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@M.A.R. I don't get it.
 
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@Robusto They don't do dinner in Medina
@Robusto I don't think tea has even that much ass
@Cerberus Tea is the best slightly discolored water
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@Robusto Possibly this tiktok video
 
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Amazing. They suggest that hypermobiligy of joints in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can be associated with poor function of MTHFR.
Everything is so interlinked.
I started reading about the syndrome because it's associated with keratoconus.
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The greater bilby, or simply bilby, (Macrotis lagotis) is a long-eared, rabbit-like mammal native to Australia. It lives in burrows and is active at night, feeding on insects, fruit, or fungi. The bilby is a marsupial and carries its young in a pouch. Threats include habitat loss, disease, and introduced predators such as foxes. Formerly widespread, bilbies are now restricted to arid parts of northwestern and central Australia. It is commonly called bilby after the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) became extinct in the 1950s. Other names include dalgyte, pinkie, or rabbit-eared bandicoot. ��2�...
The term bilby is a loan word from the Yuwaalaraay Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales, meaning long-nosed rat.
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03:07
Synonyms of the day: osier, willow, sallow
Willow branches are used instead of palm branches on Palm Sunday in Slavic countries.
Sometimes a persons is get slapped with a branch, and the slapper says "It's not me who strikes you, it's the willow"
> Не я б'ю - верба б'е!
> It's not me who strikes - it's the willow!
Painted on a HAARM rocket attached to a Ukrainian fighter jet.
04:02
Guess this word: "small molecules that elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein; the carrier may be one that also does not elicit an immune response by itself"
04:43
British soldiers in drag operating a cannon in WWII
 
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> The company tweeted April 6 that it was planning a launch rehearsal for the vehicle, now fully stacked on the pad at its Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, next week. That will be followed by the first launch attempt about a week later.
April 2023 may become a pivotal point in spacefaring history.
06:39
>https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/drag-entertainment-world-war-ii
The US Army published a book on “Soldier Shows” including patterns for outfits for the drag events.
It’s therefore puzzling that Gen. Milley and others seem not to know about this sort of thing, or its origin in Irving Berlin’s “This Is the Army.”
06:58
From The Empire of the Sun. I listened to the audioversion in 2011.
I don't get this joke.
Putin has visited the newly-admitted regions of Russia.
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Well done!
> On Ramadan, a man goes to an imam and says "I want to get married, find me a spouse." The imam says "I can't promise I can find you a spouse but if you fast tomorrow, by sunset you'll have a date."
Another one.
> My Muslim girlfriend suddenly dumped me right before the start of Ramadan. She said, "We're going to fast."
> At the last supper Jesus lifted the bread and spoke, "This is my body."
He then lifted the wine and said, "This is my blood."
He lifted a jar of mayo...
Peter: "Okay, that's enough!"
Yikes.. funny but ewwy a bit.
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A policeman and his friend, former member of the Emergency Ministry Service, today received a sentence of 19 years for trying to put a recruitment station on fire in Chelyabinsk Oblast.
The two played in the same rock-band, Room32
They threw several Molotov cocktails at the building, which was a symbolic jesture, because their efforts resulted in a tiny conflagration on the floor, which was put out by the night guard before the firefighters arrived.
They did not mean to raise it to the ground; just to make a statement.
The night guard took a washing rag and a bucket with water, and put out the flame.
> Initially, a case was opened against 27-year-old Nasryev and 37-year-old Nureyev on intentional damage to property (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code), but then the charge was re-qualified as a terrorist attack by a group of persons by prior agreement (part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code, involves punishment from 12 up to 20 years in prison).
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10:37
The first letter of the genetic code was deciphered 62 years ago, in May 1961:
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. == Biography == Nirenberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Minerva (Bykowsky) and Harry Edward Nirenberg, a shirtmaker. He developed rheumatic fever as a boy, so...
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@Robusto bah, it turned out to be a fake. Serves me right for watching videos on others' phones. He tripped on a wire and said "it's black", as in "that's why I didn't see it"
The cat and everything else was edited in
 
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@Vikas ChatGPT used a static corpus for training: wikipedia, an unspecified book repository, Reddit, and 'Commoncrawl' (the last of which way overwhelms the data in the others). CommonCrawl is supposed to be some large collection of publicly available websites. I'm pretty sure it includes public code on github which would include lots of examples in every programming language for sorting algorithms.
ChatGPT (et al.) is not reproducing any one of those single examples - what it does is statistically writing out the code sequentially (with 'fancy' lookahead). With enough examples, it is able to spit out a syntactically and semantically correct sort in any popular alnguage.
If you ask for a rare language like APL or Forth, or for a not wellknown algorithm, it is not going to do as well.
All these 'chat' things (LLMs) are just making stuff up, but doing so using statistics compiled from a bunch of examples. That's how they're able to do things that mimic humans so well.
As to a comparison with google, google is constantly scanning the entire internet all the time, getting new webpages and updating from old ones, and then 'indexing' (creating pointers) to them based on ... well... lots of good ol fashioned statistics and NLP. Also lots of special case things depending on the search you give (eg it may actually extract info from airline APIs to give you specific flight info).
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So in the end ChatGPT was trained on a static set of web pages of a few terabytes (I have to go check that value) and Google search is supplied from a dynamic (constantly updated) set of the entire accessible internet.
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asking a question on chatGPT gets it to return a string of words that are statistically likely to follow. asking a question on google gets you links to webpages that the words in your query are statistically associated with.
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13:57
@Cerberus OMG is loss of taste a long covid thing? I thought it was temporary.
@Mitch My friend still smells little, ever since he was infected, which happened some months before vaccination began.
And he is 30.
He was also tired for a while, but I think that cleared up after a few months.
@alphabet He should really comb his hair. At this point it's just ludicrous.
I didn't click the link, but is it Johnson?
@Cerberus haha yes
@user858770 thanks?
:p
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him with a tray of teacups outside 10 Downing offering it to a reporter and interrupting her with 'do you want some tea?' every time she tried to start asking a question.
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@Mitch Clever.
Kill them with tea.
@MattE.Эллен Welcome back, @Matt. @Mitch saved some tea for you.
@Robusto You almost have the 'minigame' heptathlon!
thanks. no milk two sugars, please
14:02
@Cerberus Annoy them to death with faux tea concern
Exactly.
@MattE.Эллен gulps last tea
we have milk but no tea. how's that
Haha nice.
Discrimination!
@Mitch I will use the milk for something else... at a later date
14:04
robots are people too
@MattE.Эллен ok... uh... so do you want milk with your milk, or just plain?
And will you have clotted cream with your toast?
plain milk, neither shaken nor stirred
@MattE.Эллен great. we only have unpasteurized anyway.
to whom be we toasting?
@Mitch moves it past my eyes not any more!
@MattE.Эллен To the King of Toaster Waffles.
14:06
@MattE.Эллен To old stale bread?
You can do better than that.
actually, no, I can't.
To Toaster Waffles and old stale bread. throws clotted cream over his shoulder hoping noöne will notice
When people say to me 'Hey keep going, you got this!' I am very aware that I in fact do not got this. I am more likely to not got it at all.
By the way
has anybody noticed
lately
some clotted cream on the wall?
The King of Toaster Waffles noticed that not everyone was toasting him. Now he's peeved.
14:11
@Mitch OMG how'd that get there?
I guess it's better than blood
unless
no it's better than blood
you attract more flies with blood than clotted cream
I blame Thomas Cromwell.
You catch more flies with clotted cream than blood
wow my brain really flipped out there
14:12
Why?
but then your flies are covered in clotted cream
And Peru often doesn't have that thing in the middle.
@Cerberus I don't see the Nepalese flag there
And I bet Malta often doesn't have its thing either.
@MattE.Эллен I use bungee cords for mine
14:13
@MattE.Эллен Oh, dear!
Perhaps too much blue, like the Norwegian one?
@Cerberus Sometimes it gets mislaid.
@Cerberus good point. I forgot the blue border
@Cerberus Oh Alabama. you think you're slipping in the Confederate flag don't you without anyone noticing.
@Robusto Or someone was too enthusiastic with the bleach?
Look how many countries have red, white and blue in their flags these days. Too many!
14:14
@Mitch Oh, is it similar?
What is 'Anjouan'?
@Robusto Countries with those colours deserve to be bombed immediately.
@Mitch WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA
@Cerberus Hmm. I think we're all vulnerable here. And so are our enemies.
This calls for...
Global nuclear war!
@Cerberus splutters
14:16
@Cerberus That escalated quickly.
I didn't know tea could go bad.
Oops.
@Matt shoved his way to the front, looking for tea. I said, "Hey, take your place in line!" He replied, "You mean queue?" I said, "No, Q-U!!!"
@Mitch lest we forget the Boston tea party. started by a gang of bad tea
@MattE.Эллен Worst party ever. Even worse than the Republican party.
All by itself, Q is a placeholder for a consonant we can't pronounce right.
As in Qatar.
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@MattE.Эллен I don't think any amount of tea leaves would cover up the taste of that water
Did they add cream to Boston Harbor at the same time? And sugar?
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@Robusto They added the cream afterwards. So uncouth.
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I'm struggling to understand rhymes. do "bacon" and "garden" rhyme as they end in the same sound? Or is it not a rhyme because it's not the stressed part? So "garden" and "pardon" rhyme, but also "bacon" and "acorn"
> There are two criticisms over the current research methods for OGM. One involves the use of the AMT, as it is believed that it may not be sensitive enough to detect OGM in nonclinical samples.
I wonder what the meaning here is.
Nonclinical samples = people who are not currently in a clinic, treated for depression?
samples found on the side of the road?
Or nonclinical samples = people who do not have a diagnosis of depression made according to clinical criteria?
Such an ambiguous phrase.
Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is an inability to retrieve specific memories from one's autobiographical memory. Instead, general memories are recalled, such as repeated events or events occurring over broad periods. For example, when asked to recall a happy event, a person who exhibits OGM may say, "when I was on vacation last month" instead of remembering a single incident, such as, "my high school graduation." Research shows a correlation between OGM and certain mental illnesses, such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). == Diagnosis == The...
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@MattE.Эллен Yes, it is all about the final stressed syllable: its nucleus and coda need to be the same.
The syllables after usually also need to be (almost) the same.
"Bacon" and "garden" are clearly non-rhyming.
I found some Ukrainian rap songs in which some lines are in English.
15:29
@Cerberus Good thing our country only has the colors, not the colours.
I don't know whether the Ukrainian language has strong chances of survival.. Ireland gained its independence, but English is still widespread there, due to its sheer prevalence in terms of culture - movies, books.
@CowperKettle yes. I was struggling to express to myself why :D
@Cerberus ah. good. thank you.
@CowperKettle very ambiguous
"No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion."
When I first read these lines years ago, it was associated in my mind with chunks of gold-vermillion meat, left rotating or flying around when you die in Quake II.
G.M. Hopkins would find it hard to understand.
I don't know whether he read about the Difference Engine planned by Babbage.
 
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18:14
My room temperature without Air Conditioner turned on.
While weather app shows 24 degree Celsius at same time.
Do room lights and laptop heat cook the room?
18:37
Yikes!
Lights and laptop could only contribute a small amount.
More likely, the sun has been heating up your walls and interior.
@Cerberus Yeah I live on 1st floor. Roof faces sun directly. The rooms on ground floor are less hot.
So sun is culprit ultimately.
@Vikas Yeah.
And heated walls can stay warm for many days.
And they will continue to heat up your interior all the time.
Oh
Didn't know about it.
Yeah, they do cool down during the night, especially if you keep the windows open. But only is it gets cold enough at night, or you won't notice much of a difference.
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@CowperKettle self-diagnosed?
@MattE.Эллен Not to reopen a poorly healing wound but...
They kinda rhyme a little?
Just a smidgen more than not at all.
If you used them in a poem, it would be a bad rhyme.
As opposed to 'what the hell those don't rhyme at all'.
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@Vikas My sincere condolences! O_O
+32°C... omg
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@Vikas I hope that the AC will bring it down to at least +26°C - the hottest I can stand, personally.
Today the Duma will adopt amendments that will prohibit the exit from Russia to persons failing to appear after a call-up paper is sent to them.
Up till today, a govt official has to personally find you and give you your call-up papers, to be signed personally.
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Starting tomorrow, they will arrive electronically, and you will be considered in violation if you don't appear at the callup center within 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks, you cannot drive cars, cannot get loans, cannot leave Russia, etc.
They have prepared a whole set of rules.
I'm glad that my friend is almost ready to leave Russia. I feel like in the autumn, the iron curtain might close alltogether. After everybody has returned back from their vacations abroad.
Oppositional politician Vladimir Kara-Murza will likely get 25 years in jail for his anti-special-operation statements. The verdict is tomorrow, I guess meduza.io/feature/2023/04/10/…
Now this is a proper Stalinist term, 25 years.
20:44
@CowperKettle During April it will lower it to even 22 degree Celsius. After that it will cease to cool below 24 or 25. Especially during the day.
@CowperKettle Yeah. I seriously gave it a thought today. Outside my room (under open sky) weather is comfortable at that time (midnight). But I felt little uncomfortable inside room so I checked room temperature. And that's a significant difference. I always knew this fact but maybe only subconsciously.
My AC's service is still pending. They would service it soon.
(And this reminds me I have to reply a few starred messages).
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Ho indovinato questa parola italiana di 5 lettere in 3/6 tentativi.

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@jlliagre Certamente non posso.
@Robusto Se non ci provi, non puoi saperlo.
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@jlliagre Non so perché provare.
@Robusto Per divertimento
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That was hard.
@Vikas Also: if the thermometer sensor itself is exposed to sunlight, you'll get wildly inaccurate readings.
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/ənˈtɪl ðɛn d͡ʒəst ɪɡˈnɔːɹ ˈɛn.i mɪ.steiks/

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