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skullpetrol

00:03

Hello! :-)

CowperKettle

03:17

Good morning

wow a beautiful sunrise

the glass facades are orange in the rising sun

yubraj

04:17

Good morning everyone!

What "psydoscience" is called in hindi language? What does psydoscience really mean?

Stack Exchange

04:38

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Q: In(to) a road/path or On(to) a road/path?

On the topic of giving directions, I'm not sure whether I should suggest someone to "turn into the right lane / the driveway / Long Road" or "turn onto the right lane / the driveway / Long Road". The answers to this question seem to suggest that as you drive on the surfaces of roads, you should b...

CowperKettle

05:24

ХТО ТВІЙ БАТЯ?/ ПАРОДІЯ PSY - "Daddy" (RUS/ENG SUB)

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Funny song of the day

V.V.

05:55

:35547002pseudo-science
noun [ C usually singular ] UK /ˈsjuː.dəʊ.saɪ.əns/ US /ˈsuː.doʊ.saɪ.əns/

a system of thought or a theory that is not formed in a scientific way

@yubraj

M.A.R.

08:11

Hey LO

How's it vibrating?

@yubraj morning

@yubraj don't you mean "pseudoscience"?

M.A.R.

08:25

@snailplane o/

yubraj

08:37

@M.A.R. yes

@snilplne nods....

M.A.R.

@yubraj pseudoscience is stuff people think is scientific but is actually not.

yubraj

Ummm...

But hat would you call to blind folded reading?

M.A.R.

I'll call it blindfolded reading

If they believe the cause is the person being holy or something stupid like that, it can be superstition

yubraj

I have asked this question in hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/17225/…

M.A.R.

Although I think there's a better word for religious superstition but I don't recall it now

yubraj

08:48

I'm wondered with this telents

M.A.R.

@yubraj hmm, that will either become a hot network question or it's off-topic

yubraj

Oh....

M.A.R.

@yubraj humans naturally love to explore the unknown

yubraj

Some People call it third eye activation!

I don't have any idea about it

M.A.R.

There's always some explanation, but before we're certain how it's done, all the stuff floating around is bullshit

@yubraj that's the best thing you can do about it: Not have any ideas

You don't have the means to do research about it

And whatever opinion you choose to believe will definitely be wrong for the simple reason that it's not scientific

yubraj

09:11

Nods...

But, science must justify such phenomena with evidence. Whether it's cheating or technique or magic or god gifted power, science should explain it.

Science doesn't even believe in God. How would it explain god gifted power? Loh....

M.A.R.

@yubraj science should, but it can't yet.

We have a very limited knowledge of all the stuff that goes on in the world

And we only have come to that realization currently

yubraj

Nods....

Is it DOP ?

Dermo optical perception?

M.A.R.

I have no idea what that is

yubraj

Ok

M.A.R.

And as I said, I prefer not to take any opinions

yubraj

09:19

Ufff....

M.A.R.

Because opinions aren't facts

But once you're sure it's a fact, you can safely believe it

yubraj

Yes that's it.

Answer to my question in the website is yet to be received.

M.A.R.

@yubraj that's a small beta site. You should wait a day or two.

Damkerng T.

@M.A.R. Weird!

Good afternoon, everyone!

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. Wired!

@DamkerngT. o/

Damkerng T.

09:27

@M.A.R. :)

M.A.R.

You're creepy without your nose. Too much . . . me

Damkerng T.

(:

M.A.R.

GAAAAAAA

Damkerng T.

:-)

M.A.R.

\o/

I wonder if your version of \o/ is something like \o-/

Damkerng T.

09:31

Nah, just \o/ as everyone else's.

M.A.R.

Wow, then your nose gets out of the screen or something

I never knew how 3D this emoticon actually was

Damkerng T.

If you wore VR goggles, you could perhaps see my nose. :P

M.A.R.

Damn 3D world with your un-2D ways

Jude Niroshan

11:06

careful in next time

is this a correct sentence?

I don't think I can come <- I just said this sentence when i was talking with a friend. It sounds not correct for me. Is it wrong?

CowperKettle

11:36

@JudeNiroshan "Be careful next time"

Without in

I catch myself singing the last Ukrainian song I learned.

I must try to translate it.

Jude Niroshan

Thanks :)

CowperKettle

No problem!

CowperKettle

12:19

Roadside Picnic trailer AMC 2017

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Roadside Picnic by Brothers Strugatsky is being made into a TV series in the US

Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbotɕɪnʲe]) is a short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. By 1998, 38 editions of the novel were published in 20 countries. The novel was first translated to English by Antonina W. Bouis. The preface to the first American edition of the novel (MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, 1977) was written by Theodore Sturgeon. The film Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers. == Book title == Roadside...

CowperKettle

13:38

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Q: The Amazing Migration of an English terminology question to Russian Language Stack Exchange

I've just discovered that my question asking about an English term that an English biotechnitian would use was migrated to, of all possible SEs, the Russian Language SE. This is just to register my amazement at this decision. I've very little free time right now. Let me cite a comment left by...

discussion specific-question

CowperKettle

15:46

Good Monday Evening!

GME!

GMM to Snails

GMLE to Damkerng

GMEE to V.V.

Word of the Day: inexpiable

userr2684291

@CowperKettle But that's not a question about biology at all.

It's about the meaning of a word in English.

user62015

On receiving the mark-sheet from the University (1)/I realized (2)/ that I had got only passing marks in English. (3)/ No error

userr2684291

Migrating it to Russian.SE was a good guess.

user62015

Could anyone help me please

Anonymous

Word of the day: folkways

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Anonymous

16:00

@user62015 Is it "no error"?

user62015

It says passing mark

Instead of passing marks

Anonymous

Erm. That would sound strange to me, at any rate...

userr2684291

I think they'd also include an article.

user62015

Let me tell you the explain from the website

Anonymous

I was about to ask.

user62015

16:02

Ans:(3) Mark = a number of letter that is given to show standard of somebody’s work or performance.
Hence, that I had got only passing/pass mark …….. should be used here.

Or other website says “pass marks” should be used not “passing marks”.

Anonymous

I don't speak a dialect where "pass marks" is used, and I'm not sure about that one. To me, "passing marks" sounds fine.

user62015

Thanks.

Anonymous

It sounds quite odd to me with just "mark" with no article.

user62015

But it shows marks of only one subject so

mark is enough instead of marks

Anonymous

Yeah, I guess you could say that, but then why no article?

userr2684291

16:06

Could that possibly be an Indian English thing?

user62015

Yes. It seems

Anonymous

I'm not familiar with mark as a non-count noun.

userr2684291

Yeah, I don't think you need articles in Indian English.

Anonymous

Interesting.

user62015

I agree with both of you.

Anonymous

16:08

Well, I speak American English, but I'm also somewhat familiar with British English. Actually, we tend to say grades rather than marks in AmE.

Anonymous

I do have a couple books that talk about InE, but I haven't run into non-count mark before. I would love to see it in a corpus :-)

Anonymous

I would also be interested to see what a BrE speaker would say about the question, since it's clearly not written in my dialect.

user62015

pass mark?

userr2684291

Yeah, "got" reveals that, I think.

user62015

Thank.

Thanks.

userr2684291

16:12

@user62015 I don't know what you're asking.

user62015

I needed help in finding error in the question.

userr2684291

16:43

@user62015 I know; I meant with the question "pass mark?".

user62015

Answer says it should be pass mark instead of passing marks

userr2684291

@user62015 dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pass-mark

user62015

So it makes sense?

userr2684291

Note what it says after the transcriptions.

user62015

Yes.

So what would you choose at the end?

userr2684291

16:49

@user62015 What would you choose?

Jude Niroshan

Greetings!

userr2684291

D'you find "pass mark" more correct than "passing mark"?

user62015

Maybe in India

userr2684291

@user62015 Did you read what it says after the transcriptions?

user62015

Let me check

the number of points that must be achieved in order to be successful in an exam

You mean to say this?

userr2684291

16:51

No, before that.

user62015

uk us passing grade, passing mark

userr2684291

What do you get from that?

What can you educe?

user62015

I think passing mark and pass mark both are fine.

But it depends on countries most of the time.

userr2684291

That's right.

user62015

Thanks.

userr2684291

16:55

It says "pass mark" is used in the UK; whereas "passing grade" and "passing mark" in the US.

user62015

Yes.

And in India we prefer UK English

userr2684291

17:10

@user62015 Yeah. In essence, BrE was appropriated and underlay InE.

N3buchadnezzar

17:49

Is it fine to ask here how to rephrase a sentence? I am working on my thesis, and as English is not my primary language my wording feels off. "In 1915 Godfrey Harold Hardy, in a famous paper published in the Proceedings
of the London Mathematical Society, answered in the aﬃrmative a question of
Landau [7]. "

userr2684291

@N3buchadnezzar Is this question really that well-known?

N3buchadnezzar

@userr2684291 I guess this sentence, was taking a bit out of context. Sory

"In 1915 Godfrey Harold Hardy, in a famous paper published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, answered in the affirmative a question of Landau [7]. In this paper, not only did Hardy generalize Hadamard’s three-circle theorem, but he also put in place the ﬁrst brick of a new branch of mathematics
which bears his name: the theory of Hardy spaces $H^p$. "

userr2684291

@N3buchadnezzar I'd say "In a famous 1915 paper published in the P. of the L. M. S., Harold Hardy answered the question posed by Landau by proving that..."

OK, lemme think.

N3buchadnezzar

I feel that I put too much information into a single sentence. Or that the sentence tries to have two main points, which is confusing for the reader.

userr2684291

Yeah, I think even though the introduction is a bit long-winded, I'd continue the sentence the way I started it. (I'm not a native speaker of English, mind.)

Can't you make it obvious that the answer is "yes" in the follow-up sentence?

If you choose to do so, finish the preceding one with "...answered Landau's question."

N3buchadnezzar

18:06

Maybe remove the bit of Landau makes it clearer. As it is not really important for the structure

userr2684291

An alternative would be "confirmed Landau's doubts" or "confirmed/proved their theory", or some such.

"Answered in the affirmative" sounds like legal bs.

N3buchadnezzar

I totally agree.

userr2684291

At any rate, in mathematics and such, a single "yes" isn't enough – you need to prove it, so I'd give it up if it's nonessential.

Cheers.

N3buchadnezzar

Thanks =)

M.A.R.

18:23

!!greet/N3buch

Ellbot

Welcome to ELL's chat room @N3buch! Happy chatting!

N3buchadnezzar

Waves furiously back

M.A.R.

Can a machine be taught to flag spam automagically?

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Damkerng T.

@N3buchadnezzar Your sentence is fine with me.

Why? Because I've seen much worse, often enough.

(In papers, I mean.)

N3buchadnezzar

Writing words is hard. You have to place them in order and stuff

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Damkerng T.

18:38

The sentence is a bit complicated, but it seems to mean what the author wanted to say.

V.V.

Just came to say "hi".

Damkerng T.

Hi!

M.A.R.

Say it then

N3buchadnezzar

@DamkerngT. Mathematicians often does that. Overcomplicating things, to make themself seem smarter then they are :p

CowperKettle

do

M.A.R.

18:49

@N3buchadnezzar Isn't that true for everyone in their field

CowperKettle

Grammarians often do that. Barge into a chat discussion to correct a grammar error, to make themselves seem smarter than they are. :p

M.A.R.

Everyone sometimes needs to show off

@CowperKettle You're brutal today

Damkerng T.

@N3buchadnezzar I can assure you that it's not only mathematicians. :P

N3buchadnezzar

I mean if you spent a year writing a paper, why not?

You have to spend that time doing something :p

M.A.R.

And I can assure you chemists are the coolest people of the bunch

Damkerng T.

18:50

LOL

M.A.R.

Linguists are usually either really cool or really annoying/annoyed

N3buchadnezzar

"In 1915 Godfrey Harold Hardy, in a famous paper published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, confirmed a question posed by Landau \cite{Hardy}. In this paper, not only did Hardy generalize Hadamard’s three-circle theorem, but he also put in place the ﬁrst brick of a new branch of mathematics
which bears his name: the theory of Hardy spaces $H^p$. For three decades afterwards mathematicians such as \citeauthor{inequalities}, \citeauthor{Riesz}, Privalov, F. and V. Smirnov, and G. Szegö, expanded and developed the theory of the Hardy spaces. While most of this early work…

^I think that will be my draft for the introduction. Thanks for all the help! Will let it lie for a few days, before I attempt improving it again =)

Anonymous

Snailbarge.

Anonymous

Word of the day: barge

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Damkerng T.

Robosmile! (^_^)

CowperKettle

18:56

@M.A.R. Just tired

> Budging the sluggard ripples of the Somme,
A barge round old Cerisy slowly slewed.
Softly her engines down the current screwed,
And chuckled softly with contented hum

Good night

Damkerng T.

Sleep tight!

Anonymous

By the way, we don't have electricity here right now. I'm typing this on my phone and can't easily star messages. I owe you all a bunch of stars :-)

Anonymous

Rest well, Kettle o' Cowper!

Damkerng T.

Oh!

Is it because of the flood?

Anonymous

Good question!

M.A.R.

18:58

Flood?

Anonymous

There does appear to be quite a lot of water about. I hope the snails outside are doing okay.

Damkerng T.

19:30

I hope they managed to climb (crawl?) up the trees in time.

M.A.R.

@DamkerngT. fly

Damkerng T.

Haha!

If you can catch them flying on camera, it could be an instant hit!

M.A.R.

They fly too fast to be caught on camera

Damkerng T.

(^_^)

Anonymous

20:01

Some of them climb up trees. They'll climb anything they can find, though.

Anonymous

We have some tree snails here too, but most of the snails live in the dirt.

M.A.R.

20:14

@snailplane They prolly purchased some scuba diving equipment and rolled with it

userr2684291

Heh.

I got mine with my tablet. Now I can play Temple Run 26 3D while I'm in my bathtub, submerged beneath the suds.

@snailplane So that's where all the pranksters have been getting those wonderful ideas.

It's just a social experiment, bro.

Damkerng T.

21:50

Word of the Day: sprezzatura

N3buchadnezzar

Why are there more than one word of the day per day?

Word of the Day: spatula

Damkerng T.

@N3buchadnezzar Because! :-)

@N3buchadnezzar That nice cooking thing!

Anonymous

22:43

We aren't too strict about taking "of the day" literally.

Anonymous

What matters is that we want to share a word we just learned, or a word we thought would be interesting :-)

N3buchadnezzar

Daym

Anonymous

We could be a bit silly about it and say "Word of the last fifteen minutes" ;-)

N3buchadnezzar

Why is it a Hilbert type? I thought the rule was based on sound?

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