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it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?!?!
by The_Blade 2y ago
it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?!?!
- hermitcrab 2y agoWrong writer (Dickens).
- The_Blade 2y agoyes, i understand the difference between Shakespeare and Dickens, it's a Simpsons reference to the infinite monkey theorem in play here you must be a devil with the ladies
- dangsux 2y ago[dead]
- 23B1 2y agocome for the archive.is link, scroll for the pedantry
- bananaflag 2y agotheguardian has no paywall
- 23B1 2y ago< slow clap >
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agonew HN game: predict which order the archive.is link or pedantry comes in. if you get the order right, you get one point. if you get sucked into a pedantic argument, you lose
- passwordoops 2y agoFrom the original mathematics paper (open access): in the long-running television show The Simpsons, the industrialist Charles Montgomery Burns attempted this with multiple monkeys chained to typewriters but gave up when the best one produced was the near-Dickensian “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...
- hprotagonist 2y ago“to be, or not to be … that is the gazornenplat??”
- goda90 2y agoRelevant Dankmus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYhIiW6lok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYhIiW6lok
- chasd00 2y agoHeh reminds me of working with LLMs.