Thank you for sharing this, a great little TIL to go with my morning coffee!

There is an urban legend that when the Swedish map makers came to Finland the locals would mess with them when asked what a pace was called and that is why so many place names have “vittu” or “perse” etc. in them.

Clearly they are miss-underestimating the implications of the axiom habet multam industriam or… something like that?

That’s a well charged battery

due to their abundant functional properties that make them the funniest and most versatile ingredients

I don’t disagree but I would have loved to see the citation as to why they are specifically the funniest ingredients

Is it: “the age of pussyfoot” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_the_Pussyfoot

Judging by the response from ChatGPT they probably see themselves as some sort of literary critic?

Frankie Hawkes’ more recent critiques of Romeo and Juliet reflect an intriguing blend of literary analysis with insights derived from machine learning advancements. Hawkes has argued that the play’s weather motifs function almost algorithmically, influencing characters’ actions in a manner akin to predictive patterns.

Arxiv paper link referenced in the article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

When spelled out like this it feels natural that it would be spoken with a silent ‘p’ as in pneumatic, so: “na-su-sa”?

Op this is the guide you need! I’ll leave my link up as comparison in quality of the guide a knowledgable human produces vs that predicted by an ml model

ffmpeg is my go to for things like this but I can never remember the necessary incantation on the command line. Fortunately ChatGPT tends to get you most of the way there a lot of the time, I would normally asks something like the following and start from there:

How to convert a folder of png images into a gif using ffmpeg?

LGTM. Though do people really code with ligatures turned on?

Edit: Ok so there are some big advocates of ligatures, I’m going to have to give them a second chance. I’ll try for a week, and either way that Fira Code font looks great.

Maybe it’s that this is a better a metaphor for the destruction of the common cultural heritage of the environment? Not many people can relate to or are inconvenienced by a very expensive private boat sinking.

One great use I have found for ChatGPT and family is helping me divine command line one-liners for standard shell programs. Generating commands for tools like ffmpeg are also reasonably successful and saves a lot of time digging through man files

The OU has always had strong distance learning teaching, I have a family member who pivoted to a new career thanks largely to getting a degree with the OU. Also completing a degree through a remote program from and provider is a great indicator of your resolve and tenacity and can easily be a great selling point to future jobs etc.

Well done!

I was confused for a moment why the purple regions don’t appear in the legend then I realised those are mostly populated by fish

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World — Elif Shafak.

It of course depends on the context and choice of ethics framework. If the decision is personal I like to use the shorthand: If you have the privilege to choose, then choose to build the type of future you want to live in.

First it’s Seville holy week, now this