@DIAS Greeks were never one type. Ionians, Dorians, Athenians, Macedonians, Cretans, Pontians and Asia Minor Greeks already differed.
An Athens crowd still shows that. Just as similar faces as these in Italy, Spain, the Balkans or Anatolia come usually from shared Greek ancestry.
This statue is over 2300 years old.
It's one of the very few ancient sculptures left with its original eyes, and I can’t get over how real they look...
The statue is the Antikythera Ephebe, a Greek bronze of a young man made around 340 to 330 BC, and strangely enough, the reason it survived is because it sank. In antiquity, bronze statues were constantly melted down for their metal, turned into weapons and coins, which is why almost none survive.
This one went to the bottom of the sea in a shipwreck around 60 BC and lay there for nearly two thousand years, until sponge divers found it in 1900.
But let’s go back to my favorite detail: the eyes.
When a bronze statue is made, the eyes are often set separately, inlaid with glass, stone, and colored paste to make them lifelike, and over the centuries almost every ancient bronze has lost them, leaving those hollow, blank sockets we think of as classical.
The Ephebe still has his original eyes, made of glass paste, one of only a handful of ancient Greek bronzes in the world that do. And it changes everything because he does not gaze blankly into nothing, he seems to be looking, intently, at something that vanished more than two thousand years ago...
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
It would be wise to shield young children from media/social media attention/exposure when they do well in sports or in any other field. It is better for the parent/ coach/ support system to take care of the media interactions and not let the young children to deal with media directly. They should deal with media only when obligatory, not out of choice.
In the modern era, everything is being used as a tool to commercialise and capitalise to one's advantage. Parents should not fall for this and protect their children's wellbeing rather than capitalising on their popularity. A child is not an advertisement tool to be exploited.
A young mind is not mature enough to handle too much unwarranted attention. They may start believing they are invincible, too self- important, that the current good ride will last forever, that they have already achieved something big and they don’t have to do more to keep it progressing and worse, that it is their job to keep others happy and meet their unrealistic expectations. Eventually they will become actors in their own life than just living their life. They will be too self-conscious always worrying about what others will think of them before doing anything.
It will be great if children are taught not to chase popularity, that they are under no obligation to meet others expectations or to please others. They just have to be themselves and focus on improving their character, upgrade their skills, be humble. When they are older, they can choose themselves which path they have to take. Young age is the building phase, not the enjoyment/entertainment phase, that should come much later after we have built a very strong foundation early on.
I am watching currently a simul chess exhibition in a hotel in Utrecht 🇳🇱.
Miodrag Perunovic VS 30 boards.💪🏻
Unfortunately the conditions are not the best for videos, pictures, or live streaming as Iwanted. 🤷🏻♂️
Still, cool though...
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Some people really can’t handle losing...
Reported the account.
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Hereunder the message I received just after our game.
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Today I just kept giving up pieces like it was charity day
or something...
Rooks you said? Please take two, they're for free! Actually, take the Knights as well, I insist!!!🫠
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