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posterboy··on Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
> There is no chance of a return here that outweighs the expenses.

Considering the risk?

posterboy··on The linguistics of swearing explain why we substitute darn for damn
here, hear it from a linguist

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=57262#comments

posterboy··on Surprisingly Turing-Complete (2021)
The turing machine isn't mindful, anyway, the engineer is.

You don't have to turn this into a philosophical problem that will inevitably pitch hypothetical GAI against menial workers, thousand monkeys on a typewriter, or equivalently a young person and billions of neurons on blank canvas. That's not anymore about the technical point of the submission. It would need back up from psychology to remain remotely technical: why did the chicken cross the road?

posterboy··on Surprisingly Turing-Complete (2021)
> this text input box, is Turing complete, since a human can execute a Turing machine on it.

By using Peano Axioms? Now wait a minute!

posterboy··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
> on the hypothesis that we have a pure, periodic signal in there

That pure sine wouldn't generate any artefacts. It would result in a 200Hz output from the AI if it throws the phase information out. You wouldn't hear a difference unless its an (aptly so called) complex signal. Eg. 200 and 201 Hz layered is an impure signal with a period below 1Hz, far outside the scope. Eventually the signals will cancel out completely. [1]

The important point is, I think, that FFT doesn't simply look at the offset aka phase. Rather, 201 Hz looks like a 200 Hz that is moving. So it encodes phase-shift in the delta of the offset between two windows. For a sum of 200 and 201 Hz it has to assume that the magnitude is also changing, which I find entirely counterintuitive.

From the mathematical perspective, this seems like a borring homework, far detached from accoustics. So, I don't know. The funny thing is that rotation is very real in the movement of strings. If the orbit in one point is elliptic, that's like two sinusoids at different magnitudes offset by some 90 degree, in a simplified model. But it has nearly infinite coupled points along its axis. As they exite each other, and each point has a different distance to the receiver, that's where phase shift happens.

> If you look here at the definition of the ω (omega) parameter

I wasn't going to make drone, but I will take a look.

1: https://graphtoy.com/?f1(x,t)=100*sin(x)&v1=true&f2(x,t)=100...

posterboy··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
So what is phase? From dabbling with waveforms in audio editors, sampling, and later learning a little bit about complex numbers, phase seems eventually equivalent to what would sound like changing pitch, modulating the frequency of a periodic signal.

The simplest demonstration of it is the doppler shift. But it's not at all that simple because moving relative to the source the sound pressure and thus the perceived loudness also change, distorting the wave form, thereby introducing resonant frequencies. Now imagine that the transducer is always moving, eg. a plucked string.

The ideal harmonic pendulum swings periodically, only losing attenuation. But the resonant transducer picks up reflections of its own signal, like coupled pendulums, which are intractable according to the three body problem.

On top of that, our hearing is fine tuned to voices and qualities of noise.

posterboy··on New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
I'm not saying that's wrong. I thought that's understood. I don't understand the processing in detail, far from it. I just mean, the point that the GP defended really makes it worse.

Industrial manufacturers add tons to improve the taste like honey, licorice, probably stuff to negate the bad smell, like menthol.

I'm convinced this contributes to the primary pathway because it's a primary instinct and this thought allows for a better comparison to alcohol - drink, dehydrate, drink more, repeat ad nauseam.

posterboy··on New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
I wondered for a moment if there is less denigrating, more technical word, but haven't found one.

The suckling reflex is obvious. But I didn't mean to say grow out of it. Just don't give in.

posterboy··on Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
Well, that's what I said, isn't it?

On the surface it's about the kids. But congress is a social network with thought leaders and lobbyists, too. They ought to know the power those even bigger networks can have.

posterboy··on Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
Because by association you are receiving the same recommendations. I doubt that this is true over heterogenic, random assemblies.
posterboy··on Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
It would be a tough sell. Think of the children works so much better.

Yet you admitted, another kind of services would "presumably not be banned by this bill because it lacks those social media features. Maybe it would be banned by another law, ..." which is in agreement with comments saying that this bill is targeted at Tik Tok.

The irony is that the pedagogic aspect is secondary if those comments are right, but because data which documents how much the people are lacking impulse control is at ridiculous levels, if I am projecting myself for a second. The why you don't face book and study meme applies.

posterboy··on The linguistics of swearing explain why we substitute darn for damn
I don't think it's a substitution. Lexicographically, there is a difference between an alternative (colour / color) and a synonym (hue). Now darn might look like a variant if you don't know the etymology, but ignorance is no basis for etymology. The substitution might abuse this fact somehow, but it isn't fooling nobody, is it? I hope the article will explain, but I expect they are blissfully unaware of how intricate soundchange is.

For example, dang seems to be a cognate of danger, a francophone form of damage, evident in quelle domage "what a pitty", very far away from damnit "may he burn in hell", but the details are hazy. So people err on the safe side of I know what you are doing with the minced oath. In reality, it's prudishness mixed with language racism, excuse my french.

> a pilot study of 100 people who spoke one of five languages that are only distantly related: Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean or Russian

That's where I stopped reading. Because my statistics isn't up to the task of engaging their methods, and not because I were a militant defender of multiple language genesis. I just really need an excuse to spend my time better, elsewhere.

posterboy··on New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
That zeal.

From what I heared, anti-drug laws may be construed is that selling is a different matter and possession and production are accessory. That's why possession of small amounts of cannabis for example is decriminalized while traffiking is still prossecuted where I'm from.

This is arguable because addictive substances will be sold with the intention of creating dependence, not unlike the loot box topic, thus it cannot be argued that they act under good intentions.

And to be real, the wonderful smell acts on your parasympathic nervous system because of appetite, for the smell is associated with roasted food. Add to that the childish reflex of sucking on a nipple. So it is pretty much an eating disorder, in my humble opinion.

posterboy··on Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
No, I meant etymologically. l'eau is apparently a real hypothesis for the loo. I shouldn't expect anyone to figure out word origin on the spot in a restaurant situation, especially if it's less likely than other hypotheses. But I encourage you to integrate etymology as a method in language learning and as its own effort.
posterboy··on Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
Not only bad English, but regional varieties that I as ESL have trouble understanding, which might formally count as own languages if held against linguistic standards. I just broswed Green's dictionary of slang so I feel I know what I'm talking about.

> As a native English speaker you're constantly hearing people speak bad English, so you're naturally somewhat desensitized

Reading middle and old English, I feel the onus is on you because it changed so much :')

posterboy··on Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
> Your attitude would be unthinkable in the UK or the US but is everywhere in German

No, it's the same. I'll just switch to English.

> I can see why communities like Turkish one are often considered as having failed to integrate in Germany

Das ist kulturel bedingt. Duolingo hätte jedenfalls nicht viel geholfen.

posterboy··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
> It’s just not true

But it is true.

> I recommend your friend to find good tax advisor if he/she is not capable to do it by himself/herself.

The situation is just as bad in the US. And I would be surprised if it isn't similarly Byzantine in the UK.

A few years ago the federal administrative court recalled tax reforms because nobody could understand them. That's a Normenklarheitsgebotverstoß!

posterboy··on Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
To be honest, if you don't get the agreement right I simply won't bother listening to you, unless in a good mood.

This is a two way street. A couple word order mistakes are much worse than occasional spelling mistakes in English. The phonology is similar enough that /k/ for /x/ (Loch "hole") shouldn't be a problem, for example. This differs of course with languages that have a completely different speech riddim and phonemes which are unknown to the recipient.

posterboy··on Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
Interestingly, the loo is a Water Closet.
posterboy··on A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
> Children won't eat

> The Candy won't eat

Do you notice a difference?

There are many verbs where this has become possible recently (the code won't build?) but eat isn't one of them.

posterboy··on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
> I think it's history that shows this and builds this low trust. The 2008-2009 housing and economic crisis had effectively no prosecutions that came to fruition

They must have been busy prosecuting and seazing assets from thousands of debtees.

posterboy··on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
¬Y=='Gov not corrupt' is not an option for those people who argue that the government is corrupt.

In conclusion, naysayers say he wont be convicted is imying and thus proves that the gov is corrupt. The top comment says he may get a sentence, meaning the government is not necessarily corrupt. Yaysayers say the gov is not corrupt and he will get a conviction iff he is guilty.

This is trivial, but difficult to formalize. Thanks for your correction.

posterboy··on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
The guy was called literally Made off (paraphrasing a comedian). I'm not a believer in QAnon conspiracies but this one is hilarious.

Prison time won't bring back the money, meaning it is really just to satisfy a primitive urge for revenge. So what are you talking about, at that rate I won't do it, seems to work, see how it deterred SBF?!?

posterboy··on Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
Still doesn't help. Horse back riding is in principle very closely related to ancient warfare, so if anything it supports my point, but new york race tracks with betting and especially cheating being the very topic of your poorly sourced folk etymology is effable.
posterboy··on Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
I absolutely don't think so, no. Any link is unlikely to help you read and understand my initial comment, seeing that you communicate in bleep bloop
posterboy··on Show HN: Chrome extension to summarize blogs and articles using ChatGPT
Jokes on you, I don't need summaries or articles to upvote a headline.

Do you do double entenndres though?

posterboy··on Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
> Oh you are not an accademic?

I haven't said that. But how is a legitimate significant inquiry. How dare you (what's that even mean?)

How do you expect people change their mind after they said obv bs, tl;dr the first time they saw the original? I haven't.

> Its like we just assume, despite a failing educational system, that people should just know he's wrong;

Yeah, no they don't expect that, when they complain the first time, but they are hoping to give a hint. Hancock hasn't asked the right question (which can be worth more than a correct answer, according to saying).

posterboy··on Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
> from 19th-century horse-racing slang

There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon.

> "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, ...

Is that it?

> Hope this helps

Not in the slightest, no. If anything it confirms my bias that editors are gullible.

Which, to get back onto topic, would mean to think that the motivation was not exactly what is reported here, but something come a long way.

posterboy··on Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
Not that it matters but I looked up ringer and I beleive wringer is essentially correct but the w was lost and I'm not sure.

We used to speak of substitute players when a team needed to fill a spot with randoms, what is elsewhere called "ringer", nothing about cheating. There is an Old Norse word or something that is translated "fighter" . I don't remember its spelling and could not find the entry immediately. W would become lost in Norse, I guesd (Odin, Vatenfal). So I maintain the hunch that it is identical to wrestling because that's Ringen in German and wringen in Dutch. Again, allusion to the ring in which they fight is petty. Wrestling has a rich tradition but not endowed with literacy. This could easily lead to confusion next to war. Corrolary, a drug ring is not circular, since border running involves bands of war, though they could do a round call.

posterboy··on Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
> I never once heard him mention that

That's why it is so outrageous.

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