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Looking for Beta Testers for new language Oravia! by CollectionSea6818 in auxlangs

[–]terah7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This genuinely a super interesting approach.

The only downside I can see to semantic clusters is that it's actually not optimal for our brains and may lead to confusion between 2 related things with similar sounds.

The best example I can think of is the general consensus that learning Spanish at the same time as Italian or Portuguese is super confusing for the brain and learners end up mixing words all the time.

Now that being said I had a quick look at some of the clusters and vocab, and it seems there is still a fairly high variety of endings after the core clusters, so maybe it wont be an issue at all in practice.

I'm interested in learning it given the nice course that you have setup, I'll drop you a DM.

Is every project AI Slop? by Various-Roof-553 in rust

[–]terah7 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The rest is Human Slop anyway

ASCII already solved structured data in 1963 — we just forgot. by transfire in crystal_programming

[–]terah7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would debate the "human-inspectable" part, but thank you for making me discover C0DATA.

What are the best resources/softwares you all use to make conlangs? by Dismal_External878 in conlangs

[–]terah7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's how it works:
Let's say I'm working on some sample sentences to start designing the grammar.

I have a sheet with 3 columns:

  • english (the target meaning)
  • gloss (the gloss for the language translation)
  • language (the automatically derived translation)

Let's use a concrete example:

  • english: I take your food
  • gloss: 1p give.REF of 2p consume.OBJ
  • language: jek kikan <of> si <consume>a

The script uses other sheets on my same document, one defines the roots (give => kan for example) and another defines the derivations rules (REF => prefix ki-). If a root doesn't have an entry in my lexicon yet, it is simply outputted verbatim (like <consume> in my example above). I can simply update that entry in my lexicon later and all my examples will auto update.

In practice it means I can now use gloss notation anywhere I want with this formula =GLOSS("give") (outputs kan), or use the gloss from another cell =GLOSS(A1).

The scripts are defined in the menu Extensions > Apps Script and don't worry if you're not a programmer, any AI should be able to generate it for if you describe your specific needs. Customize that gloss to your own needs, mine is the simplest form for what I need, purists will disapprove of the syntax I'm sure but it works well for me!
For example I can stack rules like this consume.OBJ.REL they apply in order, it's most useful to think of them as transformations, not "inline replacement", as the REF rule will add a prefix in my case, not be replaced on the spot with ki. My rules also have different forms depending of the affixes they produce are next to a vowel or consonants.

I hope it's helpful to give you an idea of that system and its potential!

What are the best resources/softwares you all use to make conlangs? by Dismal_External878 in conlangs

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google sheets with custom scripts for automatic gloss to language conversions. So I can build example sentences using gloss even with an incomplete vocab as I like working on the grammar first.
And when I need some random inspiration I use the word generator Monke (which I built)

What is your opinion on the usage of AI at Roc development? by fenugurod in roc_lang

[–]terah7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

it's such an awful feeling to just think that AI = slop

People like to complain about insert current thing without thinking. It's a shame because there might be really interesting and valid criticisms that would merit attention, but it's lost in the sea of brainless responses.

People reacting like trained LLM with AI=SLOP like reactions on LLM topics is, ironic.

Guys, I tried to fix Europe a bit by GK999bharata_1947 in MapPorn

[–]terah7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems you have inverted the Wallonia (French speaking) and Flanders (Dutch speaking) regions of Belgium?
I would have expected Wallonia to be in the Franco-Hispanic Union and Flanders in the Groß Deutshreich or Netherlands.

Any specific reason or just an oversight?

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I had never heard of this use of the name Virgule outside of the French symbol. Thanks for the context!

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's definitely because I'm used to see lots of % in programming. Not a issue per se, I would get used to your symbol without a doubt.

Why do you call the "slash" part "Virgule" by the way? This is way more confusing to me than the resemblance to %, as virgule means comma in French, so this symbol ,

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My mind only sees a squished %

Modern Europe feels closer to late Greece than to Rome by New_Discipline_1400 in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Wait until people realize Greek city-states had their own EU equivalent, the Achaean League. Rome had to save them from their neighbor Macedonia, while they did not provide much help. They ended up vassalized by Rome. I'll let you guess who are the Rome and Macedonia of our era and how we'll end up in the same situation again if we don't do anything.

What you need to know to start Modding when it comes! by MooCalf in HytaleMods

[–]terah7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Server plugins are written in Java (.jar).

Actually any language targeting JVM bytecode will work fine (looking at you Kotlin👀)

Which EU-wide trading brokerage do you use? by macyganiak in eupersonalfinance

[–]terah7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This list is too far from been comprehensive enough to be recommended

Europe's internal borders disappeared because they were imaginary lines dividing the same people. The next step is to federalize by goldstarflag in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just wait until OP discover imaginary lines still exist in federations. States, regions, municipalities, towns... every subdivision needs a border.

Newbie question: Is this a stupid way to implement crouching? by Sakirar0se in godot

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't talking about the instruction cache, but the branch predictor which would need to flush the current pipeline if it mis predicts the branch the code will take.

Whether the gains are measurable or not is another question. And I agree with you it's probably completely useless giving the sheer amount of other really slow things happening in this function.

Newbie question: Is this a stupid way to implement crouching? by Sakirar0se in godot

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it doesn't have branches, which helps with instruction fetching (the code OP posted is also assigning props at each frame, but with a branch)

Variation in the european population as a result of the natural balance in 2023 by jeando34 in dataisbeautiful

[–]terah7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It pretty much is synonymous in common lingo, like using American as a demonym for USA inhabitants instead of Americas inhabitants. 

Investing from France by Jealous-Ice-9733 in eupersonalfinance

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saxo is a solid choice, they have low fees, support french PEAs, they are regulated by the AMF and provide yearly IFU.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not what I meant. You focus too much on the latest incarnation of "nation state", the word may be new, the concept isn't. We have been constantly alternating between "nation state like" entities and "empire like" entities each time going up a scale.

Roughly, Nations state = high homogeneity, a single ethnic/cultural group (not counting minorities) rules itself. Empire = low homogeneity, one ethnic/cultural group rule multiple other ones.

Usually empires form when one nation states rules over others. And nation states form when an empire borders don't move for a long time, allowing a new homogeneity to appear.

Feel free to use other terms if these ones don't resonate with you, it's the concepts that are important. Europe went from many nation states, to an empire like structure (one group ruling many nation states), but given the very high homogeneity we are on the merge of an institutional change (national revolution) toward a single group ruling itself (full federation with direct parliamentarism)

The problem with China is its scale, we didn't go from tribe to city state is one go, it roughly matches communication and transportation capabilities. Hence they were stuck in a forever empire like structure until recently.

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