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08:59
Today I learned that turd isn't in the thesaurus.
 
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Hellow
What does "to scale with sth" mean in the following text?
> We show in Figure 8 the relative construction errors achieved
by the incoherent frames before, F0, and after training, F. The improvement is obvious but notice that it does not
scale with dimension N due to the incoherent structure.
Pealse hulp
Is that from a book? A web page? It would be helpful to provide a screenshot or a link.
I doubt it would help much.
@MattE.Эллен such a cool feature
10:33
@Gigili it means that as dimension N changes there is no guarantee that training will give improvement
Thank you
@Færd here you go
This is the figure in reference:
The relative error has become lower, so that is an improvement. But as N increases (I don't know what N is), the error of F doesn't change (= it does not scale with N); it is not a variable according to N.
@Gigili See: oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/scale#nav3, under verb, definition 2 and 2.1.
> (Of a quantity or property) be variable according to a particular scale.
11:27
Did I use reference correctly up there? Mmm, maybe not.
11:59
@Færd I would say "being referenced"
OK, thank you @Færd. That makes sense
12:32
@TIPS Not entirely, but that gives at least a flavour of what I was referring to. I suppose it's one of those beauty is in the eye of the beholder situations.
@TIPS Good. :)
@sumelic In this particular case, "I'm twenty for six months" would refer to the upcoming six months, rather than the six months just past. In other words, it's saying something along the lines of: "I'm (or I'll be) twenty for six months, then I'll turn twenty-one."
 
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14:04
@Tonepoet in that one thesaurus. OED has it.
@TIPS Boo!
@Lawrence don't actually hold me to facts, man. I vaguely thought that I had misremembered that it had been written somewhere unknown, that, to americans, 'chaise longue' was mistakenly pronunced 'shayz lowndzg' and that they parse it as '(weird word) lounge' with lounge as the noun. Theref ore suposedly misparsed as it 'ADJ NOUN'.
Which reminds me. Today is 'Speak in French Sunday'. We are all supposed to speak in French on ELU chat today.
¡Ándale!
14:32
@Mitch My apologies. Americans aren't the only ones to make that mistake :) . I should have checked.
Or I sheud 'av schecked, in honour of "Speak in French Sunday". (Excuse my French) :P
15:02
> Imagine if the apple you were eating for breakfast had 291 ingredients, or if the car you drove to work had 291 parts. src
If we count all vitamins, minerals, I guess we reach that number. For the car it's obvious we do
#bad-analogies
15:15
@Mitch ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa!
16:23
Hey guys, good morning. I'm trying to think of a good word to describe myself last night. I was with a big group of friends (ten people total) and I often feel anxious in big groups and become slow and inarticulate. I was the opposite of witty. What
What are some words to describe that?
Like, when the wrong words come out of your mouth and you butcher idol
butcher idioms and expressions*
16:35
@MattE.Эллен This is the figure being referenced?
I'm thinking This is the figure that is referred to, because the figure is in the same article. Is that better?
@ktm5124 Tongue-tied?
@caub your accent is very authentic
(You can see its synonyms there too)
@ktm5124 you're butchering your metaphors
He said that himself.
@Lawrence I am probably in error as to the exact nature of the error
16:52
Can you use feel like instead of feel as though? Is this clear? :
> What sort of a candy was that? I felt like I was chewing chalk.
Some say that like shouldn't be used as a subordinator. I'm not sure if that's the only problem with the sentence above.
@Mitch :) . That's very kind of you.
@Færd It's not feel like - it's just like that you're replacing. (Just like it's not like I -> as though I.) And yes, you can replace like with as though in that sentence and retain the meaning.
17:09
@Mitch Eeh, Roget's is good enough to warrant the title. Also, O.E.D. is a dictionary, which is not a thesaurus. ;-)
@Færd tongue-tied is good!
"sluggish" too, no?
17:41
@Lawrence Thanks. I wondered if feel like wouldn't be mistaken for fancy, which of course doesn't make sense in that sentence, but still I thought maybe feel as though or feel as if were clearer.
@Tonepoet riget's is all abstract words, hardly a bucket/pail suggester.
@Mitch Well, who else even has a name that's associated so directly with thesauruses? XP
Apparently like has recently been working pretty well as a subordinator: books.google.com/ngrams/…
You mean like this?
18:00
Like Like I said, blah blah blah.
18:21
Does a crab have 8 or 10 legs? (also can we say it has 10 'limbs'?)
18:42
@Mitch I am inexplicably boo'ed.
@caub eight.
@Mitch Vraiment? Crois pas.
19:03
olvido como hablar el frances
Vale por los ochos patas
19:24
Can someone French with this person?
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Q: What do you think about my french method?

Héloisecomment allez-vous ? My name is Héloïse and I'm french. For my internship i'v created a website for beginners in french. I'm looking for some feedbacks so would you like to take a look ? : D Merci beaucoup, everything is free ! http://institut-bienvenue.fr/

I think they might not understand English very well
19:43
pretty boring night it is
Ja
@TIPS what's the meaning of "ja" ?
"Yes", in German
I don't speak German. This is merely a stylish "yes".
ah
@TIPS Are you from Germany?
Close.
Iran.
19:51
Hah .. How they are close? :-)
On the same planet.
:-)
Well I'm from Iran too ..
What city are you live in?
I mean: "which city do you live in?"
@Shafizadeh Tabriz
great .. It's close to mine
20:28
@Færd yes
20:47
@tchrist et tu, brute?
@Shafizadeh both aryan
@Shafizadeh it's either boring or painful
@TIPS Martians are the worst.
21:28
@Mitch :-)
@Mitch emm .. actually I just cannot sleep :-(
 
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23:10
Hello!
Quite shocking.

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