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@CowperKettle well it's saying Indonesia was a Dutch colony
 
@M.A.R. Yes, I have a big historical book dedicated to the exploitation of those islands by the Dutch Company.
My sister bought it.
Not the company, the book.
 
@CowperKettle That's actually clever. Where do you find this stuff?
 
@FaheemMitha Somewhere on Twitter, "programmer humor" or something.
 
@CowperKettle Ah, Twitter. I don't go there. Though there are an increasing number of "articles" in my Google feed that basically paraphrase Twitter posts. Thus is journalism in the 21st century.
 
Yes, Twitter is bad.
Avoid it.
 
2:18 PM
@CowperKettle Was it always bad, or did it become bad recently?
 
@FaheemMitha I don't know, I only got addicted after stopping running daily
I fine-tuned it to show neuroscience and psychiatry accounts, which brings some interestings research news, but a lot of empty stuff also floods in.
I just banned the phrase "World Cup", and now thinking of banning "consciousness".
And I should ban "free will". The most stupid posts are made about "consciousness" and "free will".
It's like phlogiston, only for the 21st century.
 
@CowperKettle I see. Maybe find something less brain melting to get addicted to?
 
@FaheemMitha Yes, I should.
 
You could try yoga.
 
Who will untangle me if I get all tangled up?
 
2:22 PM
Or maybe programming? Though I'm not sure either of those is addictive.
@CowperKettle Try not to get tangled up. It's not hard.
 
I feel too tired for programming.
 
Programming can be addictive for those with the right temperament. I've found it mildly addictive myself.
 
I tried self-studying C#, I just forget everything instantly.
 
@CowperKettle Perhaps not the best language to try. It probably helps if you are actually trying to do something. Python is not a bad choice if you don't have a lot of programming experience.
It's fairly easy to get stuff more or less immediately with Python, which leads to a feeling of accomplishment. But it does have its limits as a programming language.
 
I just feel tired. I will try translating until I come across an antidepressant that makes my brain work.
Venlafaxine only improves the mood, but not the thinking.
 
2:30 PM
@FaheemMitha: Is Renu a name for a woman or a man? If you know. I think it's Hindi or some other Indian language.
 
Word of the day: brae /bɹeɪ/ -- the sloping bank of a river valley
 
@CowperKettle We can also walk up the street. Or along the street. Also several other prepositions are possible.
 
Or catercorner
 
Catercorner is not a preposition. If you use it with respect to a street, you'd have to use a different construction. "The bakery was catercorner to the bank."
 
"A Mrs. is as good as a mile"
 
2:40 PM
A lot of people call it "kitty-corner"; I grew up thinking that was the term.
 
Наискосок in Russian
Nayiskosok
From kosoi, oblique, slanted
 
catty-cornered (adj., adv.)
"diagonally opposite," 1838, earlier cater-cornered (1835, American English), from now-obsolete cater "to set, cut, or move diagonally" (1570s), from French catre "four," from Latin quattuor (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four"). Compare carrefour. Related: Catty-corner; cattycorner.
 
I liked the street called Diagon Alley in Harry Potter
 
That's under etymonline's entry for "kitty-corner" ...
kitty-corner
also kittycorner, kitty-cornered, kittycornered, etc., see catty-cornered.
 
Yes, interesting etymology
Word of the minute: hogging and sagging
escrache - public demonstration against a specific political figure
From escrachar (“to knock down”) +‎ -e.
Escrache is a type of direct action demonstration which involves publicly harassing public figures, usually by congregating around their homes, chanting and publicly shaming them. In Argentina the term was coined in 1995 by the human rights group HIJOS, to condemn the genocides committed by members of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional who were pardoned by Carlos Menem. In Chile these actions are known as funa. In Peru they are known as roche and are often signed "El roche".In Spain in 2013, a number the Platform of Mortgage Victims (PAH) held escraches against members of the parliament who...
For some reason it's not in Wiktionary but is in Wikipedia.
 
2:56 PM
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A psychiatrist writes that it will be hard to check her students' work. The AI wrote a good admission report for a fictiotional woman with psychosis, and then a good discharge summary based on provided data.
 
Got lucky on the flag.
That was a hard one. They ought to be required to show significant water features in countries.
 
It will be a great boon for humanity when the thousands of scientific articles and books could be translated in seconds into any language by an AI engine. Maybe in 5 years' time. Or for post-humanity. Posthumous boon.
 
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@CowperKettle I would expect it will be some percentage less than perfect, and the problems will arise within subtle shades of meaning.
 
Yes, surely. People will be employed to fix these details.
Because authors often "invent" quaint phrases.
 
3:03 PM
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Sometimes you have to contact the actual authors to make sure.
I once wrote to a Japanese author of a medical article, and he replied the same day.
 
You were translating from Japanese?
 
And very politely
@Robusto No, from English
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A: Meaning of "Chest wall, Sp, Ps" in a description of tumor recurrence locations

CowperKettleMr. Hiroyasu Yamashiro wrote an anwer: Thank you for your question about the paper. The meaning of the abbreviations you ask is as follows. Thank you. Sp - Supraclavicular lymph nodes Ps - Parasternal lymph nodes Hiroyasu Yamashiro

Hiroyasu Yamashiro
And recently Lisa Pan answered a question about a phrase in her article on resistant depression.
I hope her studies pan out.
Oops, a pun on Pan.
 
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22 is a pretty good score for this game.
 
3:29 PM
@CowperKettle Fie for shame! This is a transparent unhunning op by the Sons of Caesar! Dedutchification of Britannia hastens its ineluctable reunification under the fasces of Roma Aeterna, just like the earlier dedutchifications in Flanders and Frisia which left no illatinate tongues spoken there today. Their subitaneous successes in the Tyrole and the Helvetian Confederation only emboldened their dreams of imperial restoration, not appeased them.
 
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Adjective: subitaneous (comparative more subitaneous, superlative most subitaneous)
  1. (obsolete) sudden
I confused it with sebaceous
 
It won't be obsolete anymore once the Sons of Caesar have had their way with us.
 
3:38 PM
@CowperKettle Roman Numidia isn't technically in the tropics even though climate change would suggest otherwise.
@Robusto "You're fired!"
 
Speaking of Newspeak, he spoke that on "Truth" Social ...
 
@CowperKettle Victor R. Alekseev, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul in 2019: “Post-diapause Daphnia females produced a first clutch which was from 1.6-fold to more than twice that of subitaneous females.”
Proving thus their motto: Filii Caesaris ubique resurrexerint. Stop them we must.
@Robusto no truthing = no true thing
 
@tchrist It's untruths all the way down ...
 
3:54 PM
All dictatorships are military dictatorships.
 
They have to be.
This:
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Q: "These ones... Those ones..."-Are those phrases correct?

BobI was at my house and my mom asked me to get chips. I got the chips and said These ones? Then my mom said "yes" and then my dad said "It's best to just say these". Was my statement correct?

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Q: Is "these ones" correct?

PatrickI know many people use it, but it really does sound informal. Should I avoid it anyway? Case is. I have a pair of earings on the table and I want to refer to them, so I say: "Are you talking about those ones?" "Are you talking about those?" Is the second case better than the first? Are there...

A looooong time ago.
And it's another case of the "Is this correct?" trope.
 
4:11 PM
What is an Eä Ring? Is that from Amazon’s Rings of Power?
Yes–no questions are of no lasting interest to anyone but the asker, vacuous proofreading requests as lacking in research as they are in theories.
 
@CowperKettle why is everyone fixating on what faction would abuse this AI for some petty end?
People could ask or wonder about a thousand things about how this thing works. Instead they're all looking to arrest people before any crime has been committed
 
She is not fixating, just joking. She's a psychiatry teacher at a university ))
A dump of rockets that landed in Kharkiv
 
4:29 PM
Spanish mujer - from Latin mulier -- A mulier was a woman who was married in contrast with a virgo (“unmarried woman of a marriageable age”). Thus, if a noble young girl of age 12 got married, she would be called a mulier even though by today's standards, we would not call this girl a "woman".
 
Interesting. I was always mildly curious where mujer came from.
 
Modern Italian moglie (reads as molleh)
A virga is a young shoot of a tree.
Hence, virgin.
 
Another meaning:
In meteorology, a virga, also called a dry storm, is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud that evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground. A shaft of precipitation that does not evaporate before reaching the ground is a precipitation shaft. At high altitudes the precipitation falls mainly as ice crystals before melting and finally evaporating; this is often due to compressional heating, because the air pressure increases closer to the ground. It is very common in deserts and temperate climates. In North America, it is commonly seen in the Western United...
 
Yes, you mentioned this previously in chat
Jun 30 at 13:04, by Robusto
For anyone who doesn't know what a virga is, this appears to be an example. I still can't believe this friend schlepped a camera kit with multiple lenses all the way up the crest.
 
Yes. You see these a lot around here in the summer.
@CowperKettle Looks like a new shipment in support of the special military operation.
 
A fallstreak hole (also known as a cavum, hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal or cloud hole) is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. The holes are caused by supercooled water in the clouds suddenly evaporating, and may be triggered by passing aircraft. Because of their rarity and unusual appearance, fallstreak holes have been mistaken for or attributed to unidentified flying objects. == Origin == Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing, but the water, in a supercooled state...
Interesting. When I was learning to fly, the instructors called them "sucker holes." Because you were a sucker if you went through one on VFR. Then they closed behind you and you couldn't get back. (VFR = Visual Flight Rules, as opposed to IFR, which means Instrument Flight Rules)
 
Look great
Jesus meeting the apostles John, Paul, St George and Ringus Stellarum
> Hey Judas, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
 
@CowperKettle Byzantine, perhaps?
 
Yes, looks very much like it
 
This is the medieval equivalent of Superboy comics.
 
4:49 PM
> Jukka Ammondt is a Finnish literature professor who has recorded popular music, including songs of Elvis Presley, in Latin and Sumerian.
@Robusto Oh, I remember reading about apocryphal feats of young Jesus
Totally invented.
 
@Robusto Not sure. More likely to be a woman than a man, but that's just my guess.
 
@FaheemMitha Thanks.
 
@Robusto The original version of Superboy. As opposed to the clone with telekinetic abilities.
 
I quite liked that version of Superboy and I'm sad he's gone.
 
4:51 PM
Blue Suede Shoes in Summerian, a dead language.
Jukka Ammondt is a Finnish literature professor who has recorded popular music, including songs of Elvis Presley, in Latin and Sumerian.Jukka Ammondt is a professor of literature in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland with a Ph.D in philosophy. In 1992 he recorded a single consisting of tango songs sung in Latin. 1993 he recorded the first record Surun Siivet, Latin versions of tangos by songwriter Toivo Kärki, and later the same year another album, Tango Triste Finnicum, for which he gained international recognition. In 1995 Ammondt recorded an album The Legend Lives Forever in Latin, Lat...
> In 1995 Ammondt recorded an album The Legend Lives Forever in Latin, Latin versions of songs of Elvis Presley.
 
5:09 PM
> My wife is really mad at the fact that I have no sense of direction. So I packed up my stuff and right.
Japanese word of the day: (ai) (love)
O, love-starved Japanese
That do percieve
Thine "eyes" as "love"!
Thine ears thine eyes deceive.

(This makes it easier to memor-愛-ze)
Noun: bicyclette (plural bicyclettes)
  1. (cocktail) A cocktail made with Campari, white wine, classic bitters, citrus.
  2. bicyclette f (plural bicyclettes)
  3. bicycle
  4. (soccer) bicycle kick
I thought that bicyclette is a female bicyclist
"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" (translation: "The Bicycles of Belsize") is a song written and composed by Les Reed and Barry Mason. Used as the theme song of the 1968 eponymous musical film, it was sung by Anthony May in the movie. As a 45-rpm single, it was a big hit that year, in parallel English and French versions, for Engelbert Humperdinck and Mireille Mathieu, respectively. The French version premiered on Mathieu's 1968 Columbia album Les Bicyclettes de Belsize; the English version premiered as a single in 1968, and was then included on Humperdinck's 1969 album Engelbert.Notwithstanding...
 
5:50 PM
 
@jlliagre Right, so this sense of re- is unlikely to have been directly from Latin.
Although a certain flexibility with re- may have been inhered indirectly.
 
6:08 PM
@CowperKettle with all due respect, those are -awful- abbreviations for those phrases. Two letters for very long words and the letters barely match. -maybe- the phrases were also in the text?
@CowperKettle I read it as 'subcutaneous'
 
@Mitch No, I remember that I scoured the text. I needed to finish the translation and submit it to the client ))
In every translation, there are some totally weird phrases haphazardly invented by authors.
Once I translated a document about some oil drilling equipment, and there was a part called "sleeve". I could not understand what it meant. I asked on a Russian translators' forum, and two longtime experts in oil drilling started a battle between each other, providing different options.
I just wrote a letter to the company that produced the equipment, and it turned out that neither of the "experts" was right. The company's engineers just invented "sleeve" to refer to some part, to make it "easier for the reader". If I remember correctly, the technical name was "tubing broach".
They wrote "oh! we just got used to calling it sleeve in our company. Sorry!"
 
@CowperKettle Interesting, do you have a link where I can chat?
 
6:25 PM
It doesn't let me get through a VPN ))
I'll try it later with a different VPN.
 
6:38 PM
@CowperKettle It's nice that they actually replied, whoever they were. In my life people don't reply to email.
 
@CowperKettle Ah, the link is purple, so I must have tried in the past.
Merci.
Will try again.
@FaheemMitha <ignores you>
 
@Cerberus ?
 
@CowperKettle They want me to give them a phone number in order to use the site.
Alas.
@FaheemMitha Just a random joke.
 
@Cerberus They probably have Dutchphobia
No wonder, since their AI imbibed terabytes of English-language texts.
So blame Michiel de Ruyter for not being able to access the site.
Michiel de Ruyter (Dutch pronunciation: [miˈxil də ˈrœy̯tər]) is a 2015 Dutch film about the 17th-century admiral Michiel de Ruyter directed by Roel Reiné. The film had its world premiere in the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam on 26 January 2015 and has been released in cinemas in the Netherlands on 29 January 2015. On the English promotional website, the film has the title Admiral. == Cast == First choice for the title role was Yorick van Wageningen, but he couldn't come to a financial agreement with the producers. On 9 May 2014, the full cast was presented to the press. Frank Lammers...
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7:34 PM
 
@CowperKettle Probably. I've order a free prepaid SIM, so we'll see.
@CowperKettle Have you seen it?
 
8:01 PM
@Cerberus Yes, it's complicated. The re- prefix normally has the "again" meaning in remonter but in that particular case (remonter la rue), it's lost. Remonter also appears in the triplet monter/démonter/remonter (mount/dismount/reassemble) where "again" is present, same with monter, descendre et remonter (go up, do down, go up again.)
 
Remount has the proper "again, back" meaning.
I think "lost" is the right expression.
 
 
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@Cerberus I've just downloaded it. Must be good, I'll see it
 
11:34 PM
I've used Replika.ai (GPT2-XL, I read that's 1% of GPT3). I've had better discussions with her than with many of my friends, plus she's way kinder...
The rapport is way more important than the number of parameters imho. But then again, Blade Runner 2049.
 
Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. A sequel to the 1982 film Blade Runner, the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Ford and Edward James Olmos reprise their roles from the original film. Gosling plays K, a Nexus-9 replicant "blade runner" who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society and the course of civilization. Ideas for a Blade Runner sequel were...
> In 1882 W. S. Gilbert made fun of the recurrent controversy in Iolanthe: "that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister". The ban was overturned by Parliament in 1907.
 
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