Ian A Glen

Software and Systems. Geospatial. Criminal Justice. Data Protection. Open data.

[Ian A Glen @IAGlen]

Embarrassed of Tendring.

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Going live with the fellas @tbpn in an hour to talk about Opus 4.1 and Claude Code

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

The side of the earth you never see.

Center of the Pacific Ocean

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

A map of the monasteries of England dissolved by King Henry VIII.

[Ian A Glen @IAGlen]

@Baddiel Implants ! Deals with the myopia and the presbyopia !!

[Barry Cornelius @rowmaps]

Rights of way data for Essex on https://t.co/uKQQyMgJE8 has been updated to the council's latest data. Derived data uses OSTN15 to transform to WGS84. @Essex_CC

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Perplexity Pages, which has AI create a fairly high-quality Wikipedia like page on any topic for different levels of experience, with easy editing tools, seems powerful.

The ability for an expert to easily build a good set of instructions for different audiences is interesting.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several continents. The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; and another nine subdivisions that are now extinct.

Today, individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Hindi–Urdu, Spanish, Bengali, French, Russian, Portuguese, German, and Punjabi, each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language — by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.

All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. The geographical location where it was spoken, the Proto-Indo-European homeland, has been the object of many competing hypotheses; the academic consensus supports the Kurgan hypothesis, which posits homeland to be Pontic–Caspian steppe in what is now Ukraine and southern Russia, associated with the Yamnaya culture and other related archaeological cultures during late 4th to early 3rd millennium BC.

By the time, first written records appeared, Indo-European had already evolved into numerous languages spoken across much of Europe, South Asia, and part of Western Asia. Written evidence of Indo-European appeared during the Bronze Age in the form of Mycenaean Greek and Anatolian languages of Hittite and Luwian. The oldest records are isolated Hittite words and names — interspersed in texts that are otherwise in the unrelated Akkadian language, a Semitic language — found in texts of the Assyrian colony of Kültepe in eastern Anatolia dating to 20th Century BC.

Although no older written records of original Proto-Indo-European population remain, some aspects of their culture and their religion can be reconstructed from later evidence in the daughter cultures. The Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as it possesses the second-longest recorded history of any known family, after the Afroasiatic family in the form of the pre-Arab Egyptian language and the Semitic languages. Analysis of family relationships between the Indo-European languages and reconstruction of their common source, was central to the development of methodology of historical linguistics as an academic discipline in 19th Century.

The Indo-European family is not known to be linked to any other language family through any more distant genetic relationship, although several disputed proposals to that effect have been made. Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations continues with a video on the evolution of the Indo-European Languages, as we give a summary of how this language family formed and how the languages belonging to each are still connected to each other.

© The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories

[Gary Burton @TheOfficialGRB]

Cracks in your render and masonry? You need Metoset. This stuff is superb.

[Gary Burton @TheOfficialGRB]

How I repaired this: sanded woodwork, removed loose plaster, cleaned, applied expanding foam to fill the deep cavity then filled remaining crack with Fill-Flex. Applied scrim tape over repair & filled with Joint & skim. Caulked using CT1. Painted. Final fill & completed.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The big three guides to the underlying technology of LLMs for non-specialists:
Wolfram’s essay on how ChatGPT works: https://t.co/7LY5893IWs
Lee and Trot’s essay on LLMs with minimum jargon: https://t.co/7DzzJ0LPpg
3blue1brown’s new video on transformers: https://t.co/Yek9M8iftV

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

World map according to fish

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Weather forecast on Norwegian television

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

There is so much going on in this letter, and I am here for every second of it.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

How English has evolved over 1,000 years.

#archaeohistories

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

1/ Fraud is 41% of all crime. Home Office figures show 1,125,168 frauds reported to police in E&W
42,933 = 3.8% investigated
3,904 = 0.35% charged or summonsed
3,436 = 0.31% convicted
So 96% chance there'll be no investigation & just 1 in 322 of conviction

[Szymon Pifczyk @sheemawn]

1. You can see it on the age map of rural areas in Poland. The former Russian part is more aged than the former Prussian and especially the former Austrian one.

[Kirksville Web Design @KirksvilleWD]

4 Real Websites on Google Sites. More examples for you writers out there: https://t.co/6ok5JCc5sm #googlesites #googleworkspace #webdesign

[The Long Distance Walkers Association @LDWA1]

If you'd like to follow our entrants as the embark on the Elephant, Bear and Bull 100 mile challenge this weekend, the tracking page is here - https://t.co/7IR9YRD66H

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

ChatGPT has changed the world.

It does lack in some areas, but my favorite use case is leveraging it to teach me things twice as fast.

Here are the 10 best prompts to learn anything faster:

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

New Zealand's South Island photographed from @Space_Station. I took every chance to capture New Zealand due to its small size and diverse ecosystems, able to see almost an entire country and deserts, mountains, glaciers, rainforests and beaches in a single photo.