Sure, let's ask MechaHitler if the dictionary has a correct definition.
Does anyone hate how many people are apparently immediately turning to ai.
People were already trusting anything and everything without batting an eye. LLMs are just the natural continuation of that.
Bullshit generator on demand at the little cost of burning the planet.
I agree with you fully
yes but also to be fair this is a Twitter user
Are people really doing this @grok?
Yes.
People are so hypocritical about it. "I'm scared AI might take my job." Then 5 seconds later they're asking google AI the answer to really simple questions.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing my friend talk to gemini and alexa(google and amazon ais).
It's amazing how many names for things come from a different era. Even "movies" is from "moving pictures" which is how they described a new thing in terms of an old familiar thing, pictures. Also "film" comes from a thin coating of chemical gel on glass photographic plates, which evolved to mean the coating plus the plastic once photography moved from glass plates to flexible plastic rolls. Also, why do we "shoot" movies?
One of the most prolific is canna, which is Latin for reed, tube, or pipe. Turns out you can get a LOT of mileage from that meaning:
Cane: Referring to the plant, walking stick, or slender rod.
Canal: An artificial waterway, from the Latin canalis (pipe/groove).
Channel: A conduit or passage.
Cannon: From Italian cannone, meaning "large tube".
Canon: A rule or standard (originally from a reed used as a measuring stick).
Cannibal: Historically connected to this root through a complex path involving "Carib".
Cannister / Canister: A container, often cylindrical.
Cannula: A small tube for insertion into the body.
Canyon: Derived via Spanish cañón (tube/pipe).
Also, "channel" and "canal" are the result of borrowing the same French word (chanel) at two different times (this happened with many words). In Middle English most words were stressed the first syllable, so chanel became "channel", then by the time it was borrowed again, chanel kept the same French stress on the last syllable and became "canal".
Neat. I didn't realize that canon and cannon actually came from the same root.
Seconds is one of the weirdest to me.
"Minute" comes from Latin: pars minuta prima, meaning 'first small part', i.e. first division of the hour – dividing it into sixty, and "second" comes from pars minuta secunda, 'second small part', dividing again into sixty.
Interesting, I never thought about seconds having anything to do with the number 2.
It’s like rolling down the window.
Yeah, that one changed within my lifetime. It's interesting how "rolling" is even in there.
Say the very first car windows had been electric. It wouldn't be called rolling down because there was no "rolling" mechanism. But, we probably wouldn't call it "powering down" or "buttoning down". We'd probably just say something like "lowering the window". So... why did whoever coined that term decide to include "rolling" in the name? Especially because you still need the "up" and "down". You can't just "roll the window".
You also "dial" a phone number, even though the mechanism for choosing the phone number hasn't been a dial in decades. But, at least in that case there wasn't an obvious name for the process of entering a phone number into the system. A car window just goes up and down, why should it matter if it's done with a rolling mechanism or a button? Even though you turn a knob to open a door, you don't "doorknob open" it or "handle shut" the door. You also raise or lower an anchor, you don't "crank the ank", even though that would be cooler to say.
Where do you think grok gets the info?
At least some of it, it pulls directly out of the ass of musk.
I'll take the musk of ass over the ass of Musk any day
Oh, another imperial fun fact. There's 16 frames in a foot of 35mm film. Way easier to remember than how many yards in a mile and all the other things.
It feels weird that film would be measured in feet, while the film size uses mm.
Since 24 frames per second is standard, that means 48 frames in 3 feet, or 2 seconds per yard of film.
I'm glad we can leave all that BS in the past though. US customary units belong to a bygone era just like analog, chemical film does.
There are still people on Xitter?
Fake news. Film, like all new technologies, was driven by porn, though at the turn of the 20th century, people were far too prudish for full nudity. Hence “footage”.
"Ankleage" and "Thighage" didn't really catch on.
I thought you were going in the direction of 12 inch dicks with this.
One of my boys was washing the dishes a couple of weeks ago. The oldest (not the same one) has never washed dishes properly, always not enough detergent and cold water. I’ve gone over and checked to see if the water was hot enough and that it was sudsing. The eldest has come in, said ‘you don’t need hot water or much detergent’. I ignored him as I’ve taught him all this before and he didn’t listen, so he got the shits with me and marched outside. I followed him out after and he gave me a mouthful about how I embarrassed him in front of other family members and I’m a know all know nothing.
Anyway, out comes the AI he subscribes to, and it tells him that ‘yes, hot as it can be withstood if possible as this ensures grease removal, and aiding the detergent in breaking grease down’. I then got another mouthful for being a smart arse and this time it was added with ‘you’re always such a smartarse about it’, when I never said a word to him.
Where does he think AI gets this kind of information from?
You don't need hot water though? in my family, and guessing my entire culture, we wash with tap water and just scrub until it's clean
You don't need hot water, it just makes stuff more soluble faster, is more pleasant to wash with, and makes rinsing off the soap WAY faster.
Also, if you rinse off your dishes as soon as you're done eating, or soak them in hot water, you barely need to scrub.
So, you don't NEED hot water, it just saves a ton of time. I spend maybe 20 minutes a week total doing dishes. Having a dishwasher helps a lot, too.
I see x.com screenshots I downvote
Merrian is booming out. It gets it from Grokipedia
I thought Grok got its info from the butthole that Elon Musk has in his face.
Yeah, that actually makes sense. One of those old tech words we just kept using forever.
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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