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There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.
by delfinom 10mo ago
There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.
- dboreham 10mo agoEr...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.
- throw-12-16 10mo ago[flagged]
- dxdm 10mo agono u
- garyfirestorm 10mo agoyou might like these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
- deathanatos 10mo ago(a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz. (b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.
- deathanatos 10mo agoThere are dozens of us. Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…
- Aloha 10mo agonot only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.