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February 25

delta shape on a haircut

in this picture, the clipper was used to create some kind of a triangle: https://ibb.co/6F2KQRL what is this aspect of haircut is called? when minute part of the bangs is shaved? Deltahaircut (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That hairline could be natural. —Tamfang (talk) 05:49, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tendency to switch topics to another when the user see shocking ones comes on the topic and vice versa

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So, I constantly switching between these topics (and even come back) when comes to my searching habits because I see perceived "shocking" ones on the topic (e.g. when I see a YouTube video of Luxor 3 mod where sphere behaviors are changed leads me to search up the Bark scale graphic equalizer thing for foobar2000 because I think the list of sphere behaviors as histogram which is interpreted as frequency response, and recently when I see the behind the scenes for Snooker 19 video game, I immediately flock into searching the constant-Q transform/sliding DFT visualizations for the aforementioned media player because of the "new" physics engine thing). Is it circular reasoning, or something like that led to this above? 2001:448A:3046:59C8:9074:C5DB:F266:4DEE (talk) 23:54, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We don't answer questions that potentially require medical diagnosis, but the described behaviour does not fit the definition of circular reasoning (which is not a medical condition, so this is not a negative diagnosis). --Lambiam 02:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lambiam: Circular reasoning is a defect in logic where conclusion itself is the reason, so I was mistaken this sort of behaviour for the aforementioned logical defect. So what the non-medical term(s) for a behaviour where the searcher sees anything "new" on the topic they're searching, leading to the searcher immediately flock to an unrelated topic and the another one for the same situation but with anything "new" popped on a topic that searcher flocked to, leading to switching back to original topic or yet another topic? 2001:448A:3046:59C8:9074:C5DB:F266:4DEE (talk) 05:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A tendency to avoid anything new is called neophobia. Such a tendency is usually confined to a specific type of items, such as new foods, in which case it is called food neophobia. Also, terms with -phobia are reserved in medical terminology for morbid fears and not used for a mere unease. The "solution" of avoiding the unease by jumping to a different, possibly unrelated topic is called displacement. I do not know a term for the combination (neophobic displacement?). --Lambiam 07:57, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, the term that could be used for possibly overfitted AI models that gives garbage/incorrect answers on new data and/or only gives mostly correct ones when the input is within the scope of the training data right? Since the ChatGPT's interface mentions limited knowledge after 2021 despite the aforementioned AI model is not overfitted. 2001:448A:3046:59C8:9074:C5DB:F266:4DEE (talk) 10:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]