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recursive • yesterday at 8:12 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

> With Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra it's obvious at a glance.

It.. is?


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n8m8 • yesterday at 8:48 PM

It’s not… why do I need to translate from Latin (or wherever these come from) to understand them? Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku do the same thing, and are widely known words. Not to mention all LLMs do is generate tokens; I prefer the homage to writing over a space reference.

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morganf • yesterday at 11:14 PM

It's a language-nerd joke he made. You have to know some Latin basically or enough Latinate roots. Those are the Latin-ish words for, in the same order: moon earth sun stars. So it's obvious in the sense of, it's increasing in size (assuming stars is the collection of all of them while the sun is just one of all the stars or one example of its parent category).

wmichelin • yesterday at 8:23 PM

yes, each of these things are larger than the other

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asa123 • yesterday at 9:42 PM

it really isn’t

clear would be something like

piss-cheap - it’s-alright-i guess - okay-relax - ouch-my-wallet

voiceeh • yesterday at 8:28 PM

Bigger => Bigger, makes sense to me.

zaphirplane • yesterday at 10:06 PM

It isn’t ? ;) celestial bodies Are memorable