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I feel i entered a nightmare. I google XNUMX and it seems to be everywhere? What conspiracy is this? What is happening? What is XNUMX ?

by seydor 3y ago

pyinstallwoes 3y ago
> A rich deposit of follis dating back to the first half of the XNUMXth century AD was discovered in the sea of the north-eastern coast of Sardinia, in the territory of Arzachena. Did they forget the variable $NUM? lol.
- pyinstallwoes 3y ago
  A site I found had this on the body content: > The arithmetic mean of the numbers XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX > Answer is: XNUMX
kentonv 3y ago
Wow I thought the author just forgot to go back and replace these placeholders once they confirmed the right number but you're right, Google shows all kinds of articles across the internet referring to the XNUMXth century, what the heck? https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumxth https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumxth
batch12 3y ago
I'm seeing indications that this is sometimes related to language translation using GTranslate.io [1] > We use XNUMX variable instead of all numbers in our edit interface. For example "10 cents" in your original text is represented as "XNUMX cents" in the edit interface, so if you translate "XNUMX cents" once, the same translation will be used for all similar phrases like "11 cents", "18 cents", etc. This helps to do less work. [1] https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-t...
- eevilspock 3y ago
  That explanation tracks with the number of non-English results in this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumx+-michigan&tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumx+-michigan&tbs=li:1 and the way XNUMX appears in these results. (apologies. I only use google when I need to do a verbatim search)
- manojlds 3y ago
  Tokenization like this is why LLMs are also bad at math.
jonchurch_ 3y ago
Seems to be related to wordpress and working with translations. Haven't been able to pin if it is wordpress core related, or specific plugins. When you find those results on google, all the sites I saw it on were using wordpress. It seems like a missing placeholder? There's one report of this for the Polylang plugin [0] And another reference in another plugin's help docs [1] [0] https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-some-error-with-the-plugin/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-some-error-with-t... [1] https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations#6-dealing-with-numbers https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-t...
chdavid 3y ago
XNUMX looks like a placeholder for a number you'd find in a document where the actual number is supposed to be inserted later. There might be a glitch or it's just a weird coincidence
the_third_wave 3y ago
It is a metasyntactic variable for FNORD [1]. You have stumbled on the core of the Mother of All Conspiracy Theories, this is how they manipulate us all. Burn it I say, burn it with fire and spread the ashes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

I feel i entered a nightmare. I google XNUMX and it seems to be everywhere? What conspiracy is this? What is happening? What is XNUMX ?

by seydor 3y ago

I feel i entered a nightmare. I google XNUMX and it seems to be everywhere? What conspiracy is this? What is happening? What is XNUMX ?

pyinstallwoes 3y ago

> A rich deposit of follis dating back to the first half of the XNUMXth century AD was discovered in the sea of the north-eastern coast of Sardinia, in the territory of Arzachena. Did they forget the variable $NUM? lol.

pyinstallwoes 3y ago
A site I found had this on the body content: > The arithmetic mean of the numbers XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX XNUMX > Answer is: XNUMX

kentonv 3y ago

Wow I thought the author just forgot to go back and replace these placeholders once they confirmed the right number but you're right, Google shows all kinds of articles across the internet referring to the XNUMXth century, what the heck? https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumxth https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumxth

batch12 3y ago

I'm seeing indications that this is sometimes related to language translation using GTranslate.io [1] > We use XNUMX variable instead of all numbers in our edit interface. For example "10 cents" in your original text is represented as "XNUMX cents" in the edit interface, so if you translate "XNUMX cents" once, the same translation will be used for all similar phrases like "11 cents", "18 cents", etc. This helps to do less work. [1] https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-t...

eevilspock 3y ago
That explanation tracks with the number of non-English results in this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumx+-michigan&tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumx+-michigan&tbs=li:1 and the way XNUMX appears in these results. (apologies. I only use google when I need to do a verbatim search)
manojlds 3y ago
Tokenization like this is why LLMs are also bad at math.

jonchurch_ 3y ago

Seems to be related to wordpress and working with translations. Haven't been able to pin if it is wordpress core related, or specific plugins. When you find those results on google, all the sites I saw it on were using wordpress. It seems like a missing placeholder? There's one report of this for the Polylang plugin [0] And another reference in another plugin's help docs [1] [0] https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-some-error-with-the-plugin/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-some-error-with-t... [1] https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations#6-dealing-with-numbers https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-t...

chdavid 3y ago

XNUMX looks like a placeholder for a number you'd find in a document where the actual number is supposed to be inserted later. There might be a glitch or it's just a weird coincidence

the_third_wave 3y ago

It is a metasyntactic variable for FNORD [1]. You have stumbled on the core of the Mother of All Conspiracy Theories, this is how they manipulate us all. Burn it I say, burn it with fire and spread the ashes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord