Google translate between Icelandic and English has gone from 75% useful, 25% laughable nonsense to mostly unusable in the space of a year. You used to be able to use it effectively as a dictionary. Enter a single word and you'd get the most common dictionary translation
An unexpectedly pleasant result of teaching myself some abstract algebra and number theory is that I get to properly indulge my inner child, who is deeply resentful that anyone ever demanded that she believe something based on appeal to authority.
Despite being moved into "two years ahead of most kids" math starting around age 13, until I hit some theoretical computer science stuff in college, it was mostly practical technique and very little proof and hard for me to fake interest in.
@recursive I was very lucky to take these in the opposite order…which surprised the hell out of my college abstract algebra teacher when he had a student who was deeply bored, didn’t attend class, and finished the exams in half the allotted time because they’d been doing it for a decade already
(I also nearly failed pre-calc, so…I get it. I lucked out and my inner child got dessert early.)
@recursive i hated all the the things my peers were fine with and vice versa. almost failed several semesters of calculus in a row, never attended modern algebra and set the curve. i literally got carded to turn in my exams but also desperately needed a tutor 🤷♀️
@Cassandra My partner and I had this conversation once where X was tickets to the Veronica Mars premiere and Y was more than I care to admit. “It sounds reasonable” may have been my exact words 😂
In my 20s, I was very excited about travel. In my 40s, I’m tempted to cancel the entire trip at the last minute and claim to have contracted want-a-regular-week-with-the-cat fever.
@elizabethtasker I bailed on an international conference trip (that I’d paid for myself!) while I was on the way to the airport because I had legitimately contracted want-a-regular-week-with-the-dog fever, so…I believe in you. You can do it!
I slept poorly last night, in no small part because of large animal running across the roof multiple times.
I never got up to see what it was, but it was larger than the usual cats. I haven't seen possums or raccoons around here in a few years, but maybe they are back.
@MLE_online this is such a weird thing to have in common! our roof seems to be some kind of animal highway between places unknown. the snow here has rendered it blissfully quiet for the past few days, but the traffic noise keeps me up all the time
me: uh hey twitch you made me an affiliate about a month ago but for some reason I can't get on any of the community rewards stuff. based on the browser console it looks like the emotes service isn't seeing the affiliate role on my account and it's throwing a graphql error.
twitch support: thanks for getting in touch with us! have you tried turning off your antivirus?
@gsuberland This is one of the few use cases for LLMs that I’m actually optimistic about. “Recognize this pattern and respond accordingly”—in this case by routing issues to appropriate support—seems doable, particularly in an area where labeled data should be possible to acquire and mistakes are undesirable but not catastrophic.
(Directly answering support requests on the other hand…🙅🏼)
watching two time travel shows, and for maybe the first time in my life, i’m rolling my eyes at the one with the elaborate time loopy puzzle box plot and really enjoying the one that’s just about the characters connecting with their younger selves, reflecting on their lives now, and trying to fix a few things without messing the present up too badly for each other
I’ve just seen it too many times now: the past causes the future, the future causes the past, yadda yadda. we get it already—there’s no beginning or end and everyone is trapped in a perpetual cycle of experiencing and re-experiencing slight variations on the same time travel shows
My plan (very ill-advised in hindsight) to binge graphic novel series so heavy that the creators had to take a break from making them has come to a screeching halt after about twenty pages
There’s already been financial trouble, abuse allegations, police harassment, loss of a parent, a run-in with occupying forces, a suicide bombing, and trauma-induced mutism
I think it’s gonna take a while to be ready for the next twenty pages