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I wonder if this is a native/non-native English reader situation. I'm the latter and for me the title promised that I will read about a server that now is capab

by jarek83 1mo ago

I wonder if this is a native/non-native English reader situation. I'm the latter and for me the title promised that I will read about a server that now is capable of letting a person call to order a pizza. That was immediate thought. It would be very interesting to see a poll results on how many of us thought that the article is about a server doing phone stuff and not a phone doing server stuff.

moffkalast 1mo ago
I don't think it is, I'm also the latter and happened to assume the opposite. The article was exactly what I expected from the title. I mean, turning a server rack into a phone just isn't something that makes any sense, so it didn't seem like a valid option to consider. I've thrown it at a few LLMs now to see what happens and they also make the same assumption with no extra info, that it's a server now being hosted on a phone. That's the statistics talking. It's very unlikely to be the opposite.
- foobarbecue 1mo ago
  Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it. If I said "my water is ice now," one would assume freezing rather than melting. So in this case one would assume a server became a phone, when actually a phone became a server. (English is my first language.)
  - smelendez 1mo ago
    Yes, that’s a great example. I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.
- nkrisc 1mo ago
  In this case you have enough implicit context to correctly infer the meaning, but the particular sentence construction strongly implies that the server can now make phone calls.
PerditionC 1mo ago
I don't think so either, as a native English speaker, I originally read this as my server now has phone capabilities, not my phone is now being used as a server.
- jrockway 1mo ago
  Interesting. I saw the title and read "my 1U rack has been replaced by a phone". (I then realized that I have a cluster of 3 phone chips I use as my "server". Phone chips are pretty OK.)
  - clarkmoreno 1mo ago
    flagged as inaccurate
krzyk 1mo ago
I'm non-native English speaker and for me the title was suggesting what was decribed - phone as a server.

by jarek83 1mo ago

moffkalast 1mo ago

I don't think it is, I'm also the latter and happened to assume the opposite. The article was exactly what I expected from the title. I mean, turning a server rack into a phone just isn't something that makes any sense, so it didn't seem like a valid option to consider. I've thrown it at a few LLMs now to see what happens and they also make the same assumption with no extra info, that it's a server now being hosted on a phone. That's the statistics talking. It's very unlikely to be the opposite.

foobarbecue 1mo ago
Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it. If I said "my water is ice now," one would assume freezing rather than melting. So in this case one would assume a server became a phone, when actually a phone became a server. (English is my first language.)
- smelendez 1mo ago
  Yes, that’s a great example. I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.
nkrisc 1mo ago
In this case you have enough implicit context to correctly infer the meaning, but the particular sentence construction strongly implies that the server can now make phone calls.

PerditionC 1mo ago

I don't think so either, as a native English speaker, I originally read this as my server now has phone capabilities, not my phone is now being used as a server.

jrockway 1mo ago
Interesting. I saw the title and read "my 1U rack has been replaced by a phone". (I then realized that I have a cluster of 3 phone chips I use as my "server". Phone chips are pretty OK.)
- clarkmoreno 1mo ago
  flagged as inaccurate

krzyk 1mo ago

I'm non-native English speaker and for me the title was suggesting what was decribed - phone as a server.