Deykun
🎲 a random fact generator
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Deykun@kbin.socialto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I don't wanna know how this happened... or what follows...12·1 year agoBoJack, stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you! It’s not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened in your career, or when you were a kid! It’s you! Alright? It’s you. Fuck, man. What else is there to say?
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas@kbin.social•Ceremonial miner's axe | Germany, Saxony - 16623·1 year agoThe source and more photos: https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/catalog/530266
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas@kbin.social•Mongoose Figure | Egypt, 664–30 B.C. (Late Period or Ptolemaic Period)1·1 year agoA source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544088 (currently in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY)
During the Late Period and Ptolemaic times mongooses were represented in bronze statuettes such as this one, standing, forepaws raised, atop small bronze boxes. The pose of raised paws signifies the animal’s adoration of the sun god when he rises in the morning. Some scholars have identified these animals as otters rather than mongooses.
In myth, mongooses were particularly attached to the goddess of Lower Egypt Wadjet, whose cult was centered in Buto, in the northern Delta.
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto Science@kbin.social•Google Scholar Results for "Unwavering" AND "Intricate" AND "Delve Into"5·1 year agoA good summary:
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto Science@kbin.social•Google Scholar Results for "Unwavering" AND "Intricate" AND "Delve Into"5·1 year agoSource: https://twitter.com/selimyaman_/status/1772172937073709293
Actual paper on the impact of ChatGPT on adjectives: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183
I’ve added BÉPO and AZERTY (some letters I had to keep below). I think that BÉPO actually has an interesting pattern:
https://imgur.com/a/uupLDMJ
The site has tooltips showing letter percentages:
https://deykun.github.io/diffle-lang/fr?p=about-languagePeak for other languages: English - 9, Spanish - 10, Polish - 12, German - 13
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas@kbin.social•Peruvian Textile: Feline Pattern (900-1430)2·1 year agoA source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am-7498
Textile fragment; cotton plain weave ground with paired warps; camelid supplementary weft patterning; feline figure; cream and black.
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•German heatmap based on Wikipedia articles 🇩🇪1·1 year agoThere were some comments on Reddit suggesting that cutting the dataset at 15 and removing 40% of words was not the best move. I have locally built a version with the limit set to 30.
For the interested:
https://imgur.com/a/Rz7Cw6x
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•German heatmap based on Wikipedia articles 🇩🇪1·1 year agoI only have a prespellechecked list of words from here: http://www.aaabbb.de/WordList/WordList_en.php
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•German heatmap based on Wikipedia articles 🇩🇪2·1 year agoThanks. It should read prefers-color-scheme. I have dark mode by default, but it’s also possible to set dark/light mode too.
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•German heatmap based on Wikipedia articles 🇩🇪24·1 year agoTo clarify, it is not the total number of words but rather the number of unique words considered. Imho a million of unique words is okay. A bigger concern for me would be that words on Wikipedia can be overly specific.
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•German heatmap based on Wikipedia articles 🇩🇪7·1 year agoA source: https://deykun.github.io/diffle-lang/de?p=about-language (It has tooltips displaying percentages for other letters)
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas@kbin.social•1731 Lion of Gripsholm Castle, poorly stuffed due to the taxidermist's unfamiliarity with lions, resulting in a comically deformed face3·1 year agoThe Lion of Gripsholm Castle is a notable example of bad taxidermy located in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden. The Lion is badly stuffed and is considered to have a comically deformed face.[1]
In 1731, the dey of Algiers presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia.[2] When alive, the lion was kept in a cage near Junibacken. When the lion died, it was stuffed and mounted; however, the taxidermist and the museum-keepers had never actually seen a lion before, and did not know how they were supposed to look.[3] The taxidermist mostly based the reconstruction off of historic artwork of lions. As a result, the mount was especially anatomically inaccurate, most apparent in its face.
In the 21st century, the badly-stuffed lion has been widely mocked.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Gripsholm_Castle
Deykun@kbin.socialOPto For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas@kbin.social•A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based | 19212·1 year agoA photo description:
Christopher Robin’s original Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed toys, on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. Clockwise from bottom left: Tigger, Kanga, Edward Bear (“Winnie-the-Pooh”), Eeyore, and Piglet. Roo was also one of the original toys, but was lost during the 1930s.
More about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh#History
Yes! I originally found it posted on their TikTok account:
https://www.tiktok.com/@thehuntington/video/7321812764421475630;)
ok, so basically im very smol