Because F#CK you, metric system!

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What does it take to train GPT4? Apparently more than simply knowing how many bookshelves to the kilometer.

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Puke emoji still needed

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as a public service:

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Wow I’d forgotten all about emojimix.

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Just look at it!

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So, worse than mallards but not as bad as swans

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So how much is that in condors?

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Are you talking size, or attitude?

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What’s the word for “both” in metric?

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pulp fiction royale with cheese GIF

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Come to think of it, what with the non-imperial customary units, isn’t it odd and somewhat out of character for the US to use the decimal system when it comes to money?

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They use a base 10 system, but I don’t think the metric system has anything to say about money. The metrication of weights and measurements and the decimalisation of currencies are independent (yet often roughly concurrent and related) processes.

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Yes. That’s why I used the term decimal instead of metric. The obviously inadequate worded thrust of my musings were meant to scrutinise why they didn’t also come up with their own currency system. Like, I don’t know, eight Ningis to one Pu or something.

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At least they weren’t constrained to only one definition of the foot.

obligs:

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You mean like pennies, shillings, crowns…that sort of thing?

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Pretty much. Maybe a bit weirder.

Little known fact: the UK not only decimalised its currency on decimal day (1971-02-15), they also colourised. Up until then the whole country had been black and white; you can see it in the old movies.

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