While generic advice may still be helpful, David Cain finds that advice is valuable when it’s specific. When he was young, his teachers gave him advice on how to improve his penmanship — “pay attention to what you’re doing,” “practice,” and “don’t get frustrated” — but to no avail. He only improved after his father gave him more specific advice: “Try to make the bottom of each letter touch the blue line”; it gave him a concrete starting point that made it easier to start improving. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
