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@pony 😃 Funny. BTW, what became of "ruska zmrzlina"?

@pony @piggo

@mathias let's see... although it will take me some time to get to.

@mathias is it good? I effectively stopped watching TV a couple of months ago, but I'd always give in into a recommendation from you - the last one was good :-)

@hellquist Having fun there :-)

@pony I agree with Andrej on this one. This is a good law! It would immediately solve the problem of banning of some parties in the country. 1) you get elected into the parliament; 2) you take a test; 3) you lose your MP seat; 4) rinse and repeat through the whole party list; 5) problem solved 🙂

@moth_ball Interesting connection to minority languages indeed. Thanks. Actually this is also how for instance Roma people speak in Central Europe. Romani being an ancient language, it probably (my interpretation) lacks words for modern technological inventions, so one can hear Roma people liberally interspersing their sentences with local expressions for stuff they need to speak about. Not that I understand the language, I was just always amused listening to something I couldn't understand sprinkled with words from my native tongue.

@pony

@pony That's not a parody, that's what I hear everyday at home - except the EN/CZ combo is replaced by two different languages. The outcome is a kind of bastardized secret family-language only the member fully understand.

@pony You write like my kids speak - freely mixing several languages in a single sentence. Fun. The next level (predicting on how my youngsters do it) is to be brave and deploy the technique not only on nouns (your current stage), but also on their declination and on verbs and their conjugation too. Like "ucookoval jsem si two very premium rybas yesterday vecer".

@pony I recognise that one. Before I went on a Mastodon-break some 2 months ago, we spoke about this one :-). Good luck with the "revitalisation".

@jmw150 Of course I know (perhaps more than I wish, got some academic titles in the broader field). The theory is very exciting indeed, what I am referring to are the applications and the hype the field is surfing over the last years. That itself is also not special, or wrong on its own. What is wrong is that laymen started to believe ML techniques can magically solve all of their problems without them doing the hard work of learning the nitty gritty details of their "domains of inexpertise". 99,999% of times it does not work beyond the first attempt which is deemed "promising". But yes, for image recognition and now natural language processing and similar things it worked marvels - which, to defense of the "magical thinking", would not be possible if people simply did not try to throw ML at anything and see what sticks. But when it actually does work, the nitty-gritty details of the domain are still needed. There's some inherent complexity to problems which actually matter.

@jmw150 Wonders of magical thinking and intellectual laziness: I do not need to analyse this any more. Just throw in some data, somebody creates a ML setup and voila, solution. Dissertation completed, mission accomplished. Except most of the time it's just minor scratches of the surface oversold as "first steps towards a _potential_ breakthrough"- with occasional/rare exceptions.

I am not complaining, we 9as the humankind) need to dig up this mine until we realise that there really isn't much in there and then we'll move on - at least knowing that we did our best and failed. But watching the process from the sidelines still hurts a bit.

This #Schenklradio is good right now. The hashtag led me to it, thanks. The evening is even better now

Sponge cake filled with berries. Summer delicacy. Life is good today. @hob #cakeposting

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon and this too...

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon yes 👆