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Genady

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  1. ChatGPT asked me to tell you this: Just passing the message 😉
  2. In addition to very good questions above, what does it mean to prove a theory? Is there a proof of any theory in physics that you can point to?
  3. Two triangular pyramids, not necessarily equilateral, attached at a base make a shape with triangular faces and nine edges. Trying to imagine how to put four of these shapes together.
  4. What are you talking about?
  5. I do. One. I saw how a person was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. (Unfortunately, it turned out to be something much worse.)
  6. Yes, this is right. One syntax might be preferred over another, depending on a context. For example, to the question, what bites the man? the preferred answer would be, cheloveka bites dog. Exactly.
  7. I think that I've answered what @TheVat was referring to, judging by his following up.
  8. Almost. What is modified in Russian in this case is the object noun. 'Man' = 'chelovek'. But 'dog bites man' = 'dog bites cheloveka'. All six permutations are grammatically correct and mean the same, with a different emphasis: 'dog bites cheloveka' 'dog cheloveka bites' 'bites dog cheloveka' 'cheloveka dog bites' 'bites cheloveka dog' 'cheloveka bites dog'
  9. A seasonal sport, watching developing storms. This one, the #1 in the image, is quite close to the equator, but I bet it will miss us anyway.
  10. I know many people who don't suffer from the bipolar disorder but are as well capable of generating a new speculation every 10 minutes. They just don't get excited by this activity.
  11. Kay Redfield Jamison - Wikipedia has written about her own bipolar disorder as a professional psychologist working on this illness.
  12. The following example proves that your formula is incorrect. Take v=.8c, u=-.8c. Plug them into your formula. It gives, u'=1.28c which is faster than the speed of light!
  13. Nope. Insight into the workings.
  14. Model organism - Wikipedia:
  15. "A model": we can investigate existence of mathematical objects and then use this knowledge as basis of the investigation in other realms. It is similar to the use of "model organisms" in biology.
  16. To troubleshoot a computer, you don't just observe its misbehavior. You do something and check responses. IOW, you make experiments and collect data.
  17. Of course. But to make a next step, more data are needed.
  18. It needs more data than personal experience and reflection.
  19. Well, I've read about proto-syntax, agree with you that it is a speculation, but I don't "buy" it. I think that order and relation between words could very well be acquired from comparing them with the order and relations between actions, without any proto-syntax. Moreover, I think that phrases as whole units could be acquired before words, with words and syntax appearing later from "intersection" of the phrases. I always try to compare between different languages, the more different the better. In ASL and in Russian, for example, there is no rule for order regarding (subject)/(action)/(object). The same result is achieved by different means. In ASL and in Russian, there is no verb (be) to connect (subject) and (attribute). In English, ASL and Russian, (attribute) comes before (subject), while in Hebrew (and in Spanish, as you know better than me), (attribute) comes after (subject).
  20. Given this sign only, I don't see any of them having a disorder.
  21. Here, I asked my wife to email me the latest such meme and I got this: Can be converted to a rule for increasing happiness.
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