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That title looked like clickbait until... Oh well they did actually did it
by aubanel 1y ago
That title looked like clickbait until... Oh well they did actually did it
- dude250711 1y agoIt was probably done by an individual.
- zooi 1y ago"They" can also refer to an individual
- Jotalea 1y agowait what?
- npteljes 1y agoIt's called "singular they". It's used like: "We have a new joiner in our team! They became the talk of the town very fast". I love this feature of the English language, while a bit confusing at first, I think it works much better than "he/she" or "s/he" when talking about someone with an unspecified, unknown or unrelated gender.
- PanoptesYC 1y agoInteresting read about the topic: https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/?tl=true https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-the...
- burkaman 1y ago"Someone is at the door asking for you." "What do they want?" This is the standard way to refer to an unknown person in English, anything else sounds awkward. "What does the person want", "what does he or she want", "what does this 'someone' want", none of these will sound natural to a native speaker.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoThis really shouldn't be some surprise. You probably do it on a regular basis without noticing. Shakespeare uses it in Hamlet: There's not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend English has always used the singular they, especially (but not always) when the gender of the target of the pronoun is unknown.
- tempaccountabcd 1y agoƿrong. "they" is norþmannisċ. It sċuld be he, forðat hē and hēo ƿuld'fe melded into he, and forðat Englisċ is an Indo-Europisċ tung, ƿere ƿerelie is ðe first kin.
- dude250711 1y agoIf they did refer to an individual Minecraft expert for an advice, then it counts as a team effort.
- taneq 1y agoWhat if the individual Minecraft expert was themselves? I mean, having been singlehandedly responsible for team efforts in the past, I get it. :D
- Byamarro 1y agoIt is a bit of a clickbait since they used commandblocks, not just redstone. But it's still impressive
- AndrewDucker 1y agoFrom the video description: "I built a small language model in Minecraft using no command blocks or datapacks!"
- utf_8x 1y agoFrom the video description: I built a small language model in Minecraft using no command blocks or datapacks!
- nomilk 1y agoCan you explain the difference (for non-minecrafters)
- thrance 1y agoCommand blocks can only be obtained by cheating in normal gameplay, they are used to execute server commands automatically. Using them to build a computer in the game kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise, since instead of using the game's physics to build your device, you're now mostly doing scripting with minecraft commands. The author explicitly said they didn't use any in their build.
- promiseofbeans 1y agoThe confusion might come from the author using commands / external software to generate and assemble parts of the redstone machine. The final machine doesn’t use any command blocks as part of it’s operation, but the description is a bit ambiguous here
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