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AI deciphers millions of medieval manuscript pages per second
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (160+ words) AI has begun "reading" medieval manuscripts and archival documents that previously required years of manual labor. Handwriting recognition and automatic transcription technologies now allow researchers to study vast arrays of historical sources significantly faster, according to Heritage Daily. At a…...
WHY SOME CIVILIZATIONS LIVE FOR 6,000 YEARS WHILE OTHERS GO TITS UP BEFORE THEY LEARN TO RIDE A…
10+ hour, 20+ min ago (423+ words) WHY SOME CIVILIZATIONS LIVE FOR 6,000 YEARS WHILE OTHERS GO TITS UP BEFORE THEY LEARN TO RIDE A TRICYCLE — PART THREE: SOPHISTICATED ADMINISTRATION Why do some civilizations survive for thousands …...
Your Jawbone Could Reveal Your Sex With Over 90 Percent Accuracy, New Study
21+ hour, 33+ min ago (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...
I Did OSINT on a Meme Wedding Dress Site and Found a Hidden Internet Archive
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (34+ words) It started with a joke: “Figure out the lore of this site, but don’t break it.” The target was …...
Scientists Say the “Lizard Brain” Is a Myth, But the Truth About How Our Brains Evolved May Be Even Stranger
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...
In 44 minutes, AI decrypted a 373-year-old cipher of a Scottish poet
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (287+ words) inkorr.com In 44 minutes, AI decrypted a 373-year-old cipher of a Scottish poet Decoding the Cyphral Distich Record Vals AI announced that its Claude Fable 5.1 model successfully decrypted a 373-year-old Cyphral Distich record created by Scottish poet Thomas Urquhart. The…...
The use of airborne Lidar to visualize history in 3D
1+ week, 1+ day ago (197+ words) Bringing a Canadian fort to life Airborne Lidar and 3D modelling technologies were used at the historic site of Fort Anne in Nova Scotia, Canada, not only as an aesthetic recreation of history, but also to help scientists decide where to…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8850: Explainable Ceramic-Form Classification and Visual Retrieval of Chinese Ceramic Cultural Heritage Using DINOv2 and Morphological Feature Fusion
1+ week, 1+ day ago (499+ words) The continued digitization of open museum collections provides new opportunities for the intelligent organization and visual discovery of cultural heritage. However, morphological similarity between ceramic forms, intra-class variation, and changing photographic conditions remain challenges for automated classification, model interpretation, and…...
Did Our Brains Connect to Another Dimension 50,000 Years Ago?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (676+ words) It's one of the great mysteries of science. Modern humans have been walking the Earth for 250,000 to 300,000 years. But it wasn't until 40,000 or 50,000 years ago that humans demonstrated remarkable cognitive and creative abilities. The creation of cave paintings, personal ornaments…...