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Re: xkcd: Terror Bird

From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 29 20:55:32 2025

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On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:46:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<[email protected]> wrote:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3069:_Terror_Bird

Early in the discussion there is a link to "Actual
scientific analysis", the transcript of which appears to be
a poor-grade speech-to-text of a speech that was more
off-the-cuff than extemporaneous. At any rate, the first
two screens were undecipherable gibberish.

Pity; I think the guy did, in fact, have something to say.

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird

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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net

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From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Sun Mar 30 12:00:25 2025

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On 3/29/2025 7:55 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:46:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<[email protected]> wrote:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3069:_Terror_Bird

Early in the discussion there is a link to "Actual
scientific analysis", the transcript of which appears to be
a poor-grade speech-to-text of a speech that was more
off-the-cuff than extemporaneous. At any rate, the first
two screens were undecipherable gibberish.

Pity; I think the guy did, in fact, have something to say.

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird

I would say, don't read the transcript; just watch the video. It's only
7 minutes long. And I wouldn't call it off the cuff or extemporaneous.

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird

Joshua Kreitzer
[email protected]

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