One of my students came to office hours in full monochrome mime outfit with a beret and face paint, and before saying anything, put a red clown nose on my nose. NLP at Santa Cruz: we do things normal style.
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchWe're all in this together. I'm into translation, languages, programmering, running & Tekken. (he/him) #BlackLivesMatter Teaching faculty at UC Santa Cruz.
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Inspired by @lindsey@recurse.social , our child's first command line command is "sl".
She was insistent that we put it on her Linux machine. She is now looking at "man sl".
S and I were looking at Steam games, and one of them that came up for unknown reasons was American Truck Simulator, and she asked, "ok is it an AMERICAN TRUCK simulator or is it an American TRUCK SIMULATOR" and I am so deeply proud of my kid.
(it could also be an American American Truck Simulator, and that would be pretty unambiguous)
We have determined, with a little research: it is a Czech simulator of American trucks.
Alternatively I guess you could be a waltz maximalist and take the position that any song (or field of human endeavour, or concept generally?) could be a waltz *if you weren't a coward*.
Maybe putting all our stuff in The Cloud was ill-advised.
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There are several! These are delightful! I love all these little languages. https://github.com/hundredrabbits/awesome-uxn#languages-that-target-uxn
sooner or later we'll get some good news. if you've got some to share, could you post it here?
Somehow I didn't notice that Darl McBride died in 2024? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darl_McBride
Also, and this was something I missed the first time around, the group that was doing all the anti-Linux litigation, "SCO Group", that was just a schlub litigation machine holding company, but there was an earlier SCO that was actually making good UNIX products, and they were actually in Santa Cruz! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
... we should boot some machines to SCO Unixes to honor Santa Cruz history.
Wait until Richard Dawkins watches The Muppet Show.
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@mrkwlsn@mastodon.social we're getting towards time signature denialism and I think that's ok!
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@turgon@dosgame.club ok we gotta pick somebody though! Let's all pick uhhh Tony Thurmond? All of us in unison? Or Katie Porter? Possibly Tom Steyer.
We gotta all do the same thing together is the problem.
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@cdrichards@mathstodon.xyz @astory@tilde.zone @mrkwlsn@mastodon.social OK imagine a song. Say it's got 100 measures in it and it's in four so that's 400 beats (so the song is in the neighborhood of 3 or 4 minutes long depending on tempo).
I rewrite the sheet music for the song so that it's in 400/4. It is a single measure containing 400 beats. It sounds exactly the same.
We could just always do this, even for 20-minute prog masterpieces about hobbits. :3
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io @redmp@recurse.social yeahh! Transformers are really really good for their original use case -- translation where you have a pretty well-curated training set of input/output pairs in source and target languages. If you noticed Google Translate and DeepL and etc getting a lot better over the past decade, that's why.
Chat who do we like for California governor? I feel remarkably underinformed here.
I have strongly held opinions about which cookies to allow and I very carefully select a particular non-empty subset of cookies every time.
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@paulehoffman@infosec.exchange I like to think of it more like "I hear all possible parses because I'm paying attention to syntax because Language Is Interesting As AF" rather than just needless pedantry #ParseAmbiguityGang #ManySimultaneousInterpretations #LearnLinguisticsSoYouCanNoLongerCommunicateEver
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@mrkwlsn maaaan if only they had a way to discover security vulnerabilities preemptively they could have avoided the unauthorized access
Mamdani talking about Bibi -- this is actually great
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Sesame Street strats to avoid detection!! https://youtu.be/OsbBr0ZvMTI