Comment on Dear Faith IX

• microcapybara@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love your username. Capys are so adorable. I wish it was ethical to keep them as pets.

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    • microcapybara@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you 😊 they are — I love their chill attitude. I make do quite well with the micro version although guinea pigs are, justifiably, more skittish.

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AI learned off people’s works. So a lot of people used to use them in writing, it seems.

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, in professional papers and journalism which is prevalant in training datasets.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wonder what the venn diagram of “professors” and “people who write papers” is like 🤔

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a great punctuation. You could use commas, but emdash is nice.

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is, isn’t it?

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I prefer parentheticals, but unless absolutely necessary, I try to write more simply because if I write how I actually think, it starts to get all John Sturat mill run-on sentence-y

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I overuse the fuck out of parentheses. Emdash is helping me get over that, but I can relate.

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