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CowperKettle

17:09

M.A.R.

Heh

BTW, today we had a spammer that queried thesaurus.com and plagiarized the top answer of the post with a spam link.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle :D

M.A.R.

This is the original answer:

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A: How to easily minimize waste using a potato smasher?

There is no need to remove potato from the holes on each stroke, which appears to be what you are describing doing. Just pick it up and smash it down on some un-smashed potatoes until there are no more of those. The potato already smashed through the holes will eventually fall back into the pot d...

This is the spammer's post: m.erwaysoftware.com/posts/by-url?url=//…

It becomes really funny

So I copied my Bio on SE to this: applymagicsauce.com/demo_text.html

It's scarily accurate.

I was thinking it would be mistaken on a lot of points, because most of what I have as an about me is question titles by other people @Dam

But it's very accurate.

It told me I'm 17. Male.

I make a stupid leader

Damkerng T.

Haha! It thinks I'm 33, and 99% masculine. :D

M.A.R.

17:24

> Jungian Personality Type

Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
INTPs are quiet, thoughtful, analytical individuals who don't mind spending long periods of time on their own, working through problems and forming solutions. INTPs tend to be less at ease in social situations and the 'caring professions,' although they enjoy the company of those who share their interests. They also tend to be impatient with the bureaucracy, rigid hierarchies, and politics prevalent in many professions, preferring to work informally with others as equals. INTPs' extraverted intuition often gives them a qu…

This is so frigging accurate!

I kept trying to think that in such discourses, anything you say, I might say, ''Oh hell yeah, that's really relevant and you're a fortune teller''

But this is way too accurate, and demonstrating both how I roll here and at school

Damkerng T.

When I pasted another text (which was an answer on ELL), it guessed I'm 26 and 56% masculine!

:D

Let's try my first messages in this chat room.

M.A.R.

It'll say you're Buddha and 462999592 years old, as studies have confirmed

Damkerng T.

Nah. 28 and 99% masculine.

M.A.R.

You're VERY masculine. I'm NOT jealous. Not even the slightest bit

Damkerng T.

:D

M.A.R.

17:29

Hey, why are you looking at me like that?

Damkerng T.

:)

M.A.R.

I'm 88 percent masculine though, so I guess it's not bad

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. what about the rest, I mean about 1%? Does it have any doubt? And hence reserved the 1% for gender "robot"? :-D

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Quite possible! :D

Man_From_India

Hehe

CowperKettle

17:31

How do we call the process of erazing the last 4 digits from the currency?

That is, if the new banknote of 1 ruble has the purchasing power of the old banknote of 10 000 rubles?

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. how is the weather in Indonesia?

CowperKettle

re-valuation?

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India I don't know. I'm sure Google knows about this more than me. :D

Man_From_India

It is your neighbor, right? I read that it's hot and humid.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Whoa! Is it going to happen?

Man_From_India

17:33

But says it's average temperature is 27 degree C

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Ah, you meant in general. Yes, I think so. A bit warmer and more humid.

@Man_From_India I guess it can vary a lot, like everywhere else, from city to city, or place to place.

Man_From_India

If its average temperature is 27, it's lot cooler than here in India.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. no, I'm trying to translate a sentence about Belarus. "The cost of the project amounted to 10 billion Belarusian rubles (pre-revalued??)"

Damkerng T.

I wonder in what area they measured the temperature.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. that's true.

Damkerng T.

17:36

@CowperKettle Phew! -- I think revaluate fits, FWIW.

Ah, I just got an idea!

{
  "input_used": 7306,
  "predictions": [
    {
      "trait": "BIG5_Neuroticism",
      "value": "0.3455"
    },
    {
      "trait": "BIG5_Openness",
      "value": "0.7070000000000001"
    },
    {
      "trait": "BIG5_Extraversion",
      "value": "0.3504"
    },
    {
      "trait": "BIG5_Agreeableness",
      "value": "0.39390000000000003"
    },
    {
      "trait": "Female",
      "value": "0.0020083033664876774"
    },
    {
      "trait": "BIG5_Conscientiousness",
      "value": "0.6659"

The result of the recent inauguration speech.

Damkerng T.

18:01

!!wiki/Google Fuchsia

Ellbot

Google Fuchsia

Fuchsia is an operating system currently being developed by Google. In contrast to previous operating systems developed by Google such as Chrome OS and Android, which are based on the Linux kernel, Fuchsia is based on a new microkernel called Magenta, derived from Little Kernel (LK), which was intended for embedded systems and is mainly written in C. Fuchsia is designed to run on a multitude of devices, including mobile phones and personal computers. The symbol of the operating system at the repository hosting service GitHub is a fuchsia-colored square. == See also == GNU Hurd – a multise...

Damkerng T.

I'm sure they taught me the wrong idea, that "Don't reinvent the wheel".

To a giant like Google, reinventing the wheel equals new products equals making more money.

Cardinal

@DamkerngT. nods

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. Big corporations will not reinvent the wheel if they want success. Bigger corporations will reinvent the wheel if they want success

Damkerng T.

Good point!

M.A.R.

18:06

I'm full of good points.

Damkerng T.

:D

V.V.

!!Wiki/fuchsia

Ellbot

Fuchsia

Fuchsia (pronunciation: /ˈfjuːʃə/ FEW-shə) is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). == TaxonomyEdit == The fuchsias are most closely related to the northern hemisphere genus Circaea, the two lineages having diverged around 41 million years...

Damkerng T.

I'm pretty sure Google wanted it to be pronounced like Google Future. (^_^)

Fuchsia is a nice color, BTW. At least to me.

M.A.R.

Almost all colors are nice in my eyes

That's colorfulness in the eye of beholder

V.V.

18:15

Just to spoil men's talk. Or I am feeling I am becoming 99% "masculine ",lol.

M.A.R.

@V.V. What did you get?

Did it get the gender wrong?

Because it's so accurate and that's rare

Of course, if you and @Dam are assumed masculine, it's only because of exposure to me ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

Damkerng T.

!!flip

Ellbot

≡/( .-.)\\ ︵╰(«○»益«○»)╯︵ /(.□. /)̨

Damkerng T.

Hee!

I guess you're the one in the middle, @M.A.R. :P

M.A.R.

Same goes for Jim, but I think it will correctly identify him as extraterrestrial

@DamkerngT. That's only because I gave some of it away

Cardinal

18:20

@V.V. I didn't get that.

@M.A.R. As well as this.

M.A.R.

@Cardinal Wow, you usually actually get what I say? That's more than I can say for myself

Cardinal

:)) Ok, I didn't understand.

M.A.R.

@Cardinal Did you see the link I posted here:

1 hour ago, by M.A.R.

So I copied my Bio on SE to this: https://applymagicsauce.com/demo_text.html

We're talking about that

Cardinal

Mainly since I thought VV and Dam are from the opposite genders!

M.A.R.

Yes, that's the case

Cardinal

18:24

@M.A.R. < I started reading>

M.A.R.

We were talking about how the machine interprets our gender based on text we provide

V.V.

I didn't try, I read what you were talking about, didn't understand half of it. When Dam wrote wiki, I decided,it should be about the flower.

M.A.R.

And how Dam owes his 99 percent to me

V.V.

@Cardinal I am still a "she"

Morning, Snailplane.

M.A.R.

Morning Snail

Anonymous

18:28

@DamkerngT. I think fuchsia is one of the hardest words to spell, out of the set of common words.

Anonymous

Good morning :-)

Anonymous

If you ask a bunch of people to spell it, most of them will guess and get it wrong.

CowperKettle

Fyusha?

OMG

I thought it was fook-see-ya

Trump should ban this odd pronunciation

That will cause demonstrations numbering millions of people, and thus people will - at last! - learn how to pronounce it

Anonymous

No, no, he should ban the spelling which corresponds to it so poorly :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

18:32

When I'm at a computer I'll look up how common it actually is, since I called it "common" without really fact-checking that assertion.

M.A.R.

Where should I look it up?

N-gram?

Cardinal

M.A.R.

@Cardinal Hehehe

Cardinal

^_^

M.A.R.

They should introduce a wisometer though

Esp. when computing age

Cardinal

18:34

@M.A.R. I just copied an excerpt from the wikipedia.

M.A.R.

That way, Dam's age will show correctly

Damkerng T.

@Cardinal Apparently, you're older than POTUS in the program's eyes. :-)

Cardinal

@DamkerngT. :))

M.A.R.

And Jim's age will show negative numbers

Or 0, if the system doesn't allow it

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Oh! :-)

Cardinal

18:36

Did you put this? @Dam?
"I have beautiful bans, everybody likes my bans. everybody are taking that they have never seen any ban like this"

Damkerng T.

Good morning, @snailplane!

@Cardinal Nah! I used the whole speech.

Færd

@user2684291 Ah, OK then.

exhales in relief

Anonymous

@M.A.R. I have frequency lists that are not freely available

M.A.R.

ʕ ⊃･ ◡ ･ ʔ⊃︵┻━┻

Cardinal

@V.V. :-).

M.A.R.

18:51

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Cardinal

Did you watch any great movies in 2016? I would like to know about them.

M.A.R.

@Cardinal Because of Konkur I couldn't watch movies a lot. I have a list of 85 movies that I have to watch and haven't done yet

Cardinal

@M.A.R. I think 2016 was the year of average movies. Or maybe I'm wrong.

Anonymous

I can't remember if I watched any movies in 2016. I probably did, but they aren't coming to mind if so.

Cardinal

@M.A.R. The only movie that I watched in 2016 was "Warcraft"

M.A.R.

18:59

@Cardinal Lemme guess, you were disappointed?

@Cardinal Nah, there were a lot of awesome 2016 movies.

Maybe I'm wrong

That's just my impression

But indeed the major movies this year were blockbusters that had the visuals but not the plot to gain critical approval

Cardinal

I just don't have any idea about the new movies. I don't even know their names.

M.A.R.

Well, La La Land is the 2016 movie that will sweep Oscar prizes

And it's a nice movie, but not that nice

Cardinal

@M.A.R. Nop, I liked the movie and encourage to read about the story!

M.A.R.

It's kinda a movie you feel nice after watching

@Cardinal I know the story, but didn't want to watch the movie when I heard what critics said

Cardinal

@M.A.R. nods I heard about it. Yes, I must admit I heard about it.

M.A.R.

19:02

I don't usually care about what critics say

But if I didn't, my list would've been HUGE

Cardinal

:)) exactly.

M.A.R.

They say Suicide Squad wasn't gonna be such a bad film, but bad editing was the killer move

The movie ended up being some four hours long, and you can't remove the expensive money shots.

So you end up removing scenes that gave characters depth

Cardinal

Some times ago, sanil and Jim gave me some suggestions for the movie. How can I search the previous discussions over here?

M.A.R.

There's a search bar, top right corner

Cardinal

@M.A.R. Yes, I want to know about the H.Quin though.

M.A.R.

19:04

In the search page, you can also specify who said what

Cardinal

@M.A.R. I see. Let me give it a try.

Damkerng T.

16

A: "Ball" and "bowl" do they really sound the same?

English has a lot more vowels than most languages, so most learners need to re-train their ears to recognize the additional vowels. In both British English and American English, the difference between ball and bowl is small, but significant. It is easy for native speakers to recognize because the...

The spectrogram looks rather convincing ... but ...

Okay, let's have a good look at the spectrogram in the answer.

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. Nice pair of combs

Damkerng T.

It would be good if we can have the audio clip to verify this, but normally, a diphthong wouldn't make such a clear boundary.

This chart is more interesting to me, though:

Area functions for Home Counties Southern British English vowels (left) and Cairo Arabic (right), demonstrating the four constriction locations. From the top: hard palate, soft palate, upper pharynx, lower pharynx. The English vowels are all phonemes in this accent, from the top DRESS KIT FLEECE, GOOSE FOOT, THOUGHT LOT, TRAP STRUT BATH. The Arabic vowels are all allophones of three phonemes: /i/ (hard palate), /a/ (lower pharynx), /u/ (soft palate, upper pharynx). LP: lips. HP: hard palate. SP: soft palate. U: uvula. PHA: pharynx. LX: larynx. From Wood, 1979, A radiographic analysis of c…

I'm not sure what vowels in THOUGHT and LOT would be in a Southern BrE accent.

But they look quite similar, at least in the diagram.

Abcd

19:23

I am unable to understand few lines in If thou Must love Me .. Can someone help me out?

By Elizabeth Browning

user2684291

Don't ask to ask.

Abcd

"for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine and certes brought A sense of pleasent ease on such a day "

Damkerng T.

~ Because of her wit, which is pleasurable and compatible with mine.

user2684291

Hm, the starred website is meh. It always shows the same personality type, no matter who the speech I dumped there belongs to. And, apparently, females are at least 70% masculine or something.

M.A.R.

19:39

@user2684291 It predicted my personality accurately SO IT MUST BE ACCURATE

ಠ_ಠ

Damkerng T.

@user2684291 It gave me three types, IIRC, for 4 excerpts of my own texts.

I don't know why you would want to post this, but as they say, hurt people hurt people. Please stop it, and move on. — Damkerng T. 3 mins ago

user2684291

Wow, that post.

Damkerng T.

Let's flag the question and delete it.

M.A.R.

Wow stop being so fast

Joe Pinsonault

that's just kind of sad...

Anonymous

19:44

I don't bother to read his posts, so it doesn't take very much time.

M.A.R.

Oh, so it got snailed

People on SO's main moderation-related room have verbified all SO mods

I see no reason we shouldn't

Damkerng T.

Something cute! (for a change)

Anonymous

Aww, cute :-)

Damkerng T.

:D

Hanaa

@snailplane @DamkerngT. Hellooo :)

Hello all!

Damkerng T.

19:52

Hello! Welcome back!

M.A.R.

Hello

Anonymous

Hello! :-)

Hanaa

Thanks @DamkerngT. ^_^

Damkerng T.

^_^

M.A.R.

Back? Were you gone?

Damkerng T.

19:53

For some weeks, I think.

Hanaa

@M.A.R. This life wants to eat me. I was busy in new experiences .

@DamkerngT. oh! Weeks?! Believe me I didn't notice that.

Damkerng T.

Don't trust my memory too much, though.

I haven't used DDR4 yet. :P

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. DDR4 ? What is it? :D

Damkerng T.

(In case you aren't familiar with DDR, here is some info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM)

:D

M.A.R.

@Hanaa Legend says Dam is the first robot invented

Damkerng T.

19:57

@Hanaa It's a geek's joke, I guess. :-)

M.A.R.

So it's reasonable to assume he uses cavemen technology

Damkerng T.

LOL

M.A.R.

Runs away from Dam

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. Wait, wait, I have some DDR2 as an award for you!

Anonymous

Fuchsia is actually not that common. It looks to be around the 25000th most frequent English word.

Damkerng T.

19:59

@snailplane Aww... I thought most people would know the color.

M.A.R.

@snailplane Anyone else wondering what the other 25000 words are?

Anonymous

I think people most likely will know the color, but they probably don't actually use the word all that often.

user2684291

Haha.

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. Double data rank memory a-huh OK. I know SD cards only . I have one in my mobile .

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Hanaa

20:02

@snailplane Isn't it that attractive pink to purple?

Anonymous

Yes, that's right :-)

Anonymous

It's named after a flower.

Anonymous

Fuchsia (color)

Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/, FEW-shə) is a vivid purplish red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist Francois-Emmanuel Verguin. The dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name. In the RGB color model, used to create colors on computers and television screens...

Anonymous

Which, according to Wikipedia, was named after a botanist named Leonhart Fuchs.

Anonymous

I don't know how it came to be pronounced the way it is today, though.

Hanaa

20:04

@snailplane I wish I had that tall tree of fuchsia in our garden.

M.A.R.

@snailplane Of course it is.

All the weird names used to be scientist names

Hanaa

It is much more expensive.

Anonymous

@Hanaa They are really beautiful. We've had a drought here, though, and I don't have much of a green thumb to begin with, so I haven't really been able to grow many flowers of any kind.

Anonymous

We have roses :-)

Damkerng T.

Roses are nice!

Anonymous

20:09

I like them.

Hanaa

@snailplane Roses are wonderful. Enjoy !

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Me too. I had some, but most of them didn't survive the last winter.

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. Why?

Anonymous

Sad!

Damkerng T.

Indeed

@Hanaa I'm not sure. Maybe too cold, or maybe I didn't water them as often as I should have.

Hanaa

20:16

@DamkerngT. I thought that there no severe cold there in Thailand .

Damkerng T.

Is it your garden?

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. Yes our small garden.

I pictured it last spring.

Damkerng T.

@Hanaa Oh, our "cold" is laughable to people in many parts of the world, but it's still cold to native beings anyway.

@Hanaa Nice!

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. :D

Damkerng T.

:D

Hanaa

20:21

I got angry with her. Is it correct? @DamkerngT. I mean the use of #with.

Damkerng T.

Hmm... I think it's okay, but I haven't checked anything.

Anonymous

@Hanaa Yes, with is fine.

Anonymous

It's also possible to use at.

Hanaa

@DamkerngT. OK

@snailplane Alright

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I'm cold right now!

Anonymous

20:24

But @CowperKettle would find this weather positively toasty :-)

Anonymous

It is 15°C out right now.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Oh!

15°C is definitely very cold for me. :D

Anonymous

It'll get up to about 20°C today. I can't wait for summer!

user2684291

@snailplane Are people normally angry "at" other people?

Damkerng T.

@snailplane What's it like in summer?

Anonymous

20:25

@user2684291 With might be more common, but at is acceptable.

user2684291

Alright.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Closer to 30°C if I'm lucky :-)

Hanaa

@snailplane hhhhh that's a warm degree.

Damkerng T.

A-ha! That's about as warm as over here in a good day. :-)

Anonymous

@Hanaa My body temperature is naturally low, and I like warm weather.

Damkerng T.

20:26

(or maybe on)

user2684291

Pleasant –9°C here.

Damkerng T.

(^_^)

Anonymous

Brr!

Hanaa

@snailplane In fact me too. I suffer in cold weather. I become blue.

It is 4° here.

@user2684291 Where? Is it Siberia ?

user2684291

Hahah. No, nothing like that. Central Europe.

Anonymous

20:31

@Hanaa Oh, that's so cold! :-(

Anonymous

I would turn blue too.

Hanaa

@user2684291 OK

Here the gaz heating doesn't have real effect when it is under 10 ° @snailplane

As if it is not working at all.

Cardinal

@Hanaa "gaz" ? do you mean "gas". That's too Persian. I mean "/ga:z/" :-)

Here is 6° C.

Hanaa

20:48

@Cardinal A yes I mean butane gas. Gaz in French.

Cardinal

@Hanaa So, we took that word from French.

Hanaa

@Cardinal I don't know '_'

Cardinal

@Hanaa :-). We have several French words in Persian. That's because of the fact that many years ago, people in Iran, especially the elite and bright students, went to France. This was in its acme during the Ghajar dynasti.

Qajar dynasty

The Qajar dynasty ( listen ; Persian: سلسله قاجار‎‎ Selsele-ye Qājār; also romanised as Ghajar, Kadjar, Qachar etc.; Azerbaijani: قاجارلر Qacarlar) was an Iranian royal dynasty of Turkic origin, specifically from the Qajar tribe, which ruled Persia (Iran) from 1785 to 1925. The state ruled by the dynasty was officially known as the Sublime State of Iran (Persian: دولت علیّه ایران‎‎ Dowlat-e Elliye ye Irān). The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus. In 1796, Mohammad...

Hanaa

21:04

@Cardinal Students borrowed words from France and became part of the Persian language. That's great :)

Cardinal

@Hanaa Yes, in the past the way of communications and interactions with the other cultures was through this sort of things.

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