What do you call a Klingon who's left all his weapons at home?
Careless the Forgetful.
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Pete Bleackley
@PeteBleackley@wandering.shop
mastodon 4.7.3Conlanger, mad (data) scientist, Contributing Editor of Speculative Grammarian, Member of the LCS Board of Directors
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@Minimus@archaeo.social Does Minimus ever have problems distinguishing whether people are talking to him (Minime!) or just saying no (minime!)?
Somebody tried to tell me he'd discovered the secret of invisibility, but I could see right through him.
Today is the feast of St Hildegard of Bingen.
Abbess, mystic, composer, physician, and the earliest conlanger known to history. Hence regarded as the patron saint of conlanging
#HappyStHildegardsDay #conlang
The fine art of the splodge.
This human belongs to Bonnie
There was a young lady of Split
Who hated limericks.
After much cursing of MediaWiki's table syntax, I've just published Kipin's pronoun system.
https://www.frathwiki.com/Kipin/Morphology/Pronouns
#conlang
I think that Agatha Christie and other "golden age" mystery writers would have found the true crime genre highly distasteful. Since they were writing murders as puzzles for entertainment, they deliberately made the crimes implausible to avoid ghoulishness
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@lritter Speaking of AI in broad terms, some of the big companies going under would be a net positive for the field.
A professor of entomology lamented that students were attracted to his course more by the prestige of his reputation than genuine interest in the subject matter. At the beginning of term, his class was full of obsequious toadies, but by the end they were sick of ants.
During the First World War, the British Empire recruited soldiers from its subject peoples in Africa and India. Tolkien encountered such soldiers during his own military service. What he thought of using subject peoples like this can be inferred from the fact that in The Lord of the Rings, he ascribes the practice to Mordor.
I'm cross with Marvel for making The Avengers hard to search for. I don't want a bunch of superheroes, I want John Steed and Emma Peel!
#conlangers and other language geeks will be familiar with the following experience.
"This grammatical feature I've just learned about is really weird...
...Hang on, English does that!"
Today I made cardboard mounts and mounted 3 photos I'm entering in a competition. I have learnt a craft skill!
These are not the Star Wars jokes you're looking for.
My son: #Matlab was designed to do one thing well...
Me: Nobody knows what it was.
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@phildini @civicband The approach I used when I did this for a client
- Use OpenCV to split the table into cells
- Run OCR on each cell individually
- Use Pandas to assemble the contents of the cells into a dataframe
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@scruss SpecGram was an entirely amateur publication, so we wouldn't have had money to spend on legal challenges to trademark applications.
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@brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net A terrible fate awaits those who say it...
They have to use one.
"Well-rounded, smooth, aromatic and slightly nutty."
#CoffeeLabelOrDatingProfile
An archvillain went on a quiz show. He scored no points and 10 passes.
He was a diabolical Mastermind.
What do the KLF call their cats?
The Justified Ancients of Mew Mew.
How would you configure #Apache to serve static content for GET requests and send POST and PUT requests to a script?
"10x Engineer" is another way of saying "Stakhanovite".
Politicians always try to appeal to the supporters of the party they're most afraid of. So, at the local elections, make sure the government are looking over their left shoulder, not their right shoulder.
Moriarty, I think we've found a Charlie.
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@kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com Also, I think "has highly specific slang terms for ephemeral pop-cultural phenomena" is probably (when considered more generally) not exotic at all.
The ethical character of a technology is a reflection of the people who drive its development.
There's nothing inherently wrong with technology that can adapt and learn. But the field of AI is currently dominated by some very toxic people and organisations. That situation is in turn the product of an economic and social system that rewards selfishness.
Social media often makes me feel that if anyone with even a superficial resemblance to me does something wrong, I'll be tarred with the same brush.
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@scruss If I remember correctly, a trademark may be invalidated if the owner fails to defend it (cf the TARDIS). Now. Speculative Grammarian (https://specgram.com) published wug jokes for years and Jackie Berkow Gleeson took no action. Would that be evidence of failure to defend the trademark?
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@kechpaja Yes, Turkish uses so many bound affixes that a single word can express an entire, fairly complex, sentence, but isn't usually described as polysynthetic. So what's the difference?
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@kechpaja One question is what level of agglutination you need to reach before a language counts as polysynthetic. Is Turkish polysynthetic? The answer may depend on whether or not you are one of those people who we could not turn into a city-dweller.
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@irina I second this. People are much more likely to engage fruitfully with political content if they have the choice to do so.
If the Daleks got into progressive rock, would it be Genesis Of The Daleks?
"They called me mad! Mad, they called me!"
"Who did?"
"That purple bloke over there, and the green one in the corner!"