_abattoir

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by _abattoir 6y ago
Who would have guessed that handing control of a company to Microsoft would make it less reliable.
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by _abattoir 6y ago
There's a ton of active communities these days! https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/ https://t.me/tokiponaTelegram https://discord.gg/uzCUNE https://discord.gg/
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by _abattoir 6y ago
Most of Toki Pona sounds like English anyway: wan: one tu: two meli: female, from Tok Pisin mewi, from "Mary" (as in, the Virgin) lukin: looking ale: all en: and ike: icky jaki: yucky insa: inside jelo: yellow kalama: clamor kama:
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by _abattoir 7y ago
buy a $30 camping sleeping pad
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by _abattoir 8y ago
So you're saying that statistic isn't notable if the entirety of education has less than 1 percent effectiveness... yes, I'd say that was notable.
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Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language(blog.usejournal.com)
50 points by _abattoir 8y ago|67 comments
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by _abattoir 8y ago
> researchers have shown that images generated by famous GANs do not generalize beyond what the training data provides. Was really hoping to get a source for that, as that is a very interesting proposition to leave uncited.
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Ancient Upheavals Show How to Geoengineer a Stable Climate(palladiummag.com)
6 points by _abattoir 8y ago|0 comments
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by _abattoir 9y ago
Exactly, that's why Houellebecq was inspired to write a biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft%3A_Against_the...
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by _abattoir 9y ago
I'm sure you, the guy who writes snarky tweets and codes web forms, have a lot more going for you in the annals of history than an internationally recognized titan of literature.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Same kind of synesthesia here! fist bump (also annoying that chrome dictionary still doesn't recognize "synesthesia" as a word...) One of my frustrations with synesthesia is describing the "impossible" colors when
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Yeah, I didn't want to give negative feedback per se, but I wanted to share my gut reaction with you because those are just as valuable as thought-out opinions w/r/t conversions. I admire the boldness and as a Linguistics maj
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Simple? I'm no Puritan, but I'm hesitant about clicking a button that starts with the word "sex". I'm not used to professional high-quality services resorting to ... well, it's not vulgarity, but sex is sort of
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by _abattoir 11y ago
I mean - linguistically speaking, it's fascinating. I really want to read this paper.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Okay, but you're one person offering an anecdote. We are going to need better than that for a discussion about a cultural movement.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
I was expecting some kind of mash-up or remix with David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest .
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by _abattoir 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/v/tKdcjJoXeEY
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by _abattoir 11y ago
This was the in-depth comment I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to write this up.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Not at all. The Western governments simply have to hide it better.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
Not sure about your definition of convenient, but to me, time is king.
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by _abattoir 11y ago
That's not a data point in itself ;) How does your hate for the scent stack up against your friends of the same sex?
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by _abattoir 11y ago
There's a god for that. [0] Although she would more likely be miffed that you offed one of her progeny. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Bast
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by _abattoir 12y ago
When most people say "bullshit job", it seems to me like they really mean "job that could be solved by a well-built machine". Farming used to be a bullshit job until we built gigantic combines and automated watering syst
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by _abattoir 12y ago
Crickets are less metabolically demanding than humans. We need tricksy things like fiber and animal protein, but crickets can get by on simple sugars and cellulose.
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by _abattoir 12y ago
> If the ice caps melt due to rising temperature surely this means more water in the atmosphere and more rain in some places? Over about 20,000 years of the water cycle, yeah. Ideally we'd want a water solution that didn't invo
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by _abattoir 12y ago
Right, PG's advice is not useful for all founders, just the 1 out of every 10 that makes it big. The others are supposed to nut up and get over it. His advice does, however, benefit every venture capitalist.
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by _abattoir 12y ago
What agenda are you trying to push by constructing this elaborate strawman? Will you also try to convince me that we should execute Galileo for his heretic proposal that the Earth revolves around the Sun? Seriously. Harmlessly manipulating
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by _abattoir 12y ago
Well, I wasn't planing on crying this morning, but today I can make an exception. ;_;7 Au revoir, Sir Pratchett, you magnificent human.
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by _abattoir 12y ago
It's not too far off. We're about five years away from standard stem cell treatments to regrow parts like eardrums and corneas.
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by _abattoir 12y ago
Interesting take on creativity. Applying the scientific method to more and more disciplines seems to be a trend lately. I agree with the reasoning, but am curious how iterative creativity can be applied on the individual scale for projects

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