December 8th, 2022

1akrmn (i’m easily amused; they’re mixing Hebrew months with CE years)

3:59 PM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:09 PM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

1akrmn whoa, almost 4000 years ago! twitter.com/chabad/status/…

3:57 PM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:08 PM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

xkcd I recently invited a friend to an event that takes place during the 10 days in 1582 that don’t actually exist due to a Papal edict modifying the calendar pic.twitter.com/UBeDyJITV1

4:14 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:45 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

shrutirij My thesis, "Improving Optical Character Recognition for Endangered Languages", is available here:
lti.cs.cmu.edu/sites/default/…

2:28 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:45 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

derwahremawa Vor langer Zeit las ich, dass es irgendwo in Niederbayern (?) einen einzelnen Ort gebe, wo durch eine sprachgeschichtliche Laune ein Dialekt gesprochen werde, der exakt wie Wienerisch klinge, weswegen seine Einwohner im restlichen Bayern nirgendwo ernst genommen würden. Frage:

2:20 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:44 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

random_walker ChatGPT can't do addition out of the box, but can debug code, prove some types of math theorems, etc.

AI's abilities defied AI pioneers' intuition back in he 1960s. They thought vision would be easy and chess hard! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%2…

In many ways it still defies intuition.

1:57 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:43 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

matt_meeta Jacobin taking shots at the American left twitter.com/jacobin/status…

12:50 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:42 AM, Dec 8th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)