When looking around where I should stay in Japan, I found many reports that APA is distributing WW2 Japanese warcrime denial pamphlets and booklets in their rooms, some written by the founder himself. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re unhappy about documentaries tackling those topics and block them as a result.

There are also some other fun controversies about them if you look around the internet. For the record, I chose not to stay with them as a result of learning about the WW2 stuff, but all the rest didn’t really make me wanna stay there either.

I’m sure there’s a joke in there about Paraguay being on the receiving end of a lot of Nazis fleeing to South America after WW2.

I’ve seen variations of a snarky “I never had this problem on Linux” one-liner comment so many times that I have to resist the urge to write “I never had this problem on Windows” every time I see a Linux user asking for help.

I’ve actually successfully used this very flowchart to date the globe I have in my room as a hand-me-down from my grandpa.

My interpretation was that he was fainting because she looks so stunning. On second look, yours seems to be closer to the artist’s intent though.

As someone who’s learned Japanese a bunch: once you’re very familiar with the symbols, you don’t look at every little line to determine what character it is, just the general shape. The characters are built by combining a discrete and smaller set of “drawings” (called radicals). So the space of possible characters is limited to those combinations. On top of that, not every legal combination actually exists. You won’t suddenly run into 鬱, but with a different radical in the bottom left, unless you’re playing a trivia game of “spot the mistake” (which can even be difficult for native speakers, just in the same way it can be difficult for native English speakers to spell some words they’d have no trouble reading.)

I would wager some misplaced lines wouldn’t hurt readabiliity much in the same way we, in English aren’t usually struggling to read a sentence even if some of the letters are swapped/missing or a “the” is duplicated, etc. I’m sure you’ve seen examples of that before in English (or your own native language if it isn’t English).

Of course in some instances, even a tiny difference can change the meaning of a sentence entirely. This is also true both in English and logographic languages. Luckily our brains do a lot of subconscious work here too and figure out where special attention is and isn’t needed by using context and knowledge about the writing system.

(Small caveat: of course, especially in languages, there are always exceptions to every rule. And also the brain can be tricked, intentionally or not, in a variety of ways.)

There are also three “Data Flow” labels (two for the same arrow even) and I’m pretty sure it says Intemal Docs, which makes sense for and AI to mess up too because of similar m and rn look.

What we were taught and what I’ve seen a lot in the German speaking world was “punkt for strich”, “dot before line” since the addition and subtraction symbols are written with lines and the mult/div with dots (⋅ and :).

The fact that parentheses/brackets are always top priority was taught separately (even before multiplication iirc) and once we got to powers/roots it was just quickly mentioned that they have higher prio than mult/div/add/sub.

If you are guaranteed to get something for your money then thats not gambling. Thats just a purchase.

I cannot agree with this at all. If you’re guaranteed a piece of candy, but on top of that you have a 0.0001% chance of getting a million dollars, then buying that candy for $100 is absolutely gambling and not a purchase.

Even within Swiss German itself, the people in the Canton of Valais speak such a strong dialect (actually a group of dialects) that most of the rest of Swiss German people don’t understand them.

Part of the problem here is that AI is mostly done by companies with billions of investments and in turn they NEEEEEDDDDD engagement, so they all made their AI as agreeable as possible just so people would like it and stay, with results like these becoming much more “normal” than it should or could be

I wonder how much of that is intentional vs a byproduct of their training pipeline. I didn’t keep up with everything (and those companies became more and more secretive as time went on), but iirc for GPT 3.5 and 4 they used human judges to judge responses. Then they trained a judge model that learns to sort a list of possible answers to a question the same way the human judges would.

If that model learned that agreeing answers were on average more highly rated by the human judges, then that would be reflected in its orderings. This then makes the LLM more and more likely to go along with whatever the user throws at it as this training/fine-tuning goes on. Instead of the judges liking agreeing answers more on average, it could even be a training set balance issue, where there simply were more agreeing than disagreeing possible answers. A dataset imbalanced that way has a good chance of introducing a bias towards agreeing answers into the judge model. The judge model would then pass that bias onto the GPT model it is used for to train.

Pure speculation time: since ChatGPT often produces two answers and asks the user which one the user prefers, I can only assume that the user in that case is taking the mantle of those human judges. It’s unsurprising that the average GenAI user prefers to be agreed with. So that’s also a very plausible source for that bias.

Coincidentally enough, “noon” is etymologically related to “nine”, so 10 is indeed afternoon in a very literal sense.

(Just ignore the fact that it’s originally meant to be “the ninth hour after sunrise”, so ca. 3pm)

I was taught to spell out until twelve, after that the *teen ones start, which are a lot more letters and space on the paper.

Of course it all depends on whatever the relevant style guide says. Consistency is the most important bit.

It’s two jokes. Firstly, “Barbarian” was a ancient Greek-“invented” term for people who don’t speak Greek (or heavy dialects of Greek). The generally accepted theory is that “Barbar” is them imitating sounds they don’t understand, similar to a modern “blabla”. Secondly, Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek Heracles.

My uni had one. Sadly I couldn’t fit it into my schedule because of overlaps and other requirements.

In the OOP’s example, that is solved by magecraft (which is distinct from “true” magic btw) losing potency by becoming general knowledge, thus forcing mages into working their magecraft in secrecy.

Both the mages and the Church work hard at keeping it a secret, albeit with different motives and methods.

While it doesn’t say anything about IIV specifically, they sure got creative enough to sometimes subtract more than one of the smaller units from a larger one.

This is also sorta how RAW works (in DnD 5e), to quote the PHB:

Group Checks
When a number of individuals are trying to accomplish something as a group, the DM might ask for a group ability check. In such a situation, the characters who are skilled at a particular task help cover those who aren’t.
To make a group ability check, everyone in the group makes the ability check. If at least half the group succeeds, the whole group succeeds. Otherwise, the group fails.

Taking the median roughly has the same effect, it only has a chance to differ if the number of successes and the number of failures are tied.

Another European here to chime in that l also learned to write capital As like that in cursive.

The rs, fs and ts don’t look like how we were taught though.

Me and all my friends all call them “Handys”.

And to people not familar with English loanwords in German: Yes, the correct German pluralization ends with a “ys” and not as it would be correct in English: “ies”. The same is true for “Hobbys” and “Babys”, not sure if there are more.