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- Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3797
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Re: Random Thread
Humans are actually pretty robust in some ways. Many animals go into shock and die fairly quickly if they break a bone, and many others simply will die long term from inability to get food or evade predators. However, while humans sometimes go into shock in a manner that needs immediate attention to...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15046310
Re: Venting thread
Personally I have elected to have an ongoing midlife crisis as I do not know when I will die. This is however overshadowed by my ongoing and lifelong existential crisis.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3797
- Views: 482507
Re: Random Thread
I've seen that post on tumblr.
And on the subject of dear, I think it's pretty much Deer Were Not Made Around Cars, So they Don't Understand What To Do.
And on the subject of dear, I think it's pretty much Deer Were Not Made Around Cars, So they Don't Understand What To Do.
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 145278
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
But can you solve expressions like (3.89+2.5i)^(4.8-2.73i) in your head? My laptop can solve that in less than one second. I'm not sure that you would ever want to evaluate that in your head. There are serious problems with the concept of a^b for arbitrary complex a and b . I recall not appreciatin...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 176
- Views: 460270
Re: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
I'm already working on my own sci-fan galaxy for a story, otherwise this would be right up my alley. I hope you get some folks interested because I'd like to see what gets made, even if I'm not participating.
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Japonic family
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18871
Re: Japonic family
Very nice. This reminds me that I need to go back to my original post and edit in the reconstruction for Old Japanese pronunciation.
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Dream sharing thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 294215
Re: Dream sharing thread
Oddly, I've never had any school dreams with the exception of one dream set at my old high school, but having nothing to do with school anxieties. Then again, for the most part, school was the less anxious part of my childhood. Recently especially, I've had dreams where I have a vague goal to achiev...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What do you make of Orwell's take on "Brave New World"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1703
Re: What do you make of Orwell's take on "Brave New World"?
... and virtual reality addiction is missing as an additional drug ... It's funny you mention that because they did have something similar to VR: the feelies. They were analogous to movies in some ways but that's explained by movies being a recent technology, especially "talkies" which on...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3797
- Views: 482507
Re: Random Thread
I'd say that in the bedroom, it's often more like a game. There are agreed upon rules and both parties (in a "safe, sane and consensual" dynamic at least) are able to stop things from getting out of hand. If anything, the sub should have more say about anything going on in the scene, as l...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 145278
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I actually have plans for a novel about such a scenario in the back of my mind. Earth has made the transition to global democracy and a sustainable lifestyle, but some rich people are not content with that and try to set up a transhumanist libertarian utopia on Mars. Of course, terraforming fails, ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 145278
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
How many people here would want to compete against something that can perform their job without error or exhaustion at far lower cost? So first off, none of this is performing the jobs of writers and artists without error. In fact one of the biggest concerns is that LLMs introduce A LOT of error in...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Japonic family
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18871
Re: Japonic family
I’d be interested to get your thoughts on how to treat multiple sources. ... Do you have any suggestions as to how this should be handled? On one hand, keeping reconstructions and the sound changes together would be ideal in most cases, especially if there are large discrepancies. In the case of Ja...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 5:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 145278
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Funny how so many artists and writers are filing lawsuits against it. Almost as if it poses some threat to their livelihoods... I mean, more threat than fanfic writers selling their derivative* fiction without the permission of the original author. And people get slapped with C&D letters (or th...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Japonic family
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18871
Re: Japonic family
What I’ve done in my Polynesian changes is to use the asterisked symbol throughout, and then give the reconstruction in a table associated with each source. So following this pattern, you could simply specify sound changes like e.g. *o1 → o (or whatever it might be) , then give *o1 = [wo] when citi...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Japonic family
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18871
Re: Japonic family
Honestly, looking just at that image, I’m not sure it’s even possible to say much about specific sound changes with any confidence. e.g. for the first row, all we can tell is that kiy and kyi merged into something … but what? Just looking at it, I’m tempted to say ki , but I can’t know if this is t...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:21 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 145278
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Caveat 2: All of this applies to written content. I feel bad for illustrators, because to my eye, high-quality AI images are essentially indistinguishable from human-produced ones. But that's my impression as a layperson—maybe that's not actually true and people who professionally evaluate visual a...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: Japonic family
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18871
Japonic family
This chart is sourced from "The Japanese Language Through Time" by Samuel E. Martin, copyright 1987, and ranges from early 700 CE to 1500 CE. Screenshot (51).png I am going to have to interpret this a little, so I'm going to say that going rightward, when going from a more solid line to an...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 388823
Re: The Index Diachronica
I’m not sure the exact dating of sound changes is really within the scope of this project. All we really need for now is the sound changes themselves, in as much detail as possible. So, since we seem to agree that it’s best to transcribe each source independently, perhaps just start with Martin 198...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:17 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 388823
Re: The Index Diachronica
I'll have to find a book I stored and sort through some PDFs but I'll try to get to it in the next week or so. I'll try to make a post for each version I can track down. This will likely take longer than I thought. I seem to have misremembered where I found a table of sound changes, or hallucinated...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 1:06 pm
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: The Index Diachronica
- Replies: 221
- Views: 388823
Re: The Index Diachronica
I'd appreciate course 2 as well. I've been able to scrape together some sound changes for the Japonic family (although mostly mainland Japanese) Ooh… could you write them up somewhere and make a Japonic thread please? The other stuff can be dealt with as long as we’re reasonably consistent about ho...