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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A professor of mine posited that most every sentence ever spoken or written had never before been communicated. There was some compelling math behind it, and some compelling reason it was mentioned, but I still find it dubious.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He probably assumed the sentence selection to be a statistically independent process, which it is not.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but “most” only needs to be 50% of sentences, and if you include puncutation, tone, context, speed, accent, cadence, pauses, pitch, volume, intent, method/medium, background noise…

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  • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your professor massively underestimates how much of what I say is movie references.

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  • bisby@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Hello, how are you?” has been repeated plenty. But after that things start to vary.

    In the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Most numbers only appear once even though most numbers are a repeat.

    • There are 9 possible numbers and most (88%) of them are not repeats
    • "1" accounts for most (60%) of the entries in the sequence.

    If we assume “hi, how are you?” is “1” and most sentences are another number, we can see how even with common phrases being repeated frequently, most sentences may tend to be original.

    (I’ve not done the math and I’ve definitely not studied language enough to say how dubious or accurate the claim is, you just piqued my interest and I started trying to rationalize it all)

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    • WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Obviously some template phrases are repeated a lot, but those are not the majority of sentences. Consider talking to someone on the phone for 20 minutes. You have the customary greetings that take maybe 30 seconds along with your farewell in the last 30 seconds, then you have the next 19 minutes of actual conversation where you exchange information. The conversation would not need to last for 20 minutes if you were just repeating the same phrases over and over again.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At the same time the infinite monkeys with typewriters are also writing novels about it

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok buddy

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  can someone explain the image in context to the original post to me?

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The long-distance relationship mostly conducted via text was going smooth but then it suddenly ended in a rough way as if wind from the video blew it over due to some TikTok direct messages.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh! Nice analogy, thanks!

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Might have just been an AI the entire time, data-mining you for their future romance bots.

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  • Tehhund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    youtu.be/B6VCTLL1rKM

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Woah she was hydroplaning, not a damn scratch on her!

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The long-distance relationship, which was mostly conducted via text (so they haven’t met in real life), came to an end due to some TikTok direct messages.

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  • asqapro@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Image in context to Text”: Cause both situations are unexpected and unpleasant.

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We have collected all the infinity stones explanations

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But they are then ultimately unrelated to each other? The image could have been a poop emoji and the post would have conveyed the same message?

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does anyone else wonder wtf is going on in the video?

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