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Who would have guessed that handing control of a company to Microsoft would make it less reliable.

There's a ton of active communities these days!

https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/

https://t.me/tokiponaTelegram

https://discord.gg/uzCUNE

https://discord.gg/VUd5Gt

https://tokipona.fandom.com/wiki/Where_is_Toki_Pona_used%3F

Most of Toki Pona sounds like English anyway:

wan: one

tu: two

meli: female, from Tok Pisin mewi, from "Mary" (as in, the Virgin)

lukin: looking

ale: all

en: and

ike: icky

jaki: yucky

insa: inside

jelo: yellow

kalama: clamor

kama: come

ken: can

kule: color

lape: sleepy

lawa: law

linja: line

lili: little

lupa: loop

mani: money

mu: moo

musi: amusing/music

nanpa: number

nimi: name

open: open

pilin: feeling

sama: same

selo: shell

sike: circle

suno: sun

mun: moon

toki: talking

wile: will

buy a $30 camping sleeping pad

So you're saying that statistic isn't notable if the entirety of education has less than 1 percent effectiveness... yes, I'd say that was notable.

> researchers have shown that images generated by famous GANs do not generalize beyond what the training data provides.

Was really hoping to get a source for that, as that is a very interesting proposition to leave uncited.

Exactly, that's why Houellebecq was inspired to write a biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft%3A_Against_the...

I'm sure you, the guy who writes snarky tweets and codes web forms, have a lot more going for you in the annals of history than an internationally recognized titan of literature.

Same kind of synesthesia here! fist bump (also annoying that chrome dictionary still doesn't recognize "synesthesia" as a word...)

One of my frustrations with synesthesia is describing the "impossible" colors when people ask about letters lie 0, O, I, or 1... In my mind these are simultaneously transparent, black, AND white.... but when you write out "zero", "oh" and "one" the colors are different!

And don't forget the "blurring" when you try to describe what color a _word_ is... Sometimes the first letter takes dominance, sometimes a middle syllable is particularly strong and has more color than the rest... where's the logic? ;P

That said, I wouldn't trade synesthesia for the world. I love having a free set of associations to help with recall and learning. The number of times I've remembered something because of its color rather than a more logical reason is too many to count.

Yeah, I didn't want to give negative feedback per se, but I wanted to share my gut reaction with you because those are just as valuable as thought-out opinions w/r/t conversions.

I admire the boldness and as a Linguistics major I can confirm the craziness of the word, re: standing out, is way more valuable than any imagined revulsion that I may be assuming.

Best of luck.

Simple? I'm no Puritan, but I'm hesitant about clicking a button that starts with the word "sex". I'm not used to professional high-quality services resorting to ... well, it's not vulgarity, but sex is sort of a traditionally taboo topic. So in spite of how good your product my be, here I am thinking it's more likely to suck because you broke this unspoken rule. But maybe that's just me.

The words are simple, but the choice to include the risky language is not 'simple', in that it's risky/innovative/uncomfortable/attention-grabbing (depending on viewer's perception). I guess a good word is 'unusual'.

I mean - linguistically speaking, it's fascinating. I really want to read this paper.

Okay, but you're one person offering an anecdote. We are going to need better than that for a discussion about a cultural movement.

I was expecting some kind of mash-up or remix with David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

This was the in-depth comment I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to write this up.

Not at all. The Western governments simply have to hide it better.

Not sure about your definition of convenient, but to me, time is king.

That's not a data point in itself ;) How does your hate for the scent stack up against your friends of the same sex?

There's a god for that. [0] Although she would more likely be miffed that you offed one of her progeny.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities#Bast

When most people say "bullshit job", it seems to me like they really mean "job that could be solved by a well-built machine". Farming used to be a bullshit job until we built gigantic combines and automated watering systems and agricultural data storage systems, and now our farming problems are electronic, not logistic. (except for water, but that's another story.)

So for the example of an actuary, ideally their job would also be automated by an advanced program. Not an impossibly advanced one, mind you - it certainly would not have to be smarter than even the 50th percentile of programs out there today. If we took every actuary working 9 to 5, and instead threw all of their tens of thousands of daily working hours at coding a program to do their job, how soon do you think we could automate an entire industry?

This extends to all jobs, eventually. You are seeing it happen today, with farming. Tomorrow, we will see taxi and Lyft drivers replaced with self driving cars, and mail/package delivery given entirely to robots and drones.

The moral of the story is we should automate jobs that people don't like doing.

I don't appreciate the fact that you run so far away with this doomsday scenario of "no insurance means we all get sick and die". Try to focus on the discussion the article wants us to have, not on the side-scenario that you want to use to rationalize actuaries or other poorly optimized vocations.

Crickets are less metabolically demanding than humans. We need tricksy things like fiber and animal protein, but crickets can get by on simple sugars and cellulose.

> If the ice caps melt due to rising temperature surely this means more water in the atmosphere and more rain in some places?

Over about 20,000 years of the water cycle, yeah.

Ideally we'd want a water solution that didn't involve carting incalculable amounts of rainwater across the countryside...

Right, PG's advice is not useful for all founders, just the 1 out of every 10 that makes it big. The others are supposed to nut up and get over it.

His advice does, however, benefit every venture capitalist.

What agenda are you trying to push by constructing this elaborate strawman? Will you also try to convince me that we should execute Galileo for his heretic proposal that the Earth revolves around the Sun?

Seriously. Harmlessly manipulating cockroaches in a science experiment equates to "trading our humanity"? Give me a break. You are complicit in 100x as much "unethical" treatment of animals on a daily basis. The vast majority of products you buy, eat, use, and rely on have probably been tested on animals much more complex than cockroaches. If this study bothers you as much as you say it does, I challenge you to go without any and all consumer products made with at least as much unethical research. Of course, you'll have to do some research yourself to even find out which products and services you need to abandon. Good luck.

The military argument isn't half bad, so I'm sorry to see it go to waste in the alarmist wasteland of your rhetoric, but if this study's been published, then you almost know for certain the men upstairs have had tech like this for decades. Any panic you stir now would be wasted.

Well, I wasn't planing on crying this morning, but today I can make an exception. ;_;7

Au revoir, Sir Pratchett, you magnificent human.

It's not too far off. We're about five years away from standard stem cell treatments to regrow parts like eardrums and corneas.

Interesting take on creativity. Applying the scientific method to more and more disciplines seems to be a trend lately.

I agree with the reasoning, but am curious how iterative creativity can be applied on the individual scale for projects that take longer than a month and a half to complete.