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by mcswell 8mo ago
FWIW (not much), around the time of that article, I reversed this: I used Arity Prolog for a morphological parsing program, with C calls for the bit fiddling (because I needed 64 bits, and the Prolog I was using only handled 16 bit strings)
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by mcswell 8mo ago
You (we) may be able to extend that 30 years, one year for each calendar year. Because I'm told LLMs don't really do chained reasoning. Disclaimer: I'm no expert on LLMs.
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by mcswell 8mo ago
"Steam is liquid water droplets suspended in gas": You clearly did not work on steam-powered ships (or land-based steam power plants). I was Main Propulsion Assistant on a steam powered destroyer, and I can assure you that every
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by mcswell 8mo ago
(Replying to myself...) I should have added that back then, automobiles started recycling themselves even before you were done using them: they rusted something awful, at least where I lived (in northern US). My parents owned one car wher
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by mcswell 8mo ago
> LLMs do not bring us closer to literate programming... Without saying that I agree with the person you're responding to, and without claiming to really know what he was saying, I'll say what I think he was suggesting: Tha
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by mcswell 8mo ago
To be technical: the term is phonemic, not phonetic. If we spelled phonetically, we'd have different symbols for the p in 'spin' and the p+h in 'pin'. Similarly for 'tick' and 'stick', and &#x2
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by mcswell 8mo ago
In case you're wondering: I'm not blocked in this thread, but I was blocked in a thread about ICE. I told them to thaw out.
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by mcswell 8mo ago
The Empire Strikes Back: scene where Chewy rescues C-3PO's parts from going into the recycling furnace.
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by mcswell 8mo ago
I hadn't heard the "rot" one, but I imagine it's referring to composting. We have a county-run composting site ( https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/departments-offices/en... ), and apparently when
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by mcswell 8mo ago
In addition to the volume issue, there's the composition issue. When I was a kid, we recycled all our flint cores. Well, not quite that far back... Milk came in glass bottles, and the person who delivered the bottles of milk to our
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by mcswell 8mo ago
> ...he should have been able to laugh at a funny project but he saw it as > insulting an important deity. He may have been an outlier. I know that I've heard god-jokes from the pulpits of evangelical (using that in the sense i
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by mcswell 8mo ago
I have moved to Mint, but see my post above in this thread.
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by mcswell 8mo ago
I've installed the Xfce Mint (you wren't the only one suggesting that). I don't have the same problems I had with Xubuntu, but I have different ones, like tearing on one of my two monitors. I initially had that with Xubuntu
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I'll just point out that while Ubuntu ships with a firewall, it's not enabled by default, and at least in Windows the firewall is enabled by default. I have since enabled it in Ubuntu.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Ok, I may try Mint. You're right that I mixed up the Vivaldi repo (maybe you are the one who pointed that out on the thread I linked). But even after fixing that, it's still not working---slightly different warning message, but s
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by mcswell 9mo ago
> if you can demonstrate comprehension in the absence of this structure, > I think you can make the case that it is optional and therefore may not > rely on it. One kind of example demonstrating the importance of structure is wh-m
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I had to look up 'madlibs', but I see now what you mean. We do indeed have lots of canned phrases, some of which are idioms. They may indeed come with blanks at the end (your example) or even in the middle ("pull __'s
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I switched from Windows (11) to Linux (Xubuntu) back in November, mostly because of all the AI stuff I didn't trust. While Linux is working ok for me, I can see why people complain about its not being user-friendly, particularly if yo
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I lived in Quito Ecuador back in the late 70s/ early 80s. There was a hamburger place called "Burger Queen"--the name was in English, presumably to attract people who knew about Burger King. They had a sign that read "
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by mcswell 9mo ago
> xdg-session-management for being able to save and restore window positions > is still not merged, so there is no standard way to implement this in Wayland For me, this is a real reason not to want to be forced to use Wayland. I&#x
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by mcswell 9mo ago
> "yuck code older than me" You mean like the code that the Manchester Baby, ENIAC, the Manchester Mark 1, EDSAC and EDVAC ran? Or maybe Plankalkül...
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Sorry, I'm not following. What do spaces have to do with this? Grammar is dependent on concepts like lexemes (sort of like words), but there aren't any spaces between lexemes in spoken language.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Not sure why you bring up Schank's conceptual dependency theory. That was back in the late 60s, and I don't think anybody has worked in that theory for many decades.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
In languages where word order matters a lot less, the grammar is still there---it just relies more on things like case markers and agreement markers (i.e. morphology).
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by mcswell 9mo ago
I am an American, so my view of the situation over there is not...well informed. But I have wondered whether the EU couldn't set itself up as the New NATO. All European (unless Canada decides to join you), and omitting some of the ol
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by mcswell 9mo ago
And all the US can do under the current president is steal oil from other nations.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
That's easy: thisWouldBeGreat: !, fail.
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by mcswell 9mo ago
One more anecdotal point: He arranged for a female spelunker to perform the same experiment later. She stayed underground for 100-some days. 14 months after her stay, she OD'd on barbiturates. There's a wikipedia article about
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by mcswell 9mo ago
If Lysenko Jr wants us all to eat steaks, he should get to work on either eliminating ticks, or creating a cure for alphagal (alpha galactose) allergy transmitted by many ticks. I've had to stop eating beef (my wife gives me a little
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by mcswell 9mo ago
Obviously this was whimsical when it came out. However...we were creating synthetic data for training and testing OCR in multiple scripts. We would take a web page in some language with a non-Roman script, and reproduce it as multiple PDF

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