Here’s half an hour of reconstructed dinosaur sounds.

An ongoing study utilizing the most recent scientific data on dinosaur vocalizations. Sounds are produced by myself and digitally workshopped from modern non-syrinx based avian reptiles. Using skull and olfactory cavity proportions, one can attempt to recreate the flow of sound, frequency, and volume of each animal. Much study is required for each particular species, and often several phases are trashed due to general unlikelihood. The final results are based on acute representations of what sounds would be most comfortable and base-line for each animal. Video also includes other reptiles, even though they are much more difficult to produce accurately.

This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds…

Something of the sort has already been claimed for language/linguistics, i.e. that LLMs can be used to understand human language production. One linguist wrote a pretty good reply to such claims, which can be summed up as “this is like inventing an airplane and using it to figure out how birds fly”. I mean, who knows, maybe that even could work, but it should be admitted that the approach appears extremely roundabout and very well might be utterly fruitless.

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Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there’s a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:

there’s only seven stories in the world

There isn’t. That’s a completely nonsensical statement, no serious scholar of litearture/film/etc. would claim something of the sort. While there have been attempts to analyse the “basic” stories and narrative structures (Propp’s model of fairy tales, Greimas’ actantial model, Campbell’s well-known hero’s journey), they’re all far from universally applicable or satisfying.

At least we won’t have any dang countries forcing time zones there to be in odd shapes.

Ehhhh, if you have expertise in ANY field outside of like programming, you can easily test various models and see that they produce a lot of crap. That doesn’t require you to understand how LLMs work exactly.

I’m in exactly this situation right now and I’m becoming more than desperate. I probably have several emails asking me to respond and let people know what’s going on. I don’t even dare to open my inbox.

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By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could’ve set up a program to OCR a book yourself.

AFAIK, lemmy.world only blocked [email protected] community, not the whole instance, and unblocked it a few months afterwards.

For anyone who can’t find them… :D

It’s a 90s high school, somewhat rural and religious, according to the article. Either there really were few homosexual relationships there, or the students didn’t want to reveal them.

Wow, that’s literally not me.

There’s a male-male one on the rightward branch of the ring structure.

They should be archiving a lot more of the internet, too, including all media.

They do, they have an extensive collection of scanned books, music and film.

The last one is not the Firefox logo, but the general Mozilla Foundation logo.

Source: literally just looking at the icon on your desktop.

I know I shouldn’t be the one to nitpick because I posted a similar “design simplification bad” meme myself just yesterday, but still… :D

Kind of, but on the other hand people (male, I believe) are openly agreeing with it ITT and apparently find it funny.

Is it known whether this popup appears only in specific geographic regions, or is it worldwide?