#ambiguity — Public Fediverse posts

Acting. One of the oddities that permeate the English language is the dual meanings of the verb “to act”.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/07/acting

#acting #ToAct #ambiguity

🚫🤣 Roto: The revolutionary #scripting #language nobody asked for, where semicolons are banished to the shadow realm! Because who needs tiny dots and squiggles when you can create #chaos with #Pythonic ambiguity? 👏🥴
https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/ #Roto #Ambiguity #Tech #Humor #Coding #HackerNews #ngated

@timberwraith
@Dgun8

Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.

There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...

➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"

"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".

Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.

➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)

💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question

We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.

So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.

#Lists are always good.

#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate

@timberwraith
@Dgun8

Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.

There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...

➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"

"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".

Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.

➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)

💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question

We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.

So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.

#Lists are always good.

#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate

It's important to understand what 𝘈 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 is 𝙣𝙤𝙩 talking about.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/19/what-the-lih-is-not-about-and-why-this-still-needs-saying/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #language #linguistics #meaning #hypothesis #book #blog #podcast #banks #pyjamas #baskets #basketball #communication #semantics #understanding #syntax #epistemology #ambiguity #elephants #humour

Added a new example of fucking ambiguity to my @stronglang post
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/fucking-ambiguity/

#language #swearing #semantics #profanity #ambiguity #wordplay #words

A quotation from Charles Mackay

The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness

Thursday, August 21, 2025

5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/

I am looking for fellow social science scholars on wind power.

I am preparing an article about public participation in environmental assessment in Flanders and the Netherlands.

The dataset of publicly available comments is rich enough for additional publications, though that requires teamwork.

#energyjustice #risk #ambiguity #publicparticipation #environmentaljustice #uncertainty #sociology #contentanalysis #groundedtheory #acceptance #windpower #windturbine #renewableenergytechnology

Today, the 2nd lecture of #ISE2025 took place with an introduction into Natural Language Processing, which will be subject of our lecture for the next 4 weeks.

#AI #nlp #informationextraction #ocr #ner #linguistics #computationallinguistics #morphology #pos #ambiguity #language @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique #AIart #generativeAI #machinetranslation #languagemodels #llm

Ah yes, because if there's one group of #financial #wizards we should all be emulating, it's #Congress 🙄. Clearly, the path to riches is #sniping trades from our beloved lawmakers, who are definitely known for their stellar financial acumen and not at all for being, you know, slow and inept at everything else 🐌. Enjoy your free trial of #ethical ambiguity! 💸
https://politichook.com/ #Ambiguity #Trade #Political #Satire #HackerNews #ngated

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

⬆ #Quotes #PaulTillich #Ambiguity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseLake #Minnesota

Whether something happened "on this day" in history seems very arbitrary to me. If we lived on any other planet, with any other length year, it wouldn't even be "on this day". Even on this planet, if you use any of the multiple lunar calendars commonly used instead of the Gregorian Calendar, it wouldn't be "on this day".

#ActuallyAutistic
#Language
#Ambiguity
#Arbitrary

Ein schönes Beispiel für ambigen Negationsskopus. Aus dem Kontext wird wohl klar, dass die Treppe weder geräumt noch gestreut wird (Treppe wird nicht (geräumt und gestreut)).

Verstehen kann man aber auch: Die Treppe wird nicht geräumt, aber sie wird gestreut (Treppe wird nicht (geräumt) und gestreut). #skopus #negation #lingustik #ambiguity #linguistics

I kinda went on a rant: https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/organizational-information-gain?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#informationgain #decisiontrees #values #priorities #systemsthinking #productmanagement #strategy #CX #UX #masspersonalization #GenerativeAI #collaboration #platform #networkeffects #SaaS #communication #socialmedia #customersuccess #processoptimization #employeeengagement #servicedesign #LLMs #cashflow #psychologicalsafety #emotionalintelligence #ambiguity #productmarketfit #backpropagation #machineaugmented #digitaltransformation

#FalseAlarms and #information transmission in grouping #animals

#OpenAccess

"False alarm rate is affected by 2 core processing stages: (i) individual #perception & #response [impacted by #predator cue #ambiguity, #cost of #responding and #vulnerability to #attack] and (ii) #group #processing of predator information [impacted by alteration of #alarm #reactivity, #quorum response and #WaveAttenuation]"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12932