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  1. #accurate : in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains

    - French: précis

    - German: akkurat

    - Italian: attento

    - Portuguese: acurado / preciso

    - Spanish: cuidadoso

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    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  2. “Based on my experience with Scouting, the point is you’re supposed to grow up to be someone not like Donald Trump."

    --Brian Alexander,
    Eagle Scout

    #truth
    #accurate

    @syferdet @randahl

  3. #accurate : in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains

    - French: précis

    - German: akkurat

    - Italian: attento

    - Portuguese: acurado / preciso

    - Spanish: cuidadoso

    ------------

    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  4. #AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
    --
    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
    #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

  5. #AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
    --
    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
    #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

  6. #AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
    --
    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
    #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

  7. #AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
    --
    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
    #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

  8. Joins Calls To End Use Of Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
    --
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
    --
    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]

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  10. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  11. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  12. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  13. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  14. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  15. #accurate : in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains

    - French: précis

    - German: akkurat

    - Italian: attento

    - Portuguese: acurado / preciso

    - Spanish: cuidadoso

    ------------

    See previous words @ wordofthehour.org/r/past

  16. Some of our most active users chose syslog-ng because of its detailed and ( syslog-ng.github.io/ ). Later I received complaints that it is too detailed, and we need a : peter.czanik.hu/posts/syslog-n . This time, I was asked for something even shorter. Here you are: syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog :-)

  17. Just watched The Thing.

    A damn good film.

    I'm no believer in aliens, but that aside it was pretty believable, Americans not trusting each other, running around with weapons annihilating themselves. Ending in a burning environment surrounded with no escape and an implied certain doom.

    Nowhere near as terrifying as the last time I saw it, luckily. That was when it came out to rent on video and I was about 8.

    @airshipper
    #MovieReview #TheThing #JohnCarpenter #Horror #Accurate

  18. Are #artificial #intelligence (AI) #detectors #accurate? What can happen when they’re not? Many universities are using them to try to ascertain whether students are having #AI programs write their classroom assignments for them. cbsnews.com/video/colleges-try

  19. 👨‍🏫 Because mastering #OSINT starts with understanding the language.

    🔎 Let’s explore: What does #FalsePositive mean?

    "A False Positive is an information that seems relevant at first but in reality, it has no connection to the target."

    ⚠️ False positives can waste your valuable time and in some cases, jeopardize your #investigation.

    👉 That’s why, when we integrate a new module into Epieos, we make sure it doesn’t generate false positives.

    Delivering a #stable, #accurate, and #reliable OSINT solution is part of our core commitment.

  20. 👨‍🏫 Because mastering #OSINT starts with understanding the language.

    🔎 Let’s explore: What does #FalsePositive mean?

    "A False Positive is an information that seems relevant at first but in reality, it has no connection to the target."

    ⚠️ False positives can waste your valuable time and in some cases, jeopardize your #investigation.

    👉 That’s why, when we integrate a new module into Epieos, we make sure it doesn’t generate false positives.

    Delivering a #stable, #accurate, and #reliable OSINT solution is part of our core commitment.

  21. 👨‍🏫 Because mastering #OSINT starts with understanding the language.

    🔎 Let’s explore: What does #FalsePositive mean?

    "A False Positive is an information that seems relevant at first but in reality, it has no connection to the target."

    ⚠️ False positives can waste your valuable time and in some cases, jeopardize your #investigation.

    👉 That’s why, when we integrate a new module into Epieos, we make sure it doesn’t generate false positives.

    Delivering a #stable, #accurate, and #reliable OSINT solution is part of our core commitment.

  22. Now, let's take a look at another project conducted at #SoftwareCampus. Meet Neha Desphande, she's a PhD student at @tuberlin and together with #Holtzbrinck Publishing Group she's working on an #AIGenerated German news article #summary. 🔎 In her micro-project she's currently working on ensuring that those summaries are #accurate, #clear, and free from misleading #content—which is a challenge.

    📰 Discover more here:
    softwarecampus.de/en/projekt/l (ENG)

    #LLM
    #EvaluationTechniques

  23. Now, let's take a look at another project conducted at #SoftwareCampus. Meet Neha Desphande, she's a PhD student at @tuberlin and together with #Holtzbrinck Publishing Group she's working on an #AIGenerated German news article #summary. 🔎 In her micro-project she's currently working on ensuring that those summaries are #accurate, #clear, and free from misleading #content—which is a challenge.

    📰 Discover more here:
    softwarecampus.de/en/projekt/l (ENG)

    #LLM
    #EvaluationTechniques

  24. Now, let's take a look at another project conducted at #SoftwareCampus. Meet Neha Desphande, she's a PhD student at @tuberlin and together with #Holtzbrinck Publishing Group she's working on an #AIGenerated German news article #summary. 🔎 In her micro-project she's currently working on ensuring that those summaries are #accurate, #clear, and free from misleading #content—which is a challenge.

    📰 Discover more here:
    softwarecampus.de/en/projekt/l (ENG)

    #LLM
    #EvaluationTechniques

  25. Now, let's take a look at another project conducted at #SoftwareCampus. Meet Neha Desphande, she's a PhD student at @tuberlin and together with #Holtzbrinck Publishing Group she's working on an #AIGenerated German news article #summary. 🔎 In her micro-project she's currently working on ensuring that those summaries are #accurate, #clear, and free from misleading #content—which is a challenge.

    📰 Discover more here:
    softwarecampus.de/en/projekt/l (ENG)

    #LLM
    #EvaluationTechniques

  26. Now, let's take a look at another project conducted at #SoftwareCampus. Meet Neha Desphande, she's a PhD student at @tuberlin and together with #Holtzbrinck Publishing Group she's working on an #AIGenerated German news article #summary. 🔎 In her micro-project she's currently working on ensuring that those summaries are #accurate, #clear, and free from misleading #content—which is a challenge.

    📰 Discover more here:
    softwarecampus.de/en/projekt/l (ENG)

    #LLM
    #EvaluationTechniques