thanks, appreciated

I made a new community today !stupid_questions@lemmings.world. It is a simple community, appreciating absurd questions (not in my community, but the recently asked question 100 men vs gorrila also fits in it). Due to nature of community, it can actually be more interlinked with other communities, for example the gorilla question would be also fit in a biomechanics community ( i do not think we have one yet) but maybe biomechanics community does not have any (or many) subscribers, then stupid_questions folk can also join them. This somewhat happened (to soon to say much about this, all hypothesising) with first post, about brand new sentences, which is now cross posted to linguistics community. I think this can plug in a “humor” “hole” for many communities. General asking communities definitely do appreciatie humor, but may not be “nerdy” enough (i do not like using this word, especially on lemmy, where i could practically categorise everyone using lemmy to be a nerd, if you have a better one please do tell) to willingly subscribe to a “absurdism” community. My guess would be that people who appreciate absurd stuff, might have a stronger correlation with those who are interested in academicc disciplines. Maybe it is a wrong hunch, but my time on internet for however long i have been on it suggests that.

my guess would have been something like 5-10 words (maybe 7). Maybe in literature it would be much higher, as writing capabilities for people writing literature (technical or not) is much better than average stuff an average person says. Averages have to include less than 10 year olds, and even 5 year olds, which might have hard time having 10 words stringed together in a logical manner. Still seems crazy fact to me.

English λ should be around 18 words/sentence

is not that really huge. Does an average sentence really have 18 words? Would love the source.

I never thought the statistics classes I got 20y ago in a Chemistry grad would help me with this, but here we are.

my statistics is coming from QM 1 2 and optics classes

i think you have already given a pretty good and structured method to analyse the situation. Thanks!

lets consider a world where everyone speaks english. Lets also consider some average sentence length (i don’t think sentence lengths would follow a normal distribution, i think they follow a poissonian (or something alike), essentially peaking around mean, and then sentences get rarer as they get longer (but the rate of decrease gets practically constant). I think this is also a better fit for language like english, where with enough amounts of conjuncts and clause phrase substitutions (with verbs and dps here and there) sentences can get to virtually infinte length. English even has a loophole of having ‘;’ which is kinda like full stop, but does not really count as one. (I do not really know how this is classified properly in linguistics, my guess is that it would a conjunction, but then some over powered kind, which allows to break regular grammar rules).

if we pick sentence structure for each verb class (untransitive(not sure if this is what it is called, but the ones which either only require a subject or object), and transitive (normal and di), and then get similar zipfian data for occurence of these, we can cover a lot sentences. Since the sentences do not really have to mean anything (i ate broccoli is just as valid as broccoli ate me) we can then just have list of all dps, and also pick 0, 1, 2 or 3 adjective, and maybe 1 numP (iirc, we were told that we usually do not use more than 3 adjectives), so we can have a complete DP, and then just permutations all DPs with each verb class, then waited by ziph.

if we have m number of adjectives, n number of numP, o number of distinct nouns (lets say just all nouns in a big source like wiki), then (m + 1)^3 * (n + 1) * o (the plus 1 is for null) lets call this some constant D. then for a verb, v with zipf frequency z, all possible ways would be D - v, v - D, D - v - D, D - v - D, D. This is assuming CP don’t exist.

this would give a very big number (adding all the cases), then just divide with number of speakers (available, in a speaking condition every second). I think this should be some kind of estimate.

Please correct me on stuff i got wrong, i am very new to this stuff.

I usually prefer them diced.

i hope you stay wrong. Nothing against you, but you are the absol that has brought the bad news

got into a good college (i did study and all, but odds of me making it were miniscule, and much of it boiled down to a lot of pegs falling down in respective holes, which in hindsight is most definitely a accident).

And 2 days ago, i broke a part of lab equipment - it is not profound, but it is my most accidental accident - costs about 2300 USD

what…

and I said “WHAT”

what?

but about a third are almost always sleeping, many are not able to speak/think (baby and really very old folks). Many are school going, where they largely discusing the same stuff for years. Many just have stopped thinking. If the odds of one person to come up with a brand new sentence is x, then final result is probably x^(a billion or so), instead of x^(8 billion). Extremely high, but could be higher, if we all just get commited

maybe it is because being so weak, it allows things to be come together, and eventually be strong enough, by power of family.

Congrats to you. While this does not technically fall in category of news that we consider, but i will allow this one to slip by. Have a happy life. Also, i do not think this this image preview needs to be marked nsfw. I think a ring is fine. Also i had to delete a comment of yours because you did not marks it as nsfw.

i think it is 100 men and it is not going to be close. purely using humn as fodder, we can have 10-20 men kamikaze style holding/pinning down gorrila, and then ask the rest to take turn and basically throw themselves at gorrila, untill gorilla gets unconscious, and then all have to hit the vitals of gorilla.

our peak summers reach 55-60 °C, but in uk’s case, they have additional issuee of being very humid, in whuich case, the percieved temperature is much higher.

Where i live, we have both options for solar, that is either to use batteries, or int the days, we directly use solar, and send excess back to grid, and consume from grid during nights. This is kinda battery less (you still need some smaller batteries to get consistent power rates, but batter pak size would be smaller.

When my wife and I built our house and sorted our (fucking massive) solar system our consultant said "Smart appliances are your best friend. Load the washer and dryer, set them to turn on at 10am before you leave the house. Set the airconditioning to come on at about 3 in the afternoon so that you not only get home to the AC/Heat but your using energy that would otherwise go back to the grid and then once the sun goes down you’re only maintaining temp which is way less energy intensive. Home batteries are still just not cost effective enough yet for us to justify one.

that just seems to be a lot of power being wasted. but i can understand your point regarding batteries. We mostly use “dumb” appliances (read not iot devices) and mostly just control manually.

I on the other hand am actually not a huge solar fan, but mostly because we are running out of resources, good quality silicon, silver and other value metals, and cost of solar wwould actually start rising. I am more of a nuclear fan, but i undeerstand, that smaller nuclear reactors are still a thing of future, and I also kinda get why people do not like centrralised large reactors. To me, that is still the most efficient way to generate power.

maybe it is difference in cost of living, or maybe solar output, our monthly consumption in peak summer hits some 1000-1500 units (arbitrary for now), we ourselves do no thave solar (some issues right now, but fixing them) but we in theory can get 100–200 units a day here, more if pick a larger unit, so that is, almost double of our reuirements. In winters, we rarely go over 300 (we do not have centrallised heating, and electricity is used in kitchen, and heating water), with a lowered output energy (lets say 1000 units a month) we would still be thrice over.

In long term, you would not be paying much on electricity, which is a saving. The upfront cost would be higher, but it is a good move imo, because retrofitting almost always has some shortcomings, like poor implementation, or unnecessary damage

one of the recent ones (as of my reading) is one piece - characters aged finely, world did change, but not unimaginably, and some bigger changes were elaborated in the story, maybe more will be done in due time.

I usually do not like time skips. Where I live, there are skips in daily soaps, whenever writers run out of idea, so what the just do is take a big “leap” of almost a generation growing, and often keep repeating the same story, but with new cast. As to why they don’t discontinue? - this is done for some relatively mid or big size ips, smaller ones also have skips, but they usually can not afford to get a new cast, so they keep old cast (as the new cast will often require some time for acceptance (hence require a larger runway) and associated advertising costs) but add some kind of visible change to show some form of progression (maybe change in clothing style, of seasonal change, or maybe visible ageing)

Also i forgot to add a time skip/ world expansion i did not like - attack on titan. Story changed from a enigma to being country/racial feud. Maybe what i really did not like was how fast it all changed. I understand that it was one part also reflective of how persppective flippped for people within the walls,but i did feel that genre and style of story changed, as if i was dropped in middle of a new story.

so a no catharsis rule?