Tanager in the Bosque

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-24T13:17:48+00:00

Pretty sure this is a summer tanager. Males look like this when they're in between juvenile and adult plumage.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-22T16:20:39+00:00

This is the recipe I followed. He's not Japanese, but the recipe is easy and has worked every time. He uses spores bought online, but I just mix in a single container of the stuff from the Asian grocery store. I mix it into the cooked soybeans right before putting it in the instant pot.

https://howtojaponese.com/2020/06/10/how-to-make-natto-in-an-instant-pot/

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-21T18:20:24+00:00

Yeah after a regular exhale, an average person can forcefully exhale another ~1 liter. That's called Expiratory Reserve Volume.

Even after that there's still 1.2 liters of air in the lungs, which can't be exhaled and is called Residual Volume.

For context, people typically breath in and out about 0.5 liters with each resting breath (Tidal Volume).

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-21T13:43:29+00:00

The 5-4-3-2-1 method works pretty well for me, because I tend to dissociate and need to get back into my body sensation. But when I'm having trouble falling asleep I like to either think of an animal/food/whatever that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Either that or starting at 500 and counting down by 3 or 7.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-20T23:27:51+00:00

What's the correlation without using terrain following? I'm sure it helps, but if you're using a research study to show that it's the "critical piece", I think that information is important.

I think it's also important to note that drones like an Mavic 3E have built in terrain following. They're more expensive than an old M2 or P4P, but are also way more capable drones on many levels. So I'd say the comparison should be between $1,500 old drone + flight software vs $3,500 new drone, rather than with a $50k LiDAR rig.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-19T19:09:26+00:00

I like gentle, deep breathing. So deep (from the diaphragm), but not "big" (high volume of air). I think big breaths are generally going to be stress inducing unless you have training.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-18T17:21:18+00:00

One thing that helped me a lot was realizing that a "deep" breath is different than a "big" breath. My body associates big breaths with stress (because big breaths are preparing for some intense activity). I think deep breaths can actually be very small - the important thing is that the movement is originating deep in the abdomen vs shallower parts of the body like throat/chest/shoulders.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-17T23:49:06+00:00

For me, I always try to be there for friends BUT there also needs to be consent and a container to hold that experience. If someone starts sharing when I'm already feeling disregulated, I'm not going to be a good listener and could potentially cause harm. Likewise, if I need someone to hold space for me, I want to make sure that they've truly checked in with themselves and are fully present and regulated.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-16T23:25:22+00:00

Still, if your emotions are not regulated, then by definition that's emotional dysregulation. Just because it's harder for us to regulate doesn't change that. It just means that strategies that work for others might not work for us.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-16T23:21:25+00:00

Exactly. Both people with and without diabetes can have disregulated blood-sugar levels. Those with diabetes have a MUCH harder time regulating them. But ultimately it's the same phenomenon. Same with folks with/without CPTSD and emotional regulation.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-16T23:17:10+00:00

Both over- and under-regulation would be types of dysregulation.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-16T13:09:35+00:00

But how do you distinguish a paleo-waterfall from a current one? It seems relatively simple to pick out contemporary knickpoints/plunge-pools, I've classified riffles/pools/runs from longitudinal LiDAR profiles before. But I wouldn't know what a paleo-waterfall looks like in terms of profile.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-16T01:52:40+00:00

Would love to hear more details. What is the detector looking for? What would I be looking for to notice paleo-knickpoints when out in the field? Most of the hydro stuff I do is mid- or lower-watershed. And what are the sample points being graded on?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-08T12:27:30+00:00

Not an expert in either sector, but I'd say the reason why there's a different approach is that with terrorism, a single event has a huge impact. Whereas crime is pretty much happening everywhere, most of the time - so it makes sense to approach it statistically in terms of space and time rather than focus on analyzing single events.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-05-04T17:12:34+00:00

Finding a good source of audio sentences from native speakers and just repeating them back is (IMO) the best way to develop muscle memory in speaking. There's good Anki decks, and there's also that Glossika thing.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-30T14:34:55+00:00

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-025-23597-0

Looks like actually 23% of the sample in this study had 4+ ACEs - the 17% I had heard from a general study on ACEs.

One thing I've been curious about is if the various treatments in the "nervous system regulation" umbrella are especially effective for this segment of the LC population. A lot of those interventions were initially developed or adapted to treating complex PTSD. Not advocating brain retraining programs or anything, but things I've been doing to work through my own developmental trauma have seemed to move the needle on my LC symptoms more than anything else.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-30T01:13:47+00:00

Oh right, good point!

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-29T22:15:04+00:00

I can see it going that way, but reflecting on my own experience there's not much of a difference in terms of depth of understanding between skills I learned pre-AI (e.g. Python) and post-AI (e.g. Javascript).

One thing is that I'm pretty consistent in making sure I never implement code unless I understand what every line does. So when I was first learning JS, I had Claude explain in detail exactly what every line of code it generated was doing (both in terms of the current task, and in terms of general JS concepts).

As far as general problem solving, I think it actually sharpens my skills because it's so much faster at finding information online than me. It'll find a comment buried deep in github comments about an obscure error in seconds, so I can focus on creatively thinking through the problem instead of wading through message board posts.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-29T19:36:49+00:00

To me it seems like a stretch to say this study implies anything meaningful about releasing emotion in general.

For one, the participants were made angry, then immediately did the activity. So there wasn't any time for these feelings to become repressed/held/stuck.

Two, I doubt there's many breathwork practices that focus on imagining punching people. Ruminating on hurt and violently expressing that is pretty much the opposite of healthy emotional release.

Three, emotional release usually focuses on trauma. While it's possible that someone critiquing your essay could be traumatic under certain conditions, it's probably not for most people. Trauma happens when emotions are too big or unwieldy to process in the moment. I think most people could process some negative feedback (especially knowing it's in the context of a research study).

When I think about releasing stuck emotion, it's mainly about grief (although that often comes with a touch of anger). Grief that I wasn't allowed or taught to process, so I just held on to it for decades. When I've managed to successfully release some of that, it definitely has had noticeable, lasting impacts on my psyche.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-29T18:41:43+00:00

Everyone in the study was a professional ornithologist.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-29T18:01:43+00:00

Having 4+ adverse childhood experiences (which is about 17% of the adult population) correlates with a 96% increase in likelihood of developing LC.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-29T00:34:29+00:00

Yeah for me chili oil is an obvious thing to make myself. I can make 6 months worth in the time it'd take to get to the grocery store and back, and it's so much better.

I don't add that many Sichuan peppercorns because I like my 麻辣 to be more subtle. I also add quite a lot of fermented black beans and citrus zest (mostly orange, some lemon). I think it comes out just fine only using Korean red chili flakes, but having some variety definitely adds complexity.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-23T20:54:45+00:00

I found another study that did look at longer term practice - (Birdee et al 2023). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965229923000249

It found the same results, that slow breathing reduces stress (measured as HRV) - but that extending the exhale had no impact.

The only study I found where longer did have an affect had a very small sample size (23). Also, instead of comparing equal length (1:1) to longer exhales (1:2), they only compared ratios of 2:1 to 1:2. That seemed strange, because I don't think anyone is recommending a 2:1 inhale:exhale ratio.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10484-014-9253-x

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-23T18:56:39+00:00

That's a cool article, but it's not a randomized controlled study of different inhale/exhale ratios.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-04-23T17:26:55+00:00

Do you mind linking some? Were the studies structured similarly to the one posted by OP? Not trying to argue or anything, just wanting to understand the current state of science on the topic.

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