@blog_supplement Apparently this nonstandard usage is common in Scotland, Northern Ireland and North (East) England. (Screenshot below from -> "Twitter Maps" -> "Perfective Alternation", found via

@vakibs Surely they're all doing that though, right? If it were just a matter of more conversational training data, then OpenAI and Google would also have done it, surely? (And ChatGPT has a lot more usage data) So it has to be some specific choices they made in how they trained it…

Interesting list! Worth remembering: इज्याचारदमाहिंसादानस्वाध्यायकर्मणाम् । अयं तु परमो धर्मो यद्योगेनात्मदर्शनम् ॥

Two stotras (attributed to Śaṅkara-bhagavatpāda): भगवन्मानसपूजा निर्गुणमानसपूजा

So delightful—and authentically Indian? :P—that this cookbook recipe contains “Use remaining water to swish blender clean and add” as one of the steps.

@lilastories I asked one of the LLMs to draw it, to make sense of your tweet :) (It already knew the names of all the people except "Coddy", which I looked up online.)

@lilastories Bunch of dictionaries, FWIW: (The "savage", "wild animal", "जंगली जानवर" etc meanings are probably not appropriate for a name, but it could be interpreted neutrally too….) Aside: I knew an Aranya, named by her father who worked for Indian Forest Service.

@srupana tbh impressed that they knew the term black gram and what it looks like!

@btbytes (I believe him when he says he means this unironically :D)

“Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well” as Mike Masnick has been pointing out for years now: (worth spending time looking at a few of those posts) — still, this “community notes” seems like a “least bad” system, an elegant solution.

The question of which sequences satisfy this property (sum of cubes of first n terms is square of their sum) turns out to have unusual(?) answer: they can all be obtained as transition labels following a state machine. (Proof sketch: it's cubic, we have three transitions, done!)

@karatalaamalaka @Almost_Sure Nice, hadn't seen it, thanks for sharing. This is a different proof I think, looks like one of the other ones in the book (there are a few; just found this one that's also clever).

@longhandnotes [while our relationship with/relative stature wrt our biological parents may change somewhat as we grow, the other one does not (or in the other direction): just as one cannot take a step to the east towards the rising sun and expect to have got closer in any substantial way]