Tag: details
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Silence Is Golden
There have been some cases where asking an AI to rate itself gives sort of funny results.
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High-Impact Typo
Typos in configuration might have been a common type of error 10 years ago, but it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny now.
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In Between Years
Work milestones are every 5 years. For adult ages I’ve got things like: 21 (legally drink), 25 (can rent a car), 35 (can be president), and all the decades (like turning 40). But I find those in-between numbers to be less memorable.
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Sour Don’t
In my defense, I stopped baking as much when I found out that one of my kids is allergic to gluten, and that’s why I had wheat flour just sitting around for a really long time.
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Like A Goldfish
After the initial gut reaction there’s a moment of doubt where I start to question…is it me? Did I imagine our last conversation?!
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Party Crashers
Maybe it seems weird to imagine attending a stranger’s birthday party and nobody realizing it, but especially for those younger kid parties: you might not have ever met any of the parents or the other kids. Fun fact: little kids can be hilariously bad at identifying people! Trust but verify.
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Watch Your Language
There’s something amusing about kids pointing out a technicality like this while using this insult against a sibling with whom they share the same mother, and in front of said mother. Because there are some arguably larger linguistic/usage concerns I could bring up here.
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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How Sure Are You?
It’s even better when the conflict is impossible: “So you detected the issue 3 hours before it started?”
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Ronald McDahlnald
One of my kids was also having trouble with this author’s name for her own book report (in a different class). We helped her remember it as “Rolled Doll” and when she practiced her presentation and had trouble I would mime like I was tossing something low to the ground (the imaginary doll) to help…