TheVat

Still quite slow here. As with yesterday I had some tasks where I could click and then go do something for a couple minutes while the site glacially responded. SFN has a problem, Houston.

@swansont Haven't been able to log on for two days. This morning it took about fifteen minutes to log on and make this one post (I did this with tablet while fixing breakfast etc. as each step took several minutes). A couple others at a sister website mentioned same difficulties accessing SFN.

Seems an extraordinary claim, if you mean the sort of cognitive surrender we're talking about in this thread. What evidence is out there for core damage before age seven and what kind of damage is that? (And are there early learning programs that could mitigate such damage?)

M. Reeves emits raw rats, red nudes, opposed under Star Wars times, Eve? Erm....

A Peru decor precluded ulcer procedure, Pa.

He was using a metaphor, dude.

Had an intro calc course and a dim memory of Taylor polynomials as an approximation tool, but that stuff is a use it or lose it thing. If you never use, you swiftly lose. Especially anything beyond basic algebra and trig. So me hearing "Maclaurin expansion in one's head" is a bit like my predatory cat hearing a lecture on Lotka-Volterra equations.

Hehe, yes, or the mum. The kids are Karen, Bob, and Pareidolia. Pareidolia was the best at Hide n Seek - you would spot her face almost anywhere but it usually wasn't actually she.

https://medium.com/@reuvengorsht/what-we-lose-when-we-stop-doing-hard-things-01830f7a2c41 When Texas Instruments released the first handheld scientific calculator in 1972, math teachers everywhere sounded an alarm. They worried that students would lose the ability to perform mental arithmetic, that the cognitive muscles required for mathematical thinking would atrophy. They were right, but also wrong in ways they couldn’t have predicted. Research from the late 1980s confirmed what teachers had suspected: students who relied heavily on calculators showed diminished mental math abilities. A study published in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education found that calculator-dependent students struggled more with estimation and number sense. (Goes on to more nuances, with those losses paired with some students gaining more problem-solving abilities and mastering more complex math problems)

Yup, and even when a pattern is somehow (often retroactively) claimed as showing itself, sometimes an observed pattern or connection is nothing more than apophenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

Farewell Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert joined by Sir Paul McCartney for The Late...The host joined Sir Paul and the band to close out the show with a performance of the Beatles' Hello, Goodbye. But even as he [Colbert] began to introduce his final guest as hailing from "the Vatican", a staffer interrupted to say Pope Leo was refusing to come out of his dressing room. "We didn't read his whole rider, and we didn't get him his snacks," his staffer said. The only glimpse the audience had of "the Pope" was an arm reaching out from behind a dressing room door labelled "Pope Leo XIV" and throwing away a hot dog. "The Pope, who was definitely my guest tonight, has cancelled. We already sent the other stars away. This is terrible," Colbert said. "Who's going to be my last guest now?" (...)

Why does the CP have to assume that burden? Maybe could you clarify a bit what is meant by the "internal structure of the theory"?

Reasonable precaution. Yes I was just adding information and expanding on things a bit. BTW, it would be interesting to see if there seasonal correlations which were reversed six months, calendar-wise, in NZ. Chaldeans are troublemakers. When you get a 9, they just act coy and pretend that's not real.... BIVSChaldean Numerology Explained: Meaning, Chart & Name...Discover what is Chaldean numerology, how the Chaldean numerology chart works, and how to calculate your name number. Learn its secrets for success and destiny. Somewhere back there, an early Chaldean numerologist got one of his fingers chopped off.

Also, most Libras are Virgos, due to equinox precession. And Virgo being a large constellation, over fifty degrees of arc along the plane of the ecliptic. Sorry, puny Libras. Jesus = 11 Yeshua = 25 One of them must be wrong. "The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees. How come Jesus gets industrial disease?"

Canadian study of pro hockey players. Showing a fairly straightforward causal relationship between birth season and early encouragement from sports teachers and coaches. There could be other seasonal effects, as well, both in terms of homeroom age differences and also early infant development as it relates to day lengths, ambient temps, airborne pollens, etc. These effects are amenable to statistical analysis, unlike mystical conjectures like those of numerology or astrology.

You'd think a being with such a large cranial capacity could evade capture long enough to put on trousers.

Mr Ramsay has Trouble counting syllables. Stick to cooking, Gord. * * * Rotting leaves smell bad. Everything in nature sucks. I am wearing pants. * * * her thighs: they jiggle like cottage cheese and Jell-O I think I'm in love

Might be one for the bad poetry thread, though it's really too good for it. (Well, I loved it) But the nod to McGonagall does make it relevant to that topic. I will resume my obsequious and confectious probings of a lump of green putty in my armpit.

The ocelot, prowling in his jungle dream, more sentient Than the heedless frogge it would seem. As well the self-coding neural net in its virtual jungle dream heuristics, Cortical columns, recursive self improvement, metacognition, More sentient than the parrot LLM with its billion texts statistics, A stochastic echo of human introspection, sans inner spark's ignition.

Thanks. And yes, I meant "or other means" as including refrigeration. In places like W VA where many datacenters have popped up, that's led to some serious noise issues with adjacent properties. As I recall, the chillers make quite a racket 24/7. The industry has been called into court on noise complaints - likely that's part of the shift towards very remote areas.

Emily comments on numerology thread... Fleet are numerologists. I go lo, remunerate elf.

I have to wonder if some kind of molecular computing will render all these monster data centers obsolete, some sitting Ozymandias-like in the desert.

You see the problem here? Dates have arbitrary aspects. Even if positing that me being born 180 days past the vernal equinox had some causal meaning like "end of summer babies show certain traits," that doesn't connect to any casual role in reducing that number to a numerological essence (9, in this example). And the calendar system is even more detached from any intrinsic metric, since the year begins on January 1, an arbitrary point, and months are also somewhat arbitrary. Also the year designated, let's say 1955, is arbitrary wrt nature. September 18, 1955 (not my exact birthday, for online security reasons) reduces to 2, in numerology. Meaningless. I can get any number by switching calendar systems.

Very little from cases I've seen. Huge buildings with three employees on-site.