Random thought of the day
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The N-dimensional spaces which describe program behavior still readily visualize in about 3 dimensions.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Cuisenaire rods
are definitive in case of disagreement.
Except that even when you limit your color/number correspondence to Cuisenaire, the assignments are different in Eastern Europe (as one might expect given that the Russian language considers light and dark blue two different basic colors).
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
People with synesthesia claim to see numbers as colors, and they claim that the specific associations of each number with a particular color are inherent and natural. If this is true, everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
Wife has synesthesia, and - to the best of my knowledge - doesn't have anything in the way of number-colour association.
She can totally tell you what a word tastes like, though.
Also:
The worst thing about talking to other synesthetes is that they've got the associations all wrong.
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@GOG Does talking to other synesthetes leave her with a bad taste in her mouth?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Cuisenaire rods
are definitive in case of disagreement.
Except that even when you limit your color/number correspondence to Cuisenaire, the assignments are different in Eastern Europe (as one might expect given that the Russian language considers light and dark blue two different basic colors).
Yeah, so?
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@GOG Does talking to other synesthetes leave her with a bad taste in her mouth?
Probably leaves a discordant smell in her vision.
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Cue the brown note pun
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@Applied-Mediocrity https://youtu.be/bTxXVhdmdZc , end of solo.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Because cats would ignore it ; playing with the real thing is more fun
Like both babies and cats end up playing with boxes rather than toys.
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@GÄ ska said in Random thought of the day:
I mean, is there any other mammal that risks extreme health problems if they get pregnant in their first year of ovulation?
It may help to know the reason for this. Human childbirth is more risky for the mother than with other animals because of the large skulls of humans due to their large brains. A large brain is enough of a benefit that it's worth (from the point of view of natural selection) the increased risk of maternal death.
Natural selection is a balancing act of relative risks. There would be lower risk of maternal mortality if no girl could get pregnant before she was fully grown, but this is offset by the risk of waiting too long to bear children in times when the lifespan was often fairly short.
Not a direct answer to your question, though.
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@masonwheeler said in Random thought of the day:
If everyone here is a @boomzilla alt, what about @boomzilla himself?
Filed under: Barber paradox
MasonWheeler of 2017 might be interested to know that alts formerly known as boomzilla are now masonwheeler.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
Tangent--kids are cute as a defense mechanism. If they weren't so cute (especially when they're sleeping), they wouldn't survive to adulthood.
Freud pointed out that kids are little barbarians, and it's only because of their small size that we're able to keep them in line.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
Tangent--kids are cute as a defense mechanism. If they weren't so cute (especially when they're sleeping), they wouldn't survive to adulthood.
Freud pointed out that kids are little barbarians, and it's only because of their small size that we're able to keep them in line.
Related observation: birdsong is only sweet and charming because we can't understand it. It's typically a mating call, which makes that cute little tweeting bluebird in the Disney movie the equivalent of a drunk college student standing on the roof of the dorm in his underwear yelling over and over "Hey, who wants to get laid!?"
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Related observation: birdsong is only sweet and charming because we can't understand it. It's typically a mating call, which makes that cute little tweeting bluebird in the Disney movie the equivalent of a drunk college student standing on the roof of the dorm in his underwear yelling over and over "Hey, who wants to get laid!?"
I had also gotten the impression that they were often territorial notices. "This is my turf, stay the hell away if you know what's best for you!" So this is why mocking birds mock the calls of all birds. That way they can keep away food competition from all bird species, not just their own.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
Tangent--kids are cute as a defense mechanism. If they weren't so cute (especially when they're sleeping), they wouldn't survive to adulthood.
Freud pointed out that kids are little barbarians, and it's only because of their small size that we're able to keep them in line.
Related observation: birdsong is only sweet and charming because we can't understand it. It's typically a mating call, which makes that cute little tweeting bluebird in the Disney movie the equivalent of a drunk college student standing on the roof of the dorm in his underwear yelling over and over "Hey, who wants to get laid!?"
Yeah, it sounds like Fuck Me Fuck Me Fuck Me Monsters It's Cold Fuck Me Fuck Me Fuck Me Fuck Me. Do not send away for a Babel fish, no matter what a good idea it seems like at the time.
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It occurs to me that the bitchy first officer of the USS Valiant that kept giving Jake Sisko a hard time for no reason was named...Karen.
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Would disallowing all variations of the Nelson Goodman form of question disallow all trust?
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If I had kids and I got a pet for them, I'd name it Password Hint.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
If I had kids and I got a pet for them, I'd name it Password Hint.
I'm not sure if that means you would hope that your kids' accounts would get hacked.
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@jinpa They'll deserve it if they use weak password hints.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa They'll deserve it if they use weak password hints.
Therefore, you need to get them a really big/strong pet.
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Why doesn't Wolverine suffer from pernicious anemia?
details
You know, Two Batmans Kissing.
medical details
Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow.
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I could start replying "sorry, I've got too much on my plate right now" when people ask me stuff during lunch break.
On the other hand I can't beat the current policy of just ignoring them.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
when people ask me stuff during lunch break.
Hurriedly hand them a small food item, as if in answer.
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(If this goes anywhere, someone will probably want to spin it off into its own thread, but until then, I'm putting it here.)
Websites that shouldn't exist but do:
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Websites that shouldn't exist but do:
- facebook.com
- twitter.com
- instagram.com
- tiktok.com
- reddit.com
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@da-Doctah also, that amish.com website does indeed seem to not exist. (Parked domain serving ads.)
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Websites that shouldn't exist but do:
On a tangent, god.com was noticeably blank for a couple of decades. (Admirable restraint, IMHO.) I see now that it does forward to an on-topic site.
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God's secretary angel picks up a phone.
"God, people are calling for you."
"Tell them I'm not here."(Works better in Polish.)
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
(Works better in Polish.)
Works well in English.
Does not work for the true God, the Sun God.
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@dkf in Polish, "I'm not here" is said the same way as "I don't exist".
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf in Polish, "I'm not here" is said the same way as "I don't exist".
Sometimes in English as well, but not officially. Without a vague expansive gesture to change the meaning of "here", the verbal form would be "I'm not, like, here, man", so as to supply an imaginary hippie to perform said gestures.
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@Gribnit youâre definitely not all here, most of the time.
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@Arantor and for me he doesn't exist.
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah also, that amish.com website does indeed seem to not exist. (Parked domain serving ads.)
I was wondering. I just got a completely blank page... Between my etc/hosts and uBlock...
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
God's secretary angel picks up a phone.
"God, people are calling for you."
"Tell them I'm not here."(Works better in Polish.)
The one I remember was the Pope calling all his cardinals in for an emergency meeting, and telling them he has good news and bad news for them.
The good news is, he's just received a phone call from God, who has returned as promised.
The bad news is, he's calling from Salt Lake City.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
God's secretary angel picks up a phone.
"God, people are calling for you."
"Tell them I'm not here."(Works better in Polish.)
The one I remember was the Pope calling all his cardinals in for an emergency meeting, and telling them he has good news and bad news for them.
The good news is, he's just received a phone call from God, who has returned as promised.
The bad news is, he's calling from Salt Lake City.
Where does this work better?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
calling all his cardinals in for an emergency meeting
Did they meet in Hilbertâs Hotel?
A: only the finite ones.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
calling all his cardinals in for an emergency meeting
Did they meet in Hilbertâs Hotel?
A: only the finite ones.
Been awhile since I ran across any math-major humor. Like the one about how you can only watch Star Trek II, III, V and VII on Amazon Prime.
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@da-Doctah my much younger sister is in college now. Recently I told her a joke about an infinite number of mathematicians going into a bar. She even smiled the tiniest bit. I'm so proud of her!
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@Gustav three perfect logicians go into a bar. The bartender asks them "what're y'all having?"
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav three perfect logicians go into a bar. The bartender asks them
"what're y'all having?""Are you all having a beer?"Although there's probably some weird meta joke in your post nobody gets.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav three perfect logicians go into a bar. The bartender asks them
"what're y'all having?""Are you all having a beer?"Although there's probably some weird meta joke in your post nobody gets.
Yes. "The survivor orders a beer."
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
I could start replying "sorry, I've got too much on my plate right now" when people ask me stuff during lunch break.
On the other hand I can't beat the current policy of just ignoring them.
Or if the waiter is just taking my order or delivering it:
"sorry, but I've got people waiting"
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
If this is true, everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
That's not the case. A friend he was once in a group where two people had synesthesia ; their number/color associations didn't match, and they were both arguing that the other guy was obviously wrong.
Yeah I can't imagine why anyone would assume one entities experience directly matches another's from a general description. It doesn't work with taste, touch, eight, or even hearing, why not generated input?
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
God's secretary angel picks up a phone.
"God, people are calling for you."
"Tell them I'm not here."(Works better in Polish.)
The one I remember was the Pope calling all his cardinals in for an emergency meeting, and telling them he has good news and bad news for them.
The good news is, he's just received a phone call from God, who has returned as promised.
The bad news is, he's calling from Salt Lake City.
Where does this work better?
The Bible Belt.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Yeah I can't imagine why anyone would assume one entities experience directly matches another's from a general description.
Because this is how regular senses work. Which proves that synesthesia is a (benign) disorder.
It doesn't work with taste, touch, eight, or even hearing, why not generated input?
I wish you wrote the sentences the other way around because now my post looks stupid. Disorders notwithstanding, people experience the senses in pretty much the same way. I'm not talking about the feelings, but the raw sensory input itself. There's no absolute proof since it's immeasurable with current technology, but available evidence very strongly supports this hypothesis. Sensory cells are rather simple devices, with very little differences from one human to another. There is some variation in sensitivity to stimuli and reaction thresholds , just like there is variation between measure tapes/thermometers/cameras/microphones/pressure sensors/other measurement equipment, even if they're the same model from the same factory line.
Touch: If something is hot, mostly everyone agrees it's hot. Same with cold. There can be some disagreement when something is at the edge of being hot/cold, consistent with individual sensitivity/calibration. Mostly everyone agrees fluffy things are nice in touch, grass is more comfortable to lay on than concrete, and mechanical keyboards are amazing. It wouldn't be nearly as consistent if senses weren't the same for everyone.
Taste: most people in any given cultural group agrees when something is sweet/sour/salty/bitter/hot, although there is MUCH more variation between people used to different cuisine. But if you change your cuisine, your taste will gradually become similar to other people used to that cuisine - as every extreme-hot sauce fan can attest. This suggests that taste has a much greater calibration range than touch, but pretty small measurement range - and that beyond calibration it's pretty much the same for all people. The cilantro gene makes things weird, but it can be classified as a (benign) genetic disorder.
Similar story with other three senses but don't have time to write more right now. The point is, synesthesia is something that "shouldn't" happen in a "healthy" body, and that every case of synesthesia is different proves it.