A mind-blowing idea indeed.
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Michal Měchura
@lexiconista@mastodon.ie
mastodon 4.7.3Teicneolaí teanga | Language technologist. The human behind http://fairslator.com and http://nativedialogs.com.
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When somebody asks you what your nationality is feel free to make something up because frankly they all are.
The original AI.
Don't let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It's only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.
Next time somebody asks me a question that requires some thinking, I’m going to ask them to perform a short unnecessary computation first to prove they are serious. Yes, I am implementing #ALTCHA in my user interface!
What does it mean when some name is the “official" name of some place? Is everybody required to use that name?
No. In most countries it just means the public administration is legally required to use it. Everybody else is free to call the place anything they want. Unofficial names aren’t illegal.
Google did not have to relabel Lake Ontario for US users, they decided to do that voluntarily: yet another example of anticipatory obedience from the once-free US of A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_obedience
America:
We invented this disruptive new thing!
China:
We reinvented it as a cheap thing.
Europe:
We civilised it so people can actually live with the thing.
If you believe that “all languages have words for yes and no” or some poppycock like that, then this will shatter your naïveté. https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/
Someone wrote a book about naming things in software engineering and I’m seriously considering buying it, that’s how badly the problem is bugging me. https://www.namingthings.co/
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io I've rediscovered programming for fun. For the first time since I was 14.
“I shouldn't fucking be here! I fucking hate students! I just wanted the fucking affiliation!” — Sigmund Freud at University of Vienna
Bücher sind billig, die Zeit, sie zu lesen, jedoch nicht.
“The concept of ‘cost rental’ is summed up in the name. The rent for a home should only cover development and maintenance costs. The goal is not to make a profit.” https://www.thejournal.ie/affordable-rent-scheme-price-cuts-analysis-7022981-Apr2026/
This shouldn't really be such a radical idea. Non-profit housing is the only obvious way out to bring rents back into human proportions.
I wonder if the source code behind early rule-based chatbots would still be "simple" if the language in which they chatted had not been English. https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code
RE: @nativedialogsde@mastodon.social
By the time you finish trying to pronounce Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum it is already überschritten.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DamnInteresting/116601842868877312
My favourite person from Brno wants to fry your brain.
Me in Ireland: You can't make me say Dia dhuit as a greeting, what am I, some kind of religious fanatic?
Me in Austria: Grüss Gott! Gott sei Dank! Um Gottes Willen!
We used to worry about accidentally training machine translation on badly machine-translated texts from the Internet. Oh we had it so easy.
If vibe coding exists, then maybe machine translation should be called vibeslation.
When everything reminds you of Czechoslovakia...
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@LeoVarnet@fediscience.org I can't count how many times I've sparred with people who *don't believe* human brains work like this.
Search and you will find something else.
If you think your website needs a chatbot, it probably doesn't. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/site-ai-chatbot/
@psneeze Probably a skiing holiday, this time of the year.
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@dirtyoldtown@mefi.social I'm puzzled the other way around. Just *how* come this isn't the normal healthcare experience everywhere? So many centuries of civilisation behind us and we still can't agree this is what it's about? (Glad your son's OK though.)
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Ocht mbliana i mo chás-sa. Sin dhá oiread an fad a bhí ceaptha. Níl mé bródúil as, ach níl sé neamhghnách.
Das andere "Proplem" mit der Rechtschreibung lösen wir später.
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@xocolatli@lingo.lol Yes.
In fairness, some Indo-Euro languages have a third option, a word which means "it is not the case that not". German: "doch", French: "si". This is used to answer negatively worded questions positively.
Today I learned that the constitution of Germany contains a clause which says that certain rules about how the state is organised can *never* be changed, not even by a large majority in parliament or in a referendum. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/lexika/das-junge-politik-lexikon/320258/ewigkeitsklausel/
RE: @nativedialogsde@mastodon.social
They: Guten Morgen, wie geht's?
You:
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@dingens@troet.cafe Those are really good examples (and one correction), thanks a lot! I will include them in the article.
Austrian bureaucracy is a thing of beauty.
RE: @nativedialogscs@mastodon.social
It's never příliš brzo to start thinking about Vánoce.
I like things that I can download and run on my own laptop. https://restofworld.org/2026/open-source-ai-infrastructure-mozilla/
"Maybe I like the misery!" – Mrs Doyle #fatherted https://spectrum.ieee.org/frictionless-ai-psychology
I mitched from job 1 today and worked for job 2 instead.