Word of the Day
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Verb appropinquate | |
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: to approach; to near. | |
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Noun misoneism | |
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: a hatred, fear, or intolerance of innovation or change | |
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Noun collywobbles | |
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: (informal, mainly humorous) Stomach pain or queasiness. : Intense anxiety or nervousness, especially with stomach queasiness. | |
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"My initial speculation was that maybe they’d hide invisible non-printing Unicode characters in the text. Just spitballing. Turns out that’s not what they’re going to do. What they’re going to do is apply a form of steganography, where the choice of words (or other token output) at inference time will leave fingerprints that can later, maybe, be detected probabilistically."
—Daring Fireball (Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing)
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Verb spitball | |
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: to propose (ideas, suggestions, etc.) for consideration in an informal, preliminary way “Writers spitballed story ideas; editors dreamed up coverage …” | |
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"Say 'idempotent' one more time," I recently dared a computer I pay for.
And, then it did.
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Adjective idempotent | |
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: relating to or being a mathematical quantity which when applied to itself under a given binary operation (such as multiplication) equals itself | |
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Adjective exigent | |
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1 : requiring immediate aid or action “exigent circumstances” 2 : requiring or calling for much : demanding “an exigent client” | |
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Adjective diffident | |
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1 : hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence 2 : reserved, unassertive 3 : distrustful | |
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Noun anachronism | |
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1 : an error in chronology 2 : a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place 3 : the state or condition of being chronologically out of place | |
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Herman, the founder, may have included this because it gives bloggers more impetus to continue writing.
-via Writing for Readers, Not Algorithms
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Noun impetus | |
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1 : a driving force : impulse “The push serves as the impetus, the child and the swing reach the highest point on their own, and then gravity returns the child and swing to the starting place.” 2 : the effect of a driving force “It was a difficult catch. … Bob got to it with one hand, and held it. His impetus carried him on almost to where Burgess was standing.” 3 : incentive, stimulus “felt no impetus to do well at school” | |
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“I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, which comes from the authorship claim in the very first verse of said book (“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah…”), with the claim that authorship is complicated." via Jerry Towler — Self-driven.
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Noun juxtaposition | |
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: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect “an unusual juxtaposition of colors” | |
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