Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by ttul on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:30AM
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I feel discomfort reading “I feel discomfort and uneasy” because discomfort is a noun and uneasy is an adjective.
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Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by jstanley on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:08AM
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You can both "feel discomfort" and "feel uneasy", so I think it works.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by green_on_black on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:28AM
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No. You see:
void feel(x: Noun)
void feel(x: Adj)
"discomfort and uneasy" is actually an instamce of the superclass of Noun and Adj, but there is no overload for that so it doesn't compile.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by diegoperini on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:34AM
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With better heuristics and fuzzy logic, our IDEs should detect and handle such usage without hassle.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by Filligree on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:50AM
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I suspect that sort of autocorrections would be AI-complete.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by RIMR on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:54AM
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I agree with this fellow human.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by cerberusss on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:58AM
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You must be a robot. If you'd written your post in capitals though, I'd totally have fallen for it.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by laretluval on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:31AM
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This is an example of zeugma.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by jwilk on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:35AM
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Non-mobile link:
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by jszymborski on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:35AM
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Doesn't your mind expand that to "I feel discomfort and become uneasy", or is mine just broken?
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by JangoSteve on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:31AM
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My mind expanded it to "I feel discomfort and I feel uneasy," since both work. You can feel nouns and you can feel adjectives, just in a different sense. It sounds weird, because we like to construct our logic with parallelism [1], and in this case we're using different definitions of the word, "feel". This makes pulling "feel" out front in an associative manner less correct.
I feel[a] hunger, and I feel[b] sad. I feel[a or b, but not both] hunger and sad.
[a] transitive verb; a physical sensation, acting on the object (in this case, "hunger")
[b] intransitive verb [2]; an emotional state, described by the adjective (in this case, "uneasy")
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_verb
EDIT: Clarity. Also, IANAL (I am not a linguist), and generally you don't want to take lingual advice from an engineer, like me.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by exikyut on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:07AM
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I semantically autocorrected to "I feel discomfort and unease".
Something about it being the same number of words and the least letters' difference; I can't rule out the possibility of a 'y'/'e' error.
Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
by LambdaComplex on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:39AM
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That reminds me of a line from Green-Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf that I've always liked: "Setting suns and lonely lovers free"