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[Psinter]

If she is a boy and he is a girl, what do you think are my grades in English class?

 

[WWGD]

I assume they thought this would save marketing costs. Unfortunately for them, they made the calculation without people's subconsciousness. Typical case of: not thought to the end.

I once lived in an apartment building with neighbors named Buse (her name, Busen= bosom) and Bock (his name, = buck).

But they are comedians , so it may be in their favor.

 

[WWGD]

There is this ( I assume) half insane woman in coffee shop that gives people the finger while pretending to scratch her face. Talk about advantages of being a woman. she has been doing this for months now. If she was a man, she (_he) would have been challenged for a fight long ago.

 

[Psinter]

I started doing push-ups regularly and after a while, one day, I felt like a small sense of confidence that I could do one arm push-ups. It was as if without trying, I could clearly gauge my own capacity at that point. Got myself on the ground and to my surprise, I could do them!

It felt really good. I was like: "Oof. I'm strong."

But once I was able to do it, I realized that it didn't require that much strength to do one arm push-ups. It wasn't something that required hard training to achieve. Although I'm not sure if the weight of the person influences the amount of training needed by that person. I have always been light. Whenever I'm moving something heavy, I always get told that the object can lift me, rather than the other way around .

So the random thought that crossed my mind is that when one exercises regularly, one sort of gets a feeling of one's own capacity to perform a certain task. Whether you can do it easily or whether it will cost you. I don't know how to explain it. You just can assess the situation and your capacities better than when you don't exercise at all.

 

[WWGD]

I started doing push-ups regularly and after a while, one day, I felt like a small sense of confidence that I could do one arm push-ups. It was as if without trying, I could clearly gauge my own capacity at that point. Got myself on the ground and to my surprise, I could do them!

It felt really good. I was like: "Oof. I'm strong."

But once I was able to do it, I realized that it didn't require that much strength to do one arm push-ups. It wasn't something that required hard training to achieve. Although I'm not sure if the weight of the person influences the amount of training needed by that person. I have always been light. Whenever I'm moving something heavy, I always get told that the object can lift me, rather than the other way around .

So the random thought that crossed my mind is that when one exercises regularly, one sort of gets a feeling of one's own capacity to perform a certain task. Whether you can do it easily or whether it will cost you. I don't know how to explain it. You just can assess the situation and your capacities better than when you don't exercise at all.

How about one-finger push-ups? Any time soon? ( Don't try it , may fracture the finger)

 

[fresh_42]

How about one-finger push-ups? Any time soon? ( Don't try it , may fracture the finger)

Not at all. I can push-up my finger without any noteworthy efforts as often as I like.

 

[WWGD]

Woman in coffee shop giving the finger more openly today, no pretense of scratching her face. Kind of funny but sad to see deranged people outside of special housing.

 

[fresh_42]

Woman in coffee shop giving the finger more openly today, no pretense of scratching her face. Kind of funny but sad to see deranged people outside of special housing.

Well, at least a sign of honesty

 

[Psinter]

How about one-finger push-ups? Any time soon? ( Don't try it , may fracture the finger)

Perhaps one day.
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Trying to use wax to remove some parts of my eyebrows for a longer lasting look and it ripped my skin off. Now I have a red-brown patch where the bright red thin layer of blood was. And it didn't remove the hairs! Just the skin! I look awesome now. Thank you .

Looking for a solution I feel overwhelmed by the amount of makeup products in the cosmetics section. How do people even know what to use? Time to visit YouTube for makeup tutorials.

 

[WWGD]

Why not glue the hairs and skin together in the brow area?Or just draw in some brows with a crayon, uncle Leo style (Seinfeld)?

 

[WWGD]

It goes beyond deciding if app is short for application or appetizer.

 

[WWGD]

Windows' error messages have changed from :
Windows has run into an error...
to:
Your PC has run into an error...

 

[Psinter]

Woman in coffee shop giving the finger more openly today, no pretense of scratching her face. Kind of funny but sad to see deranged people outside of special housing.

Why don't you date her?

Crazy ones make for good dates .

Just kidding. Don't go there.

But following that line of thoughts, I think I once heard someone say to not think that you can change someone. Looks like some people who date, think they can change parts of their partners that they don't like. That they can convince them to be different. And it somehow doesn't go as expected.

 

[WWGD]

Why don't you date her?

Crazy ones make for good dates .

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Just kidding. Don't go there.

But following that line of thoughts, I think I once heard someone say to not think that you can change someone. Looks like some people who date, think they can change parts of their partners that they don't like. That they can convince them to be different.

You mean like their eyebrows? :).

 

[WWGD]

Why don't you date her?

Crazy ones make for good dates .

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Just kidding. Don't go there.

But following that line of thoughts, I think I once heard someone say to not think that you can change someone. Looks like some people who date, think they can change parts of their partners that they don't like. That they can convince them to be different. And it somehow doesn't go as expected.

But, you have a point dating wise. I have a magnetic personality:every deranged person around seems to find me and approach me.

 

[WWGD]

I finally understood why a matrix is a (1,1) -tensor. After like a year.

 

[fresh_42]

But, you have a point dating wise. I have a magnetic personality:every deranged person around seems to find me and approach me.

I know this characteristic too well. Always thought it's only me ...

 

[fresh_42]

I finally understood why a matrix is a (1,1) -tensor. After like a year.

And now for the next lesson: it's also a (2,0) or a (0,2) tensor.

 

[Ibix]

But, you have a point dating wise. I have a magnetic personality:every deranged person around seems to find me and approach me.

Back in undergrad days I was chatting to a friend in the corridor when a girl we both knew came round the corner, took one look at my friend, said "oh!" and went haring off back round the corner. I gave him a "that was weird" kind of look and he shrugs and says "It's my animal magnetism - I just need to figure out how to flip the polarity..."

(She showed up again two minutes later with a book he'd lent her.)

 

[Ibix]

And now for the next lesson: it's also a (2,0) or a (0,2) tensor.

...and only if it's got the right transformation laws.

 

[WWGD]

...and only if it's got the right transformation laws.

I found the answer through meditation : Hom, Hom,...

 

[fresh_42]

...and only if it's got the right transformation laws.

Only for physicists. For me it's only important how many asterisks are involved! That's sufficient for me to know what to do. And don't bring up co- and contravariances. My book about homological algebra uses them differently anyway.

 

[Ibix]

Only for physicists. For me it's only important how many asterisks are involved! That's sufficient for me to know what to do. And don't bring up co- and contravariances. My book about homological algebra uses them differently anyway.

OK, but still you have a condition over and above being a square matrix. The Christoffel connection coefficients are representible by an NxNxN matrix, but aren't a tensor.

 

[fresh_42]

Every "rectangle" collection of numbers in any dimension can be interpreted as a tensor, a cube is just $\sum x \otimes y \otimes z$.

 

[Ibix]

Can be interpreted as, sure. But can be interpreted otherwise too (e.g. the connection). So I object to the "is" part of "a matrix is a tensor".

 

[WWGD]

OK, but still you have a condition over and above being a square matrix. The Christoffel connection coefficients are representible by an NxNxN matrix, but aren't a tensor.

But isn't a matrix just a 2D array? Or maybe it is the confusion of notational/definitional differencees?

 

[fresh_42]

It's the old discussion what a transformation and what its matrix is. A tensor to me is simply an element of a tensor algebra, resp. space, if only tensors of equal rank are involved. As soon as I have a basis of the constituent vector spaces, I have a cube or whatever a matrix (not necessarily square) in higher dimensions shall be called. Their use by physicists makes me dizzy. It always sounds curved somehow, but it's flat as a board.

 

[WWGD]

Every "rectangle" collection of numbers in any dimension can be interpreted as a tensor, a cube is just #\sum x \otimes y \otimes z##.

What type of or theory of Homology are you using?

 

[fresh_42]

What type of or theory of Homology are you using?

Covariance and contravariance determines, whether a functor keeps the direction of mapping arrows or converts them. I have never seen a second category by the way physicists use these terms - there are always only vector spaces present. If at all, it's the transition $V \rightarrow V^*$, but they attach it to either $V$ or $V^*$, so again no second category.

 

[WWGD]

It's the old discussion what a transformation and what its matrix is. A tensor to me is simply an element of a tensor algebra, resp. space, if only tensors of equal rank are involved. As soon as I have a basis of the constituent vector spaces, I have a cube or whatever a matrix (not necessarily square) in higher dimensions shall be called. Their use by physicists makes me dizzy. It always sounds curved somehow, but it's flat as a board.

This looks more like geometric algebra. Or Simplicial.

 

[fresh_42]

This looks more like geometric algebra. Or Simplicial.

No, it looks like homological algebra, the category thingies, at least the books are titled so, both, the English and the German ones.

 

[WWGD]

Can be interpreted as, sure. But can be interpreted otherwise too (e.g. the connection). So I object to the "is" part of "a matrix is a tensor".

So it depends on what "is" is?

 

[WWGD]

Yo mama so fat , when she walks around the house... she _really_ walks around the house.

 

[Psinter]

Whenever you get a new job and meet your new co-workers:

Edit:

Scene from the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguins_of_Madagascar

 

[fresh_42]

Can someone please find a word for "Erkenntnis". The only possibility I see is "knowledge", but there is a fundamental difference between knowing something and understood something! Too bad we don't have philosophy here. I would be very interested which consequences it has to a society, that only knows things and doesn't care about "Erkenntnis".

And, no, re-cognition doesn't count. It's only to realize what's already known. I'm looking for the knowledge behind "Eureka!".

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Can someone please find a word for "Erkenntnis". The only possibility I see is "knowledge", but there is a fundamental difference between knowing something and understood something! Too bad we don't have philosophy here. I would be very interested which consequences it has to a society, that only knows things and doesn't care about "Erkenntnis".

And, no, re-cognition doesn't count. It's only to realize what's already known. I'm looking for the knowledge behind "Eureka!".

Insight?

 

[fresh_42]

Insight?

Oh, I haven't thought about this one. Probably because it means something different in German. Insight here reflects on a revised and corrected position, or the possibility to view formerly closed documents.

 

[Psinter]

Have you even laughed so hard that you could literally feel your ab muscles ripping?

 

[OmCheeto]

Are rainbows chromatic aberrations, or vice versa?

 

[fresh_42]

I've incidentally found a place in town today where people can actually play boules - people who played it inclusively.

 

[Ibix]

Are rainbows chromatic aberrations, or vice versa?

They're more or less a product of chromatic aberration, yes. I'm not sure you can really call it chromatic aberration when it's not part of an optical system designed to form an achromatic image, but it's the same root cause, certainly.

 

[Ibix]

I've incidentally found a place in town today where people can actually play boules - people who played it inclusively.

I play boules
(I need no tools)
Against fools
While eating moules.

 

[fresh_42]

I play boules
(I need no tools)
Against fools
While eating moules.

Correction: Pétanque.

Your turn.

 

[Ibix]

Correction: Pétanque.

Your turn.

I'll be frank
I play petanque
But I don't clank
'less I bring my tank.

 

[fresh_42]

I'll be frank
I play petanque
But I don't clank
'less I bring my tank.

You know this doesn't work with the actual pronunciation?
Our town is considered the most multi-cultural in Germany, but I didn't know that French belong to this mixture.

 

[Ibix]

You know this doesn't work with the actual pronunciation?
Our town is considered the most multi-cultural in Germany, but I didn't know that French belong to this mixture.

It works with the usual anglicised pronunciation. And just Googling it (from an English computer in England, anyway) gives me the same pronunciation. How's it supposed to be pronounced?

 

[fresh_42]

How's it supposed to be pronounced?

[peˈtaŋkɔ]
There is no correspondence to the French nasal syllables in English. Frank was o.k., since the French pronounce it similar, but then I don't think there is a way to make it rhyme in English. That's why I corrected boules.

 

[Ibix]

Hmm. Google is offering pəˈtaŋk - which I think is the same except it's missing the final symbol - and the "listen to the pronunciation" comes out so that it rhymes with frank/clank/tank. But I do vaguely recall how to pronounce frank (or, at least, franc). And there won't be much that rhymes with that in English. As you say, we don't have that sort of sound.

Anyway, my doggerel works in English. And I'm speaking English. Not my fault if foreigners can't pronounce their own language right.

 

[fresh_42]

I just looked it up, out of curiosity, and the statistic counts more than 300 French in town, and only a bit over 200 from UK. I would have expected more. At least the 330 are enough to explain a boules match.

 

[fresh_42]

Not my fault if foreigners can't pronounce their own language right.

Are we talking about the Haggis people?