Inherently funny word Puns

This isn't a small comedy club or open mic night in a pub. This is a sold out, Friday night gig in a town in England. The old 'aren't foreigners funny' routine isn't really going to fly.

Especially if it's an online Mad Lib where you don't know the context until you input all the words. Just trying to think up funny words off the top of your head and imagining the best possible context for them is a lot funnier than actually reading a Mad Lib, since the result will never be as funny as you can imagine it to be.

Context: I work in a field that is both tech- and arts-adjacent in a very liberal city. In the past year, multiple thinkpieces and articles have made their way around encouraging people to change the vocabulary they use around tech. Example: removing terms like "blacklist," "whitelist," "grandfather clause," and "master document," subbing in things like "root document" instead.

I understand some of these - for example, in coding and many engineering spaces, I know "master" is sometimes used adjacent to "slave." While it might accurately describe the relationship between two elements, I can see how it doesn't hurt to find a better alternative. "Grandfather clause" has an awful history, and it doesn't hurt to stop using the words "white" and "black" in contexts where consistently white=good and black=bad.

But I've started noticing people trying to avoid using the word "master" altogether. For example, a master key or a master bedroom/bathroom. The word doesn't inherently mean "person who owns a slave," and I don't think it makes sense to stop using it altogether. Am I missing something?

To me, it seems to describe a type of woman who seeks a transactionary relationship but is manipulative and dishonest with communicating this to potential partners. This is in contrast to a 'sugar baby' who is upfront and explicit about the desire for material support in exchange for sexual and romantic affection.

An "inherently funny word" is a word that sounds amusing, with no further explanation needed. Hippopotamus chicken weasel penis! What words make you laugh all by themselves?

Example: David Letterman's Oprah. Uma. Uma. Oprah. bit at the Academy Awards.

Words that just make you chuckle whenever you hear them like "flaccid" or "gagglefuck."

I've always been the 'funny and witty guy' of my friend groups, and I love making people laugh, and winning people over through humor. But recently through a lot of introspection I have come to realize that my ego is now built upon this persona of the funny and witty person, and I'm constantly fighting to live up to it in most social interactions. I have even noticed that sometimes my very feeling of self-worth is based upon what others think of me or how I imagine they are thinking of me. This is clearly a sign of weak self confidence in who I am, and I understand that I need to begin being my true self in front of those close to me (ie; not putting pressure on myself to be funny) to learn self acceptance from their acceptance, and in turn build confidence in my true self.

With that said, the question I'm struggling with is: If the purpose of being funny and making jokes is to make others laugh and gain others' approval, then doesn't that mean I can't be both funny and truly self confident? (Since self confidence relies on independence from others' perceptions).

In other words, will being funny hinder my ability to gain true self-confidence, since its a part of me that is directly dependent on the perception of others?

After playing Saints Row 3, which was also similarily empty and lacking in substance, it atleast felt much more original and I'd argue that Saints Row was always over the top and the sequels have been a natural progression of that. Your actions on the world don't matter, every character is a paper thin walking archetype than a fully fleshed out person and the comedy just doesn't seem to land.

The wording in the title might be unclear, so I’ll use an example.

Say I have a .csv file, with 5 columns of input variables and a column of Boolean values that I hope to predict with an MLP network.

If the 5 columns are all numerical, then the neurons in the first hidden layer will each depend on 5 values. But if 4 columns are numerical but 1 column is some description instead (e.g., “Apple” or “Banana” or “Strawberry”), what’s the ideal way to introduce the “value” in that column to the first hidden layer?

Should we do something like interpret “Apple” = 1, “Banana” = 2, “Strawberry” = 3, and hope the back-propagation assigns good weights based on these arbitrary values? Or is it better (usually? always?) to go from the original 5-value input layer to a 7-value input layer where 3 of the values refer to the fruit names (and one value is 1 while the other two are 0, of course)?

I hope this question makes sense. Thank you, anyone who reads this and responds.

Getting access to every Million stub Card for a week trial for free when you still can't buy them in the Show 20.

I say at the end of the world series, all cards should be available to be pulled in all packs, similar to how Madden does the Redux cards. Cards that were available for a limited time get added to the pool after a certain time. Scarcity shouldn't exist for the last few months of the games life.