@axiochrono @nikicaga Funnily enough I'd call this post "directionally correct" because I agree that the term can be useful, but that the examples don't apply. That's more of a "wrong" vs "not even wrong" type situation.
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"Directionally correct" is my favorite way people say "its wrong but I agree with it"
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1
@eigenrobot The OP is directionally correct. Sasha is being overly pedantic.
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@mawensx @IsomorphicPhi Why is "denominator" rational and logical but "namer" weirdly poetic when they both mean the exact same thing
Equality sign is also very literally "the sameness mark", like that is literally what these words mean
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@IsomorphicPhi Täljare from tälja (to carve/whittle). Nämnare from nämna (to name/mention). Swedish math terms are weirdly poetic. Also: 'likhetstecknet' (equality sign) is literally 'the sameness mark'
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It's bizarre the things you never ponder in your own language. Why, in Swedish, are the numerator and denominator called the woodcarver and the mentioner?
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@redhead_ophelia An alphabet is a type of script, and cyrillic is an alphabet. What do you think those words mean?
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1. Cyrillic is not an alphabet but a script.
2. In order for you to understand how stupid this sounds, imagine a person who, after learning the English alphabet, thinks that they should understand all the languages using the Latin script.
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@richten_nach @PAHoyeck Ok gut das sind jetzt halt zwei Biografien die sich direkt widersprechen. Die eine sagt er war in der HJ, die andere nicht. Woher nimmst du die Gewissheit dass die eine Quelle stimmt und die andere nicht?
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Habermas wasn't in the Hitler Youth, why is that so hard to check?
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
From the Hitler Youth to “constitutional patriotism”, how Habermas became one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century 'Jürgen Habermas: a critical life' by Thomas Meaney newstatesman.com/world/2026/03/…
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@corsecdropsout @mixteluv @DrAllyLouks Sure, in the same sense that every smell will consist of the same atoms you've smelled before, just arranged differently.
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@mixteluv @DrAllyLouks I believe she means that every sound can be deconstructed into a combinations of different frequencies that you heard before (20Hz-20kHz). In this case a "sound" would be more comparable to a complete image made of different individual colors (which you've seen before).
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Something cool about smell is that we can create entirely new scents that no one has experienced yet, but we can’t do that for other senses. You can’t imagine a new colour, for example. Any song you’ll ever hear is a combination of notes you’ve heard before.
e l l a 🇨🇦@blondehotcoffee
are they still inventing new candle scents? or like is that it we discovered all the smells
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@bingbongscho @nikicaga @ajoajoajoaj That's just not true? Wales has plenty of schools where Welsh is the language of instruction
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@nikicaga @ajoajoajoaj All Schools in the UK have to teach in English even in Scotland and Wales where they have multiple national languages
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Its normal for minorities to also learn the national language, but this new law makes EVERYONE primarily learn Mandarin in schools, and that's clearly a brutal form of linguistic opression
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@Tambothy @TheMindScourge The russians literally went in with parade uniforms packed
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@TheMindScourge The difference between the American SMO and the Russian SMO is the Americans genuinely expected it to last 4 days while the Russian one wasn’t but people thought the Russians thought that because of some dipshit American general saying it would
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You should appreciate the supreme irony of how the phase “special military operation” has entered the English language
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Pentagon reveals special military operation in Iran cost $11,300,000,000.00 in the first six days alone.
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@Leuler__ @dummboschreiner Dann hoffe ich, dass du dich enorm blöd dafür fühlst, bis heute nicht das Latein korrekt auf die Kette zu kriegen. "Maximum", mit m.
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@dummboschreiner Als ich studiert habe, hat man sich schon blöd gefühlt, wenn man länger als 2-3 Erwähnungen des Audimax gebraucht hat um zu checken, dass es kurz für "Auditorium Maximus" ist und damit "größter Hörsaal" heißt.
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@larsweisbrod @_trimmich DNNs können auch als sehr primitive Sprachmodelle funktionieren, so wurde das vor ~15 Jahren gemacht. Die haben dann halt immer nur exakt drei Tokens gesehen und dann das vierte vorhergesagt. Das ist natürlich limitieren.
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Beim CNN verstehe ich wenigstens, dass das "weight pooling" die Zusatzinfo ist, die das DNN durch Convolution bekommt. Bei Transformern versteh ich nicht mal, wo und wie so eine "Zusatzinfo" reinkommt. Werden da faktisch irgendwo auch weights gepoolt oder so?
@[email protected]@larsweisbrod
Irgendwie sind Transformer mir ein großes Rätsel. Der Witz eines DNN ist doch, dass es Zusammenhänge zwischen den Daten lernt. Und jetzt besteht der große Durchbruch namens "Transformer" darin, dass man ihm NOCH mal EXPLIZIT sagt: Bitte lerne Zusammenhänge zwischen den Daten? Hm.
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@larsweisbrod @_trimmich Da kommen dann Sequenzmodelle wie RNNs oder eben Transformer ins Spiel, die eine (prinzipiell) beliebig lange Sequenz verarbeiten können. Der Unterschied zwischen RNN und Transformer ist dass RNNs ein Token nach dem anderen sehen, und Transformer alle auf einmal
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@larsweisbrod @_trimmich Was der Kommentar sagen will, ist dass ein DNN erstmal eine fixe Inputdimension hat. Sprache wird für das Modell als Sequenz von Tokens dargestellt, jedes Token ist ein Vektor einer bestimmten Länge (zB 512). Ein DNN kann nur eine exakt festgelegte Menge dieser Token verarbeiten.
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@BafiKush Sinn vollständig erhalten, aber viel griffiger gemacht. Sehe das Problem nicht
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Es ist so witzig dass Gramsci das einfach nicht gesagt hat und zizek vor 15 Jahren das falsch übersetzt hat und das hat sich einfach verbreitet weils nett klingt
E L H O T Z O@elhotzo
Hallo mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass die alte Welt im Sterben liegt und die neue noch nicht geboren ist und es jetzt unter Umständen die Zeit der Monster ist
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@KateGoesTech I fully support all military aid to Ukraine and think it should go a lot further than it currently does. I still think it was the correct decision to not have direct confrontation between nuclear powers (ie US / French / UK pilots shooting down Russian planes)
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@tcanham459 German military requires parliamentary approval, Germany took part in the Kosovo intervention. Funnily enough under a Green foreign minister
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It's impressive how every policy proposal from the Greens is the stupidest position you can possibly take on any issue.
If this had been in place in 1999 the Kosovo genocide would have been allowed to happen while we sat, ineffective, doing nothing.
Dr Ellie Chowns MP@EllieChowns
Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader. He supported it then, and he should support it now.
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@SteveW37912222 @AlrxCox Sorry to break it to you, but the Anglo-Saxons are not "indigenous British".
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Libellous?? 😭
You literally said just over a day ago that being British requires Christian faith.
Charlie Downes@cfdownes_
.@policylaila What you have said here — on national television — is libellous. Nowhere have I or Restore Britain said that you have to be “white and Christian” to be British. Nowhere have we talked about the “Aryan race”. We are not “neo-nazis”, and to suggest that we are puts us in severe danger. Charlie Kirk was murdered because of rhetoric like this. I am consulting with Restore Britain’s legal team about next steps. I urge you to publicly retract and apologise, immediately.
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@RVanderblight @hexprax "van" is also incredibly common in normal Dutch surnames, much weaker of an aristocracy signal than "von"
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@hexprax yes, but if it's 'Van' (of/from) I'm not shortening it to 'Beethoven'
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@legalstyleblog Wouldn't it be "President of the Republic" for France if you're going for the full official titles?
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No one will take these governments seriously if they do not present their message seriously. This took me about five minutes last night.
Statsministeriet@Statsmin
Joint Statement on Greenland stm.dk/statsministeri…
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