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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

I didn't even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that's pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    there's plenty of linguistics cranks, but most of them have nationalistic tint, like people thinking that all languages come from turkish or something like that

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    like people thinking that all languages come from turkish

    This is amazing, I fucking love this. People striving to create the lowest stakes possible conspiracy. I struggle to think of something that would have less impact on the world no matter it were true or false.

    A shadowy cabal of powerful people guarding the secret of "actually, it was [rolls die] Turkish people who invented [rolls another die] language!"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    then think again, because it was a part of continuing series: turkish nationalism

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Okay sure, but this is comical. A Turkish nationalist will be a Turkish nationalist with or without this idea. It's the equivalent of saying that Turkish people have naturally less odorous farts and thus TURKIYE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    okay but this idea was kinda central to modern turkish nationalism. see, kurds are not distinct people, they just speak turkish but wrong (heard anything similar recently?) also this is part of the reason why standard turkish is actual common language in turkey

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I'm just waiting for him to chime in about music theory.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    A popular meme on social media makes a series of allegations about the musical tune pitch A=432Hz and A=440Hz, including that the latter was a standard imposed by the Nazis to manipulate their enemies.

    spittake

    Multiple experts told Reuters these allegations are unfounded.

    NO WAY

    Thanks Reuters.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    since 1953 all music has been tuned to 440Hz. This frequency has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

    fuck yes, this is the random all-caps crankery I get out of bed for! I love the idea that 440hz agitates the brain, but not in a scientific way (at least not for our universe?)

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    since 1969 all computers have been running Unix. This operating system has NO SCIENTIFIC RELATIONSHIP with our universe and actually causes the brain to become agitated.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I like my music the way I like my CPUs, 432 Hz.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    oh what's this doing here presses it

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @froztbyte @techtakes

    Here, have a Macintosh Centris/Performa 610!

    That button on the right? It's not a floppy eject button, much to the chagrin of hordes of students during the 1990s, but an on/off power button ...

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago*

    This reminds me of when I was planning out a tubular bells project. there is an amount of crankery around various notes and I came across a series of videos about the various Cs and their use in healing or chakra alignment.

    When i went to buy some tuning forks I noted some more weird mysticism, but hey at least they produced a nice set of C notes.

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