nialv7

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Humanity is just a prolonged organic chemical reaction happening on an insignificant speck of dust floating in space. We are not that important.

Universe is still insane though, but for different reasons.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

... and give them corkscrews.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No, lemon is literally a human creation, made by crossing citron with bitter orange.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Belief is necessary but not sufficient.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (7 children)

All power in our society is based on belief if you think about it.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Accents exist, you know.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

"are" is a perfectly valid pronunciation of "our" I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as "are", on the other hand does feel wrong.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I like contacts even less now.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have a bunch of smart devices - light bulbs, wall plugs, etc. They all connect to Home Assistant running on my own server and I don't need to pay any subscriptions.

IoT is not the problem, corporate greed is.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well I did clarify I agree that the overarching point of this paper is probably fine...

widely accepted linguistic standard

I am not a linguist so apologise for my ignorance about how things are usually done. (Also, thanks for educating me.) But on the other hand just because it is the accepted way doesn't mean it is right in this case. Especially when you consider the information rate is also calculated from syllables.

syllable bigrams

Ultimately this just measures how quickly the speaker can produce different combinations of sounds, which is definitely not what most people would envision when they hear "information in language". For linguists who are familiar with the methodology, this might be useful data. But the general public will just get the wrong idea and make baseless generalisations - as evidenced by comments under this post. All in all, this is bad science communication.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I already said? It doesn't affect FSR

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