The New ZBB Quote Thread

[bradrn]

On a rather different note, someone pointed out the potentially delicious irony of a Hindu Prime Minister and a Muslim First Minister of Scotland arguing about partition of the United Kingdom.

[bradrn]

Should a vegetable processer manufacturer be making EVs? Should they be simultaneously cagey and proud of the fact that you can also buy a potato peeler from them? Is it alarming that they have to estimate the door swing angle when they, my brothers in Christ, made the door? Should they ask obviously real and extant anglophonic employee "Betty" to fix the grammar mistakes in their own copy? I can't answer any of these questions, and I hope I never can.

[Travis B.]

Right? Alibaba is basically Koyanisqatsi with all the morals reversed.

[Raphael]

Darren describing some sound changes:

1. Stop voicing alternations

I post this here because for one moment, I thought it was an order.

[rotting bones]

Under Communism, ten people have five dinners between them, so five people must go hungry.
Under Capitalism, ten people have ten dinners between them, so five people must go hungry.

[bradrn]

I'm afraid that, since I don't know how to run a church, this thing has turned into an unintentional web novel unless someone else gives me ideas.

[Raphael]

zompist during a discussion of how certain phones are formed:

I just checked this, using a mirror, to the point where I'm not sure what happens anymore.

[Linguoboy]

Tolkiens world is pastoral, english and overtly eurocentric and patriarchal whereas harries world is none of these.

[hwhatting]

So JRRT ripped off JKR? I never thought if it that way before but... you may have a point. Even the names are just different enough to avoid copyright lawsuits, too.

[Raphael]

There is a fantasy author (I can't remember his name but it's something funny, like Pluto or Goofy; hipster type with a beard) who's ripping off Tolkien blatantly though.

[Raphael]

Language centers in the human brain probably resemble ML language models somewhat. Without even going into ML, there's probably something of a Markov chain there.
(When I'm very tired, I certainly tend to pick the next statistically likely word instead of what I actually meant to say )

[Raphael]

Picking the right terminology to avoid confusing people in any way is hard.

In linguistics, it’s impossible. Sometimes I give up and pick the most confusing term instead.

[Raphael]

in the year 2037, it was discovered that the way to create general artificial intelligence was to stick GPT-9 to a small mammal. an otter was decided on, mostly because the group didn't have access to mice but lived near lake superior. one of the first acts performed by the resulting otter-cyborg-chatbot-person was to name itself Jerry.

[rotting bones]

What are the stages of developing a working AI?

1) Get investors
2) Product is discovered to have pornographic applications
3) Investors pull out
4) NSFW filter added
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?) Ethics team fired for sending executives pointed emails containing words like "trolley" and "concerning."
?) Skynet achieved. All humanity dead. Stacey postumously admits she was wrong to pick Chuck over you.

Moral: Fuck Chuck.

[Raphael]

a full bottle of red wine is a lot of wine for anyone. it's better if it's good wine, but tbh wine hangovers are pretty strong, I think.

[bradrn]

But having a healthy mix of first-author and non-first-author papers is actually a good thing: the latter shows you can pretend to work well with others.

[Man in Space]

*does best italian impression*

"Mamma mia actually my grand-nonnas Cionnawhatever cake is made from dough not batter and it is therefore an inappropriate question to ask "what's in the batter" you have disgraced my family"
"Also no cake for you"

[Man in Space]

I am disappointed in the Wio RP2040. (Lit. The Wio RP2040 disappoints me.)

Way? Omana im pen yu?
Why? What has it done to you? (litt: how did it hurt you)

Yo hlîn the ńa!.
[jo ɬeˤɴ tʰe ɲa]
3.S function.IPFV
It does not work!

I don’t know why but Travis B.’s final statement is delightfully to-the-point. I’ve included the context.

[Travis B.]

Way? Omana im pen yu?
Why? What has it done to you? (litt: how did it hurt you)

Yo hlîn the ńa!.
[jo ɬeˤɴ tʰe ɲa]
3.S function.IPFV
It does not work!

I don’t know why but Travis B.’s final statement is delightfully to-the-point. I’ve included the context.

I for some reason didn't complete the gloss for that; it should actually be:

3.S function.IPFV DIRECT.EVID NEG

I have now fixed it in the original post.

[Raphael]

well, I can only point to the history of the Democrats for the last 90 years; it's a party that likes to take a position not so much out on a limb as just one foot from the trunk.