Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊

@sauthoff.bsky.social

Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff

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Because no one loves the editing process more than high schoolers.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 reposted

Well the first person to describe measles was Abu Bakr al-Razi, and he knew more about the disease than RFK Jr despite living >1000 years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bak...

en.wikipedia.orgAbu Bakr al-Razi - Wikipedia
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Me yelling into the ether: AI isn't one thing. It's chatbots and OCR and a dozen other things. Some are useful, some create brainrot. Be specific.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

Some unhinged comments and quote posts on this. Machine learning with artificial neural networks has transformed the environmental sciences, and rightly deserved the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. This isn’t using a chatbot to predict hurricanes.

Pro tip: take the train to/from Seattle/Vancouver. More fun, beautiful, no Sea-Tac!

In response to weaker demand Air Canada announced it will cancel 5 routes beginning in /27. Includes flights to Seattle, Nashville, RaleighDurham, Boston& Charleston Canadian travel to US has plunged after repeated threats of annexation by Trump & his trade war #Pinks globalnews.ca/news/1211323...

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 reposted

3 Tenure-Tracks faculty openings at NC State University, seeking interdisciplinary expertise in: 1. Hinduism 2. Film/media studies of the Korean Peninsula 3. Science Communication #scicomm 1 & 2 are in my dept and 3 is part of my faculty cluster for Leadership in Public Science

It would take more than three beers to get me on television with Piers Moron.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Jaime West, a Democratic candidate for a seat on Indiana’s Fayette County Council who went viral for her remarks during a televised candidate forum this month, told conservative British television host Piers Morgan “I had a beer, mm-hmm … maybe a couple.”

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 reposted

Fuck you if your bag of chips doesn't have a story on the back about why your founder decided to pursue a new approach to chips

Pour one out for those of us who would have seen it Friday except it didn’t open here and has no release date announced.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

You Can See Everything opens today on 900 screens. For me (and judging by the reviews, I'm not alone), it's the movie of the year. See it as soon as you can, with as many people as you can, after reading as little as you can.

I don’t remember why I picked up this book, it’s not my usual read, but I fucking loved it.

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social

For the 15th anniversary of The Night Circus my team at Harvill Books in the UK has put together this wonderful new hardcover edition, with beautiful artwork by Kei-Ella Loewe and a new introduction by @alixeharrow.bsky.social that both made me laugh and made me cry. 🖤

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 reposted

Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukWorld's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in TurkeyArchaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.