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Regex isn't hard enough, so I present you with a crossword where all hints are regular expressions!
I confess at first it looked like the hints don't contain enough information to solve the puzzle but after some slow but steady progress I can confirm that they do 🤣
The original puzzle is from https://puzzles.mit.edu/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/
I shared this on my blog: https://mathspp.com/blog/problems/regex-crossword
Can you solve this crossword where all hints are regular expressions?mathspp.com
Not "hallucination", just bullshit !
"The machines are not trying to communicate something they believe or perceive. Their inaccuracy is not due to misperception or hallucination. As we have pointed out, they are not trying to convey information at all. They are bullshitting."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue.SpringerLink
When my son was 10, he gave me a card for my birthday.
In it, apart from the usual wishes, was a hand-written link to a YouTube video. 40-odd characters with random letters and numbers, carefully calligraphed by a 10 year old.
It took me 3 attempts to land at the correct page.
I got rickrolled.
I need this machine really badly.
#books #reading #comics #humour
Checks and balances …Tom Gauld (The Guardian)
I don't know if you're allowed to be attracted to an artist's interpretation of your own sona...and yet, here we are... 
Super cool 5min comm painted on a NYC parking ticket envelope by the phenomenally talented @fexazaur during the AAC Barking Lot pop-up last night!
I will always boost this quote; that’s just the rules. But the image doesn’t have alt, so here’s the key text:
“Sometimes people use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like a person’ and sometimes they use ‘respect’ to mean ‘treating someone like an authority’
“and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say ‘if you won't respect me I won't respect you’ and they mean ‘if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person.’” https://mstdn.ca/@Schteve/113023778195165583
Attached: 1 image @Jorsh@beige.party @mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.orgMastodon Canada
Happy Fursuit Friday! At TFS last weekend, I tried doing a little photoshoot with help from a couple friends! 💙
The rest will be uploaded later, but here's one of my favorites.
📸 @kalysta.bsky.social
🧵 @poeproductions
#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Furry #Otter #TFS #TFS2024 #FurrySiesta
Cirba Solutions officially opened its expanded lithium-ion battery processing plant, using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.Canary Media
Apparently it’s International Dog Day 🐺
How would you caption this photo of me? Wrong answers only
📸 @chadthegryph.bsky.social
I'm not sure what bit of my brain is responsible for this, but I just have a habit of accumulating *stuff*.
Things that seem interesting, or are cheap, or look like they might be useful.
The problem is that when I realise "oh I've got too much stuff", I absolutely fail at getting rid of things.
It's the sort of "this is just a bit too nice to straight up throw away, but finding someone who might use it is a bit of a stretch"
PSA: Twitter* links are almost completely useless if you don't have an account.
Links to tweets will give you that one tweet, none of the replies or other parts of the same thread. Links to profiles will just redirect to a login screen.
If you post a twitter link, it is useless to a lot of people. Add a screenshot or copy the text you want people to see.
(before you reply that you already know: I know that you, dear reader, know. you are awesome that way, after all. but people who still have a twitter* account don't, because they don't see this)
* Allegedly known as "X"
The problem with humans is that we think we’re separate from nature, when in fact, we are nature.
When we destroy this planet, we destroy ourselves.
When we protect this planet, we protect ourselves.
We have a lot of growing up to do.
It’s time to evolve.
If you've ever dreamed of being a sweet and sultry coyote, now is your chance! Sunset Coyote is officially available on TheDealersDen until Sunday evening!
💛🧡🩷💜 https://www.thedealersden.com/listing/sunset-coyote-fullsuit/286480
#fursuit #fullsuit #forsale #auction #coyote
This fursuit features:-Head built on a 3d printed flexible foam headbase (printing done by Dattas), following eyes, hair poof, a USB powered muzzle fan, lined with a balaclava.www.thedealersden.com
Jamage at FWA24
🐕: JamageArts
📌: FurryWeekend
#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA24
So putting an air purifier in a day care cuts kids sick days by a third.
Man, someone from Waterloo public health should just grab their credit card, order 220 air purifiers, and give two to every child care center in the city.
The results of the study at two Helsinki daycare centres are still preliminary but promising, a researcher says.Yle News
Good news for furry scrabblers: OwO, UwU, and floof have all been added to this year's edition of Collins' Official Scrabble Words.
https://scrabble.collinsdictionary.com/blog/collins-official-scrabble-words-2024/
One of the things that makes the official Scrabble word list unique is that it constantly evolves just as language … Continuedginamacleod (Scrabble & Word Finder | Collins Dictionary)
SYDNEY — Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to "disconnect" on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours contact from employers, to the distress of big industry.
READ: https://tmt.news/1966787
SYDNEY — Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to 'disconnect' on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours contact from employers, to the distress of big industry.Agence France-Presse (The Manila Times)
