@JasperLoy Maybe you should take up walking

It's great for health, including mental health. Especially walking among the trees or in a park

@CowperKettle So much death in such a short span

Has some special form of horror to it

Wow, how horrible can people be.

Word of the day: millihelen

Unit for measuring beauty. One millihelen is the ammount of beauty that will launch exactly one ship. (The Helen of Troy had "a face that launched a thousand ships")

@CowperKettle this is familiar for some reason

@CowperKettle I would like to make some tea using the hot water from your kettle. =)

@JasperLoy (0:

> In the United States jogging was called "roadwork" when athletes in training, such as boxers, customarily ran several miles each day as part of their conditioning.

I don't understand this:

Heh.

Does he mean her private parts will keep well on ice?

No, no...

The fun won't be spoiled because it's "on ice". It'll remain unspoiled on ice.

I don't get it.

Well.

Usually food doesn't get spoiled when you leave it in the fridge or whatever.

It's a silly pun.

It's such a stupid joke that it's not funny at all. Because I don't even get it. =)

Is my explanation that unclear? Haha.

I agree it's more of an eye-roller than a knee-slapper, but still.

What I mean is that a joke should not even need that much explanation. It should be pretty obvious at first sight, but it isn't. But maybe I am just stupid. =)

Absolutely incomprehensible passage of the day:

> In typical subjects, short-range recurrence and lexical diversity stabilize after elementary school, whereas graph size and long-range recurrence only steady after high school. Short-range recurrence decreases towards random levels, while lexical diversity, long-range recurrence, and graph size increase away from near-randomness towards a plateau in educated adults. Subjects with psychosis do not show similar dynamics, presenting at adulthood a children-like discourse structure.

The maturation of speech structure in psychosis is resistant to formal education

@CowperKettle Hm.

The only confusing thing in that article is the use of "decrease towards random levels" and "increase away from near-randomness towards a plateau".

Er, passage.

But it's still fairly understandable. You can replace "decrease" and "increase" with "go".

It looks like they have assigned a low value to "random". If that's the case, or if these are domain-specific uses of those verbs, the passage makes even more sense.

But it doesn't look like the authors are native speakers of English, so I wouldn't imitate their word choice.

Also, I find myself plunging into recursions of various depths and that's scaring me a little.

@CowperKettle Do you understand the passage now?

What is "short-range recurrence"?

what is "random levels" here?

Basically I understand nothing.

From that passage we don't find out what those terms mean.

Scientific analysis of psychiatric illnesses is interesting, but I'm too dense.

@CowperKettle Oh, it looks like recurrence just means repeating, lol.

What I said above about myself is my infinite parentheticals.

Scroll down to some picture; the graph will probably help you understand what those terms mean.

I just don't feel like understanding it at the moment.

@snailboat Wondering if you saw my posts about Damkerng.

@CowperKettle Thanks! @JasperLoy Yes, indeed I use those too, the more the merrier, even the OED1 on archive, Century and all, I especially like the paper Micro which I've seen only once in this lifetime and that was really memorable. I think you discussed it at some point because I searched for "compact" in the room and you referred the compact version of the dictionary if I remember right. Anyways, cheers!