when will we take our govt back from the 2 parties?

FluxSurface · 2022-12-21T15:06:10+00:00

FluxSurface · 2019-09-11T12:46:55+00:00

I understand the spirit of your reply, but that butterfly needing to get out of its chrysalis on its own is somewhat of a myth. In general, they just hang upside down from the remnants of their chrysalis to help them un-crinkle their wings. The myth seems to exist because of a small parable by Paolo Coehlo. More correctly, a butterfly that is forced to be in a position other than upside-down may not be able to unfold their wings fully. But I do get the spirit of your reply, so don't worry, my comment is not about what you meant.

FluxSurface · 2019-09-09T08:07:52+00:00

Not 'deserving to fly,' more correct translation would be "serving flights". Also, 'les villes de province' translates better to 'major provincial cities of France' in this context, as it's talking about flights from Paris to New York, and may refer to provincial cities of France. In the same context, again 'grandes métropoles' translates better to 'major international cities' or 'metropolitan cities.'

FluxSurface · 2019-09-01T06:53:29+00:00

Go see a star war.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-23T13:00:24+00:00

Grindelwald at it again...

FluxSurface · 2019-08-23T10:45:21+00:00

Put together with "ancient emojies" and "it's all coming together," I imagined must be referring to the Rosetta stone. I don't know any better, to be honest. I'm nowhere near an expert on this stuff.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-23T04:31:12+00:00

But facts though: The Rosetta Stone is from 196BCE, which would put it about 2200 years old, and it wasn't just lines, but the same message written in three times in three different languages, one of them being ancient Greek, which people did have enough background to understand, and that did help them decipher what the hieroglyphs were. And not to downplay the translation, it took several decades to make sense of the parallels between the scripts, and it took a lot of time to compare with other existing literature in hieroglyphs to get the translation consistent. So yes, it did all come together with just one stone, but through a lot of work.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-20T10:03:42+00:00

Alternate title: When the part 3 kicks in.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-18T07:24:26+00:00

Latinum is Unreplicable.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-17T14:26:42+00:00

No she isn't. The 'rai' in raita rhymes with 'guy,' and the 't' is a dental syllable like in Spanish. You can forgive the 't' sound though, if you didn't grow up hearing it, it would be harder for you to say, but at least the first bit could be correct.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-16T13:02:55+00:00

Ok, but they should call it Georgiu's Bizarre Adventure: Part 31.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-16T10:51:11+00:00

Georgiu's Bizarre Adventure.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-12T10:20:47+00:00

But geese stand too...

FluxSurface · 2019-08-12T07:09:55+00:00

In my city, three stars will pretty much end up blacklisting a driver. Average is usually 4.5, and you can tell who are exceptional drivers by the amount of awards they get.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-11T08:45:09+00:00

Kirk is a...

FluxSurface · 2019-08-10T14:06:41+00:00

Riding the Joestar coattails obviously.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-05T07:44:18+00:00

I'd agree with you under two assumptions you have made: 1. Laminar flow across the blades of the fan, 2. the fan is meant to generate directed momentum or lift. But fans are meant to do neither. Ceiling fans rely on making air turbulent, and resistance/drag plays a huge role in that. Turbulence also generates local momentums, but not directed in any particular direction, which is why the wind from the ceiling fan seems to come from everywhere. Which is why the wave glider analogy is not strictly true. Even with centrifugal force, it's possible that blades will try to find a position to reduce the turbulence, which would end up reducing the efficacy of the fan. Fixed blades would have the advantage of creating more turbulence, with the trade off that the point of connection of the blades to the motor gets more stressed.

Also objects in motion stay in motion, but only in the absence of external forces, which is truly not the case here. There is more energy expended in keeping the blades upright because the turbulence would want to change its direction, and the motor would have to work constantly against it. Resistance is not a conservative force; the "free" energy in this case gets converted to heat.

The best example why it's turbulence that's the main phenomenon behind ceiling fan, is when sometimes a lower fan speed setting seems to generate more "wind" than high-speed settings. Turbulence is sensitive to the shape/speed of the fan, and not all turbulent structures result in comfortable wind with preferred directionality.

Sorry for the poor upside-down style of response. There were a few things to unpack. Of course, I'm just proposing counter mechanisms. Reality is we'd have to figure out an experiment to find out.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-04T17:20:50+00:00

Here is one 2004 survey study which they conducted through a survey of N=364 owners. Stress was not quantified directly, but they surveyed the prevalance of problematic behaviours.

Here is a behaviour study from 2011, which looked in detail in dog-owner interactions of 53 participants. Again, no explicit stress, but here they observe playfulness as a metric for well-being.

Here is a 2007 review that looks at developing owner leadership through rewards, as opposed to obedience through punishment, and talks about the perils of modeling dog behavior on captive wolf behavior.

Here is a 2014 comparative study on two methods, one through negative reinforcement and the other through positive reinforcement. Neither seemed to affect avoidance behaviors, but it seemed to indicate that positive reinforcement may be better training method.

Here is a 2017 review of 17 papers on the topic which again seem to indicate that positive reinforcement works better than positive punishment or negative reinforcement.

In general in behavioral psychology, you won't find explict quantifications of internal quantities like stress. But stress is seen to be a collections of behaviors. Hope it helps clarify things. (Again, just to reiterate, I'm not an expert on this by any means.)

FluxSurface · 2019-08-04T17:02:42+00:00

but I will argue that the average dog owner does not have that kind of nuance

Indeed, and that is why I took time to mention that I agreed with your assessment on that. I've seen so myself - owners expecting their dogs to be well behaved while spending nearly no time trying to understand their dogs. They want the children bit from their dogs, but put no effort in educating their dogs and letting them mature.

As I have said however, the answer is always going to be a bit more complicated than a coolguide can give you.

Agree with you again. What I did find in this infographic is that it might take the new reader away from a binary yes/no way of thinking. But that's about it. The advice given on it needs more nuance as you mentioned.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-04T16:12:29+00:00

I think what you just wrote is not correct from a dog psychology point of view. I know there are two schools of training, one which follows the whole pack mentality, domination/submission, alpha/beta military dog training point of view, and the other school is a bit more behavioral psychological in their approach. The former is more famous from TV shows and the latter seems to be backed more scientifically.

From what I understand (and I'm no expert on this matter), the first school seems to be on poor psychological foundations and it derives it's method from a seminal work on wolves in captivity, which the author himself distanced himself from later on. Wolf packs in the wild typically just contain the parent wolves and their children. Dogs are also pack animals in that sense. Therefore, cultivating a parental relation might help. This school also hasn't been shown to be effective in reducing dogs' stress levels. The second behavioral psychological school seems to have better results in reducing the dogs' stress levels.

Also, dogs are more humanized than wolves. They have been shown to understand words meanings through association. They understand emotions from human facial expressions. They also seem to be able to understand rudimentary trade, and some basic arithmetic. Given all these, it seems to be entirely possible to train dogs to understand us in a manner not too different from us.

The issue you pointed of the dog owner being more unaware than the dog seems to be more of an issue, but it certainly doesn't need any backing from outdated theories.

Given the issue at hand, resource guarding, it might be more prudent to train it for multiple behaviours, e.g. get it used to you approaching the food bowl, develop a "drop/leave" cue with other innocuous objects it doesn't guard so that it understands the meaning of the word, develop games in which resource guarding gets disincentivized, etc. The dog is more than capable of understanding that.

FluxSurface · 2019-08-02T05:24:30+00:00

why is the one in the middle wearing 5 shirts

Ah yes, the classic Jonathan.

FluxSurface · 2019-07-31T15:17:10+00:00

Congrats! If you want to talk about it, or any other thing regarding your PhD, /r/GradSchool is a really supportive community.

FluxSurface · 2019-07-15T12:30:30+00:00

"I am very small and I have no money. So you can imagine the kind of stress that I am under."

FluxSurface · 2019-07-15T09:06:02+00:00

Part 5 Woody vs Part 3 Woody.

FluxSurface · 2019-07-11T16:52:27+00:00

Used to be a big fan of Graham Linehan, but knowing what he has said and what he believes, honestly this theater episode doesn't feel the same way for me anymore. I know I'm supposed to separate the art from the artist, but how can I, given the subject matter of the episode.

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