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Post by DennisP »

gamerDude wrote: post #23

My word was a bit disturbing. Meat cooked in a sauce of raw meat over ice. Yum. Plumata: a dish with layers of meat, vegetables, or seafood cooked in a sauce of raw meat, vegetables, and herbs, typically over ice and typically served with other fresh ingredients

Yeah well the first word I got was this...

cronyize: convert (something, especially the skin of a pregnant woman) to a cork or tar by treating the cork and tar with ice or other heat-resistant fat, then applying the skin on top of it to make sure it is moisturized

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

revolvingocelot wrote: post #303
Apofis wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards. Just amateurs are running the show now, but the NBA already got in on this, so if you want something more legit: https://nbatopshot.com/

Hey now, they're not just "digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards"! They're also an enormous waste of resources! Yeesh. At least collectors of sports memorabilia have some memorabilia to admire. I can't imagine what value-add there is for "NBA Top Shots" that I can't replicate by backing up a short clip of the play. My solution is more durable, too!

You can admire your digital trading cards! Just check out this program I made that cycles your NFT's as background wallpapers for your computer. github.com/NotaRealThing /s

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by DennisP »

Fnoord wrote: post #359
azinman2 wrote: post #272

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Which is a bad strategy as dictated by signaling theory [1]. There's nothing rare or costly about them when you can keep hitting refresh to get a new one. Instead, if there were only a few produced in the world, and you owning it give you some kind of status, then you'd have a real potential NFT. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

It is worse. Anyone can own it. NFTs don't avoid copying, and they are in no way recognized as copyrighted material. Its like having a proof of ownership of a public good: worthless.

I bet with the right license you could convey legal rights to the NFT owner.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by knuthsat »

skissane wrote: post #343
knuthsat wrote: post #342

I was reading some reviews on Google of rave clubs in Budapest and Google translated them from Hungarian to Croatian. The translations were quite funny and bad but I noticed a bunch of new Croatian words that do not exist in any dictionary. There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't…

> There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't get any results). Is it possible some of those were actually Hungarian words being copied verbatim into the Croatian text? Or maybe close variants of the Hungarian words (such as in a different grammatical case)? I've seen before, when tr…

Hungarian and Croatian are very different. There's only a few things that might match (like vegetable/fruit names) but verbs and nouns are very different.

The words that I was surprised by were with proper declension (taking gender into account) and sometimes there were very unique verbs that felt right in Croatian but if you search any form it just doesn't exist anywhere.

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Post by z3ncyberpunk »

Apofis wrote: post #300
revolvingocelot wrote: post #266

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Frankly, I'm mocking it. Or trying to. Riffing on it? NFTs strike me as obvious nonsense -- why not use all that energy for something more useful, like piping /dev/urandom to /dev/null -- but NFT sales of obvious nonsense, of an algorithmic corruption of an artistic representation of a shared cultural totem, are almost high art. Like, unpleasantly high art. Way too high art. Art that makes me want to go lie down for…

It's just digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards. Just amateurs are running the show now, but the NBA already got in on this, so if you want something more legit: https://nbatopshot.com/

No, it's digital money laundering

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Post by z3ncyberpunk »

skinkestek wrote: post #378
revolvingocelot wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, I'm mocking it. Or trying to. Riffing on it? NFTs strike me as obvious nonsense -- why not use all that energy for something more useful, like piping /dev/urandom to /dev/null -- but NFT sales of obvious nonsense, of an algorithmic corruption of an artistic representation of a shared cultural totem, are almost high art. Like, unpleasantly high art. Way too high art. Art that makes me want to go lie down for…

> Frankly, I'm mocking it. Or trying to. Riffing on it? Frankly, you failed :-) I'm as sceptic to crypto as almost anyone but this was one of the nicer ideas.

No I'm pretty sure he did fine, NFTs are little more than a vehicle for money laundering and a joke for a normal people.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by skissane »

knuthsat wrote: post #425
skissane wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't get any results). Is it possible some of those were actually Hungarian words being copied verbatim into the Croatian text? Or maybe close variants of the Hungarian words (such as in a different grammatical case)? I've seen before, when tr…

Hungarian and Croatian are very different. There's only a few things that might match (like vegetable/fruit names) but verbs and nouns are very different. The words that I was surprised by were with proper declension (taking gender into account) and sometimes there were very unique verbs that felt right in Croatian but if you search any form it just doesn't exist anywhere.

If you can remember any of the Hungarian links you observed this behaviour on, and if you can cite any of the specific words from the machine translation you are talking about, I would be appreciative – not that I know any Hungarian or Croatian, but still this topic has piqued my interest

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Post by plutonorm »

andybak wrote: post #198
plutonorm wrote: post #188

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is it skin deep though?

Well it's certainly fragile and easily lost. Are you implying some deeper understanding in GPT3?

I agree it's fragile and dreamlike - but it is in my opinion genuine understanding. If you have or ever do have children you can observe them pass through a similar kind of stage, fractured incomplete understanding, dreamlike, yet still understanding. It crystallises slowly overtime. I predict the same will happen as we expand the models and add more complexity.
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