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January 24

Art center

Hi. I'm a user from the German Misplaced Pages. A few month ago, I read an English Misplaced Pages article about an arts and music center in the United States (probably in the NE or NW of the country). Unfortunately, I can't remember its name. I only recall that it consisted of several relatively small buldings located in a wooded area. I think it wasn't some kind of college but rather a community or adult education center offering classes and workshops. Does anyone have an idea what article that might have been? Best regards --Florean Fortescue (talk) 00:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps Appel Farm Arts & Music Center in New Jersey? While tedious, you can use the subcategories of Category:Arts centers in the United States by state to navigate the articles we have, starting with the NE and NW states.  --Lambiam 11:56, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tanglewood? --Verbarson _edits 12:12, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

There's also Wolf Trap, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Xuxl (talk) 13:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

@Lambiam: @Verbarson: @Xuxl: Thanks guys. Browsing through the subcategories helped: Interlochen Center for the Arts! Neither NE nor NW and not as wooded as it was in my memory, but still. Got it! Best regards --Florean Fortescue (talk) 22:53, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

What software is used to map Troop movements?

i always wonder what software or tools do wikipedia editors used to make graphics like the image on the right, if this is the wrong place i am sorry, but does anyone know what tools they use? a Rookie editor of This Emporium of Knowledge, SirColdcrown (talk) 16:59, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

• WP:Maps for Misplaced Pages seems like a good starting point. The metadata on your example image simply states that software used was Adobe Photoshop 7.0. 2603:6081:1C00:1187:E15E:1A12:C3FF:B8A5 (talk) 00:03, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

I guess your example is just a map with manually overdrawn lines. The big give-away is that the arrow heads are not uniform and are somewhat scruffy. -- SGBailey (talk) 11:46, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Stack interchange

In Stack interchange, what does it mean when it says "partly exploited"?

The Grand-Bigard and Machelen interchange (partly exploited).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by SGBailey (talk • contribs) 18:57, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

The use of the word "exploited" lets me suspect that this was added by a Native French speaker, and should rather be "partially used" or something like that. The French article fr:Échangeur de Machelen shows that autoroute A1 ends at this interchange, so that the interchange only serves three directions. Apparently it was originally foreseen to extend the A1 inside the ring, but that never happened. There are still unused bits and bridges that were built in view of that extension. --Wrongfilter (talk) 18:32, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Here is a translation of a relevant part of the French article:

During its construction, a fourth direction had been planned in order to extend the motorway to the Greater Ring of Brussels. But following the abandonment of the project, a set of ramps and bridges remained unused , which led to the interchange being recognized as one of the "Useless major works". However, the Flemish Region intends to use them from the end of 2016 to serve the Boulevard de la Woluwe in Diegem.

The article has not been touched since August 2017, but in all views on Google maps (map data ©2022) one direction appears totally unused. I do not see how it could be made to connect to the Boulevard de la Woluwe (R22).  --Lambiam 07:31, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

In the Google Maps "satellite" view, the ramps leading to/from the southwest come down to meet the Boulevard de la Woluwe (Woluwelaan) on each side of the railway bridges, at about 50.900364,4.427440 and 50.900777,4.427295. In Street View imagery (dated June 2021) the intersections at that point are under construction, but in "satellite" view they look finished. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 14:33, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

I searched on Google Maps for "Bd de la Woluwe, Belgium", which led me to 50.8454151,4.4364871, on the R22 coinciding with the E40, but following the E40 in the direction of Machelen I missed how the R22 leaves the E40 and bends west after the Diegem exchange where it intersects with the A401. Approaching the Machelen exchange from the northeast along the A1 (E19), traffic has to turn right (staying on the E19) or left (merging onto the E40) at the exchange; although there is a road that appears to connect to the R22, on the satellite images it can be seen it has been made inaccessible (at both ends) for normal traffic. It makes one wonder what the actual reason is for not opening it to traffic; it can hardly be a cost issue.  --Lambiam 23:55, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

After reading some Dutch language sources, it appears that the connection will be opened in the near future. They first had to make some modifications to the Woluwelaan (for safety and traffic management) and add some noise barriers, otherwise the opening wouldn't be allowed by environmental regulations. Note the potential traffic management problem: by opening the connection, a shortcut appears from the E19, left to the Woluwelaan (R22), then right to the Haachtsesteenweg (N21), leading straight to Brussels' Greater Ring. That street however isn't designed for high traffic volumes, so traffic has to be guided via the slightly longer route left over the R0, then right onto the Leopold III-laan (A201-N22) past NATO HQ. Then there's the Flemish government, Brussels government and municipalities disagreeing on many things and authorities starting work before making sure it all adheres to environmental regulations. PiusImpavidus (talk) 10:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

January 25

Starch

When it says in this section The major sources of starch intake worldwide are the cereals (rice, wheat, and maize) and the root vegetables (potatoes and cassava). Does this mean rice wheat and maize are the main cereals and potatoes and cassava are the main root vegetables that have the most starch in them in brackets?110.151.108.22 (talk) 10:15, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/Starch#Food

No. It simply means those 5 are the major sources of starch for humans worldwide. Other sources could have more starch but for whatever reasons they aren't such major sources of starch on a worldwide scale. They could still be important to certain local areas, even more important than any of the 5 in these areas. Nil Einne (talk) 11:20, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

For clarity, quite a lot of things have enough edible starch that simplistic percentage of starch probably isn't that significant. Nil Einne (talk) 11:26, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Sago from a type of palm tree is a staple food in some parts of the world. Alansplodge (talk) 22:24, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

January 26

Publishing Old Newspaper Articles

How can one get newspaper articles available and visible online that only exist on microfiche? For example, defunct publications who published in the 1980's? --Aequitus90 (talk) 03:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

(When you write "only exist on microfiche", I assume that you mean that the only copy of an article that is known to exist is on microfiche.) That won't be easy. If the article is not in the public domain – and most likely it isn't – then the copyright holder needs to give permission. If it is just a single, not overly long article, one can copy the text by hand and put it online like one could do with any text. Or one can use a microfiche reader with a printer, scan a print and use OCR. I think there are also microfiche readers that can directly scan to file. This will require proof reading and possibly require manual correction of lots of scannos; however, it is the only way to get copies of any illustrations online.  --Lambiam 08:26, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Try WP:REX. Someone there may be able to help you. --Jayron32 11:49, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Do you have anything specific in mind? --←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 10:43, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

January 27

Linguine

I want to learn more about linguine. Can anyone recommend a comprehensive, authoritative source on the history of pasta? Viriditas (talk) 08:38, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Have you read Pasta? Also, here's a cameo appearance by linguine, in a movie. --←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 10:42, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food (2000), by Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban Alansplodge (talk) 12:41, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Grazie infinite. Viriditas (talk) 23:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Heath Robinson dob

Heath Robinson has two dates for his birth, May 13 and May 31. Anyone know how to get a referenced definitive date? -- SGBailey (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

The BBC says May 31. The May 13 date in the article has no reference; my guess is that is a typo; someone transposed 31 to 13. --Jayron32 12:12, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed by The Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson: A Commentary and Bibliography (1983) p. 1

William Heath Robinson was born in the borough of Islington , North London , on the 31st May 1872. He had two older brothers and was to have two sisters and a brother younger than himself.

Alansplodge (talk) 12:47, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The edit that introduced the inconsistency looks indeed like it was an inadvertent transposition. The BBC article may be later than ours, but these sources for May 31 are definitely earlier: , , .  --Lambiam 12:49, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Also confirmed by the Heath Robinson Museum (and they should know): The 31st May 2022 will be the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Heath Robinson. Alansplodge (talk) 12:53, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

And his headstone says May 31. --←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 13:04, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

I have corrected the article using one of Lambiam's references. --Jayron32 13:20, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

January 28

at-home drug injection

I just saw a TV ad for some drug administered as a once-monthly at-home injection. I knew that diabetics have to inject themselves with insulin daily, but whenever I've had an injection (e.g. covid vaccine) I've had to get it done at a clinic. I thought also that The Authorities(tm) wanted to keep syringes away from people because they might use them for street drugs. I had figured diabetics were an exception because they need injections so frequently. I'm wondering:

• Do people who self-inject need much training before they can get the prescriptions and paraphenalia for that?
• Are needle drug (e.g. heroin) abusers still a big thing? I had thought opiate pills like fentanyl were abused a lot more these days.

I've been pretty uncomfortable getting covid shots and helping family members get them, because they are done in rooms full of people potentially spreading virus. Being able to do it at home would be a lot safer from my perspective. No that's not a real possibility, just one that has some attraction in an imagined world. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:C115 (talk) 00:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Self-injection doesn't seem to be that hard. See, for example:

• "Self-Injectable Drug List" (AmeriHealth)
• "A Patient Guide to Properly Administering Medications Requiring Self-Injection" (Walgreens)
• "Self-Injection Guide: How to give yourself a subcutaneous injection" (Alberta Health Services). Clarityfiend (talk) 08:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

However, Covid vaccines are probably not available to just anyone. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:17, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

I'm a diabetic who injects daily. I only needed to be shown once how to do it, and have never had any problem with it. -- Jack of Oz 08:33, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

But it's important to understand that there are many different types of medical injection.--Shantavira| 09:28, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Needle drug abuse is still prevalent. This report: www.amfar.org/uploadedFiles/_amfarorg/Articles/On_The_Hill/2013/fact sheet Syringe Exchange 031413.pdf urges that needle exchange programs have been proven to reduce the transmission of blood-borne diseases. A number of studies conducted in the U.S. have shown needle exchange programs do not increase drug use. Philvoids (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Just to emphasise Shantavira's point, as per the article they linked, insulin is generally injected subcutaneously. For recreational drugs, it can vary but intravenous is fairly common (hence IV drug users etc) since it provides the quickish "hit". Again as per our article, some vaccines do use subcutaneouus injection, but (I think most vaccines and) nearly all of approved COVID-19 vaccines use intramuscular injection including Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik Light, Sinopharm BIBP COVID-19 vaccine, CoronaVac, Covaxin, Sinopharm WIBP COVID-19 vaccine, CoviVac (Russia COVID-19 vaccine), Soberana 02, ZF2001, EpiVacCorona, Abdala (vaccine), Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. While mistakes happen, subcutaneous injection of these is definitely not something recommended. There is some work on developed nasal spray vaccines, e.g. Convidecia, but also Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine however I don't think any of these have received approval and definitely not in the US or Western Europe. The one exception to intramuscular injection seems to be ZyCoV-D which requires intradermal injection via a jet injector to ensure the DNA penetrates the nuclear membrane. OR here but even with a nasal spray vaccine, it seems unlikely this would be approved for home application in most of the developed world unless there is some sort of catastrophic breakdown or situation since the risk of some serious acute reaction is not zero, hence vaccinations nearly always require some waiting time post vaccination. Nil Einne (talk) 14:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Regarding training - like any other activity, people get better with practice. On those occasions when I have to give blood samples, nothing reassures me more than seeing a 60-year-old nurse who's probably done it fifty thousand times because I know it will more likely be quick and painless. There are lots of activities we do that were uncomfortable at first until we got used to them. For example, I'm mystified that people are able to insert and remove contact lenses without twitching. On the other hand, my daughter was 19 when she finally figured out how to swallow a pill without choking on it, but now it's no big deal. Matt Deres (talk) 16:34, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Walking on a Manhattan road

It seems that pedestrians here (Theater District, Midtown, Manhattan), instead of just crossing, walk on this road, despite car traffic. Is it a pedestrian zone or something else? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 15:44, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

The photo was taken on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 246 West 44th Street. Occasionally, parts of Manhattan become car-free zones, but I cannot find evidence that this location was one on that date. 2603:6081:1C00:1187:556B:ECE2:6EC5:4832 (talk) 19:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Here is the same view in 2021 at Google Street View. As noted above, however, many parts of the theatre district at various times are closed to vehicular traffic when there are expectations of heavy pedestrian use. All but the main thoroughfares may be closed down. This part of 44th street is a narrow, 1-lane 1-way street, and is not really used for high volume thru traffic. East-west traffic in this area is more likely to use 42nd Street anyways. I will also say, even if the street wasn't closed to traffic, the area can be so pedestrian-dense that you often find vehicles and pedestrian share the space. See this page which has images of nearby Times Square showing pedestrians and vehicles sharing the space. From personal experience, there are a few places in the US like this, usually places frequented by numerous tourists walking about. The Theatre District in Manhattan, the French Quarter of New Orleans, River Street in Savannah, and Beale Street in Memphis are places that I've been that seem to work like this; often they do close the roads, but if they don't, in the narrow streets people just walk down the road; cars just travel along at walking speeds (for people foolish enough to drive through the area). --Jayron32 19:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Parts of Broadway have been permanently closed to traffic for many years, that's a major thoroughfare. They even close 4-5 continuous miles of major thoroughfare for a few half days a summer and put posters in advance just so people can know what it feels like to use a street like God intended. That's literally pretty much the reason, so pedestrians can experience the novelty of long walks down a 100+ foot wide street with no cars whatsoever (not even parked ones) though the schedule posters don't joke about the using the street like God intended part. They've been doing this since at least the 2000s decade. You can even walk up on viaducts in the very tall street canyon where Park Avenue becomes a rain gutter hanging from a neoclassical Grand Central Station cause the building's on the street axis and is a landmark that cannot be pierced, it does pierce a slightly steampunk 1920s skyscraper though. This is otherwise only experiencable in a car or bike as there are no sidewalks there. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

As a lifelong New Yorker I know the main reasons are 1. everyone except the below are in parking lanes 2. the lady is crossing the street, she can clearly see upstream cause the huge antenna is in Times Square, Times Square is 200, this is 246 and minor streets divisible by two go east 3. if anyone else is in the driving lane they're barely in and facing traffic but even more downstream than the woman, they can see cars coming. Cars don't move fast around there, especially on minor streets, they're narrow and you could hit some earbudded extrovert distracted by deeply moving music or something. There's a long queue of cars in the background so it's not closed to traffic when the photo was taken, just no parkers for some reason. One side of the street without parkers happens all the time, it's to allow street cleaners, maybe the alternate side parking just changed from one side of the street to the other? I don't pay attention to if this is possible because I don't drive. I guess it'd be convenient, show up, realize you can't do your errand cause the car could be towed before you finish, hide the car somewhere, return soon enough after the noisy machine and have a better chance of getting a parking space cause not everyone has put their car back yet. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

I see you're in Poland and therefore think you may be asking about jaywalking in which, as I understand it, it's not allowed to cross a road wherever you want if you can use a designated crossing point. (Going to Poland was, I think, the first time I encountered the concept-I walked across a road and a cop shouted at me. When he realised I didn't speak Polish he gave up on trying to tell me off.) The first time I went to New York I had never heard of the idea of jaywalking; in the UK it's not a thing, you can cross a road at your own risk wherever you want. The next time I had, and asked a long-time resident I was with about it as we walked across the road. He told me "nobody cares here about it". Blythwood (talk) 03:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Technically New York City cops can fine for jaywalking, I wonder if they even bother if they saw you, decided to frisk cause you look like a gangster and found crack. The less pedestrian-friendly a part of America is the more likely it is for jaywalking (or even just walking period) to attract police attention. But probably less often than in Poland from the looks of it. Trying to cross busy motorways attracts attention anywhere, but that might be true in Britain too. I've done it before, it's fun but wow you really have to adjust your car dodging instincts from the 30 mph cars you're used to in New York City. I didn't get arrested, as even if someone called they wouldn't go on a manhunt just for that. I don't recommend doing that in a way that might cause an accident though, i.e. when traffic is heavy or the opening is too tight so someone brakes hard or gets too close to the car behind or swerves. It takes experience to know which opening you can take without risking any of those things. I've also walked in the middle of the motorway on Christmas at 3am till the first car saw me to see what it's like, that's fun too. I'd really like to see what it's like to drive a Ben Hur chariot at a gallop in the day but to do that without risk of getting caught would likely require a level of societal collapse that I don't want to happen. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 04:33, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

In Britain it is illegal (see Rule 6) for pedestrians to access motorways (and a few other roadways), and their approach roads and surrounding road and footpath layouts are designed to make such access as difficult as possible: the only time you would normally see someone (road maintenace crews aside) on foot by one is if they had escaped from a broken-down or crashed car, or if they were officials dealing with such a situation. Where motorways have to be crossed by pedestrian routes, there are underpasses or overbridges for the purpose. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.213.224.157 (talk) 23:36, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

We have legal pedestrian crossings like that too, often with fences that look they're trying to make it harder to drop concrete blocks on windscreens. That's actually happened before, we have some horrible people in America. In some parts of America legal pedestrian crossings of motorways can be inconveniently distant, like many suburbs. Plus some of the random configurations of cars are fun to run past, but I'm just a weirdo who likes spatial reasoning problems like this. I really like the ones that remind me of running through a gap in scissors. You have to really "attack the car" by which I mean start sprinting slightly before your self-preservation instinct says you can, cars are so fast that you will not hit the near car at the front of the gap if you bolt slightly before that instinct stops saying "not yet". Or bolt from further back so you're running faster when you enter the front of the gap (but that requires better spatial judgement or erring on the side of suboptimally late and aborting if you come to realize it's too late). Or the ones where the front of a slug of traffic is diagonal, sort of like maintaining x seconds in front of a falling guillotine by running to the side with less blade. I don't think I've ever caused anyone to brake more than softly (or swerve). Often they just reduce or cut throttle, or don't slow down at all. Almost 100% of my experience is running across merely horse gallop or slower cars though, to save time waiting for lights and stick it to the man wealthier while doing it. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Don't try that at home children. Alansplodge (talk) 08:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Yes, this can cause death or car damage if done wrong. It would be an absolutely terrible idea for someone who actually likes dopamine (i.e. extreme sports players, gambling addicts, extroverts in general), gotta be grown-up and neurotic enough to be able to abort at any time, and not be a klutz with moving object extrapolation. The quickest I've changed my mind is about 0.2 seconds. I basically just instinctually went contingent on how the gap looks in the period before you have no choice but to try to make your ground (cricket analogy) and instinctually stopped with 0.2 seconds better information. Sometimes a speculative momentum-building move or correct guess at my reason for watching traffic can scare a car into slowing down but I never try to bluff, "pump fake" or "play chicken" on purpose. I never do anything that'd require any car to deviate from current speed or lane position for it to work. Sometimes you get a more intelligent driver who instead of slowing down simply does a (non-swerve) lane change to a geometrically favorable lane so we can both not lose time! Anyone willing and able to learn the art of waiting for the light time reduction should start with much easier openings and practice frequently (so probably have to live in a big ped-friendly city) increasing practice difficultly very very slowly over at least a few years. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 16:31, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

And by practice I didn't mean hanging out at busy roads just to practice, that'd be really weird. Any jaywalking skill I have I learned from the times I couldn't just walk on the busy street's sidewalk till crossing becomes legal without making the walk from A to B longer. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 08:32, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Stock Market Price Predictions

I am interested in starting to invest in the capital market (crypto / stocks / ETF / etc). For this purpose, I would like to know what the most effective way is today to predict the future price based on a variety of factors (Google Trends, Twitter, VIX, EMA, P/B, etc.).

It is important to me that it be well defined without the need for interpretation, and backed up statistically by accepted statistical methods, and not just on the basis of a few cases as there are in many articles on the Internet.

It should be noted that many articles I have found have a "prediction" of the current price based on a variety of factors (such as those mentioned above), however this of course does not help me. David (talk) 16:18, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

If I knew the answer to that, I would be a rich man. I suggest you start at Stock market prediction..--Shantavira| 16:26, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

See also Speculation, Gambling and Divination.  --Lambiam 20:33, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

עברית, you may want to look at buy and hold (although that article could do with some expansion). Briefly, the concept is that "beating the stock market" is very hard, and something even top experts with huge amounts of experience, connections, industry and accounting knowledge struggle to do consistently. Therefore, it's often been found that simply investing in a fund that tracks the stock market, saving money and not worrying about it, frequently proves more profitable than doing something more complicated or taking risks. This also ties into the "efficient market hypothesis", that in general big stock markets tend to be fairly valued (shares of successful companies more expensive, etc) and so earning money based on a complicated trading strategy is tough.
From a more personal perspective, you're a young person aged 17, with your life ahead of you and a lot of freedom to choose your path in life. Not that this is necessarily a healthy way of thinking, but if I reran my life from your age specifically with a goal of being richer, taking steps to end up in a higher-paying career (working really hard to get top internships, jobs etc., getting a top university degree result to make me more attractive to employers) would probably have proved much, much more profitable than almost any specific stock market investment. Blythwood (talk) 03:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

What you're looking for is called technical analysis, it only looks technical. I used to believe it when I was 18 and stupid, later I realized it's like astrology or those factoids like NFL team so and so is 10-3 against the spread (which is more obviously just chance at work, in this case the at least 1 in 32 small sets of coin flips usually deviates wildly thing) and only slightly useful cause so many other people believe it's useful but it's almost 100% useless. You can ponder the nearly infinite cool-looking mathematical tools forever and it won't predict shit if lightning kills a crucial guy or something. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Apparently quantitative analysis is not considered technical, you'd still be fighting trade secret machine learning AIs with the resources of trillion dollar investment banks though, it'd be easier and less of a gamble to just work or work faster (i.e. more dollars per hour). You could find a graduate degree that you'd be good at and like, plan your education around it, get it and then get paid for knowledge. Engineering is 2 years shorter than a doctorate but with anything STEM you'd have to not be too irritated at how the alienese math or code is sometimes gratuitous and could be practically replaced with more well-known symbols, Latin or Greek STEM words (good thing I like Latin and Greek STEM words), or even plain English (personally I like the science jargon but want the math in English when practical when it's symbols I can't understand without the education I missed by quitting high school for "freedom"). If I didn't have to save to replace dropped Wifi stealing laptop to prevent boredom I might've started college before I didn't want to do it anymore, I'd be sure to finish from getting used to it and sunk cost, work 3 to 50 years and retire much wealthier. Or maybe retire and unretire every few years forever and get paid half the time (can scientists do that?). Maybe I should've tried to find a college that doesn't make science majors learn a language for years or share a room (random major?) if too poor to rent and far to commute (I f***ing hate learning new grammars) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk)

Backtesting a well defined trading strategy without the need for interpretation can fail, it could overfit to the past. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 07:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Well, I thought that there gotta be some way to have a persistent success in the stock market (for example, investing in crypto as it grows more and more). Thank you for your answers! David (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

There are limit to the growth of crypto currencies. Bitcoin already uses more electricity than many countries, such as Argentina and Finland, and also far more than Google. As the world is scrambling to convert to renewable energy, the continued unbridled expansion of an energy-devouring non-essential application may be impossible. An entirely different issue is that the stock market is highly irrational and volatile. There is no rational grounding for the price of a stock; it is worth what the market is willing to pay, just like for art. Check out £525,000 ($724,837) for a simple geometric abstract oil painting. A hype can drive up the price of a stock to irrational heights; a mere rumour can make a stock price come tumbling down. The whole market may be bullish, suffering from irrational exuberance, until the bubble bursts.  --Lambiam 22:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

A few entities do have printing money algorithms but they have to spend most of their free money just to rent space at an exchange for their powerful computers and rent or build lasers or microwaves that go all the way from New York to Chicago (horizon-sized hops of course) to basically make free money from the speed of electricity* being 100 kilometers per millisecond slower than the speed of light in air. The exchange even removes intra-exchange distance differences with exact lengths of wire loops for all but the most disadvantaged renter location. If someone invents a high-frequency trading algorithm that beats the market like a biased coin AND doesn't require unaffordable stuff like the light speed thing then he'd have to keep it secret or everyone doing it would split the profits to almost nothing at best, or computers the inventor couldn't afford might take the inventor's profits for him and of course not give him any. If you buy crypto there's always a chance it'll decrease or crash and never reach what you paid for it again, if that doesn't happen it can get stolen, if you find some form of exposure to crypto prices that insures against theft you'll have to pay for the insurance, manager and wallet security guy salaries indirectly, I don't know what's the cheapest safe-seeming way to do that. Or if it's a crypto exchange stock those things get mass stolen from all the time, even big ones. With any crypto stock you would be need the company to not have a scandal or something too. Something else I don't know is if buying a few hundred or thousand US dollars worth of this stuff causes further damage to the environment and if so how much compared to "mining" the same amount directly with electricity and electronics. Maybe someone here knows. Even if it's negligible (I have no idea, maybe it's terrible) I would not recommend buying crypto now. I recommend buying in 2010 and selling half in 2021 (after learning how to not do that wallet mumbo wrong and lose everything, such a gratuitously complex trinket that's good for nothing but trying to sell for more real currency than you bought) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 00:31, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

These are the most useful articles for understanding momentum investing and crypto currencies.DOR (HK) (talk) 19:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Aviation terminology

What are the diffferences between "airfield", "aerodrome", and "airport"?

I recently read a statement; "The aerodrome is shared between a civil airport situated to the north and a military airbase to the south of the airfeld." I'm not sure if I'm parsing the statement correctly, or if it even makes sense as written? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:45, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

According to This, an aerodrome is a general term for any place where aircraft can operate from, and includes airports and airfields. An airport must have at least one paved runway, while an airfield does not need to be paved. --Jayron32 19:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

• I suggest that an article that uses "aircrafts" as the plural of "aircraft" is not a good source for subtle questions of English usage. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 02:43, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

As that article says about aerodrome, these terms vary in meaning across the world. Here in Australia I have two places officially called airports within 10 km of my home, Coldstream Airport and Lilydale Airport. Neither has a paved runway. On the other side of my city, 40 km away, is Melbourne Airport, Australia's second busiest airport (when we don't have COVID). It has lots of paved runways. That article also says aerodrome is mostly used in the UK and Commonwealth countries. Here in Australia it was much more common early in my life (over half a century ago), but almost never used at all today. Airfield, to me, sounds American. HiLo48 (talk) 23:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Airfield, to me anyway, has a military connotation. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

"Fil Santé Jeunes" equivelent in England

Hello, could you give me the equivalent of "Fil Santé Jeunes" in England, please ? It would be nice from you ... 131.255.4.148 (talk) 21:54, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

"Youth Health Wire"? What's the context for the French expression? --←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Fil Santé Jeunes (Youth Health Line) is a remote health assistance system for young people aged 12 to 25. 0800 235 236 toll-free number in France. A comparable service offered by the UK NHS (National Health Service) is Shout 85258, a free, confidential, 24/7 text message support for anyone struggling to cope with issues including suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety or panic attacks. Philvoids (talk) 23:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Nous avons un article sur tout. w:fr:Fil Santé Jeunes. DuncanHill (talk) 03:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

January 30

Bias

Are wikipedia articles allowed to be biased ??.

Looking at the Misplaced Pages page for former president Donald Trump, I am appalled at the extreme bias used. Making blatant statements without citation such as " scholars often rate the president as one of the worse ever US presidents" but without citation of the source. Also opinionated sentences such as "Donald Trump caused damage by doing this etc*" The article is locked from editing so how can one fix this ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1009:B1DA:AB1B:1128:9A8B:3CAD:A31F (talk) 15:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

One can request edits to the extended confirmed-protected page Donald Trump by proposing them on its talk page, using the {{Edit extended-protected}} template if necessary to gain attention. Philvoids (talk) 15:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

The question seems to be about a statement in the lead (or lede) paragraph; "Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history". I would make three points on that:

1) Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Lead section says: Because the lead will usually repeat information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. Leads are usually written at a greater level of generality than the body, and information in the lead section of non-controversial subjects is less likely to be challenged and less likely to require a source; there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads. The necessity for citations in a lead should be determined on a case-by-case basis by editorial consensus. Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations; others, few or none. The presence of citations in the introduction is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article. I generally prefer not to put citations in the lead, but perhaps there's a case for it in this instance.

2) The statement in the lead is wikilinked (click the blue text) which takes the reader to the Historical rankings of presidents of the United States article, which has 65 citations listed.

3) The statement in the lead refers to Donald Trump#Approval ratings further down the article, which says:

C-SPAN, which conducted surveys of presidential leadership each time the administration changed since 2000, ranked Trump fourth–lowest overall in their 2021 Presidential Historians Survey, with Trump rated lowest in the leadership characteristics categories for moral authority and administrative skills.

This paragraph has three citations:

• "C-SPAN Releases Fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership" (PDF). C-SPAN. June 30, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
• Brockell, Gillian (June 30, 2021). "Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn't last". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
• "Presidential Historians Survey 2021". C-SPAN. Retrieved June 30, 2021.

So if you feel that any of that is actually wrong, you need to raise it on the talk page, but be sure that you have reliable sources to back-up your point. This is a sensitive article with 3,337 editors watching it, so I would avoid using templates (as suggested above) in this instance. See Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view for our policy on bias. Alansplodge (talk) 17:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

January 31

haircut style

What is the name of Selma Blair's haircut style in her infobox pic? Thanks. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:C115 (talk) 03:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Is List of hairstyles any help? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.213.224.157 (talk) 05:42, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Isn't it just a shaggy bob?--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 11:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Here it's called a "simple bob".  --Lambiam 14:33, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, both of the articles help. "Bob" refers to the total length but I was wondering more about the strands in the front. It looks like they are still called bangs even though they aren't cut straight across. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:C115 (talk) 15:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

According to Bangs (hair), they don't have to be cut straight across to technically be called bangs. Which helps explain why I've heard the phrase "straight-cut bangs" before. †dismas†| 16:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I've never come across the idea that they be cut straight to be bangs. I've always understood bangs to be hair at the front that is cut a distinctly different length than the surrounding hair. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Cream Cheese Shortage

I'm able to find more than enough information on why there's a cream cheese shortage right now, but I am not able to find anything on even a rough estimate of when the shortage will end. Has anyone found a reputable source that has a guess? 2600:8807:C04E:9700:5044:FC38:BC60:372F (talk) 04:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

IP geolocates to Florida.--Shantavira| 09:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

This article explains some of the causes of the shortage, but I cannot find any information on when it is going to end. --Jayron32 12:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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