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theanonymousonetoday at 5:51 AM3 repliesview on HN

The most problematic for me as a non-native has been "the" vs "nothing", i.e. when one can/should put the definite article.

Pre-LLM I was joking that real AI is whatever can make that decision correctly 100% of times.


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geocartoday at 6:05 AM

Try making it with "a" - if thing can be "a thing" then it could be "the thing" but if it can't be "a thing" it definitely can't be "the thing" either.

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bob1029today at 6:45 AM

How do you feel about adjective ordering rules? I always wondered what this was like from the outside.

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jayd16today at 6:03 AM

As a patron of the 405, there is no consensus.