Zompist Bboard Again

alice wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:35 pm 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.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 1:50 am 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.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:58 am Right? Alibaba is basically Koyanisqatsi with all the morals reversed.

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:46 am 1. Stop voicing alternations

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:45 am 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.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:50 pm 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.

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:53 pm
I just checked this, using a mirror, to the point where I'm not sure what happens anymore.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:49 amTolkiens world is pastoral, english and overtly eurocentric and patriarchal whereas harries world is none of these.

alice wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:14 am 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.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:39 pm 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.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:54 amLanguage 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 )

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:26 am

chris_notts wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:23 am 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.

Torco wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:45 am 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.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:44 pm 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.

Torco wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:34 am 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.

doctor shark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:03 pm 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.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:48 pm *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"

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:21 pm

jal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:10 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:05 pmI 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!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:27 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:21 pm

jal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:10 pmWay? 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.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:10 pmwell, 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.