fun thing is that of course it will forget it in a long session and spit some too long text. but just typing `dirac` makes it recall the instruction and shorten it
I actually take this advice in real life. I don’t talk unless really needed. There are exceptions like to my kid, but that’s the general principle to non family/friend members.
Thanks. And maybe I am wrong, but I feel that Paul Dirac should be better represented in the weights than Attempto Controlled English, which sounds niche to me - or at least - I hear it for the first time.
Easy for anyone to try out themselves, and my post is only half a joke - it actually works. For me, at least :)
FYI it's a somewhat regional or (in the UK) class stratified grammar distinction.
While nobody would say "fewer sand", "less" is in practice often used by native English speakers for both count and non-count nouns so it's not really wrong so much as it is revealing.
If instead we prefer to attribute it to class and say using the correct or wrong way is a class signifier and that both are correct, and that language depends on usage and there are no grammar rules really but only consensus, we can also do that. But then "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?".
I prefer the first explanation.
P.S. Same with "if I were" turning into "if I was". I guess usage turned that one, and that is fine too. I make that mistake often.
There is no English Grammar Institute to tell us what is right and wrong, so English grammar is necessarily descriptive and not prescriptive.
It may annoy you, and you may be convinced that you are right and others are "wrong" but if a substantial body of people use English in a way that you dislike then it's just tough shit I'm afraid.
> But then "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?".
Because nobody actually talks like that, that's why.
You don't speak Elizabethan English, or Regency English, or late Saxon, or Old English, but you presumably don't think those are "wrong" - why do you think Estuary English is wrong; could it be gasp because you're in a different linguistic group? /me clutches pearls...
The reason i believe is good is because with very few tokens you encode two properties, for which Paul Dirac is most famous for.
* a great scientist (which hopefully encourages researching and verifying answers)
* a person who doesn't like to use many words at all
The later hopefully compensates the apparent "output-prose-greediness" most models seem to have. No idea if that "token greedines" (or slop) is a result from the companies business models or inherent for the models and their training :/
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