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  • sploosh@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldstudent using CatGPT
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    1 month ago

    I don’t speak French, but I did translate “cat, I farted” into French on Google Translate and had it dictate the result. It sounds a good deal like ChatGPT, especially if you’re primed to listen for it.

    EDIT: Or at least it used to. Now, if you translate “cat, I farted” it gives you “Cat, j’ai pété” and pronounces the C as a hard C, like it reads. Maybe it’s deciding that “cat” on its own is the name “Cat,” and thus not in need of translation. If you give it different context you get the expected result, as with translating “I had to tell the cat, I farted” you get back “J’ai dû dire au chat, j’ai pété,” which when pronounced the last bit sounds as expected.



  • sploosh@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzIrresistible
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    3 months ago

    Saying they suck things in isn’t really correct, unless you want to also say that the sun is constantly sucking Earth toward it. It’s just gravity.

    Also, magnets don’t only work on ferrous metals. Magnets push electrons through copper loops in generators and that’s how we have electricity.


  • Given the way they’re describing it, US south/southeast. The pitcher plants that grow there grow in marshes and swampy grasslands are from there. Pitcher plants elsewhere in the world are a different type all together, and are generally epiphytes or close to it.

    Except Australia and certain south American highlands. Or the pacific northest US. There are like 4 families of pitcher plants, only two of which are closely related (counting sarracenia and darlingtonia together with heliamphora in the family and nepenthes and cephalotus on their own).





  • It made it into Venus’ orbit after its main engine failed during the orbital insertion burn and then ran past its mission end date in 2018. If Akatsuki is lost it is a tragedy, but if that is the case at least we know that orbiter had it where it counts.

    In the mission team’s prowess in cultivating a solution and the engineering and construction teams’ craft in building a resilient piece of hardware.