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making? a celtic language app

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Once you understand the Way broadly, you can see it in all things.

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@WinterCawfie And it's free!

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@ParthJadhav8 Thinkur hell yeah

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@not_ellington There’s a correlation with how good someone is on camera and how little they care about their founding goals

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@WhimsicalKawfee Posh Nutella lmao

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The IP has potential but sometimes we just need to make something new that’s cool, instead of a sequel that’s unrelated to the first.

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‘UNTIL DAWN 2’ follows a team of ghost hunters as they look for a viral hit on a remote island haunted by a woman's chilling story of something far darker than they bargained for.

Releasing in 2027.

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Sully is a great film

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This is the real reason why AI attracts so much nonsense. It's not economic fear, it's not Terminator 2 or The Matrix.

When I first used CG-3.5, my first thought was, "Okay, I was wrong." I have a PhD in linguistics and my view of language led me to conclude that this kind of fidelity to natural language was impossible. This made me revise my view, reread a lot of books I haven't read since leaving grad school, and develop a much more nuanced view of language and what it means to be human.

That is a difficult and challenging process for most people. It's also something most people don't want to do! I'm in heaven--language as the marker of the human animal vis-a-vis all other life is an obsession for me. But for others, it's scary.

So, yeah, AI is scary, because it forces us to look in the mirror, and people do not like looking in the mirror unless there's something between their naked self and the image. That "something between" isn't what we thought it was.

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@IgorBlinkk 300k is mad, congrats!

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@hopes_revenge Basically. I have 2 phones that I carry around the house lmao and I just go onto my app and flick around to find stuff or come up with new things

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@iamgingertrash or boomers

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@WinterCawfie @distributedkv Do u not mean Ireland lad

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@WinterCawfie @yacineMTB The water just evaporates and gets lost forever lad

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I gotta create a unicorn before I get cooked

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Anthropic co-founders barely escaping the permanent underclass

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@IlirAliu_ I run an Irish language app and like 70% of my sales are non european buyers, mostly us, canada and aus

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@W98AB yeah a valuation of like 960bil

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@factorydoge69 Cheers!

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If you follow me here, you'll know I have been building a Celtic language-learning app. And I'm happy to say that I'm pretty much finished with its development.

The latest of work I've been doing on it is getting the language content for all 6 languages done. We launched with just two, Irish and Welsh. but now this week I'm gonna be launching the other four; and with this, the total development work comes to a close.

There are a few small projects or additions I want to make over the next few weeks, but I'm shifting my efforts on the app to part-time. I've got all of my social media content done up for the next while, so I'll have to spend one or perhaps two days a week on this.

It's been pretty incredible to build something from scratch and have it grow extremely quickly to what it is now. But I've always been of the belief that you should know when to stop and I think a large part of the success with blas has been it's targeted approach to being useful. It would be weird if I added a Spanish course or something to it.

I'm still really passionate about the project and where it's going but I think it would benefit from me slowing down slightly on adding new stuff and trying to position it in the business sense and just letting people sit with it and let it breathe and let it compound over the next few months.

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@factorydoge69 I am like don draper but I just sit home all day and talk to codex

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@SenSanders "–"

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I feel like it shows the disorganisation of all of this. The jobs data is there, you can't just flatly deny it and expect to be taken seriously, there are so many factors at play with layoffs (especially tech ones) that AI simply has to factor in.

If all of this were more organised and less anti-worker, execs would probably be making the case that people are being replaced, which is fine for the "greater good", provided that we have measures in place either privately or on a government level.

But headlines like this just read as extremely intelligent people blundering through this change, as if they don't know what they're doing (they do)