Zompist Bboard Again

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 7:45 am At least this thread is about AI again now.

Yes, someone who runs the simulated universe seems finally to have noticed and adjusted the weights accordingly.

"Does the world need several individual SCAs, or one which does everything all the others do?". Does the world need several auxlangs, and if not, how do you stop them? One could argue that, on a very abstract level, an SCA is really a kind of auxlang. This is left as an exercise for the r...

Here's a bit of rambling about SCAs in general, which bradrn's last post prompted me to generate. I have a feeling that, somewhere between all the various SCAs that we've written, the One True SCA is struggling to get out; or, put another way, in trying to solve the same problems from different dire...

See also: my attempts at establishing the One True Syntax For All Sound Change Appliers. Come on now, you can't just mention it without providing a link to it. This was something I started a thread about some time ago, and it never went anywhere, so there's probably not enough of substance to be wo...

This is ripe for a parody announcement in Chomskyese.

See also: my attempts at establishing the One True Syntax For All Sound Change Appliers.

(*) The usual level of infighting is truly something insane. If you can locate any member of a left-wing party, they'll tell you all about incredible, irreconcilable differences, but the truth is since 2016 it's been usual to have three or four left-wing candidates/lists with almost the same damn e...

So, if we take this problem as solved, the remaining problem is how to represent suprasegmentals. I’m starting to think that this problem is bound up with that of representing features more generally, which is an area where Brassica is less complete than I’d like. I’ll have to further ponder whethe...

"a lice doesn't float" sounds wrong, but I'm not sure if that settles things either way.

A minor point:

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:26 pm The UK press seems even worse— there seem to be no left-wing tabloids.

There are a couple - the Daily Mirror and the Daily Record - but their readerships are rather smaller than those of the D*ily M*il and the D*ily *xpr*ss, so you don't get to hear about them as much.

This is about an interesting but generally unexplored aspect of concultures: what (type of person, actitivy) pairs allow you to say that "My favourite (type of person or people) can/has done (activity) to an objectively greater degree than your (type of person or people) so clearly I am a super...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:30 pm

alice wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:20 pm In a previous job, one set of system designers replaced "master" and "slave" with "whisky" and "teapot".

Kettle and teapot would have made more sense, IMO.

Perhaps even "pot" and "kettle"... err, maybe not.

The tradeoff is that it greatly limits flexibility. Essentially, you end up needing to do everything in IPA (or whichever transcription convention it’s predefined), using only the defined features. Or, you can do what I did and make it configurable enough to keep everyone happy :D There’s limits, t...

In a previous job, one set of system designers replaced "master" and "slave" with "whisky" and "teapot".

IMHO "slave" is probably questionable, "master" rather less so.

Maybe it's time to start a new thread or something; we've long since stopped discussing "AI".

Anyway, how possible is it that "the USA will go full fascist"? There'll be some resistance somewhere, surely?

In practice, how many / which kinds of issues do you run into? What happens if you specify a phoneme without any modifiers at all? Is the bang necessary? Can a phoneme have multiple modifiers? Precisely how are ‘modifiers’ related to ‘features’? Does this go any way towards solving the problem of a...

In case this is interesting and/or useful: my SCA distinguishes between "base tokens" and "modifiers" and provides a few ways to match and replace combinations thereof. So you could define some base tokens for vowels and some modifiers to represent tones, and do things like: a! >...

What would happen in the extreeeeeemly unlikely event that Trump stands down, for whatever reason? What would his followers do?

From a later era is Anglo-Saxon Computerese.

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was (traditionally) released 57 years ago today. This date will soon become like D-Day: nobody alive will be able to remember it. Does that mean it was now 77 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper told the band to play? A little more, since "today"...