Nick Matteo

Mathematics lecturer, free software + scifi geek

[Nick Matteo @kundor]

@ZachWeiner Except in Quaker usage, which has "thee" as subject.

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Hey @ryanqnorth! I know we're a few years late to the party but my kids and I are loving reading through the @unbeatablesg collections right now. My son Eddie made these minifigs of Squirrel Girl, Nancy, and Maureen meeting Cat Thor.

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@askparamount After being out of the country for three weeks, my kids were really looking forward to continuing to watch #StarTrekProdigy...we were up to episode 11. But it's gone?! How are we supposed to finish the season?

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@boulderosmp Where is the former site of the fort located?

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The aftermath of #FreeComicBookDay thanks to @timewarpboulder

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@mbennardo This seems obvious but it is not how my wife operates??? Inexplicable tbh

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@UnwinderH The unparalleled Hans Pfaall

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@Snowden It will be impossible for your educated stupid brain to know that 4 different corner harmonic 24 hour Days rotate simultaneously within a single 4 quadrant rotation of a squared equator and cubed Earth

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@mbennardo It's a multiocular O, which I think was added to Unicode based on a single example found in some medieval manuscript

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@mbennardo ꙮ

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@TheMekon_Venus @bitten_8 @STTOSRunner It's post-scarcity. No one starves because replicators can make all the food-or anything else-anyone needs, for free. There's no need for money (supposedly) because there isn't a limited supply of anything.

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You have to get a summary of the movie, then immediately a book report on the novella, before asking anything about a comparison. Weird!

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It's surprisingly difficult to get #ChatGPT to simultaneously admit it knows the plot of "The Word for World is Forest" and Avatar. But once it does...it gets angry

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If you start with discussing the plot of TWfWiF, it insists that as a humble LLM it knows nothing of movies and keeps doubling down on that. If you start with the plot of Avatar, it gives a thorough rundown, but suddenly can't remember the novella.

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Seems legit #ChatGPT

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It does NOT want to let me die. I foolishly went toe-to-toe with a bear, and the bear veered aside and ran away. I jumped out of a tall tree and at first it refused to process it, then it said I landed safely on the ground. This is hardly like Zork at all

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Holy crap I can just ask ChatGPT to play a game with me "Like Zork" and I'm playing a text-based adventure

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I'm definitely not paying for a text-based adventure game again!

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@UnwinderH A memorable conversation:
Elder: "One of the kids in my class keeps using the F-word!!" (Horror)
Younger: "What is it?"
E: "I'm not going to SAY it!"
Y: (Apparently has been on this case for a while) "Is it funk?"
E: (scandalized) "Don't try to guess!!"

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@UnwinderH I have one kid who would probably die before letting a bad word pass out of his mouth (not because of a parental rule, this is all him) and his little brother who wants to know them all