Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 17

Seven parties? Are all of these represented in Parliament? Or am I right in assuming that current Parliament is all Tory/Labour/SNP/LibDem?

bbc.com/news/articles/clddkpy6…

So that's:
- Labour
- Tories
- LibDems
- SNP
- Reform (Brexit/Farage)
- Plaid Cumry
- Greens

@I am Jack's Lost 404 Yes! Cool term!

What I'm talking about would be a deliberate "metameric failure".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metameri…

@Chris Murphy LED lights and fluorescent lights do not emit a nice black-body gauss-shaped spectrum, they emit all their energy on a few narrow lines in the spectrum.

♲ @clacke@libranet.de: In case it's unclear what I'm talking about, sunlight or a good old lightbulb has a light spectrum that looks like this:

111111122221111111111111111

But an LED light has a light spectrum that looks like this:

000090000000090000000090000

A fluorescent light is not RGB, but it is also made of spikes rather than an even curve, the spikes are just just placed in other places. So you could have a shirt that has three different colors when you view it in white light, LED light and some common configuration of fluorescent light.

In case it's unclear what I'm talking about, sunlight or a good old lightbulb has a light spectrum that looks like this:

111111122221111111111111111

But an LED light has a light spectrum that looks like this:

000090000000090000000090000

A flourescent light is not RGB, but it is also made of spikes rather than an even curve, the spikes are just just placed in other places. So you could have a shirt that has three different colors when you view it in white light, LED light and some common configuration of flourescent light.

I have probably said this before, but I can't get over the idea that someone could make a material that has completely different colors if you shine RGB light on it or if you shine true black-body white light on it.

If somebody made this, where do I put my money? I want a shirt that is red outdoors and green indoors!

@Mans R Out-of-universe: When they made Amok Time there were a couple of Vulcan women in the script. They were named like this, and since then writers are doing it except when they're not.

Any in-universe explanation will be a retrofit, as no Vulcan language and very little lore existed as of Amok Time. It was the first dive into any other Vulcan than Spock.

@Mans R There is no canon explanation. It seems to be tradition for whatever reason, but e.g. Saavik and Valeris had parents that broke tradition.

Fan theories include:
- Honoring T'Pau (Nimoy's speculation, but as of ENT, T'Pol was named before T'Pau was influential)
- "T' " means "of", and maybe it was originally given when you marry and become of your husband
- The word "t'sai" is "lady", maybe it leaked into names
- Maybe those few not named T'Something were conceived outside pon farr

(information stolen from T'Kay, Vulcartist)

"vulcan women are always t'something ... why not name your kid something else"

"because it's t'boo"

-- deep in the comments of STSP

@Alexandre Oliva It was already a lossy process.

Now it's a lossy process with a feedback loop.

CoPilot is pronounced copy-lot in French English.

Accurate!

Here the less spicy part of David Simon's take on AI in the creative process:

I mean, if a writer wants to play around with AI as the writer and see if it helps him, I mean, I regard it as no different than him having a thesaurus or a dictionary on his desk or a book of quotable quotes. Play around with it. If it starts to lead the way in the sense that a studio exec comes to you and says, AI gave us this story that we want, that's not why I got into storytelling. And it's not where I'll stay if that's what storytelling is.

npr.org/2023/05/19/1177194215/…

David Simon, writer and showrunner for The Wire and other shows, member of the Negotiating Committee of the Writer's Guild, talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro during last year's strike. They talk about what the issues at hand are, previous strikes, challenges for writers in today's corporate climate, and here's what Simon says about AI's role in the creative process:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

SIMON: What?

SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...

SIMON: You imagine that?

SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

npr.org/2023/05/19/1177194215/…

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
#WritersStrike

@Delta Wye Among all couples one to five generations back there is *one* that aren't cousins or uncle and niece.

Say what you want about the Habsburg family tree, it doesn't have this confusing exponential number of people to keep track of like in other family trees as you go back. 😬