...praised for its tight control, unique and non-linear gameplay and bright presentation, and is often regarded as one of the best titles for the NES. 🤩
Did you enjoy one of the Ducktales titles for NES or Game Boy? 😍
🕹️ #RetroTrivia about the game consoles of our childhood
You’ll see discussions of this among book collectors, where earlier printings can be more valuable...
Or, yanno, among people like me who are just TOTAL DORKS
In fact this is the first time one of my books has had a second printing (YAY!), so I might actually go out and buy it so I can have a copy without the “1” there 🤣🤣🤣
But! What’s selling right now is the first printing still — it’s not sold through YET, it's just going fast — so if YOU want to be a book collecting dork and get a hardcover with the “1” in it, you still can!
Once again, I added wrong for the final question (and I'm actually really good at math), so we tumbled in #trivia at #5050Taphouse in #Winchester. But, on the plus side, we only would have ended up 3rd if I'd added correctly, so we wouldn't have won anything.
If my team had listened to me when I said Salt Lake City was the capital of Utah, then we could have ended up in second place, and then I would have been really upset that I added wrong.
So, I'm re-encoding my Stargate SG-1 episodes in a bit better quality. The tracks on the Blurays are not always in the same order as the episodes, but I'm finding that I only need to watch a few seconds of the encoded video file to know which episode title it is.
"In Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs, Cheyenne Mountain houses 'Stargate Command', a top-secret unit of the United States Air Force that uses the titular Stargate to explore other planets. In recognition of the series' close relationship with the real-life Air Force, there is now a broom closet in the real Cheyenne Mountain Complex called 'Stargate Command'."
Playing a #trivia game while also learning how to use the #AmateuRadio#NTS National Traffic System? Yes, I'll do it. Wonder if I can send it in via #MorseCode ?
Playing a #trivia game while also learning how to use the #AmateuRadio#NTS National Traffic System? Yes, I'll do it. Wonder if I can send it in via #MorseCode ?
One #Scottish inventor, Mr. John MacAdam, devised a method of paving roads ”in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly. A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a cement or bituminous binder to keep dust and stones together” (from Wikipedia).
Such construction is called a macadam; to make it, is ”to macadamize”, and the process of doing it again (say, the road has worn off) would be ”remacadamizing”.
re- comes from Latin, a prefix meaning doing something again
mac- is Gaelic, ~“son of”
adam – of Hebrew origin
-iz/-ize is said to (indirectly) come from Greek -ιζειν
-ing – English suffix
Five languages in one word; which suggests, that the macadam could be, in fact, invented much earlier, probably around time of Babel tower.
Follow along in the thread for questions and respond with your answers (please CW if able so others can play along), I'll let you know if you're right (or not).
In Greece you are not allowed to wear high heels in historical places.
It is forbidden to run out of gas on the highways in Germany. You will get a ticket. If your car is a cause of danger for other drivers, you may even be sentenced to a prison.
It's forbidden to drag a suitcase behind you in the old town of Dubrovnik Croatia. It is too noisy. #lessonslearned#today#trivia
TRIVIA! What is the phone that comes with the custom Android interface / launcher called HIOS? Answer this and we won't give away a phone from them but will give you a shoutout. Still cute though 😀 #Android#Trivia
#AI#AIDetector#GenerativeAI#Plagiarism#HigherEd: "People typically have bigger vocabularies and a better grasp of complex grammar in their first languages. This means non-native English speakers tend to write more simply in English. So does ChatGPT. In fact, it mimics human writing by parsing everything it has ever processed and crafting sentences using the most common words and phrases. Even if AI detectors aren’t specifically trained to flag less complex writing, the tools learn to do so by seeing over and over that AI-generated writing is less complex.
Weixin Liang, one of the authors of the Stanford study, learned Cantonese and Mandarin before English. He was skeptical about claims of near-perfect accuracy with AI detectors and wanted to look more closely at how they worked for students with linguistic backgrounds like his.
“The design of many GPT detectors inherently discriminates against non-native authors, particularly those exhibiting restricted linguistic diversity and word choice,” Liang said via email."
@remixtures
It's pretty clear the "#AI" was programmed to look for "awkward"/stilted language instead of copied text.
Back in the 1980's, the U.S. Army tried to "train" a computer to spot enemy tanks in obscure reconnaissance photos.
In training, the "AI" was 100% accurate. In a field test, it failed 100%.
Why?
Turns out all of the Training Photos used were taken on "sunny" days and it was cloudy during the live test. The AI wasn't detecting "tanks", it was detecting sunny days. 🤦♂️ #TRIVIA