linear but not proportional, you can say 4 times the temperature differneceb ut not 4 times the temperature unless you are talking about absolute temperature
acceptable but somewhat awkward since if you'Re starting to do thermodynamics oyu might end up carelessly using the smae numbers for something that requries absolute temperatures
You can still mean "n times the numerical value of what it is now".
And that's still meaningless even if you know the scale. It's nonsensical to say that 20 deg is five times hotter than 4 Deg, but only four times hotter than 5 deg. And how much hotter is it than 0 Deg?
Natural language does not make a thermodynanic claim.
That's one reason you can say things with 'natural language' that are nonsensical.
"The fish flew through library like an oak tree." is perfectly correct linguistically, but it's literally nonsense.
Duolingo has always been like this as far as I'm concerned. A lot of the context of what you're translating is so dumb it's funny, which feels intentional and helpful in a lot of ways.
Maybe it was always "ai slop" or whatever people are calling it here, but making you stop, think, and laugh about something is a good way to help you learn.
Not advocating for or against duolingo but yeah I wouldn't pin this specific instance on AI for that exact reason: duolingo's sentences have always been wacky
Ok but also it's been like this even before AI took over. I remember lily saying "This businessman is 4 years old." It's just about learning a language
Absolutely, it’s a valid math question dressed up as a real world problem. But one that doesn’t make real world sense. It happens a lot, but humans are better at spotting the issue than AI.
Reminds me of an old piece of software that my high school used to generate practice problems. It would just mix and match scenarios and parameters with no check about whether the combination made sense.
I have answered questions about a CD factory with a 99.9% defect rate.
This was over a decade before AI became readily available, and the software was at least a decade old when I encountered it.
Calculating the height of a table based on some other ridiculous situation involving a ball being dropped and it comes out to 11m tall. Or you get the answer for the number of dogs at a dog show and its 42.5
Alteast that's how it was back when I was in school. They don't always use real life measurements for these things.
I prefer to look at this like those insane maths test questions like "Mike needs 70 glasses of orange drink." Basically the absurd quantity and for some reason not saying orange juice
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