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merkitt t1_iy8hudb wrote
Reply to Words for negative concepts (e.g. "bad") are replaced faster and mutate more than those for positive concepts (e.g. "good") across Indo-European languages. As a consequence, different languages have highly dissimilar words for negative concepts but not for positive concepts. by smurfyjenkins
Is it possible that this is due to the tendency of speakers to develop euphemisms for negative words?
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Reply to comment by it_cant_be_difficult in Nvidia has created a text-to-3D generative-AI that will allow people to make high-resolution 3D models from just text prompts. by lughnasadh
Once AIs put out of business the very artists whose work was used to train them, the models will begin to stagnate without new inputs. Feeding AI generated images back into the models will likely result in the artistic version of deformities. If this process takes longer than a generation, we may not have any artists left to pick up the pieces...
merkitt t1_ixlqnh8 wrote
Reply to comment by SomewhatIntriguing in TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 years and 3 days - 1967 to 2005. by TrevorIsTheGOAT
In oak barrels?
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Reply to comment by Crowbrah_ in Mars was once covered by 300-meter deep oceans, study shows by magenta_placenta
Heh, I haven't watched that one
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Reply to comment by weristjonsnow in Mars was once covered by 300-meter deep oceans, study shows by magenta_placenta
Can't we send in an impeller-driven craft to the core to restart the rotation with strategically placed nuclear charges?
merkitt t1_iu8hvue wrote
Reply to comment by rubemechanical in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes
There is a short story where the inventor of a time machine secretly enrolls Shakespeare in a class on Shakespearean works. He fails it.
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Reply to comment by Few-Swordfish-780 in New battery seems to offer it all: lithium-metal/lithium-air electrodes by nastratin
Do you now believe the battery breakthrough announcements from 5-6 years ago? Because that's at least how long it takes for something proven in the lab to be commercially mass produced. Current EVs literally have double the range of the first EV I bought.