#$xle

[sentence-arborist]

One of the cool things about Lexical-Functional Grammar (the framework I work in) is that it's computationally tractable, and that means it's really easy to make arguably the most advanced machine language processing environment of any syntactic framework.

And you know what? The mad lads just went and did it. Introducing the Xerox Language Environment (XLE). You can access the online version at INESS here: link.

Just pick a grammar from any on the list, type in the sentence you want to parse, hit "Parse Sentence" and boom! Syntax tree:

[ID: A syntax tree for the sentence "now you can make trees too", constructed using the XLE language processing environment. It's a bit more complicated than the other trees on this blog, though the overall structure is recognisable.]

Of course, because it's an LFG implementation, it also gives you a f(unctional)-structure, for those who are here for the syntax and not just the pretty trees.

[ID: Attribute-value matrix functional structure for the sentence "now you can make trees too", constructed using the XLE language processing environment.]

XLE is now a little old, and there's definitely parts of the representation that are out of date (e.g. there's no IPs here at all), but it's still a useful tool for syntacticians and grammar writers... and also just a fun toy if you need more syntax trees in your life and this blog just isn't cutting it!

[savageonwheels]

Savage picks the Top 10 Cars

What are my Top 10 Vehicles of the past year. Here are my annual Zoomie awards, plus links!

2023 Zoomies, the best vehicles of the past year … Zoomie goes all social media trendy this year whittling the 50 or so vehicles I’ve tested in the past year down to a dynamic Top 10. Eat your heart out Letterman*! What’s the Savage criteria for a Zoomie? Art: Stuart Carlson There’s no point system. These all come from the gut, and a wee bit of brain. They are the 10 vehicles I most enjoyed…

[wallpapers4screen]

[likesmoney]

Energy On Sale

Back on January 1st, I tooted my own horn regarding the Buy/Sell Indicators that I provide to my subscribers. I posted the above chart on 1/01/25 indicating a buy signal for XLE, to buy at the open on 1/02/25. I give updates 5 days a week, adjusting stops as needed. Note that the stop of 92.59 was posted on 1/22/25 in the morning. That trade stopped out on 1/22/25 resulting in a 7.25% gain.…

[k-core]

Hitashya aka Dr. Kai in Jaipur 2050 (XLE.LIFE) "The water shortages were more extreme than anyone planned. Pipelines that were once used to push oil from Gwadar were now pumping filtered ocean water into newly created reservoirs throughout Rajasthan, each with their own blackmarket pirates and panchayat gangs who somehow kept them empty. Himalayan glacial water came packaged in floating, edible bubbles which cost 7000Rs each. The TATA dynasty’s rulers were known to fill their house parties with them. The public now understood much more about the aliveness and intelligence of water, and Kangen had become a mega corp as big as national governments, partially because of its development in blessing and encoding water with healing images in addition to repairing its cellular structure. But as mystics have long known, water also absorbs and transmits the collective subconscious along with other encrypted messages—it is difficult to fully control. Three days ago in Mumbai during my morning water blessing ritual (which includes riyaz and holotropic breathwork), I received a very clear 6D image sequence from my own floating orb including an unknown lover’s face, the monuments of Jaipur, eagle feathers and a painting of two women underground. That same day I was on my hoverbike, landing at Pink City. I know by now that when water talks, you listen. I just have to find what it’s showing me."

Excerpt from #Indofuturist Visions (XLE.LIFE) by Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya aka Dr. Kai aka Kai Lion XLE, 2023

[earningselite]

Valero Energy Corporation: Six Attempts To Cross Price Resistance

Here's where Valero Energy's stock price is headed after six runs at $140/share.... #vlo #valero #xle #bulls #bears #sp500 #earnings #stockmarket #spy #newsletter #QQQ

SINCE JUNE OF 2022, VALERO ENERGY’S STOCK PRICE HAS FAILED MULTIPLE TIMES AT $140/SHARE. HERE’S WHAT SUCCESSFULLY CLOSING ABOVE $140 COULD MEAN FOR THE STOCK. Since June of 2022, Valero Energy (Ticker: VLO) has attempted to cross $140/share at least 6 times. Typically three runs at a price point (high or low) is considered significant and warrants a close watch. It’s not often a stock attempts…

[snaxle]

fuck you all for ignoring me onceler ranboo sketch be upon ye

ranboo gives off the vibes that he use to be in the onceler fandom

[melisaaa5]

Dh xle hina dh

[kamiversee]

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[seat-safety-switch]

I assume that engineers are very busy, and so they don’t necessarily have time to make the things they design serviceable. I get it – you’re not building a masterpiece to survive all of eternity, you’re just doing your job. You’re over here, working on the radiator and cooling program, this other guy is doing the radiator support, and the mid-senior-junior-vice-president electromechanical engineer down the hall is up to her neck in work trying to figure out how to mount the horns in a way that doesn’t anger the crash testers.

The chances that the three of you, collectively, slow your productivity shit way down – or worse, have a meeting – to make it easier to reach the electrical connector for that horn so you can remove it without cutting your hands on the fins of the air-conditioning condenser are about negative one billion percent. That would be preposterous – horns don’t break, right? Tell that to the dumpster-dove Spider-Man bandages that I have applied to my right hand because of your shortsighted design decisions.

And your boss isn’t gonna show up and demand repairability become a priority. No, your boss gets paid because people buy cars, and people will stop buying cars if the car lasts forever. Even if they jam an Android tablet in the dash sideways and start making the wheels bigger. Hell, my neighbour is still booting around in a 1994 Camry XLE, and the minute he expresses even the slightest subconscious desire to be rid of it, he will have a lawn full of folks offering top dollar for such an esteemed chariot. Toyota probably would have gone bankrupt back then making shit like this, if they hadn’t had all those trucks to sell to terrorist organizations in distant foreign wars. Those guys are gonna have to buy a new truck every couple of months when their old one gets shot up, so it’s okay to make those super-durable.

All I’m asking for is that you think once in awhile about making a bolt accessible. It’s not hard, just make sure they drill a hole over top of it, so that I can stick a nice long socket in there when the captive nut on the other end breaks off and just spins forever. Even though you might have a good day at work because of taking a shortcut like that, I guarantee you that the massive amounts of bad karma I am heaping upon your name while intermittently sobbing in my garage are not worth it. You’ll get reincarnated as a lighting engineer.

[oldmanpusspuss]

Test driving a '20 rav4 xle on Wednesday 👍

[savageonwheels]

2023 Toyota Sienna Platinum AWD

Got a family of 4 or more? Minivans are the most logical and comfortable answer and Toyota's Sienna has it all my friends, plus AWD and a hybrid!

Sienna a praiseworthy hybrid hauler oozing luxury + AWD … Minivans may be the smartest automotive vehicle design ever for families. Nothing is more comfortable or accommodating for packing in the offspring, grandparents, and all for around-towning or a cross-country outing. For that Toyota’s Sienna Platinum AWD is the most luxurious and yet practical conveyance I’ve yet tested, despite its $50+…

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

I am so so sorry. But I think you're ready to join us in the rubbing salt in our own wounds part of post season 2

https://youtu.be/1URxTI_-XlE?si=giSJ9T78cmS9OqMP

it's 6 am. thank you for breaking me. what a wonderful start to the week. i'll be over here crying.

Aziraphale is so, so terrified throughout the scene. I barely remember it because I was sobbing through the entire last two episodes. I didn't hear a word of his conversation with the metatron except for something about a bloody second coming and how he didn't want to go to heaven, again, I was crying too hard.

So I barely had any grasp of what was happening there. But all I remember noticing was how frightened Aziraphale was from start to finish. I know there are a thousand things they both need to apologise for, but... but I dunno, to me, none of those things involve this scene. Aziraphale is scared and upset, and Crowley is too, and... yeah. Idk.

Yeah the brainrot is going great. *eyes Amazon* The book the book the book. I want to read the book. But I also know that words-Crowley, as compared to on-screen Crowley, hurts so much more because there's no medium in between, no other person as a buffer. WILL I READ THE BOOK ANYWAY? PROBABLY. AUGH.

[likesmoney]

Pardon Me

Pardon me for tooting my horn, but I wanted to share with you the results for my 2024 Buy/Sell Indicators. One of the strengths of cycle analysis is identifying cycle bottoms.  Identifying tops is a bit more challenging, depending if a cycle is forming as a left or right translated cycle.  I began looking for a way to help identify equity cycle tops.  Through much trial and error I developed in…

[fayeandknight]

Buying a car is bullshit

I am very seriously trying to buy a new (to me) car.

I need a bigger car to fit crates in since that will allow me to transport more dogs for boarding. I have opted to go the used route for a number of reasons.

After much research, input from some super helpful dogblr folks as well as coworkers, and some dragging my feet - I'm ready. I'm looking to buy a 2018 Toyota RAV4 XLE.

I found one being sold at a fair price given the low mileage and went to see it last Saturday. It was a trade in at a BMW dealership. When they brought it out I was a little taken back because it's pretty dinged up. Not to the point of hindering functionally but there are dents and scrapes on every panel and fixing it would $1000 in body work easily, if not more.

Honestly, I don't give a shit about cosmetics. This car is for hauling dogs around. But it would be silly to pretend it doesn't change the value of the car.

I noticed that the front tires were different from the rear tires and asked about it. Sales dude tells me they replaced the front ones because the originals were dry rotted. I asked if the mechanic measured the new vs the old because AWD can be sensitive and different widths can fuck it up. Sales dude tells yes, it's all on paper. Cool.

I take it for a test drive and notice the brakes are a little rough. I ask if the brake pads were inspected to see how worn they are. Sales dude assures me yes, the car passed inspection and they're fine. Am told, again, it's all on paper.

Once we're back at the dealership I ask him to please get me the info on the tires and brakes cause I'm ready to make a deal and buy the car. Sales dude asks for my price and I tell him my offer is contingent on the information so please get it. Guy comes back with a manager and oops, they don't actually have that info.

Which honestly really pissed me off. You lied to my face and what? Didn't think you'd get caught not having the very specific information I'm asking for? I don't know why I expected slightly less car sales bullshit from a higher end dealership but the jokes on me.

I leave with the agreement that on Monday (today) they'll have the mechanic get the info and call me promptly at X time. An hour and a half later, I ended up leaving them a voicemail.

Finally got on the phone with them, tires are fine but the brake pads are just this side of passing and I'll need to change them fairly quickly. Fine. Given the body work and brakes, not to mention all the fluid changes I'll need to do, I put in my offer - a little less than $1000 off listed price. This puts the car at just my side of a good deal rather than fair, but honestly not by much.

They eventually accept my offer. Awesome. I am ready to pay over the phone. No. They won't take the payment over the phone or even a deposit. I have to come buy it in person.

In an ideal world, I'd go Thursday morning and get it done before work since that's my late day. But I'm concerned about the time wasting tactics dealerships use to try to get people to "upgrade" packages. I am trialing Friday and Saturday.

That leaves my only actual day with time to spare next Monday. During the in between they will not hold the car for me or pull it from their listings.

It so fucking frustrating that a high end, fancy ass BMW dealership is giving me the run around for a busted up six year old Toyota that I am willing to pay for right now!

So, fingers crossed it's still there next week and I'm able to buy it. If not, oh well I guess. There's really not anything else I can do at this point. It's just annoying because if they had the information they said they did I'd have bought the car right then.

Anyway, let this be your reminder to not take car sales folks word for anything and make them show you on paper. They will lie right to your face and blame you for holding up the sale.