> [redacted] posted discussion "Help me please!" Hi i am applying to be a composition major this year in college. I need to write 2-4 pieces showing my ability. I just have no idea where to start so can you guys please dm me.
Fuck my life.
Ennio Morricone is dead, and this is what we get as replacement.
N.B. how he's asking for advice a bunch of people just like himself.
@RegDwigнt No new worlds are currently available. Come back next century.
@CowperKettle: BTW, my brother-in-law, who is a department chair in Computer Science at a major technological university, believes AI is way overhyped, especially in natural language processing. He just linked me this video as an example:
@Robusto Surely, that’s why they’ve got the humans checking out the translations. But the effort is to fix the source material. They use The Bible heavily, because it’s been translated into so many languages.
@CowperKettle Reminds me of a joke from 1969. Some guy goes into a coma in 1959 and wakes up exactly ten years later. He sees the flag outside is flying at half staff and asks who died. "Eisenhower," he's told. The man frowns and says, "Then I guess that bastard Nixon is president now."
@Mitch would probably understand that one.
It's funny because Nixon was the vice president under Eisenhower in 1959 and became president on his own in 1969.
@CowperKettle How did she survive for 19 years out there?
Agafia Karpovna Lykova (Russian: Агафья Карповна Лыкова, born 17 April 1944) is a Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the taiga for most of her life. As of 2016, she resides in the Western Sayan mountains, in the Republic of Khakassia. Lykova became a national phenomenon in the early 1980s when Vasily Peskov published articles about her family and their extreme isolation from the rest of society. Lykova is the sole surviving member of the family and has been mostly self-sufficient since 1988, when her father died.
== Early life ==
Lykova was born in a hollowed...
> In the summer of 1978, a group of four geologists discovered the family by chance, while circling the area in a helicopter. The scientists reported that Lykova spoke a language "distorted by a lifetime of isolation"
> The Soviet government paid for her to tour the Soviet Union for a month, during which time she saw airplanes, horses, cars and money for the first time.
On the photos, she looks more optimistic than a lot of people in the streets.
@Robusto I liked that translation video. Even simpler than whether the trophy goes in the luggage or the luggage goes in the trophy is the German expression “It burns under my nails” (per website Auf den Nägeln brennen). Not hard to translate from German, but in English it’s literal, not figurative. i wonder how AI figures that out.
Turns out there's a whole party in Russia, called The Party of 5th of December, that was formed in 2013 and has been denied registration ever since, year after year. Just for the fact of being an opposition party.
I thought this denial only concerned Navalny's party. Parties that are considered mild by the regime are allowed to keep their registration. Further, parties that are blatantly faux and created only to present a multi-party environment to the world are registered right away.
A sentence I've translated from Russian:
The Applicant must also fill out a Technical Appendix (in free form) providing, as far as this is possible, the most detailed description of the consulting activity and the expected results (technical documents, study protocols, final reports etc.).
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The dictionary suggests the synonyms of the word "would" which is "should" and "could". This synonyms at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/would take numbers 2 and 9.
Would do you explain when to use this right? and how to understand occasions of a usage?
The problem, and that's not a new problem, we've known that forever, is that to understand language it is not sufficient to have a working model of the language. To understand language you need a working model of the whole world.
So you need an AGI rather than just an AI.
I think that's what Tom explained in that video, but it's been a while since I watched it and it's too much work to click on it again.
You need a general intelligence, not a specific one. An AI that's good at chess is good at chess alone. It cannot drive a car. It wouldn't know what a car is even if it knew that cars existed.
For Facebook to translate a message from your mom, they'd need not Deep Blue but Skynet. And we all know how that ends.
Except that that's not how it ends in movies. That's how it actually ends.
They can feed the Bible to a bunch of code some unpaid intern wrote all they want. Google was done with feeding all the versions of the Bible to all their AIs a decade ago. And all of their AIs combined still don't fully understand that Friday does not translate to Donnerstag. Because none of their AIs understand what a day is.
Some of them can play a mean game of go, though. Or even drive a car. Just not both. And not if you ask them to do it on a Friday.
AI don't roll on Shabbos.
To anyone interested in a good primer on AGI design and all the challenges, easy and hard, current and old, I can recommend looking up Robert Miles.
Not the one who stormed the charts in the late 90s, but the one they occasionally feature on Numberphile. He has a channel of his own. With a ton of videos, all of them short, and all of them excellent.
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@Robusto It's funny because Nixon, while pretty awful, did all these great things: détente with China, ABM and SALT arms treaties w USSR, ended the draft, established the EPA, signed Title IX, and had the integrity to resign before being impeached.
I had to look up the rest of that list after China.
What do we call a criminal case that is still not closed, meaning that it is still in process? Open criminal case? "Pending criminal case"?
phrase of the day: the contract is discharged by performance
Weird.
Today the police forbade people to gather signatures in Yekateringurg for a petition to restore mayoral elections. The signature gathering posts have been stationed in a couple of locations in the city for a couple of weeks, and only today, seeing that the required number of signatures (10 000) is very likely to be collected, the police came and shut the central signature point down.
@CowperKettle It depends. You can call that person an officer of the company if at VP level or above, or has some other official capacity. Officer is currently supplanting official, but both have about the same usage in the corpus. Whichever you use, nobody would be confused or even bat an eyelash at it.
@M.A.R. People use to gripe that guest workers are turning whole city blocks into their little motherlands, where every second person you see is an Uzbek
There has been an influx of guest workers and migrants from Central Asia in Russia
And the general mood is "throw them out". I'm not sure about that. I prefer for people to mix up.
But now that Russia is suffering economically, the influx is not as great as it used to be.
Does one have to register with officials in order to live in a city in Iran? In Russia you cannot stay more than a week or two without special registration, as far as I recall. The police must always know where you might be located, even if you have no criminal record.
@M.A.R. We have a city district called Sortirovka, "the train sorting yard". When I bicycle there, I sometimes feel a bit in a different country. There are Uzbek and Tajik women in long baggy dresses. ))
My uncle had an outward appearance of a person from the Caucasus, and during his business travels to Moscow he was constantly accosted by the police who were hoping to get a bribe out of him. They were not happy to discover he was not a Georgian but a Jew.
@M.A.R. Because the state wants to know your whereabouts.
@M.A.R. Isn't it like this in Iran? What if you go to a different city and rent a flat in Iran? Don't you have to registed with the authorities at your new place?
In the US we don't need to do anything when moving domiciles except to get a new driver's license in the new state if we plan to take up permanent residence there.
The revolution was rather popular. If the regime wanted to crack down on some people after that, they would be minorities. We hadn't needed the iron fist.
That might change, and has partially changed for some things
Moscow was so privileged that people from other cities agreed to work for 10-20 years on some low-paying job just in order to get an official registration in Moscow, in Soviet times.
The Soviet authorities learned the main lesson - that revolutions are made in the largest cities, and so the living standards were kept artificially high in Moscow and St. Pete
@Robusto Right now? Foreigners mostly. We still have very few Bahai'i people around, I dunno about Tehran. It's still seen in negative light for the previous generations that consider Bahai'ism a British invention
@RegDwigнt A friend visited Egypt some while ago and wanted to take a cab, whereupon some practical joker told him to make sure to ask for Muhammad at the taxi stand. Hilarity ensued.
@Robusto I think that's how a guy sounds like when they feel like they're making a speech to the whole world, which happens the first time you use a mic
That's what #metoo already did for us. Any chick out of her prime could, and often did, use it to her advantage. At the expense of people who had done nothing, and lost everything as a result.