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Finally, a counterpoint to one of my own
A photo of a green bus with the destination screen display showing "192.168.228" The caption has the text showing "Look at that everyone A LOCAL BUS !" Context: The joke is that 192.168.x.x is the local network address for computers, making it a "local" bus.
A local bus
Two things: reading the Silmarillion and loving the language stuff and taking a History of the German Language course in college.
“Wait. There are multiple Germanic languages spoken in Germany today?!”
The probability distribution function of standard Cauchy. Because its expected value has to be 0. Just look at it. I know it isn't but come on. It *looks* normal but this function is an abomination.
My hot AI take is that it is mostly web/app developers seeing any benefits at all from LLM coding, and this is because:
a) web/app coding has a lot of boilerplate and repetition
b) there are far more web projects in the training data
c) web code is often shorter functions with limited scope
there's nothing like melting snow to make you realize how much garbage people put in snow
‘Daylight saving time’ is also sometimes called ‘daylight saving,’ ‘daylight savings,’ ‘daylight savings time,’ or ‘daylight time.’
So, listen to your heart.
I heard Conway had his own password checker on his computer, find the two prime factors of some 16 digit number.
sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
I don't speak as a Trekkie, or even as someone who would watch "Star Trek" at home. But I've had it on when I was unpacking or washing my hair in a hotel room and there was nothing else on the box that wasn't a car chase or a preacher. (1982)
Scientific paper published in PubMed. Heading: Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it. Authors: Rebekah C White et all. Autism, 2018 May. For those curious, here's the original paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf
Nobel Prize For Titles. Right away.
Use your words.
The first three albums I ever had.
They totally deserved it and I would do it again.
haha I did have an LP smashing party though just myself a hundred years ago when I was 20.
Sgt Peppers soundtrack was in fact the first to go.
Then Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
and Supertramp Breakfast in America.
If there were an LP smashing party, I wouldn't bring that. But first in line would be the soundtrack to Sgt Peppers. God that was awful. I feel gross thinking about it.
Yeah, that one doesn't fit perfectly on the list.
My criteria:
Famous artist
I had the album and listened to it a lot as a kid
Nobody ever really mentions it
I didn't like it then but thought I did and somehow felt compelled to listen to it
The B52s, Mesopotamia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wg...
Talking Heads, More Songs about Food and Buildings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pc...
Jimi Hendrix, Bold: Axis of Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4g...
Beatles/BeeGees Sgt Pepper's soundtrack
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP8C...
Second Rate Albums by First Rate Artists
Wings, Venus and Mars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cG7...
Pink Floyd, Animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KQ...
Led Zeppelin, Presence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi2D...
The Doors, all albums
...
A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic
And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.
How far back in time can you understand English? A story where each paragraph travels back in time.
Unless you’ve studied middle English I doubt you (like me) will make it back further than 1200.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
I don't know about the king, but some sort of British English (Southern Standard BrE)? @lynneguist.bsky.social
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,
“We don’t know if the models are conscious”
Yeah, we do. They are not.
