Daily Octordle #779
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #779
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/779
Daily Rescue Octordle #779 (this was the most fun, but took patience)
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A tricky one. I like to have two quite different words in my head before starting if possible. Sometimes that's very quick (like yesterday's) and other times it'll be a minute or two.
WordAll #727 completed in 31s
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wordall.xyz
Lee Scratch Perry & Shaun Ryder - Green Banana
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iXzNkCWnw1c
Wordle 998 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #782 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #797 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #794 💀/6 (çonnards)
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Framed #733 (probably in a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away. I watched Great British Menu and Curb Your Enthusiasm. When I used to watch it in the early 2000s we didn't have a great deal of HBO programmes in the UK, so now every time I hear the HBO logo appear in my head it is burned in as being followed with the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme tune. Curb is good in its last series. I do hope Larry accidentally kills off some of the more annoying characters, in fairness mostly Ted Danson*. Yesterday was a good day. I'll do Wordall later.)
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* An actor playing a character. Obviously I don't have any I'll will towards the actual Ted Danson**.
** Although a person never knows ... https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1VRSltF-E
On keeping fountain pens alive:
https://www.sbrebrown.com/2024/03/on-keeping-fountain-pens-alive/
(If a person does even a moderate amount of writing by hand I think they're better. A greater range of grip sizes and weight/designs. Less felling like a person has been hard pinching a twig after half an hour's scribbling. Smooth, seamless, writing. Coupled with a permanent or semi permanent ink, I'm fond of Platinum Blue-Black and Platinum Carbon Black, they're nearly as 'idiot spilling a mug of tea' proof as ballpoints. But beautiful inks are available and a variety of line widths. The minor maintenance with a good ink and good pen is trivial compared to the pluses. And - it's not disposable, which I think is aspirationally a good thing.)
WordAll #726 completed in 27s
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wordall.xyz
Something mucked up the formatting on the previous post. It wasn't me.
Deadisko - Liquid 2004*
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E8I__WYvRvY
Wordle 997 4/6* (1/2 chance on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #781 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #796 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #793 💀/6 (forêt de flatulences)
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Framed #732 (no. I am still in pain. I'm not unhappy though. I'll do Wordall later. I watched a couple of BBC documentaries, Storyville on iPlayer, called Revenge My Father The Nazi Killer, and Total Trust: Surveillance State. Revenge was about three Australian brothers trying to find out if their Jewish WW-2 partisan father bumped off a probable Nazi war criminal in Australia. It was a good documentary and felt a little, maybe by necessity, open ended. The post war resettlement of Nazi collaborators, soldiers, from the Baltic states and other not directly German states into Australia and other places was deeply murky and led to a great deal of injustice. It is very scary we a living with less and less people whom can directly remember World War 2. The documentary on Total Trust: The Surveillance State was a good documentary but, especially in the case of China, we are giving too much credence to the electronic surveillance angle. It's not so much that I think electronic surveillance hardware and software won't improve in line with Moore's Law (a bit like AI in its present steam engine form) it's that any police state ultimately needs police if the outcomes of electronic surveillance are to be actioned. I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that there can be an existing police state ready for AI coupled with big data, or AI coupled with big data ready for a police state. Most of the world is in the latter category. Beware.)
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* 2004 seems like yesterday. So does 1994 and 1984. I rather suspect this will be a repeating theme for at least a while. Naff all on a cosmic timeline.
Zion I & The Grouch - Rockit Man
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-NavWHGKwx0
WordAll #725 completed in 1m 12s
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 996 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #780 5/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #795 5/6 (assicles)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #792 6/6 (Bally–Dorsey ass spike)
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Framed #731 (nah. I didn't get a chance to watch much and I read instead. I am also quite flared up and in moderate pain. There is a very childish tendency to imply cause an effect or some kind of logical reasoning to illness or bad luck, because bad luck or illness happening for no reason is harder to rectify. General uses of the word karma, outside of those who know anything about karma, can substitute karma with "I'm spiteful". In this case there is an element of cause an effect because, for a number of reasons, some good and others kind of rubbish, I haven't been exercising enough. Exercising, even gentle exercises, are good for the particular condition, and I think in the majority of conditions, and I haven't been exercising enough. I'd say karma but it shows an ignorance of karma and while I think spitefulness towards oneself can be constructive I think spitefulness is bad. So today I've said to myself "stop being a Teletubby d---head w----r and move around more, you c---", or something similar to that but far more sweary, angry and spiteful.)
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Goldie Looking Chain - Your Missus Is A Nutter
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-7M3aVHbI
WordAll #724 completed in 1m 49s (first three in my head within 30s, the last accounts for the delta)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 995 4/6* (1/2 chance on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #779 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #794 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #791 💀/6 (water butt filled with water butts)
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Framed #730 (nah. Usual Saturday, fairly boring uncle-ing duty. Watched the last episode of The Way. I'm in a hurry because it's mother's day.)
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Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QbaYN8NVtBo
WordAll #723 completed in 1m 01s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 994 3/6* (1/2 chance on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #778 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #793 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #790 4/6
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Framed #729 (nope. I watched The Way, on BBC iPlayer, which was very good. It's a drama, about a general revolt in Wales, with the father having conversations with the dead grandfather, so verisimilitude has some leeway. So a van not having a GPS tracker, poor use of helicopters, authorities veering between competence and incompetence, and overall simplification for dramatic purposes are wholly forgiveable. It's a potent demonstrator of technologies used nominally to protect turned against those they are protecting. On a very basic level walls can easily keep people in, as well as keeping people out. It also asks the viewer "what if you were the refugees?" and all this apparatus turned against you? An elderly grandfather trying to find sanctuary in England while caring for a 4 year old and having to be smuggled out of Wales in the back of a small van is particularly poignant. I had, probably still have, relatives in Troed-y-rhiw, who used to begrudgingly point out what a crap hole rural Norfolk was compared to Merthyr Tydfil was in the 1930/early 40s and tales of sneaking around to avoid the English and her uncle's pub. They were 'mostly sane', treasured and greatly missed. It's Saturday.)
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Not the best.
Daily Octordle #774
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Score: 59
https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #774
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/774
Daily Rescue Octordle #774
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Maud Geffray - Ice Teens
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MqC04PHjRpI
WordAll #722 completed in 34s*
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 993 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #777 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #792 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #789 3/6
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Framed #728 (yes. A good film that manages to straddle bonkers and sane coherently. I watched the Great British Menu. Something that occurs to me with the judging of food in TV competitions is that, and maybe it's an Anglosphere thing - I'll have to watch some French or Italian or Spanish cooking shows, they don't often pair drinks with plates of food. I'm not necessarily talking about wine pairings because other pairings can clash with or enhance a meal. I'm still offended by McDonald's UK's sweeteners in every soft drink because of well intentioned idiocy. But most serious cooking shows are restaurant, or banquet, or chef like, and a good choice of drink matters. Water is generally fine. It's not going to make a meal worse. There are generally accepted rules of thumb in the UK like red wine with red meat, white white wine with fish or poultry. Often that's specific as it gets**. The average price of beer in the UK is £4.21 per pint, although London and parts of southern England £6, and the price of a drinkable bottle of wine varies, and is subjective, but actually isn't that expensive, in terms of alcohol, versus beer in the UK. There are tremendous number of good UK beers and ale. A 'for instance' with wine is a bottle of £10 primitivo will be a glass or two for a week, if handled properly, and better, and cheaper, than two crap lagers. I hope we get a bit better at wine and wine with food. Take wine out of the UK twattosphere through economics. Although I don't suppose people are that sensible***.)
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* https://youtu.be/ojErxEn1vD0
** This gets a person 75% of the way there without mucking about with wine tossers: https://winefolly.com/tips/basic-wine-and-food-pairing-chart/
Neonlight - Computer Music
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SReThv8LJN4
WordAll #721 completed in 34s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 992 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #776 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #791 X/6 (haunch section. Tonto de culo)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #788 4/6
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Framed #727 (nope. I watched Renia Roja and I am considering reading the book. The English translation, which like subtitles won't be 1:1 because it would sound odd having idiomatic stuff directly translated. I was trying to look up a Spanish insult, and maybe it's obscure, which is something like "Es más fea que un pie sin uñas" which I wrote down in 2019 and it was probably from an old, 19th or 18th century, book. I think searches, Google particularly, have gotten dumber. Ironically because of AI. If normal distribution applies to the quality of information generated by people and their search terms, then ~68% of LLM training data is going to be within 1 standard deviation from the average. Obviously nature isn't exact but a potential outcome of LLMs maybe a more generalised mediocrity and mediocre will replace crap. So an overall improvement but potentially more difficult for the ~32% either side of the ~68%. And certainly more difficult when the searches returned are a good guess most of the time but irrelevant in a minority of cases, particularly when it the search engine opaquely overrules or applies interpretation to the search terms, which seems to be how it works now, along with ghastly SEO and paid ranks, with the ranking of results. It's like "did you mean?" but on an industrial scale. I think spellcheckers improve spelling, I think AI will improve people in general, I don't think technology is inherently bad, but how that reversion to mediocrity is avoided in LLMs could be better questions, with parameters, maybe even Boolean logic, and an "AI off" mode. To avoid a mediocrity loop in general purpose AIs.)
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While watching the UK budget statement.
Daily Octordle #772
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #772
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/772
Daily Rescue Octordle #772
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Paramore - Thick Skull
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=esi93f6QTrg
WordAll #720 completed in 2m 09s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 991 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #775 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #790 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #787 💀/6 (arstechnica.com)
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Framed #726 (I have seen it and it is a good film. I'm still watching Red Queen, Reina Roja, on Prime Video, and gosh it gets a bit dark, but it's a good series primarily driven by the actors and not least Hovik Keuchkerian.)
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Sloppy Jane - The Constable
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-rohhTPZ0
WordAll #719 completed in 5m 14s (I couldn't concentrate/a lot of distraction. Should have been easy.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 990 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #774 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #789 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #786 5/6 (buttress)
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Framed #725 (nah. I watched The Red Queen on Prime Video and it is a Sherlock influenced Spanish detective drama with an idiosyncratic cop and a savant. Which I should hate, but it's very good, and it is more Sherlock than Monkfish*. I accidentally put the English dub on. Don't do that. Watch Spanish with subtitles.)
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* There are lady Monkfish too: https://youtu.be/imr8WKuqFZo