Ah well, to me it kind of misses the point. Yes it's a valid method of repair, for pottery. Really the book should have been designed to be long lasting/ repairable. But then I do over think these things.
I take psyllium husk pills in the morning for some additional fiber intake and better stool passing, and I haven't felt much need for breakfast. I wonder if I'm conditioned to not feel hungry early in the morning, or the pills have some satiation effects similar to the hydrogel here.
I wonder how this pill compares to the already quite cheap psyllium husk, and what it does to the stool.
I've noticed similar satiation with psyllium as well.
I do a 32hr fast once a week and will consume a scoop of psyllium when I get hungry and it's quite filling for 2-3 hours before the hunger kicks back in.
I laughed when I saw "Nginxia", thinking it was a portmanteau of, well, nginx and wuxia, a Chinese fiction genre. Reality is much less funny when I looked up NWCD, and you likely just made a typo of Ningxia.
"Xia" would map to a single character (code point) in Chinese. For instance, in simplified Chinese, it could be 下 (xia, meaning down), 侠 (martial arts - like the xia in wuxia), or any number of other homophones. Since the characters are already combinatorial, I'm not sure a Chinese speaker would think of this as a portmanteau.
I don't really follow. Say, during the in-between step "10×3 + 6×3 + 5", how do you store and cognize the individual numeric and operator elements?
Surely, even if the arithmetics can be simplified and "lookup-table'd", you are still aware of the numbers in Arabic form or whatever equivalent you're using, right? Or do you somehow have 53 individual blobs swirling inside your consciousness?
Not poster you replied to but it sounds like we might have a similar internal model.
I store numbers as pictures of numbers, or a geometric representation depending on how big or precise the number is.
Are you saying when you think of the concept of 'twelve plus twelve' you have the equivalent of someone in your head saying 'hmm, well twelve is 2 more than ten, so if I add up ten and ten and two and two I get twenty four?'
That's wild if so.
For your reference, I would follow the procedure above approximately, but visually with numbers that just do the thing that feels right. I think under the hood we're probably doing the same thing, just with a different interface layer
I can just speak for me, obviously, but yes, that is what's happening. But it's not someone, it is more like me explaining / telling it to myself.
Depending on the complexity this can be more or less verbal - the more complex, the less verbal I would say.
In short, I just do. It's not a linguistic representation of the number 10, it's the concept of the number 10, the same way as (to extend on the mention of another comment) I don't need the word "cat" to know how to interact with a pet cat.
Not sure if it helps you make sense of it, but at least myself I only verbalize more complicated things. 10x3 for example I just "see" as 30 without needing to "think" or "speak" about it.
If you see a cat walking along the road, do you have to think to yourself "oh, that's a cat" or do you just know that it's a cat without verbalizing anything? It has its own abstract concept, right? Same thing with sufficiently simple numeric transformations.
> you are still aware of the numbers in Arabic form or whatever equivalent you're using, right?
Not sure if you're in a Fahrenheit or Celsius sort of place but if someone says that it's 70 degrees out do you really think in terms of numbers? Or do you just "know" what 70 degrees is without thinking about it?
I've ran into issues unzipping to a path too long with 7-Zip but immediately resolved with WinRAR. Might be a trivially solvable problem, but since WinRAR worked, I didn't bother investigating.
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Edit: Sorry, my mind was preoccupied with buying the book instead of elaborating.
The interactive 3d render of the book and the gold gleam of the Kintusgi sent me absolutely gushing.