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    375 months ago

    So Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.

    Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they’re saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it’s nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

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      305 months ago

      Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

      Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

      I didn’t even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that’s pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

          • @thesporkeffect
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            95 months ago

            I hope that was a typo for Proto-Indo-European

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              205 months ago

              PIE was just people wanting to eventually speak Greek but they had yet to figure out how, so they were just working backwards little by little trying to make their language more like Greek.

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          like people thinking that all languages come from turkish

          This is amazing, I fucking love this. People striving to create the lowest stakes possible conspiracy. I struggle to think of something that would have less impact on the world no matter it were true or false.

          A shadowy cabal of powerful people guarding the secret of “actually, it was [rolls die] Turkish people who invented [rolls another die] language!”

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              65 months ago

              Okay sure, but this is comical. A Turkish nationalist will be a Turkish nationalist with or without this idea. It’s the equivalent of saying that Turkish people have naturally less odorous farts and thus TURKIYE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!

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                125 months ago

                okay but this idea was kinda central to modern turkish nationalism. see, kurds are not distinct people, they just speak turkish but wrong (heard anything similar recently?) also this is part of the reason why standard turkish is actual common language in turkey

                • flere-imsaho
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                  oh, it’s like russia’s idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…

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        215 months ago

        Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance?

        Early onset Nobel disease.

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          185 months ago

          A popular meme on social media makes a series of allegations about the musical tune pitch A=432Hz and A=440Hz, including that the latter was a standard imposed by the Nazis to manipulate their enemies.

          spittake

          Multiple experts told Reuters these allegations are unfounded.

          NO WAY

          Thanks Reuters.

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            165 months ago

            since 1953 all music has been tuned to 440Hz. This frequency has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

            fuck yes, this is the random all-caps crankery I get out of bed for! I love the idea that 440hz agitates the brain, but not in a scientific way (at least not for our universe?)

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              215 months ago

              since 1969 all computers have been running Unix. This operating system has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

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              This reminds me of when I was planning out a tubular bells project. there is an amount of crankery around various notes and I came across a series of videos about the various Cs and their use in healing or chakra alignment.

              When i went to buy some tuning forks I noted some more weird mysticism, but hey at least they produced a nice set of C notes.

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      255 months ago

      efficient move, getting the Nobel disease in before the Nobel itself