Zompist Bboard Again

It's when "they" have AI's that can produce more AI's that you should start to worry.

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 1:11 pm Well, that's fine seeing as British cuisine shouldn't include Scottish cuisine which includes the likes of cullen skink.

And the pièce-de-resistance, the deep-fried-pizza.

The problem with this idea is what about central vowels — if rounded front vowels and unrounded back vowels are simply more central than their unrounded front and rounded back counterparts, how do we handle distinctions such as beween [ɨ] and [ʉ]? Does anybody actually know what the formants are fo...

Pity poor Trump, being picked on by those petty police for purely politically-motivated purposes. Awwww!

linguistcat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:25 pm Also this said extend it along the imaginary axis so we obviously have to multiply by /i/.

Or /j/ if you're an electrical engineer, for example, or a Python programmer.

Get cracking, conlangers!

I was going to say "dangling", but that might have been misinterpreted.

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:45 pm

alice wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:43 pm Will no-one rid me of these turbulent after-effects of covid???

Get better!

I wish I could. The damned thing is hanging around like an unttached VP node.

Over 50s quitting the workforce fuels inflation. What is the "workforce fuels inflation"?

Will no-one rid me of these turbulent after-effects of covid???

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:37 pm Thank you! But how can someone mistake several chemical substances for one chemical substance?

By being human?

This reminds me that it was nearly 25 years ago that I interviewed for a job writing a "DVD Authoring System", which was the first time I'd heard of DVDs.

Obligatory Peanuts reference, from just over half a century ago

One of Asimov's books has, I kid you not, huge stupidifying machines in space aimed at humans below. Maybe they started up around then. He was prescient. These things are nowadays known as "television", "Twitter", "Facebook", "Tabloid newspapers", and so on.

Thank you!

Heigh-ho, it's my time now. Yes, alice tested positive for covid, just two days after getting back from a holiday at which something was clearly up. The loss of my voice should have been a clue. Nevertheless, while it's debilitating and the coughing is annoying my other half no end, it's no worse th...

Minor, trivial vent: you know that time when you've gone to bed and you're already too tired to do anything else than wait to fall asleep, but at the same time, you're not yet tired enough to actually fall asleep? Yeah, I really don't like that time period. Especially when it goes on and on. You sa...

Boris himself, in his characteristically dignified, reflective, and selfless resignation speech, blamed the "herd instinct", which amounts to pretty much the same thing.

Trump was the tragedy, Boris the farce. Discuss!

You don't understand. Boris with fight on! and fight on! and GET THE JOB DONE that 14 million voters elected him to do! Mere resignations from his cabinet won't distract him from his Ordained Destiny! Don't you read the Daily Express?