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ColleenV

00:40

@Hay I think in this context, “leave” means “permission”. They can apply for permission to remain (in the country I’m guessing)

> EU citizens living in the UK would have to apply for "settled status" to remain after Brexit.

Jasper

01:07

I don't like smartphones. I prefer the dumbphones of the past.

Double U

03:54

@CowperKettle LOL. In Mandarin Chinese, 愛 means love and is pronounced very similar to "eye" in English. However, Chinese is a tonal language. So, I can easily tell if a person is saying the English "eye" or Chinese 愛.

CowperKettle

07:13

> Neuroscientists have for the first time discovered differences between the ‘software’ of humans and monkey brains, using a technique that tracks single neurons.

nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00198-7

CowperKettle

08:53

> “By selecting families who have chosen to have another child after having a diagnosed child, we get a better sense of what really are the genetic contributions, and more reliable recurrence risk estimates,” Miller says.

Didn't she use this are in the wrong place?

Captain Bohemian

@Jasper what is a dumbphone?

I actually have never liked to talk on phone, no matter on what kind of phone. I like face-to-face talk.

but for a long time I have not talked face to face about a real thing. I mostly talk with people on web who I have never seen.

because I am in my home city, where there has long not been anybody related to me.

I only finished my elementary and junior high school education here, but I have not had good friends therein. Actually I think these schools were not my milieu. I should have attended a school far outside this home city.

this home city is basically not my milieu.

userr2684291

10:08

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Word of the day: barbigerous

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(That's a link to a YouTube video.)

Jasper

@CaptainBohemian Is it possible for you to move to another place that you like?

CowperKettle

12:48

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, also known as Buddha's Temptation (Chinese: 佛跳墙; pinyin: fó tiào qiáng), is a variety of shark fin soup in Fujian cuisine. It was created by Zheng Chunfa, celebrated chef and proprietor of the Ju Chun Yuan Restaurant in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Zheng was private chef of a senior local official in his early years. Since its creation during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the dish has been regarded as a Chinese delicacy known for its rich taste, and special manner of cooking. The dish's name is an allusion to the dish's ability to entice the vegetarian monks from their...

Reminded me of Hopping John

Captain Bohemian

@Jasper yes as long as I secure a position.

I used to move to a suburb for my graduate studies. Afterwards I tried to look for positions outside the home city, and did find one but too dissatisfying, so I continued to look for positions and only found positions in my home city so moved back.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:20

@userr2684291 I wonder when I'll ever get to use it but here's a star

Captain Bohemian

@CowperKettle We have that kind of cuisine but how it contains varies greatly with who cooks it. My father used to sometims cook that for us.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Hay "gouvernment" That's sou British giggle snort

Excuse my ignourance; snourt

@snailboat I always calculate my calories and at the same time worry that I'm underestimating some food's calories big time

Always meaning "since the transplant"

@CowperKettle Lack of dopamine eh? Well Facebook can fix that

@CaptainBohemian I can't imagine something like "these milk" ever work but note that sometimes we take uncountable thingies and put them in an imaginary box so we can count them. Anyway, even then, "these" could sound awkward

Captain Bohemian

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I also feel so. But sometimes I want to emphasize more than one xxx(an abstract noun), like these awareness. I want to refer to several points I have been aware of, but I don't think there is such a word awarenesses.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Emphasize? Uh, I don't think that works

But maybe wait for @Snail or @Colleen's opinion on it

Speaking of the mollusk

@CaptainBohemian Of course it can exist but it wouldn't convey what you want to convey

CowperKettle

13:38

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ How could Facebook fix that? Is there some joke in it?

The case is very interesting, I wish I had time to translate it to Russian.

Imagine how many patients actually commit suicide due to similar metabolic derangements.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle The whole system of liking and following etc. is based on stimulating dopamine secretion AFAIK

CowperKettle

The authors of the study recruited a cohort of severely depressed patients after this case, and discovered a similar metabolic deviation in one of them, and cerebral folate deficiency in many of them - and some of the patients got radically better.

These patients tried antidepressants and still were depressed, severely, with half of them attempting suicide. And after treatment that corresponded to their metabolic derangements, some of them got radically better.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Isn't that how it's been working for 400 years? We keep finding out why people become sick and ultimately fewer people die

CowperKettle

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Ah! So I thought

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yes, but psychiatry has remained a sphere in which there was almost no scientific knowledge of the actual causes, and only in the last decades there is a trickle of discoveries, and it's amazing.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Next stop is probably stopping to assume every person with some fat under the skin got it because of the pizzas

@CowperKettle Still feels pretty lacking

Man, when is the breakthrough I was promised?

CowperKettle

13:45

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I've translated the study on depressed patients for my friend, a psychiatrist in Moscow. He even haven't heard of folinic acid before. Research news get to Russia years after they are known in the Western world.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I'm not driving flying cars. I actually have to drive the normal cars. I can't chat on a 3D screen. There's no robot cleaning the house. AI is still dumb, far from Ex Machina. We still argue about things like climate change. HIV remains undefeated. Cancer remains undefeated.

Like, the hell? Now the only breakthroughs we get is image quality in the newest Samsung Note XXXV

And being able to insert emojis on Twitter while scuba diving.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ In my brother's flat, there is a robot vacuum cleaner

The brother's cat likes the robot

But I think they are not very useful thus far. A roundish squat contraption.

Can't make it over uneven terrain of the flat.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I get it's not all about breakthroughs, but solidifying the basis of the knowledge we already have

CowperKettle

I don't think flying cars are feasible much: too dangerous for use in the city, and expensive in terms of fuel consumption

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

But I can't help but think that we've trapped ourselves in the formality of a system that actively discourages innovation — doubling the effect of society already doing it

CowperKettle

13:49

There are huge breakthroughs in neuroscience all the time, but it has not yet reached our life in general.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle I know, I was mostly kidding

CowperKettle

As a child in the USSR, I could not even dream of talking with some guy in Iran. I had a nice book about computers, but there was no mention of chatrooms there.

There was a writer in the 19th century Russia who wrote a novel in which there is a telegraph station in each house. He was sent to psychiatrists to be investigated for publishing it.

A telegraph station for communicating with other people, and printing out fresh news.

LOL

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Do you use some physical activity tracker to track your miles walked? I use Strava.

I'm hooked on it - on the "likes" etc.

I get easily hooked by any gamification.

CowperKettle

14:24

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ AI is developing by leaps and bounds. HIV can be treated to the extent where you cannot even detect the virus by blood tests. There are amazing breakthroughs in treating previously untreatable tumors using the patient's own immune system.

Several days ago, scientists announced that an AI system can detect schizophrenia with a 87% accuracy by analysing a patient using fMRI.

They trained the AI system using medication-naive patients.

And successfully diagnozed schizophrenia in another cohort of patients/healthy persons.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle Nope, I've only been recently self-declared "safe to go outside" and when outside things like that are so inaccurate that I walk known routes or count steps

Turns out, I'm pretty consistent with my steps.

120 is exactly 7.2 km/h

@CowperKettle That's a big part of what makes every structured form of exercise fun

Some days you'd feel down, some days up, and you'd have to exercise all the same.

Captain Bohemian

this weather ris abominably cold.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle But it'd take an eon before that AI gets implemented in real-life situations, saving random patients, no?

BBL

Captain Bohemian

the advantage of living in a warm place where every season has the temperature at least 30 C is you can sleep everywhere without feeling too cold because housing is almost always the biggest cost.

Captain Bohemian

14:55

such a cold weather makes me want to have some hot food.

this home is just like a ruin, not having any heating facility.

whenever you want hot food, you need to go out.

whenever you want a warm shower, you need to go out.

I just found this example "She moved to a city where jobs were more plentiful." in thefreedictionary.com/where

obviously people can only live in a place where there are jobs or paid positions for them unless you somehow have money.

CowperKettle

15:44

Words of the eve: paper spill and spill vase

Jasper

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ In that case, when we say something like these milks, we could mean for example these bottles of milk.

@CowperKettle Item for sale of the day: paper vase

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Jasper Yeah but not "these milk"

CowperKettle

16:10

> For instance, the ‘philosophical bottles’ were small vessels containing a partially oxidised yellow phosphorus and kept tightly corked; when a light was wanted a sulphur match was pushed in, turned round and quickly drawn out, igniting on contact with the air.

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A: Meaning of "dim blue match" in "The Female Vagrant" by Wordsworth

The match can’t be a friction match as these were not invented until 1826, long after the publication of ‘The Female Vagrant’ in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1798. Instead, the blue flame indicates that it is a sulphur match. Before sulphur matches, the way to light an oil lamp (if you ...

Worthy of upvoting!

An answer just posted to my old question

userr2684291

16:29

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ When there's a word, there's a need, or something like that. :>

From now on, instead of using hairy, petty, crude person to describe someone, you might want to simply say a barbigerous, bickering barbarian.

Also, barber ... barbigerous – probably the same root. Woo.

Also barbecue – same thing. ( :

CowperKettle

16:46

Word of the minute: proud flesh (in a wound site)

Captain Bohemian

17:02

in the past, I saw my Dutch supervisor uses a heater even when the weather doesn't feel so cold. I wonder how he needs a heater when the weather is not cold. Now I feel I need a heater even when it's 20 C. I just feel cold these days, even when the tempearture reaches over 20 C, not knowing why. It's 13 C now, and the coldness hinders my function.

CowperKettle

@CaptainBohemian I remember feeling very cold when I first developed hypothyroidism

You might check your TSH level

Thyroid-stimulating hormone

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (also known as thyrotropin, thyrotropic hormone, TSH, or hTSH for human TSH) is a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroxine (T4), and then triiodothyronine (T3) which stimulates the metabolism of almost every tissue in the body. It is a glycoprotein hormone produced by thyrotrope cells in the anterior pituitary gland, which regulates the endocrine function of the thyroid. In 1916, Bennett M. Allen and Philip E. Smith found that the pituitary contained a thyrotropic substance. == Physiology == === Hormone levels === TSH (with a half life...

CowperKettle

18:04

Oil spill: разлив нефти
Bike spill: падение с велосипеда
Paper spill: узкая полоска бумаги для зажигания свечи или курительной трубки.
Ахаха, что ты делаешь, английский язык, прекрати!

CowperKettle

18:25

Last word of the day: median PFS (median time of progression-free survival)

userr2684291

19:16

@CowperKettle Is the last line a directive to yourself, meaning "What are you doing [writing in Russian]? English, please."? I think I know the literal translation.

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