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my first read of this title was: "how many bathrooms did neanderthals have?" making me wonder "neanderthals had bathrooms?"
by em-bee 3y ago
my first read of this title was: "how many bathrooms did neanderthals have?" making me wonder "neanderthals had bathrooms?"
- madeofpalk 3y agoI was stuck for ages trying to parse the title, thinking it was a Google-style interview question - "How many bathrooms are there in the Netherlands?"
- g105b 3y agoMe too. It really crossed a wire in my brain!
- navane 3y agoIt's because up until the very last word the sentence can be passed very differently: "How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the average household?"
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> thinking it was a Google-style interview question - "How many bathrooms are there in the Netherlands?" Where does the idea that this is a Google-style interview question come from? They've never interviewed that way.
- madeofpalk 3y agoWhether it's true or not, there is the "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?" meme interview question https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-solve-crazy-open-ended-google-interview-questions/ https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-solve-crazy-open-ended-...
- thaumasiotes 3y agoThat style of question was notorious long before Google existed. It has never been associated with Google.
- shiroiushi 3y agoI thought it was associated with Microsoft.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt was. They're different companies.
- dekhn 3y agoWe called them fermi estimation problems in grad school
- imzadi 3y agoSame. I re-read it at least four times. I kept seeing "How many bathrooms in the Netherlands have tile?"
- lapetitejort 3y agoI read "How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the title?" and thought "people name bathrooms?"
- dotancohen 3y agoI'm sitting in Denisovan right now. Thank the maker for mobile devices to pass the time while nature does it's thing.
- hinkley 3y agoI parsed it right but still assumed Google was involved somehow.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoLow risk assumption, since they seem to be involved in most websites today for some reason.
- DonHopkins 3y agoI read it as "How many bathrooms have Nederlanders in the tile?"
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- semaj123 3y agoBefore reading the article, I thought it was about Neanderthal themed designs on the tile.
- em-bee 3y agothat thought briefly crossed my mind too
- asveikau 3y agoTo be fair it's kind of that.
- throwitaway222 3y agoGPT kind of agrees: https://chat.openai.com/share/f52068c0-2668-4343-9446-aaa145d69e1b https://chat.openai.com/share/f52068c0-2668-4343-9446-aaa145...
- ClassyJacket 3y agoWhy did ChatGPT say that's fascinating? I thought it was a large language model that had no feelings or opinions.
- djur 3y agoBecause it's tuned to be as positive as possible about anything you give it. Try asking it to review your poetry sometime.
- gwern 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- precompute 3y agoNeanderthals certainly had bathrooms!