autres le choix de la sƩcuritƩ ! Car il y a tous ces autres enfants. Juifs. Qu'elle accepte de cacher. Une centaine lui devront la vie. Yvonne Roques.
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OK, hear me out: Perelandra theme park. #CSLewis newatlas.com/environment/dubā€¦

Dubai Reefs: Worldā€™s largest ocean restoration project unveiled

URB, a developer of sustainable cities, has unveiled its plans for what is being billed as "the worldā€™s largest ocean restoration project" on the Dubai coast, called Dubai Reefs.

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Omar Sakr
@omarsakrpoet3 May 2023
An erasure of the original post that reads: Is not poetry a way to destroy Godā€”and then call the leftover a new pure me

ALT An erasure of the original post that reads: Is not poetry a way to destroy Godā€”and then call the leftover a new pure me

Jane Greer@NorthDakotaJane1 May 2023
IMO, ā€œerasure poetryā€ is not poetry in any way. And to destroy someone elseā€™s writingā€”or, God forbid, poemā€”and then call the leftover words a new ā€œpoemā€ is pure philistinism. Fight me.
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The Boxing of Cats is a difficult matter, It can't happen only upon Boxing Day. You may think at first Iā€™m as mad as a hatter But listen: each cat needs its own box for play.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@LeVostreGC25 Apr 2023
Did a catte wryte thys?
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Kareem Carr, Ph.D.
@kareem_carr19 Apr 2023
*before chatgpt* me to journalists: hope you know how to code LMAO!!! *after chatgpt* me to journalists: hope you know how to write crisp, clear text that expresses the intricate nuances of a complicated problem LMAO!!!...oh wait...
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Fascinating. The rise of AI has me thinking so much about Tolkien and the machine. In case you're interested: linkedin.com/pulse/art-vs-maā€¦

Art vs. Machines: Why the Intrusion of AI into Authorship Matters

As a columnist who has been writing for the web for twenty years, I take my cues from J.R.

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ā€œIt Was Not in Vain That The Young Hobbits Came With Us.ā€ Gandalf Speaks of The Fall and Redemption of Boromir. stephencwinter.com/2023/04/1ā€¦

ā€œIt Was Not in Vain That The Young Hobbits Came With Us.ā€ Gandalf Speaks of The Fall and Redemption...

The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 646-648 ā€œTell me of yourselves,ā€ Gandalf asked of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, and so Aragorn tells the tale of the doingsā€¦

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Owen Barfield taught us how to think about #ChatGPT a hundred years ago idiosophy.com/2023/04/poeticā€¦

Poetic Diction and the LLMs

Since you have an internet connection, Dear Reader, I guess youā€™ve heard about ChatGPT.Ā  The Web is full of people arguing over what consciousness is and whether a Large Language Model (LLM) can haā€¦

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GĆ©rard Araud
@GerardAraud31 Mar 2023
Jupiter dementat quos vult perdereā€¦
Axios
@axios31 Mar 2023
Florida to join 25 other states in allowing permitless carry of concealed guns trib.al/bQwhUTL

More than half of U.S. states allow permitless carry of concealed guns after Florida bill becomes...

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill.

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ā€œGandalf! Beyond all Hope You Return to Us in Our Need!ā€ stephencwinter.com/2023/03/2ā€¦

ā€œGandalf! Beyond all Hope You Return to Us in OurĀ Need!ā€

The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 640-645 This is a wonderful piece to write on Tolkien Reading Day, the day on which the Tolkien Society encourage us to read favouritā€¦

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Jackson, Grant, and Teddy are fairly realistic portraits.
Cam Heartless
@camharless21 Mar 2023
Word on the street is that Trump may be arrested today. This will be the first president that this has ever happened to. I thought, "what if all of the presidents were comic book villains?" This, here is my newest list of presidents you never asked for. 1. George Washington
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Do it like #Tolkien did ā€” publish the story first, then spend the next two decades building the world
Mythgard Institute@mythgardian18 Mar 2023
How do you world-build without losing your reader? This May with Julian Barr, learn techniques on the scene level to embed world-building into your narrative without bogging the reader down in exposition. Register by April 1! blackberry.signumuniversity.ā€¦ youtu.be/o1ah7TjXJKg
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