Why do I keep writing simple English words like change or chance and save or safe, and live or life wrong?
. o O (cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep “^f.{2}k\$”) @niplav so…you like to fink?
Words I cannot type rightly at the first attempt: testimonial, accessibility, successful
make time for myself in order to write words and code for !gest.
Coming back to work today, I found myself still very much grieving for the sudden loss of our dear colleague Filiz - finding some solace in the words of the beautiful song “I grieve” by Peter Gabriel
someone (not me) should try to learn the 1k most common words in as many languages as possible
@niplav@niplav.github.io I like it, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it. I suspect it’s piggybacking a lot off of how much I liked its SNES predecessor and know/like the vibe of * Mana games. Also, the last three JRPGs I’ve played were Dragon’s Dogma, NieR:Automata, and…Chrono Trigger. I don’t know what’s good and new in JRPGs ever since Square left Nintendo. I’m just glad they’re back.
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: … < sharing ontologies: There’s an idea. If I want to write something, anything, documenting the words and concepts I use isn’t the dumbest idea.
Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
Most normal people hear the word “cryptocurrency” and assume that means that they are “cryptic” or “private,“but that’s actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequences.The “crypto” in cryptocurrency merely comes from its cryptographic nature.
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Notes on Learning Languages
I get asked a lot about learning languages, so I have a few comments about it here.Hopefully I can awaken you from some dogmatic slumbers about language.
This is hard for people to understand because I think most monolingual people think that languages are just different word lists that people use.As a result, 101 students will manually look up every word in the dictionary to translate.This actually … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
5-word horror story: law of conversation of valence
some words today on installing monolith. I still wouldn’t recommend it: @!(monolithref “install”)!@.
added some more words to the !LIL page.
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.
A woman who lost her husband is called a widow. A man who lost his wife is called a widower. And a kid who lost his parent is called an orphan. But there’s no word for a parent who lost their kid. 16 Worth Remembering Quotes from “Hi Bye, Mama!” - Annyeong Oppa
: qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?
Why it’s bad to have a high GDP
Why it’s bad to have a high GDPby Luke Smith, originally a blog post in November 2018, rewritten for this website.
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.
Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.
Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the … ⌘ Read more
decided to publish the initial words I wrote up for this granular delay I created, available at the !loom: @!(loomref “bugz”)!@.
In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you’re not trying.
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@prologic do you have any info on how the '!' tags are supposed to work? are they just a different kind of hash tag?
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@prologic@twtxt.net found it!
2020-07-25T00:52:27.000000Z a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with ‘!’ will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index
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2020-07-25T00:52:27.000000Z a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with ‘!’ will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index
with the addition of crate in weewiki, I finally found an opportunity to add some words to the !sqlar page #updates
initial crate words imported in to weewiki source repo. no code yet, but it’s pretty clear to me what needs to happen next in order to make an MVP. #updates
tag anything with the word “unsubscribe” by “notmuch tag +unsubscribe unsubscribe”
There is a palpable difference between the universe described by many religions and the universe described by science. The former is all built from concepts rooted in human society such as father, son, judgment, commandment, obedience, sacrifice, punishment etc. The latter is built from eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable, reference frame, superposition etc. The former feels small, ordinary, familiar and manmade. The latter feels like we’re fumbling for words to describe something that fundamentally transcends ordinary human experience. 100k Stars | Hacker News
a few new words for !btprnt #updates
some initial words + code for a table-lookup oscillator with floating point precision to be included in !sndkit. testing and monolith come tomorrow. #updates #sndkit #monolith
new words added to the !index
Anmol Chaudhary: GSoC 2020 Ends - Final Words ⌘ https://wolfieanmol.github.io/gsoc-blog/gsoc-2020-ends/
writing words on FM synthesis #sndkit
a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with ‘!’ will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don’t know what it’s called when viewed positively but I expect the word “holistic” to be used unironically. The Rise of Platform Engineering | Hacker News
On the blog: Words Are Hard, I Guess… https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/21/words.html #terminology #rant
If you don’t rephrase something in your words, you probably don’t care enough to learn it How to Take Smart Notes :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Did you intentionally tweet a lot of one word messages or did your twtxt client fail hard?
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
@kas@enotty.dk Really interesting, thank you !
In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-embodied
GitHub - colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling: Analyzing words Redditors aren’t sure how to spell https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling
Paper Summary: Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information https://medium.com/@hyponymous/paper-summary-enriching-word-vectors-with-subword-information-e5263d0848b8
Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine
A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…
Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center
For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md
Neal Stephenson demonstrated that people will read (and love) infodumps so long as they’re funny or fun to read. In other words: infodumps in fiction are fine so long as the author is also an essayist.
@tx@shroom.party I remember people doing word processing though their spreadsheet program.
Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency
Hot take: weasel words are not a form of obfuscation but a signal about confidence level. Misrepresenting your level of confidence in a proposition is tantamount to lying.
Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a few words about Tor’s directory authorities https://dustri.org/b/debunking-osint-analysis-of-the-tor-foundation-and-a-few-words-about-tors-directory-authorities.html
GitHub - ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings: Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python https://github.com/ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings
Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it
I just used the word “Kludge” and no one in the office knew what I was talking about.
Bad idea of the day: automatically replace words with synonyms that have more phoneme sequences in common with the previous word (post-processing)
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Feel Good Inc but every word is reversed, yet the melody is still the same - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5-yi-q2Cs
Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.
Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding
Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.
Band name of the day: the words of conjunction
On word embeddings - Part 1 http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-1/
Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/
BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we donât want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469
Sniglet History: The Art of Invented Words https://tedium.co/2018/03/01/sniglet-history-rich-hall/
Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word
Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/
New repository: aquilax/bg-words-dict - Списък с думи на български език.
Leah’s PhD: Working with Word Clouds – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/
New repository: aquilax/wordgame - Word Game search library
Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-2017/
"Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word" by Allison Parrish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Word Vectors and SAT Analogies http://planspace.org/20170705-word_vectors_and_sat_analogies/
Fighting Words | Laurie Penny https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/fighting-words
Ghost word - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
Words Have Discovered How to Make Love: 3 Poems by Surrealist Masters | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/words-have-discovered-how-to-make-love-3-poems-by-surrealist-masters/
What Even Is a Word? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3eDf4p0r0
TBD: Use the word “clusterfuck” at least twice as much as I already do.
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)
@kdave@kdave.github.io It should match the full word, but it’s currently matching the prefix as %tag is easier to implement. But it’s on my todo list.
@kdave@kdave.github.io It should match the full word, but it’s currently matching the prefix as %tag is easier to implement. But it’s on my todo list.
Find words for twt: perl -lane ‘$line=$_;s/[aeoui]//g;print $line if /twt/i’ /usr/share/dict/words – I like twitch… :)
Find words for twt: perl -lane ‘$line=$_;s/[aeoui]//g;print $line if /twt/i’ /usr/share/dict/words – I like twitch… :)
“An incomplete list of words that are now startups.” by @shashashasha https://t.co/8IxVExLJCl