You can be clever, influential AND unsuccessful. “Cleopatra was, I’d argue, at best a mediocre ruler, whose ambitious and self-interested gambles mostly failed, to the ruin of herself and her kingdom. This is not to say Cleopatra was a weak… Read More »Collections: On the Reign of Cleopatra
“How we fit the world into boxes matters, because those boxes then affect our thinking and decisions on a wide range of issues. In your own view of the world, who is part of what group? How do you assign… Read More »Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
This article was originally published in Slovak: Prečo je Bratislava na okraji? On the night of August 14, 1919, shortly after two in the morning, a group of barefoot men armed only with hand grenades crawled along the underside of… Read More »Why Is Bratislava on the Edge?
Tento článok je publikovaný aj v angličtine Why Is Bratislava on the Edge?. V noci na 14. augusta 1919, krátko po druhej hodine, sa po spodnej konštrukcii jediného bratislavského mosta plazila na druhý breh Dunaja skupina bosých mužov vyzbrojených len… Read More »Prečo je Bratislava na okraji?
Biases remain. “A shared canon is not necessarily a bad thing. Newcomers reading the classics of a field is how fields are supposed to work, and search engines concentrated attention long before chatbots did. Models may also bring forgotten papers… Read More »The Septuagint Effect
Tomyris, bojovná kráľovná Massagetov zo 6. storočia pred Kristom, bola drsná ženská, ktorá síce problémy nevyhľadávala, ale vedela ich, kurva, ukončiť, keď niekto prišiel do jej kúta sveta robiť bordel. Bola tvrdá, múdra a divoká a na každý vpád na… Read More »Tomyris – Kráľovná, ktorá z Kýrovej lebky pila víno
Same goes for AI usage. “Knowing the rules is one thing. Knowing which rules apply, which can be ignored, and what the consequences are for getting those things confused is a whole other bag of chips.This is the reality of… Read More »Knowledge is not experience
Evolution might kill and save us all. [Radiolab] Antibiotic Apocalypse https://podcastaddict.com/radiolab/episode/220270965 via @PodcastAddict
This article was originally published in Slovak: Prečo je Slovensko také dlhé a úzke? In October 2021, something Slovakia had waited fifty years for finally happened: a continuous highway connected Bratislava and Košice. It just doesn’t run through Slovakia. It runs… Read More »Why Is Slovakia So Long and Thin?
Tento článok je aj v angličtine: Why Is Slovakia So Long and Thin? V októbri 2021 sa konečne stalo to, na čo Slovensko čakalo päťdesiat rokov: Bratislavu a Košice spojila súvislá diaľnica. Len nevedie cez Slovensko. Vedie cez Maďarsko. Prečo… Read More »Prečo je Slovensko také dlhé a úzke?