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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-03 07:16:08
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
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Discovered in 1771 near Rome, this sculpture of the god Hermes is a Roman copy of an earlier Greek work from the fourth century BCE. In ancient times sculptures like this could be found in both public and domestic spaces. After rediscovery, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London, the home of William Fitzmaurice (1737-1805) who was the British Prime Minister in 1782-83. As the god of travelers, Hermes is shown with a traveler’s cloak draped over his left shoulder and wrapped around his ar…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-04 08:47:51

Beyond Words: Interjection Classification for Improved Human-Computer Interaction
Yaniv Goren, Yuval Cohen, Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
arxiv.org/abs/2509.03181

Beyond Words: Interjection Classification for Improved Human-Computer Interaction
In the realm of human-computer interaction, fostering a natural dialogue between humans and machines is paramount. A key, often overlooked, component of this dialogue is the use of interjections such as "mmm" and "hmm". Despite their frequent use to express agreement, hesitation, or requests for information, these interjections are typically dismissed as "non-words" by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines. Addressing this gap, we introduce a novel task dedicated to interjection classifica…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-08-02 04:59:39

Mathematicians are excited about how Cairo’s work will inspire new research. “I am certain that, from now on, whenever we come upon a problem of similar flavor, we will try to test it against Cairo-like constructions,” Oliveira said.
He and others in the harmonic analysis community will also have to reckon with a changed landscape.
In harmonic analysis, there’s a constellation of questions about how the energy of a wave concentrates.
If a conjecture known as Stein’s conje…

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-04 07:27:57
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88
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Sardonyx cameo depicting Selene riding her chariot pulled by two bulls. She holds the reins in her right hand and a whip in her left.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-03 10:31:40
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"All the Children of Helios (the Sun) were easy to recognise, even from a distance, by their flashing eyes, which shot out rays of golden light."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.726
🏛️ Gold stater of Tarentum wit…

Radiate head of Helios minted on a gold coin. He has curly hair and a 14-spiked aureola around his head. He is looking towards his left.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-04 11:43:14
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I'd tap that.
#BumdayMonday
Perseus bronze by Benvenuto Cellini, 16th century CE

Photograph of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus sculpture. Close-up detail of his well-shaped bum and sword arm.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-03 15:17:47
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Who's got more BDE than #Priapos?
#PhallusThursday
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Photograph of a Greek terracotta Priapos against a black background. The fertility god stands with his feet together on a high integral plinth, leaning against a tree trunk to his left, his left hand resting on top, depicted with a full beard, his long center-parted hair pulled back and gathered in a chignon at the base of his neck. His body is enveloped in a himation but his erect phallus is fully exposed, even the glans, which was considered obscene in ancient Greece.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-03 12:24:37
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains,…

Black-figure vase painting of a seated man facing a flying eagle. The painting depicts either the bound Titan Prometheus tormented by the Caucasian eagle or Zeus seated on a throne with his eagle familiar.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-04 12:51:28
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"According to Mimnermos, because Aphrodite had been wounded by Diomedes she caused [his wife] Aigialeia to go to bed with many lovers and to be loved by Kometes, the son of Sthenelos. And when Diomedes arrived in Argos she plotted against him."
Mimnermus, Fragment 22
🏛 Aphrodite with the Erotes, 2nd - early 1st century BCE
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Terracotta figurine of Aphrodite, fully dressed, leaning on a plinth or tree. She rests her right hand on her hip, holding an apple or a flower with her left. Two winged Erotes are with her, one standing on the plinth or tree, the other sitting on her shoulder.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-04 06:59:01
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgones, he received from Mercurius [Hermes], who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an ene…

Black-and-white photograph of a red-figure vase painting depicting Perseus dressed in nothing but a short cloak as he delivers the head of Medusa to Athena. Hermes is sitting behind him, holding his kerykeion staff and looking at Perseus' bum.