teh_skorgii Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Nucleo win
Nucleo: you know, I will consider natural language parsers to be fully functional, when they can parse that — without having special code written for the case.
teh_skorgii: pfft wake me when they can get James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
teh_skorgii NL is so fucked
teh_skorgii because human language is inherently ambiguous
chrismear *I* couldn’t parse that without having special code for the case.
sysinfo That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is?
• chrismear is not a natural language parser.
Nucleo haha
teh_skorgii natural language cannot be parsed unambiguously most of the time
Nucleo chrismear, I am filing a bug report against you.
Nucleo chrismear: who do I email? ;)
And so now I have a bug tracker for myself. Feel free to add problems that you have with me, or propose fixes. It’s called personal development!
I need to buy one of those 25 ml spirit measure things, now that I’m calorie-counting everything that goes into my face.
Last night I found myself calibrating a measuring jug below 100 ml using an adjustable steady stream of water and a clock with a second hand.
Inspired by this talk about ideas, I have created the Idea Exchange Rate.
As the site explains, since British ideas are “ten-a-penny”, and US ideas are “a-dime-a-dozen”, we can calculate an accurate exchange rate between British ideas and US ideas. I anticipate this becoming a very important metric for pan-Atlantic intellectual property negotiations.
An idea I suggested in a Slashdot comment over a year ago goes on to win a Time Magazine Best Inventions 2006 award. Typical.
Yes, yes, I know, ideas are ten a penny, and the value’s in the execution not the concept. Still, I like to keep track of these little non-victories.
And I suppose if I don’t use this stuff, it’ll just go to waste.
Eh, what could you do.
You had a lot of stuff,
I didn’t realise.
Chopsticks and all.
Wow. Just got back from my trial flight lesson. I’ve been lucky enough to go on a lot of commercial flights, but it doesn’t even compare to actually being at the controls of a tiny two-seater plane. Sitting in one of those giant jet liners, you can pretty much forget that you’re flying.
I was surprised by how much you’re allowed to do even if you’ve never flown before. Obviously, in a thirty minute lesson, we could only cover the very basics. But I got to bank and turn a bit, and practice changing the plane’s level. Even having that small amount of control made me feel like the goddamn Batman.
It was an amazing experience, and I’d recommend it to anyone.