Everything posted by TheVat
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Political Humor
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong...
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Blood pressure, oxygen in blood, glucose... what about hydration level?
Usually evident without monitors, but a refractometer can confirm it when used on a urine sample. Even then, most times visual inspection will work to detect highly concentrated urine. If someone is conscious and verbal, it's usually easy to determine by just asking about symptoms. There's also wearable monitors that check skin capacitance. (IIRC, steelworkers and some miners use them in intense heat conditions) Generally if you are healthy and feel dehydrated, you are, at least a little bit. Just a matter of drinking a tall glass and see if you feel better. For me, headachy plus general achiness is a common symptom, often before intense thirst.
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Mouldy Old Dough
Shaka, when the walls fell.
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Mouldy Old Dough
Thanks. Posted that and then a minute later I'm thinking, oh wait that's a metaphor. Like me saying, "oven set at Mojave in July." (We Yanks don't use "gas mark" in common parlance) Now I am fetching strawberries from the freezer, set at Ice Station Zebra....
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Why you have to be so careful accepting answers from AI
I know, right? So I will feel duty-bound to seek counterpoints to Siegel's counterpoint. Just figured, your link was so glowing that it wouldn't hurt to get some other takes out there. I will revisit this tomorrow.
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Why you have to be so careful accepting answers from AI
While we're absorbing this, here's a little counterpoint from astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, an article I read a few months ago... Big ThinkWhy "vibe physics" is the ultimate example of AI slopThe conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
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Mouldy Old Dough
What does "at gas mark Nigeria" mean? Not important, but once the universal translator fails it's hard to bring back online.
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What Emily Lime prefers
Emily followed the recent chat about classic cars and their fuel systems and had a question. Her spelling, and use of the epithet "rotter" suggests she is British. Useful information, as I had thought she lived in Adaven, Nevada and was a native of that area. Rotter, u brace a nitro! can I revolve EV lover in a Cortina E carburettor? (My answer is a tentative yes. If Helen Reddy can chronicle a madwoman storing a secret lover in a radio, then rotating one in a carburetor seems theoretically possible. And injecting nitrous oxide could certainly enhance this process.)(And this is possibly the silliest thing I've ever posted, which is a fairly high bar.)
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What Emily Lime prefers
One lucid Iran War brawn: a ridicule, no?
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Is this a proper application of sesquation and quotation? My first new non Prime hypothesis. Can it be applied to multivariable equations?
I think you get a third and a fifth harmonic. 12th and 17th pipe ranks over the foundation tone...OSLT. Reinforces the natural partials of the fundamental. I.e. reinforcement of the natural overtone series, for a brightened timbre. Seems like you get an additive synthesis tonal thing, not sum-and-difference tones (I mean, some S+D could trigger in your auditory perception but I don't think that's intended with a sesqui stop?) I am most def not trying to pull any rank here - I will have to check with Ms Vat later who is, fittingly, playing a church KB as I write this. Should we move this delightful subject worth arguing about to its own thread?
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“The Star Mangled Spanner”
Perhaps 47 now believes himself next in line to inherit the Dread Pirate Roberts pseudonym from whoever inherited it from Westley - Inigo Montoya presumably.
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Is this a proper application of sesquation and quotation? My first new non Prime hypothesis. Can it be applied to multivariable equations?
Yeah, I've heard it called that, too. It seems reasonable to see it all as semantics and not worth disbanding NATO or burning Grove's in the fire pit. I wouldn't mind just calling it all, sequential or stacked, hemiola. Hemiola is much easier to type than sesq- whatever it is. Anyway, I guess we can agree that hemiolas are incidents, while complex rhythms are regular patterns inherent to meter? I sure don't see you or Ex as unschooled on the musical arts. And I'm a musical slacker next to the spouse and her half century as a professional musician with a double Master's and yard-long performance and teaching CV.
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Why you have to be so careful accepting answers from AI
(AP News): Brownout covers two counties in West Virginia as data center processes Nigerian man's query about the relative ages of "tectonostructural units." Witnesses report a cascade of data retrieval failures starting with a mistyping of sediment as "sentiment" and accelerating with a confusion between bedrock and Bedrock, the town of the fictitious family, the Flintstones. This caused a conflation with the age of Exmoor bedrock and the town of Bedrock, which began in September 1960.
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Why you have to be so careful accepting answers from AI
I think the problem lies here: Dartmoor national park: founded 1951 Exmoor national park: founded 1954 AI confused geology and national park status. Where was Steve when you needed him? 😀
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Is this a proper application of sesquation and quotation? My first new non Prime hypothesis. Can it be applied to multivariable equations?
It's a hemiola if it's added in - if it's a regular rhythmic change, as in "America," where there is a regular periodic shift from 6/8 to 3/4, then it's called complex rhythm. Hemiola applies to a momentary occurrence of three duple values in place of two triple ones -- sesquialtera is different, meaning a vertical two against three, like one measure with three quarters on top, two dotted quarters on bottom. Or a triplet played against two quarters. This bugs my wife, when people call sesquialteras or complex rhythms "hemiolas." My music teachers said you could call sesquialteras a "vertical hemiola" so that can give y'all an out. A classic misnomer is calling the complex 5/4 rhythm of Mission Impossible a hemiola. It's sorta like hemiola, but again, it's baked into the whole piece so it's complex rhythm. I find it easier in some places to grasp as 10/8 btw. 123, 123, 12, 12... The Morse Code for MI matches the rhythm, btw. Dash dash dot dot. https://youtu.be/XAYhNHhxN0A?si=oEQVvIbH1V9w65YO
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What Emily Lime prefers
Emily is more up on her 12-tone composers than i had realized. Em, a non-Semite, Alban Berg a Zagreb nab. - LA e-Times (no name) IT cadet: a Lulu tacit song aids diagnostic at ululated act I. Given the demands of the song, I think it's fitting her name is Fitzhowle.
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What Emily Lime prefers
Diaresis one way, but not the other? JK. That was great, though I struggle imagining Nat King Cole singing Agnus Dei in such a venue. Leon, DNAs, Goddamn mad dogs and Noël?
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Why is there a Great Divide between animal designs? Never read anything about this anywhere!
Maybe Kashmir, or When the Levee Breaks. But no, there are too many I love to pick favorites. Jimmy's acoustic is sublime on Going to California. Never was clear on why Houses of the Holy was on Physical Graffiti. I've heard the rationale, so I have to respect the artist's choice. Though perhaps that placement is a taxonomic error which we can relate to the thread topic. John Bonham kept so many rhythmic things happening at once that one could ask if he was more than a tetrapod*. I wouldn't rule out an extra limb somewhere in there. * I should note that the song Four Sticks does relate to this matter of Bonham's morphology. Possibly. And Four Sticks does indeed fit the taxonomy of LZ IV, as one will note the cover art of a thatcher carrying at least four sticks on his back. The key allusion is to a multitude of sticks and the ability to use them expertly. A fact often overlooked by scholars of Zeppelin, and dirigibles generally.
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This Ridiculously Simple Trick (Googly Eyes) Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch
The Polyphemus moth is a common example. Has simulated owl eyes and owl facial pattern on its large wings to deter predators. Maybe started as a vaguely eye-like pattern on wings due to a mutation, which gave a slight selective advantage, which then favored small variations over time leading to something more definitely owl-like. Don't know if they swing on Sunday or not.
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Why is there a Great Divide between animal designs? Never read anything about this anywhere!
In Led Zeppelin's famous song, Escalator to the Celestial Realms, there is a mention of both the pill bug and the chucky pig. "If there's a pill bug in your woodpile, don't be anxious now, It's just a way to break down lignin. Dear lady there are two roads to decompose organic matter, Your compost chucky pigs will soon be fatter...."
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This Ridiculously Simple Trick (Googly Eyes) Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch
Even I got how that's funny. Some Americans have learning skills matching those of seagulls. Exactly. They're keen observers. Primates in wildlife parks started.reaching in car windows and snatching people's glasses. Having a shiny bit of plunder is a status thing among many primates, so the others watched and learned to steal as well. This also became common behavior in zoos where caging allowed a reach-through at visitors standing too close. Same around temples in India. How bizarre. If one is going by headgear and they call it "the Lord's work"... some kind of far right anti-Muslim thing?
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This Ridiculously Simple Trick (Googly Eyes) Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch
Hehe. Well something is certainly giving them a reproductive advantage. (says local man who recently assisted in an Earth Week neighborhood cleanup project) Worth noting re this... ...that gulls are among those avian species which are pretty smart and have excellent learning skills, like Corvids and Psittaciformes. I give this googly defense system a couple years before all the gulls (and boys) have figured this out.
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Why is there a Great Divide between animal designs? Never read anything about this anywhere!
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs[1] or rolly pollies. (All that family shows convergent evolution with the myriapods like the millipedes, in morphology and pilling)
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Why is there a Great Divide between animal designs? Never read anything about this anywhere!
As long as they're using protection. As exampled by the pill bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae
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What Emily Lime prefers
Bold move, dropping an Indian cherry yoghurt in there. Given the Hades invoking, one might hope to work Ceres in there, but I see the path would be awkward. I've already mixed Roman and Greek god names. In that vein, perhaps I can touch on the Ceres and Proserpine myth. God stop crop? Hades erect Ceres, Ed? Ah, porc pots, dog!