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γνώσεαι ὡς Ἀίδεω σκότον ἔκφυγον, οὐδέ τις ἔσται τῆς λυρικῆς Σαπφοῦς νώνυμος ἠέλιος.
you will know: i escaped the darkness of Hades. there will be no day where lyric Sappho goes unnamed.
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you know what’s OBSCENE and UNNATURAL and an ABOMINATION??? my Own Father just cut a pizza into Seven slices. seven!!!
Hahahahahahaha
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neural networks & roman names
SO after asking my dad really nicely he did the actual computery bit of uhh. a recurrent neural network to make silly fake roman names. we used a (slightly edited) version of this List Of All Romans as the training set and it. Created some weird shit
then it tried really hard to spell ‘gaius’ and ‘lucius’
here it’s trying to do praenomina with varying success
here are some actual names!!! kind of
and some Not Quite Names
who the fuck is titinus
FINALLY. my favourite dictators;
and
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au where romans discover the common origin of the indo-european languages
Roman: *pointing at a manuscript* Wait, so it says here we are descended from Eurasian steppe nomads. Like, with horses.
Historian: That is the dominant academic viewpoint based on the available evidence.
Roman: ...and we have the same ancestors as the Persians, the Scythians, the Celts, and the Germans?!
Linguist: The Greeks and Indians, too.
Roman: And we all believed in the same sky god?
Linguist: Dyēus Ph2tēr.
Roman: *closes eyes and performs the sign of the thunderbolt*
Roman: We conquered the indigenous settled peoples, imposed our language and culture upon them, and gradually became settled peoples ourselves...
Archaeologist: Well, yeah, it's not like the land was empty before you arrived.
Roman: Does that mean we are the barbarians?!
Historian: I’m sorry, but yes.
Roman: *sobs inconsolably*
Basque observing from a distance: *glares judgmentally*
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can’t believe they changed the hollywood sign again
Ooh, a BA A380. Haven't seen that before! #planegeek
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Source: twitter.com
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The awesome predatory viciousness of leopard seals
11 questions
RULES:
Rule 1. Always post the rules.
Rule 2. Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones.
Rule 3. Tag 11 people and link them to the post.
I was tagged by eggypeggy and i hope i don’t mess this up! I still don't understand Tumblr. I am an old. I used a capital T. Such terrible. Or something. (Is that what the young people say these days?)
Eggypeggy's questions:
- How would you least like to die? Slowly.
- Favourite instrument to listen to? Piano, if I had to choose one. But ideally a trio (jazz piano trio or guitar/bass/drums rock trio)
- What is your favourite type of light? Dancing light reflected off water.
- Make a terrible pun about whatever you like! Why should I? Will I be PUNished if I don't? Also, that's not a question.
- What is your favourite number and WHY? 17. Because it's prime, and it's big enough to be interesting. I just like its shape.
- Think about animals as a group. Suddenly, the idea of a specific animal enters your head. You are now this animal. How doomed are you? Not very. I'm an owl. I'm flying away.
- What is your favourite insult? Wolfgang Pauli's "That's not even wrong."
- Is there a book that has stayed in your mind for aaaaagggeeees? I love the Patrick O'Brian "Master and Commander" books. They are another world in which I like to escape. Like you with Tolkien, eggypeggy.
- Where do you think hobbits came from? (teeeell meeee). Indonesia, obviously.
- What is the last poem you read? Probably one of yours, eggypeggy!
- Who is your favourite fictional AI? HAL 9000, obviously. Made me write dodgy AI conversation-holding/story-writing software as a teenager, which in turn made me want to study AI at university. Thanks, HAL.
And now I have to add my own questions:
- If you could be any animal, what would you be?
- Which historical figure would you invite to dinner?
- Where and when are you happiest?
- Which book do you wish you had not read, so you could read it again for the first time?
- What is your favourite sound?
- Which unfamiliar country would you most like to visit?
- Imagine you can have a meal anywhere on earth this evening. Where would you choose?
- What do you wish you had more of?
- What do you wish you had less of?
- Hum a tune in your head. What is it?
- Who inspires you/is your hero/heroine?
And tag someone else. I choose you, fleeting-moments!
Alan Turing's office at Bletchley Park, Hut 8
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Brilliant!
[via @Brilliant_Ads via @BenedictEvans]
Genius.
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Morning On Mars
Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter.
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HOLY CRAP. o_o
- Sometimes, it hits me how beautiful the firmament is and how far the human knowledge has gone, but how little it is compared to the wide, wide universe and I become terribly emotional. -
Wow. Just wow.
Source: wordlesstech.com
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12-19-12, Los Angeles. New graffiti was found at L.A.’s George Carlin High School today marking a new height in the occult graffiti epidemic that plagues the city. Said L.A. Police Commissioner Crowley, “They say the chalk washes away but that’s not the problem here. The issue is that these sigils are made by amateur occultists who don’t always know what they’re doing. They mean to mark their ethereal turf but several of these alignments are capable of awakening Samael.”
Samael, last seen slaughtering the first born sons of Egypt, could not be reached for comment. We at FIMJU wanted more expert testimony however so we invited the mummified head of Necromancer John Dee from its tomb in England for an interview. Said the archetypical wizard, “Where am I? Why hast thou awakened me? Oh how I long to return to the sweet embrace of death, for my every moment awake is an eternity of pain!”
Troubling words indeed.
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Starry Night using Hubble images.
Awesome.
London skyline in yesterday's fog #ilovelondon
#shardlookingepic in the fog!