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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Hi, I'm an actual classicist (phd and all), if you wanted to throw any questions my way.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
That's not really the impression I get from Anthropic, but if you have the links to back it up, I'm always willing to change my mind. Compared to bizes like Oracle, Microsoft, or Facebook, I felt that Anthropic was more interested
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Ever calculate the cost of a computer in the 1960s, adjusted for inflation? Training is unfathomably expensive right now . What if a bunch of universities pooled their money? Or a bunch of nations pooled their money? Breakthroughs will eve
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I think it also requires someone who knows just enough to be able to navigate between those ideas that will set you back and those which will propel you forward. At the end of the day, you still need some human filter.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
In Japanese, you can get some visual puns depending on the writing system employed. That's harder to do in alphabetic language. The use of italics, bold, and underline font styles also extend the Latin alphabet.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I sent you an email.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I miss bash.org. Now excuse me, I have a cyber date, and I need to put on my robe and wizard hat.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Beat me to it by minutes.
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Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages(omniglot.com)
17 points by cwnyth 4mo ago|4 comments
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I periodically see some misinformation here and elsewhere about writing systems, so I thought it opportune to post Omniglot. This old site (online since 1998) has just about all of the writing systems of the world, including most of constru
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
"but probably not": Actually, probably so. The scholars who favor the indigenous explanation are a small minority outside of India. It's possible it was independent, but very, very doubtful, and none can explain the enormou
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
There's at least two of us, though at the time I was limited to the World Book Encyclopedia. You (or anyone else here) might enjoy Omniglot, an old web 1.0 site that was amazing for its comprehensive treatment of all writing scripts:
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Yeah, I fail to see a down side to this. Those overviews are less than worthless to me.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
As they said in the comment you replied to: "Note that a sufficiently prompted AI agent can definitely read this, so it's not meant to be cryptographically sound, more just unfriendly to the common AI reader!"
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Just a nitpick: Barrett, not Barnett. It's nice to see a new edition of Linux Pocket Guide come out just 2 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Barrett
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
The phrase "there's a sucker born every minute" is well over two centuries old.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Agreed, and before the naysayers start chiming in, I wrote my whole dissertation in LibreOffice Writer without any issues. LibreOffice is fine. My one and only gripe is that the resume templates are sorely lacking, but that's a communi
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Counterpoint: Bill Gates' appearance in the Simpsons clearly depicts him as a nefarious bully. I think the Windows XP and the Gates Foundation actually resuscitated his image a bit. Windows was a bit hit or miss. Blue Screen of Death p
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I'm surprised these models haven't picked this up yet in the training data. Both Claude and ChatGPT missed that one when I posed the question to them last year.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
This 100%. An actual honest answer got me my first post-academia job. I had originally tried the "I'm introspective, so I actively work on any problems I find." When I could tell the interviewer was not impressed with that an
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
I think I didn't quite catch the layout here. I thought you were responding to KaiserPro above, so mea culpa. I agree that asking about one's personal life is not (or rarely is) appropriate. I think the blog author thought that wa
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Notice that the blog post author did not provide exact quotes. In fact, they explicitly state they do not remember the wording. It's very likely that they did, in fact, ask about biggest challenges, and the author misunderstood.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Keeping in mind the context of the original parent comment, yes it is 100% standard to ask about the "hardest day of your [working] life." I wouldn't ever put it like that, but asking about difficult challenges and how you ov
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
*issues, not qualms. Mea culpa on the wrong word.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
BearShare, too, which also included pictures and video. I don't remember ever getting a virus from it, but I also kept extensions visible.
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by cwnyth 4mo ago
Once you get past Cloudfare, you can use it without JS.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
You absolutely do see people complaining that restaurant food is microwaved over properly grilled, fried, etc. I think that's the better analogy.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I've stayed with Sublime, often to the derision of VSCode addicts. I love to see the "VSCode is perfect" uncritical thinkers get theirs.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Pretty sure that was astroturfing.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Confidently incorrect.

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