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Who would have guessed that handing control of a company to Microsoft would make it less reliable.

There's a ton of active communities these days! https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/ https://t.me/tokiponaTelegram https://discord.gg/uzCUNE https://discord.gg/VUd5Gt https://tokipon…

Most of Toki Pona sounds like English anyway: wan: one tu: two meli: female, from Tok Pisin mewi, from "Mary" (as in, the Virgin) lukin: looking ale: all en: and ike: icky jaki: yu…

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So you're saying that statistic isn't notable if the entirety of education has less than 1 percent effectiveness... yes, I'd say that was notable.

> researchers have shown that images generated by famous GANs do not generalize beyond what the training data provides. Was really hoping to get a source for that, as that is a ver…

Exactly, that's why Houellebecq was inspired to write a biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft%3A_Against_the...

I'm sure you, the guy who writes snarky tweets and codes web forms, have a lot more going for you in the annals of history than an internationally recognized titan of literature.

Same kind of synesthesia here! fist bump (also annoying that chrome dictionary still doesn't recognize "synesthesia" as a word...) One of my frustrations with synesthesia is descri…

Yeah, I didn't want to give negative feedback per se, but I wanted to share my gut reaction with you because those are just as valuable as thought-out opinions w/r/t conversions. I…

Simple? I'm no Puritan, but I'm hesitant about clicking a button that starts with the word "sex". I'm not used to professional high-quality services resorting to ... well, it's not…

I mean - linguistically speaking, it's fascinating. I really want to read this paper.

Okay, but you're one person offering an anecdote. We are going to need better than that for a discussion about a cultural movement.

I was expecting some kind of mash-up or remix with David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest .

https://www.youtube.com/v/tKdcjJoXeEY

This was the in-depth comment I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to write this up.

Not at all. The Western governments simply have to hide it better.

Not sure about your definition of convenient, but to me, time is king.

That's not a data point in itself ;) How does your hate for the scent stack up against your friends of the same sex?

There's a god for that. [0] Although she would more likely be miffed that you offed one of her progeny. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Bast

When most people say "bullshit job", it seems to me like they really mean "job that could be solved by a well-built machine". Farming used to be a bullshit job until we built gigan…

Crickets are less metabolically demanding than humans. We need tricksy things like fiber and animal protein, but crickets can get by on simple sugars and cellulose.

> If the ice caps melt due to rising temperature surely this means more water in the atmosphere and more rain in some places? Over about 20,000 years of the water cycle, yeah. Idea…