esquivalience

This is really cool, and I appreciated your reverse engineering.

For all the people asking whether or not it is exactly a thousand words or only more or less than that, I think it is very plain from the content. For example:

> "Write 1,000 words about it"

> "you are writing the definitive 1,000 words for this photo. Make them count."

> "Does it have to be 1,000 words? Yes...Your entry must be exactly 1,000 words"

It also says that the prize is $1,000, and there's 1 picture - but I haven't seen anyone asking whether each of those is an upper or lower bound!

#1 is Dungeons and Dragons, except for the word 'video' game.

> it has successfully drilled to a depth of 100 meters, a milestone...

Nope that's a 0.1kilometerstone.

I actually can't find the answer on either of the linked pages, so it would be good to know. And I think people's experience is more important than the claims in these discussions.

Do you think I was wrong about this one? Maybe.

I'm usually fairly forgiving about it and like to err on the side of being generous to the individual but in this case it seemed very clear to me and got in the way of the message. I noticed the .de domain and wondered whether it might be AI translation, But I don't think it was, and in my experience, AI translation doesn't give the same uncanny valley vibes.

I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.

> "Aagh, the aunt fell!" // "Oh yes, that'd be Newton"

This is totally lost on me.

I think your 3k figure comes from here - It is explained:

> As judges, the professors then completed 2,918 blinded, forced-choice comparisons (median per judge: 200), each time indicating which of the two anonymized responses, from the instructor or the LLM, they would rather give to a student

I laughed out loud when I understood the author's profile photo at the end of the article!

They were very sweary.

In the business, we often refer to that sort of reminder activity as "defending" against genericism. Practice varies by country but the point is often to show that you are not passively allowing the trade mark to become generic. Yes, you can often ignore letters (unless they request an answer or make a threat, which might be a different situation) - but it's usually a good idea to spend some time looking at it from the other person's perspective first.

Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.