In case anyone is wondering, this is 二日(futsuka), which means two days or second day.
Arnaud Spiwack@aspiwack
Japanese is a language with a pretty strict consonant/vowel alternation. Which is why you can find yourself saying “ftska”.
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Arnaud Spiwack
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Arnaud Spiwack
@aspiwack
Multi-classed Software Engineer/Constructive Mathematician. Sometimes plays video games sort of fast. Puts topoi in your computer. https://t.co/iFlKRVeGpN
Katılım Mart 2019
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@JoshuaGrosso That being said “shtemas” really looks like a word from the internets. The sort of words that were born on Twitter. Or possibly Reddit.
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@JoshuaGrosso I think it would be dishonest to omit devoiced vowels. The vowels actually still having an effect on the preceding consonant. x.com/aspiwack/statu…
Plus it would make mora segmentation really hard (which is probably at least partly why parsing “ftska” was so non-obvious)
Arnaud Spiwack@aspiwack
For instance for the morphological vowel ‘t’, we have tsu and chi, so that tsuka and chika can be pronounced tska and chka. It's obvious which is which. More interestingly, ku and ki can also drop the vowel (I believe). But? kta and kta? That sounds very ambiguous.
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Japanese is a language with a pretty strict consonant/vowel alternation. Which is why you can find yourself saying “ftska”.
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@etorreborre Yeah, it's really hard to make any prediction at all during the hype period of anything. I mean… it's hard to make prediction about anything at all, ever. But during the hype period we're on an even more shaky footing than usual.
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@aspiwack You're right that could indeed happen. And in the meantime possibly some dramatic consolidation of a bunch of actors. We'll see.
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A often-expressed view on LLMs is that they are useful enough (for all their flaws) to be “here to stay”. I don't think one follows the other. LLMs can also turn out to be a Concorde. 1/2
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@joseph_h_garvin Presumably. But it doesn't just need to get cheaper. It needs to get cheap enough and fast enough.
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@aspiwack The historical trend would strongly suggest the compute for LLMs will only get cheaper even if there are no algorithmic advances.
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@etorreborre I don't claim to read the future. I'm just saying that the Concorde situation is a possibility. And it feels like one that is too easily dismissed.
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@aspiwack I keep wondering the same but I suspect that we will find ways to make it cheaper because I get the impression that we have been brute-forcing the problem to get there faster
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A note to say that I'm more active on the butterfly place (with a similar handle). It's a better place than here to follow me and my silly thoughts.
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Thanks to Netflix, I know that listening to Italian with Spanish subtitles is impossible.
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I watched this video recently youtube.com/watch?v=N_-0Q5… and I found it strangely compelling. I'm quite impressed at the immediacy of the visual feedback. If I get into teaching again, I'll consider Pico8 as a platform for beginner-level classes.
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However, she is a point of view character. And the books, when describing the appearance of other characters will often make a point of talking about the cleavage of the ladies. Presumably because it's something that the main character pays attention to. 10/10
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There is one piece of subtle writing that I would like to point out as a conclusion. The main character is gay. This much is clear pretty early on. But she's a very Victorian character, she won't admit such thing to herself (these are “scandalous thoughts”). 9/10
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I've read the (currently 3) Lamplight Murder Mysteries by Morgan Stang. These are whodunnits set in a fantasy steampunk Victorian universe. Rather my style, isn't it? goodreads.com/series/373698-… 1/10
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