#explainingthejoke — Public Fediverse posts

There are so many people bashing colonialism, but we need to have a balanced discussion. On the one hand, yes, people in the subjected parts of the world are made to suffer and/or are killed, but think of the enormous benefits to us privileged people in the global north.

This is a post about LLMs.

#colonialism #LLM #ai #explainingthejoke

@mjd Obviously the argument falls apart if one is looking at an English translation of Euclid because neither English nor Latin were popular languages then. (The oldest known Ancient Latin inscriptions predate Euclid's elements by a few hundred years.) Going down to the Bodleian we can read a Greek text copied in 888 AD where propositions end with the text (Prop 7 from Book I) ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι corresponding to Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum) or (Prop 10) ὅπερ ἔδει ποιῆσαι which corresponds to Q.E.F. (quod erat faciendum) because Prop 10 is a construction.

https://www.claymath.org/library/historical/euclid/files/elem.1.10.html

#Euclid #Greek #Latin #ExplainingTheJoke #Overexplaining

@quincy (Sorry going through posts on #strudel tag..)

I'm pretty sure it stands for general midi #explainingthejoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

@chel ("lame" is a possible way of writing the second person imperative of the verb "to lick" in Spanish #ExplainingTheJoke )

@tojosan #ExplainingTheJoke