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replysitzfleisch: the ability to endure or carry on with an activity
Something Oppenheimer did not have, apparently.
loaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in the figurative sense (having the mental ability to sit for longer, get more desk work done)
replyI think there is an IT bit of humor from about 1 decade+ back where the people who's proposals won out in meeting were the ones that could keep from needing to go to the bathroom longer.
replyFascinating crossover from literal to figurative that you find so often when you trace language back far enough.
replyDon’t worry, the link provided by the GP did nothing to explain what was meant anyway.
replyThis is fantastic. Now I have a sophisticated-sounding german word for my attention deficit.
replyThere's also a less flattering reading of the word, where Sitzfleisch means having a "flat ass" (from sitting too much, e. g. Sitzfleischparade describing a group of flat-arsed people, or something like Sitzfleischmaxxer, and so on).
replyAss-maxxing.
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replyin Gujarati its "Gand vagar no loto". ( Utensil with Round Ass ). I guess every language as its equivalent.
replyThis was such an interesting thing to learn
replyWe Americans call it grit.
replyThe connotation of grit to me feels different. Grit is pushing through adversity, rather than just tedium.
replyMaybe.
replyGrit can be the courage to endure adversity.
It can also be the resolve to endure tedium.
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replyWow, what a great comparison. LLMs are great at reasoning but absolute dogshit at simple arithmetic. If there's a raw calculation involved I always tell it to use python to add it all up.
replyThe abacus seems to date back around 4500 years.
replyIf your goal is to implement an absurd comment you can use this one next time: instruct your LLM to implement Conway’s Game of Life to implement an abacus.
Because, you know, humans are notoriously poor at implementing the x86-64 instruction set in their minds. This is why God had to create Guido van Rossum.
Arguably Mathematica would be a better fit, but there are those who frequent this corner of the Internet who rather not have to read anything that might cause them to think about Stephen Wolfram.
So I won’t mention it.