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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18270 on: July 17, 2018, 10:37:20 AM »
Quote from: Solokov on July 16, 2018, 11:28:57 PM
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Seems to be fixed now. There's a bit of discussion over on the forum and website board.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18271 on: July 18, 2018, 09:17:42 AM »
Good news and I hope it gives y'all a smile today.  This weekend this area got slammed by what is, for us, heavy rain (~5 cm) and the runoff from the hills and mountains surrounding the Rio Grande valley caused quite a bit of flood damage, making several families at least temporarily homeless.

So yesterday the university (nmt.edu) opened the student housing a month early for the neighbours who were flooded out.  There are university towns where the university and the public don't get along all that well -- it seems this isn't one of them.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18272 on: July 18, 2018, 04:33:36 PM »
Quote from: D. C. Sessions on July 18, 2018, 09:17:42 AM
Good news and I hope it gives y'all a smile today.  This weekend this area got slammed by what is, for us, heavy rain (~5 cm) and the runoff from the hills and mountains surrounding the Rio Grande valley caused quite a bit of flood damage, making several families at least temporarily homeless.

So yesterday the university (nmt.edu) opened the student housing a month early for the neighbours who were flooded out.  There are university towns where the university and the public don't get along all that well -- it seems this isn't one of them.

*applause for NM Tech* 
And welcome to the Forum!  I'm not sure if you've had a good nosey or not, but there is likely content here to keep a discerning individual such as yourself going for quite some time!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18273 on: July 18, 2018, 09:47:59 PM »
Quote from: D. C. Sessions on July 18, 2018, 09:17:42 AM
Good news and I hope it gives y'all a smile today.  This weekend this area got slammed by what is, for us, heavy rain (~5 cm) and the runoff from the hills and mountains surrounding the Rio Grande valley caused quite a bit of flood damage, making several families at least temporarily homeless.

So yesterday the university (nmt.edu) opened the student housing a month early for the neighbours who were flooded out.  There are university towns where the university and the public don't get along all that well -- it seems this isn't one of them.

Good on NM Tech! The university I went to had a pretty bad relationship with the surrounding neighborhood, so it's really refreshing to see other universities that do otherwise. I hope those families are able to safely return to their homes soon!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18274 on: July 19, 2018, 08:38:52 AM »
Peter Jackson's latest project looks astonishing...

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18275 on: July 20, 2018, 01:07:27 PM »
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Very interesting, thank you for sharing this.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18276 on: July 24, 2018, 10:09:08 PM »
Sorry, not sorry if I've gone and inadvertently caused the robot uprising.



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18277 on: July 24, 2018, 10:34:14 PM »
Sadly Google seem to have fixed the bug that was making Translate spit out ominous pseudo-biblical prophesies :(
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18278 on: July 25, 2018, 12:10:46 AM »
Quote from: Solokov on July 24, 2018, 10:09:08 PM
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Is this a known bug? Or were you genuinely looking for Maori translation?
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18279 on: July 25, 2018, 12:34:08 AM »
Quote from: wavewright62 on July 25, 2018, 12:10:46 AM
Is this a known bug? Or were you genuinely looking for Maori translation?

There were some strange bugs reported from Google Translate earlier this week where putting repeating strings in and asking to translate them from Maori resulted in weird, sometimes biblical-themed nonsense.

"dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog" for instance was coming out as "Doomsday clock is three minutes at twelve We are experiencing Characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return"

Apparently this was the result of Google's Maori translator program being trained on a rather small corpus of works, including the Bible. Sadly it was fixed almost as soon as news started to spread, so no one can have fun with it any more (although I imagine the Maori community are somewhat relieved!)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18280 on: July 25, 2018, 03:14:46 PM »
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There were some strange bugs reported from Google Translate earlier this week where putting repeating strings in and asking to translate them from Maori resulted in weird, sometimes biblical-themed nonsense.

"dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog" for instance was coming out as "Doomsday clock is three minutes at twelve We are experiencing Characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return"

Apparently this was the result of Google's Maori translator program being trained on a rather small corpus of works, including the Bible. Sadly it was fixed almost as soon as news started to spread, so no one can have fun with it any more (although I imagine the Maori community are somewhat relieved!)

You'd'a thunk we'd have gotten some publicity about that here in NZ, where Maori is one of the official languages.  (Or maybe I just focus too much on social & fandom media.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18281 on: July 26, 2018, 10:53:01 PM »
I have reached the conclusion that my parents lied to me, and I am actually Finnish.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18282 on: July 27, 2018, 08:07:43 AM »
From my own experience, relating to Finns may be a sign of being an introvert and/or not being completely off the autistic spectrum.
My mother keeps joking I should move to Finland some day.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18283 on: July 27, 2018, 08:35:52 AM »
Quote from: Grade E cat on July 27, 2018, 08:07:43 AM
From my own experience, relating to Finns may be a sign of being an introvert and/or not being completely off the autistic spectrum.
My mother keeps joking I should move to Finland some day.

Well, here's my results on a 'Big Five' personality inventory I did lately...



And I'm a diagnosed Aspie, so... :'D
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18284 on: July 27, 2018, 09:03:23 AM »
There are days where I suspect Finland actually has a disproportionate number of Aspies compared to the rest of the world and nobody noticed.
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