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kechpaja

@kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com

Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music

Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.

I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.

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Alon, to random
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I can't believe I'm saying it, but, Renew Europe is based. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/05/21/renew-europe-will-vote-to-expel-dutch-vvd-party-on-june-10-group-leader-says

kechpaja,
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@Alon Meanwhile, in Finland, Anna-Maja Henriksson says she won't work with the far right at the EU level while her (Renew member) party is in coalition with the Perussuomalaiset.

I suppose there's a reason why RKP is polling below the Christian Democrats nowadays.

kechpaja, to random
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LRT: Apparently people are starting to refer to non-electric bicycles as "acoustic bikes".

I know why but it's still fascinating.

Alon, to random
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Machine learning is prime for a "what people think I do" vs. "what I actually do" meme, where the public discourse about it is that it's some kind of AI revolution that will change the nature of work, and what it actually does is provide better modeling for predicting public transit ridership.

kechpaja,
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@Alon Maybe:

I'm a machine learning algorithm!

What society thinks I am: magic wand erasing pile of work

What science fiction writers think I am: picture of Terminator

What rationalists think I am: God

What tech companies think I am: $$$

What people who know me know I can do when used correctly: optimizations such as OP's transit example

What I actually do 99% of the time: take your pick of currently popular funny LLM garbage output

luckytran, to random
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"So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?"
— North Carolina Senator Sydney Batch, who is a cancer survivor

Unbelievable.

kechpaja,
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@luckytran This is awful, but it also sounds like an invitation for malicious compliance. Can there be a secret society of covid avoiders?

kechpaja, to linguistics
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I'm at the in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

abdalian, to linguistics
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Is there a term for an interlocutor saying the last word of the previous speaker’s sentence in unison with them? Not just occasionally or when the previous speaker is having trouble recalling a word, but nearly every sentence, possibly even when that sentence is not the end of a turn? I’m looking for articles or research about this out of personal curiosity.

@linguistics

kechpaja,
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@abdalian @linguistics Would this not just be a subcategory of backchanneling?

skinnylatte, to 11ty
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Just posted: my 'now' page, which I have changed into 'just now' https://popagandhi.com/now/2024-04-17/

kechpaja,
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@skinnylatte The date is showing up as an error: "Published on Invalid DateTime".

I'm ten hours ahead of you, in case you end up suspecting a time zone issue.

cidney, to random
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Do I know any software developers who aren't in games who like and feel good about what they're doing?

kechpaja,
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@cidney At the moment, what I'm doing is taking time off to deal with burnout, so technically yes?

In the bigger picture, I like the company a lot, but the projects usually require a tradeoff on one of those things, and I have a growing suspicion that statistical code generation will make software development intolerable for me.

futurebird, to random
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:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/

kechpaja,
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@futurebird Oh, so they use armies of trained ants?

Alon, (edited ) to random
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What's worse?

kechpaja,
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@Alon @acb The Normans of Normandy are another option. And normalization.

futurebird, to random
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These cursed "ants" can be ordered for your child's playground... no wonder people grow up fearing bugs. I'm scared of them after seeing this.

kechpaja,
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@futurebird Somehow this is reminding me of that Archie McPhee life-sized (and more or less realistically shaped) plastic ants that my mother would sometimes put around the house in various locations. I think I have a few in a bag somewhere.

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