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Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)

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Re: Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)

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scifi wrote: post #77

I just wanted to add something I didn't see mentioned in the article or the discussion. In the Christian tradition, figures are often portrayed with their pinky and ring fingers curled up, while the thumb, index, and middle fingers are extended. This is done to symbolize the holy trinity.

> ...with their pinky and ring fingers curled up, while the thumb, index, and middle fingers are extended.

leading to a local joke:

Q. How can you spot a forester on a Saturday night?

A. (while making sign above) 5 beers, please!

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Post by 082349872349872 »

ffhhj wrote: post #33

The knife in the hand and the knife-like hand: https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-perseus-images/82e1c6954dc87273a...

Plot twist: those pieces of silver were planted by the Romans...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lngmx0v3aOs&t=25s

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Post by flir »

judahmeek wrote: post #136
flir wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Solve for the general case. Maybe you need num_guards-1 questions? I doubt you could solve for 50 guards with 1 question.

If you're allowed to create a hypothetical question that translates a hierarchy of guards into Boolean logic, then it doesn't matter how many guards there are.

What are you thinking? I was wondering about dividing them into sets.

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

b112 wrote: post #138
mkl wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not grammatical. Reading the article parts of it seemed poorly machine-translated to me (and the whole thing seemed mostly a sequence of straw-men).

And yet... I recall when young, people were commenting on how most media came from centralized locations. That with newspapers, and then radio, and now TV, pronunciation was moving towards being less regionalized, diverse, yet also that the choice of words to use, the synonyms to use, was changing. I also recall the same being said for a variety of things, such as spell checkers, and grammar checkers used in wordproc…

Indeed. And now imagine an opinionated government controls the AI which helps formulate not only articles, blogs, etc, but even the predictive text software that facilitates writing a language very poorly suited to writing on a phone. And then imagine how much harder it will be to overthrow that government when even your own speech is subtly nudged to support the will of Big Brother. And there you have the fate of the Chinese people.

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Post by defrost »

betandr wrote: post #147

It's fascinating that modern gang signs might be considered a recent development although they have probably been always with us.

A great deal of hand talking is suprisingly universal | understood quickly enogh on opposite sides of the globe, almost all hunter gatherers have finger talk and share common enough base despite seperate regions.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuhhn-GSejs

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