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Robusto
Robusto
00:01
> I never thought it would happen
With me and a girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
1979 song by the New Wave band Squeeze.
> Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after
Interesting, rhyming water/after. But it's been a popular rhyme for hundreds of years, I think.
Slant rhymes are smart.
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There's the first page of Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's Inferno. I love how he proceeds to slant his way through all the terza rima in Dante's work.
aba bcb cdc and so on.
alphabet
alphabet
00:28
What's interesting is when you hear song lyrics that rhyme in some dialects but not others. Take these lines from England's finest poets:
> You're insecure, don't know what for
> You're turnin' heads when you walk through the door
That insecure/for/door rhyme works for them, not for most of us.
Truly the greatest band in British history.
alphabet
alphabet
00:49
Raccoons protest for right to an education
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01:42
@Mitch yes, those are all possible options.
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Darwinian natural selection extended to the cyber age.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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How's the numbness in your hand? @CowperKettle
17 hours ago, by CowperKettle
For about a month, I've been feeling numb in my little finger on the right hand, and now it has spread to the next one, the ring finger.
Are you right handed?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
02:00
@user20458579510081670432 It's mild
Probably because of too much bicycling
Or some over-pressed nerve in the shoulder. Some kind of thing
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I've never bicycled so much in a single year
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Cc: Robusto
🚵‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
02:19
@CowperKettle you've also climbed two and a half Everests
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Yes
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> Here, we evaluate LLMs using a distinction between formal linguistic competence (knowledge of linguistic rules and patterns) and functional linguistic competence (understanding and using language in the world). We ground this distinction in human neuroscience, which has shown that formal and functional competence rely on different neural mechanisms. cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/…
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02:59
Yes, I would like you to elaborate further on decimal comparisons @CowperKettle
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:34
@user20458579510081670432 Me?
I don't know nothing about em
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05:46
You can't tell what the machine did wrong when comparing 9.11 to 9.90?
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@user20458579510081670432 90 is more than 11
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Yes.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Totally unknown to me phrase of the day: content-free pointers
> Human visual working memory (VWM) is known to be capacity-limited, but the nature of this limit continues to be debated. Recent work has proposed that VWM is supported by a finite (~ 3) set of content-free pointers, acting as stand-ins for individual objects and binding features together. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.26.605172v1
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:05
> A combination of trametinib and rapamycin increases life in mice by 25% biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.25.605097v1
 
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jlliagre
jlliagre
11:54
#WhenTaken #151 (27.07.2024)

I scored 768/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 613 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 1035 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 165 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 572 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 174 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 7621 km - 🗓️ 23 yrs - ⚡ 53 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 11 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200

https://whentaken.com
Not easy.
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Ouch!
Huge swing on the last two.
tchrist
tchrist
12:58
> “The desert is not a place for people who are living on the margins to begin with,” said Kyle Roerink, the executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, an environmental advocacy organization. Roerink and others are also concerned about Joshua trees and wild desert tortoises, along with a host of other plants and animals, who would be sacrificed to satisfy continued sprawl.
Interesting use of who.
Vikas
Vikas
#WhenTaken #151 (27.07.2024)

I scored 514/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 908 km - 🗓️ 45 yrs - ⚡ 73 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 1050 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 160 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 7792 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 104 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 7218 km - 🗓️ 78 yrs - ⚡ 11 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 1123 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 166 / 200

https://whentaken.com
Lambie
Lambie
Aren't tortoises a people? [Any doubt? That's is a joke]
Robusto
Robusto
13:26
@CowperKettle That's likely your ulnar nerve. Try getting a bike fitting to make sure that one is not stressed. Hands are, funnily enough, the Achilles heel of cycling. After I hit 35-40 miles (56-64 km) on a ride my hands start getting numb and I have to stop more frequently for relief.
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This is why I don't do centuries (100 miles, 160 km) anymore. After about 60-65 miles I just can't wait to get off.
Robusto
Robusto
13:47
Wordle 1,134 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
jlliagre
jlliagre
Wordle 1,134 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Daily Octordle #915
5️⃣3️⃣
🕚9️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 59
Daily Sequence Octordle #915
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🔟
🕚🕛
Score: 61
Robusto
Robusto
14:53
#WhenTaken #151 (27.07.2024)

I scored 808/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 62 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 1054 km - 🗓️ 14 yrs - ⚡ 142 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 969.6 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 636 km - 🗓️ 26 yrs - ⚡ 112 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 301 km - 🗓️ 15 yrs - ⚡ 160 / 200

https://whentaken.com
Whew!
That took a while.
Now I want to go back to bed.
jlliagre
jlliagre
15:16
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Planes avoiding the rainfall ;-)
Robusto
Robusto
Daily Octordle #915
5️⃣🕚
9️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🔟
Score: 60
Daily Sequence Octordle #915
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
🕛🕐
Score: 71
@jlliagre I outsmarted myself on #5.
Jul 22 at 18:38, by Robusto
Overthinking is what we do here.
#4 was a cheat.
 
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alphabet
alphabet
18:02
@Lambie There are raccoons near Vegas. I think we deserve to be considered animate. (Also joking.)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:41
@Robusto Ah! It's not a big deal then
> La Cagoule was founded by Eugène Deloncle and bankrolled, among others, by Eugène Schueller, the founder of L'Oréal.
La Cagoule
La Cagoule (The Cowl; founded in 1936) was a French fascist-leaning and anti-communist terrorist group. It opposed the left-wing Popular Front (in office, June 1936 to 1938) and used violence to promote its activities in the final years of the Third Republic and into the Vichy Regime. La Cagoule was founded by Eugène Deloncle and bankrolled, among others, by Eugène Schueller, the founder of L'Oréal. La Cagoule committed assassinations, and undertook bombings, sabotage of armaments, and other violent activities, some intended to cast suspicion on communists through false flag operations and to...
 
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Michael Rybkin
Michael Rybkin
20:24
Does this sentence sound fine to you guys?

The smack to the water was all I needed to hear to confirm that it was a really bad idea to jump from such height.
alphabet
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Q: "To touch somebody’s ears"?

Maurizio ValliRuth Rendell, Adam, Eve and Pinch Me, 2001, p. 274: A solicitor came to live next door to my parents when I was a kid. I’ve always remembered my father saying to my mother, he’s a lawyer, don’t touch his ears. The meaning is quite clear; what I’d like to know, is to touch somebody’s ears an est...

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I have no idea what the answer to this is. There must be a reason why "ears" was specified, no?
I Googled it and found this reddit post:
> What does it mean if a guy touches my ear ?
> Hugged with a guy a few days ago, he held me tightly for more than a few seconds..
> Yesterday he touched my ear... is there any meaning by touching ear? or just being playful? (he always poked my shoulder before.. now touches my ear)
Which was not relevant (obviously).
But amusing.
Mitch
Mitch
21:11
@MichaelRybkin 'to' in 'to the water' sounds weird. I'd say 'smack on the water'
Everything else is fine.
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, potentially bad keyword in answer (79): What does "frost your pickle" mean and where did it come from?‭ by Dustin Geurts‭ on english.SE
Robusto
Robusto
21:38
@Mitch I don't think it's a problem. It's a version of "the sound of him hitting the water had a smack to it."
@CowperKettle It can be a big deal. You can develop carpal tunnel issues and so forth.
Xanne
Xanne
21:59
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#WhenTaken #151 (27.07.2024)

I scored 762/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 1827 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 135 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 588 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 167 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 434 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 183 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 7608 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 106 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 48 km - 🗓️ 14 yrs - ⚡ 171 / 200
Xanne
Xanne
22:20
@alphabet I too find this odd. I thought it probably meant being careful about what you say in front of someone involved in the legal system. I find that touching is highly unusual except in a casual-hug greeting,
at some social events.
 
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alphabet
alphabet
23:50
@Xanne That's my assumption--that "touch his ears" means "let him hear you saying anything"--but it's an odd expression.

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