Face to face with a brown recluse, which I promise is far less dangerous that you might think. These are exceptionally shy spiders that do not bite except when literally being squished. Texas.
#spiders #LoxoscelesHeraldry Mastodon: what is this? A spur? A cinquefoil? Help! Please. I can’t even describe it for the visually impaired.
First hen of the season! Going in the freezer.
OK, in the Southern Literary Messenger (March 1841), Severn Teakle Wallis penned a lengthy and detailed exposition of the injustice he believed Irving and his American admirers did to Navarrete and Spain. This piece should be taught with Dana, Emerson, etc in histories of American literature.
I have a suspicion it was George Featherstonehaugh, my favoritely surnamed geologist.
#Americanists: in the preface to the 2nd edition (1850) of his Life of
#Columbus, Washington Irving rebuts "an American writer" who accused him of failing to credit Navarrete adequately. Anyone know who that American writer was?
boss -
#insects are not always
going to be bullied
by humanity
some day they will revolt
i am already organizing
a revolutionary society to be
known as the
#worms turnverein
- archy
Actually, I suppose it’s mistranscription, not mistranslation.
I thought the early music and naval historian folks out there would both enjoy this bit of mistranslation by the astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach, commenting in 1823 on Drake's 1587 burning of the Spanish fleet at Cadiz.
Can folks in the know tell me how LLM builders measure the “capability” and “smartness” of their models? How do they derive these from volume of training data and processing power?
Alex Wild