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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
00:16
Never use u instead of you in chat! Do you younderstand me?!
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alphabet
@CowperKettle Reminds me of Mitch in the S'th
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
00:32
Midjourney 5.2 → Runway Gen-2 (text-to-image to image-to-video) - 24/Jul/2023 [no audio]
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Runway ML, a new AI tool that converts images to short videos.
I wonder if I can use it to convert some b/w photos of my ancestors into short videos
ai is getting smarter...
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Now we just need AI that can turn videos into feature length movies and we can shut down Hollywood
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Talented people would be able to create masterpieces at their home. Superb cartoons.
But I'm sure that mega-corporations will get even more mega
jlliagre
jlliagre
00:54
@CowperKettle This is just the beginning. Soon, generative tools will be able to generate several seasons of TV series from a single pixel.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@jlliagre .. and several volumes of mathematical textbooks from a single formula.
And we can shut down humanity.
Robusto
Robusto
01:29
@jlliagre And most people will be unable to tell the difference.
jlliagre
jlliagre
01:59
@CowperKettle There is too much mathematical matter in a formula, let's say it will create these volumes from a single letter like i.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
02:35
Yes :)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
02:45
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car - 12/4/1988 - Oakland Coliseum Arena (Official)
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:03
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Xanne
Xanne
07:03
Wordle 770 4/6

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Xanne
Xanne
07:30
Daily Octordle #551
7️⃣3️⃣
🔟6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕛
Score: 60
Better than usual for me.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> 1726: Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels, which includes this description of the Engine, a machine on the island of Laputa: "a Project for improving speculative Knowledge by practical and mechanical Operations " by using this "Contrivance", "the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, with the least Assistance from Genius or study."
This idea will turn 300 years in 3 years.
Xanne
Xanne
08:02
It does take a while to bring ideas to fruition.
Xanne
Xanne
08:46
Putschists, CNN calls them. Spell-check is happy.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@machine_1 AI isn't revolutionary yet. Despite the fact that the technology is only a seed in the ground currently, even if it would be advanced - the people aren't at all caught up yet. AI will require a massive jump in mental maturity before it can be applied effectively by the average human being. But hey - we can always use more funny videos of Arnold Schwarzenegger put where he doesn't belong until that state is reached. — Gimby Jul 25 at 11:41
@Cowp all this stuff you post on AI and yet you have failed to link to funny videos of Arnold Schwarzenegger put where he doesn't belong
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
09:31
@M.A.R. Oh!
I thought that he belongs everywhere
jlliagre
jlliagre
09:54
Wordle 770 4/6

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⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Daily Octordle #551
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🔟
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Score: 70
@Xanne Shouldn't it?
Xanne
Xanne
Yes, it should. Be.
jlliagre
jlliagre
What's wrong?
Xanne
Xanne
10:10
Nothing’s wrong—spell-check should be happy, and ideas take a long time to come to fruition because the required engineering takes time and resources, whether its machining metal for reciprocating gasoline engines or improving the efficiency of chips in capacity and speed, AFAIK.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> our study participant, who can no longer speak intelligibly due amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), achieved a 9.1% word error rate on a 50 word vocabulary (2.7 times fewer errors than the prior state of the art speech BCI2) and a 23.8% word error rate on a 125,000 word vocabulary (the first successful demonstration of large-vocabulary decoding) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36711591
Decoding of intended speech using an array of electrodes installed in the cortex.
Xanne
Xanne
The broad public learns to use tools quickly without having to understand the operation or the science & engineering that makes them possible. The social consequences are not so quickly absorbed or incorporated into customs of morality and decency.
Just my humble opinion.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin
CNN: "scientists from two global climate authorities are reporting before July has even ended that this month will be the planet’s hottest on record by far" edition.cnn.com/2023/07/27/world/…
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:40
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Karlsson graffiti at the embankment of the city pond in Yekaterinburg.
Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Swedish: Karlsson på taket) is a character who figures in a series of children's books by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Translated books and cartoon adaptation of the series became popular in the Soviet Union when it was released in the 1970s. Lindgren may have borrowed the idea for the series from a similar story about Mr. O'Malley in the comic strip "Barnaby" (1942) by Crockett Johnson. == Plot == Karlsson is a very short, plump and overconfident man who lives in a small house hidden behind a chimney on the roof of "a very ordinary apartment building on a very ordinary...
> Compared to the general population, patients with keratoconus were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with genu varum/valgus (OR = 2.75, CI 1.48-5.13, p = 0.0015), pes planus (OR = 1.97, 95% CI: 1.62-2.38, p < 0.0001), scoliosis (OR = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.45-2.43, p < 0.0001) and umbilical/inguinal hernias (OR = 2.18, 95% CI: 1.47-3.24, p = 0.0001).
New study. I had a surgery for inguinal hernia in my childhood. But this kind of hernia is extremely widespread.
 
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Robusto
Robusto
13:21
#Worldle #554 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Got lucky on the flag.
Vikas
Vikas
#Worldle #554 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
⭐⭐⭐
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Robusto
Robusto
🌎 Jul 29, 2023 🌍
🔥 44 | Avg. Guesses: 4.39
🟨🟥🟩 = 3

globle-game.com
#globle
Vikas
Vikas
I always overestimate population.
Robusto
Robusto
Wordle 770 3/6

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@Vikas Considering your country, that's understandable.
Daily Quordle 551
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
I have external speakers hooked up to my piano so that it can sound like a Steinway D when I want it to. But I was getting an annoying buzz on certain notes, and I thought I might have damaged the cones. Last night I discovered there were some mounting fixtures on the back, with set screws that were loose. I tightened them and voilá! All is well! It's amazing how good a little thing like that can make me feel.
Like having a toothache just go away. Ahhh.
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Weekly Quordle Challenge 5
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8️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
A bit tougher than the dailies, but not by much.
jlliagre
jlliagre
13:58
Daily Quordle 551
6️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Robusto
Robusto
Daily Octordle #551
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8️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 60
jlliagre
jlliagre
14:11
Weekly Quordle Challenge 5
9️⃣7️⃣
🟥6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
14:45
Colorado River Basin megadrought caused by massive 86% decline in snowpack runoff
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
15:11
> .. the research team asked a group of healthy young adults to participate in 10-min very light exercise followed by an executive function task. The findings revealed that pupils dilated during the exercise, and the extent of the dilation was an indicator of a subsequent improvement in executive function. tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-news/20230712140000.html
Robusto
Robusto
15:38
@CowperKettle Next time you want something done, don't ask an executive, ask an ordinary programmer.
user 858770
user 858770
16:01
> The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.
🤔⚠️🧐
🙉🙈🙊
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch: NYT Spelling Bee disallows totemic. I wonder if they equate it with words like gypsy for some reason.
They disallow timecode as well. Stuffed shirts.
user 858770
user 858770
The cost of attention is energy.
We pay attention with effort.
Robusto
Robusto
The cost of inattention is more expensive.
user 858770
user 858770
You have to use your judgement.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto those bastards
Robusto
Robusto
16:12
inorite
user 858770
user 858770
Character and will.
Mitch
Mitch
The expense of inattention is costly
Will and grace
Grin and bare it
Robusto
Robusto
Grin and bear it? That's Republicans' advice to pregnant women, apparently.
Mitch
Mitch
Totemic is not even a weird word.
You should write a letter
user 858770
user 858770
From these three roots attention grows.
Mitch
Mitch
16:14
Probably not Q
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch Yes. A strongly worded letter.
Mitch
Mitch
Like a letter that uses 'totemic'.
'totemic' is autologous
Which is to say, in certain circumstances it could be considered totemic.
user 858770
user 858770
It is a feed back loop, actually.
Mitch
Mitch
If we were playing Scrabble, 'timecode' would be entirely unremarkable (is ni one would even think of challenging it) but I can sorta see how it might not be in the NYT Spelling Bee dictionary.
Hey
Do you know if
The dictionary gets downloaded with the JavaScript for the game?
MetaEd said that wordle downloads it (do you can see what 5 letter words are allowed)
user 858770
user 858770
The very root of judgment, character, and will is the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again.
Mitch
Mitch
16:21
What were we talking about?
user 858770
user 858770
William James' quote:
> The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.
Mitch
Mitch
When people say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I think that's overlooking a lot of murder and rape
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch Whoa! This is forbidden knowledge! You could doom us for even thinking about it!
@user858770 No great ideas ever happen without a wandering attention.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto I thought it out loud, bitches
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch These days, the road to hell is paved with good inventions.
user 858770
user 858770
16:26
The internet shortens attention.
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch If you cheat at a game, the game will cease to be fun.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto but thank you for spelling 'whoa' correctly like Shakespeare intended.
Robusto
Robusto
You're welcome. You can tell I'm old by the way I spell that.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto for wordle, having the word list doesn't help you cheat (not much)
It totally helps you cheat on spelling bee, which would totally ruin the fun of the game
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch Well, if they store the winning words in the browser it would.
Mitch
Mitch
16:29
@Robusto oh, not the winning word (which I presume is calculated on the fly), but the while wordlist
Robusto
Robusto
If someone wanted to pore through tons of obfuscated code I suppose it would be possible. But what would be the point? That you worked harder to solve the puzzle in one guess, which would be a tipoff to everyone that you did cheat?
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto are you feeling OK? Can I get you a blanket?
Robusto
Robusto
No thanks. It's way too hot here for that.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto naw I'm saying the whole word list, in toto, one big list, -as text- as part of the code
No deobfuscatiin or uncompiling necessary
Robusto
Robusto
But they would have to match guesses against something, unless they make an AJAX call. That could be tested by trying the game while offline.
Mitch
Mitch
16:35
@user858770 everything William James ever wrote was motivated at some point by quarrels with the James siblings who all had borderline-histrionic personality disorder
When they weren't hooped up on morphine
Robusto
Robusto
BTW I just tried deictic and of course that wasn't accepted.
Mitch
Mitch
Their mother, however much they would want to blame her, was a saint
Robusto
Robusto
She only aspired to saintliness. Raising troublesome children is one sign that you are not in line for canonization.
user 858770
user 858770
Really?
Robusto
Robusto
Yes. Really.
Mitch
Mitch
16:37
Sometimes you get the kids you're dealt
user 858770
user 858770
Yup.
Robusto
Robusto
Maybe you should have tried tinkering with the code. It gets downloaded with the kid, I understand.
Mitch
Mitch
I'm trying to think of a saint that had kids
I'm having trouble
Robusto
Robusto
beams
See? Do you need further proof?
Mitch
Mitch
Is Jesus a saint?
Robusto
Robusto
16:39
That would be a demotion.
Mitch
Mitch
I would think him considered saint -ly-
Robusto
Robusto
If Jesus ever got busted down to sainthood he might quit the whole thing altogether.
user 858770
user 858770
Saint Jesus.
Robusto
Robusto
He would take his marbles (of which there are many) and go home.
That Pieta? Gone.
user 858770
user 858770
Saint God.
Saint Satan.
Mitch
Mitch
16:41
@user858770 well that would be an improvement on the Old Testament one
@user858770 he was definitely an angel
Robusto
Robusto
Aspiring saints are called Blessed, I think. You can imagine them looking on with envy when one ascends to sainthood, but trying to look happy and supportive like actors at the Academy Awards.
Mitch
Mitch
eyes of daggers
Robusto
Robusto
Some would be so outraged they would get up and slap the presenter. On stage!
user 858770
user 858770
There are a few notable exceptions who have declined the award.
Mitch
Mitch
Aspiring saints? Wannabe beatifics? I'm just trying to get through the goddam day without screwing up totally
@Robusto that never happens. People are too cool to do that
user 858770
user 858770
16:44
Same goes for the Nobel prize.
Mitch
Mitch
Only the winners show up for that
user 858770
user 858770
Has anyone turned down sainthood?
More importantly is that a one-way ticket to hell.
Robusto
Robusto
I think Marlon Brando turned down sainthood. I could be wrong, though.
user 858770
user 858770
The horror, the horror.
user 858770
user 858770
17:10
Having the good judgement of knowing when to do it, the character to do it, and the will power to see it through to the end.
All with reference to the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again.
But each time you pay attention it takes effort.
The brain is not a muscle, it is an organ.
Mitch
Mitch
17:39
Holy Christ it's hot outside
jlliagre
jlliagre
25 °C, that's fine.
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch My wunderground says your town is only at 76 °F at this time.
Ah, but the humidity!
Mitch
Mitch
@jlliagre I'm complaining like I'm @Cerberus. It's only 31 (the machine says it feels like 34)
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto What should be trusted, a thermometer or the Internet?
and do you really know my city?
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto dude. I'm not home right now. Can you check to make sure I turned off the oven?
And close any windows. The AC is probably on now
jlliagre
jlliagre
17:53
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Wunderground map
Vikas
Vikas
Link please.
jlliagre
jlliagre
wunderground.com/pws/overview
Robusto
Robusto
@jlliagre I was talking to @Mitch. I probably don't know your town at all. But I do know his.
jlliagre
jlliagre
@Robusto Yes, I see it now. Anyway, our places share almost the same temperature.
Robusto
Robusto
I guess @Mitch is on vacation. If so, why didn't he go to a cooler location?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:12
A group of ravens is a murder,
A group of Karens, a complaint
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto nope just the weekend
Robusto
Robusto
The question still stands: why not to a cooler location?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:39
A group of ravens is a murder,
A group of Karens, a complaint,
An army group may make a feint,
If such was their commander’s order.
Mitch
Mitch
18:54
@Robusto I went home. It rained for 15 minutes then stopped the temp is now down 5C so I guess that counts
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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Word of the midnight: gaff
> We're going round to Mike's gaff later to watch the footie.
Vikas
Vikas
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> I read a book about World War II that was only four pages long.
It was Abridged Too Far.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
19:18
God originally created gravity as a prank, but then everyone fell for it.
Vikas
Vikas
Even fruits fell for it.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Yes, I did not expect it from them!
How low!
Robusto
Robusto
20:07
@CowperKettle Todas las frutas no son bajas.
Well, strawberries maybe.
 
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Michael Rybkin
Michael Rybkin
22:19
Could you please tell me if the following sentence sounds alright to your native speaker's ear?

FXCM allows people to speculate on the foreign exchange market and provides trading in contract for difference (CFDs) on major indices and commodities such as gold and crude oil. It is based in London.
jlliagre
jlliagre
22:48
lacks a native ear, so stays silent.

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