SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Might have to wait for third-gen. A lot of second-gens seem to spend their whole lives seething with resentment over white kids making fun of their lunches in elementary school.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Selecting an unpopular target?
This is obviously it, isn't it? The media don't want to prevent copycat attacks.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Is it your position that the surrogates are criminals, too, or that they're willing victims who are just too stupid to know what's good for them?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
very high IQs more often being symptoms of a problem
I don't think so. Very low IQs are often symptomatic of a monogenic disease or chromosomal abnormality, but there's no known single mutation or chromosomal abnormality that greatly increases intelligence.
I think it's just that people with very high IQs and developmental disorders are more noticeable than people with the same developmental disorders and low IQs because they're able to function despite the developmental disorders.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
The fact that breasts lose elasticity with age is proof that there is no God.
SerialStateLineXer
14d ago
I just realized: Is porn called smut because it's "dirty?"
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Booze seems just part of the culture here--which is bizarre in a way when you think of how many people just can't drink in Japan without going full ゆでだこ (an oldish term meaning boiled octopus, referring to the redness of face many get after consuming even a little booze).
This is caused by the accumulation of acetaldehyde, a toxic intermediate product of alcohol metabolism, in the blood. They're literally poisoning themselves.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Maybe you have scurvy.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Well, not a fast mass suicide.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Thanks for doing your part to fight dysgenesis.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
If you have a funny skull shape, you can have a doctor shave your skull.
SerialStateLineXer
9mo ago
more growth -> higher salaries ->
higher consumptionsmore investment -> more growth
Increased consumption is a consequence, not a cause, of growth. It's investment that drives growth.
Methods of Proof did not strike me (a programmer with many years of experience) as particularly relevant to software engineering. On the other hand, it's a very short course, I think about 1800 XP. Discrete math I think should be more relevant. You will definitely get questions about complexity analysis (Big-O) in interviews.
M4ML is a selection of the most ML-relevant lessons from the LA => MVC => Stats sequence. I think it covers about half of LA and stats, and a third of MVC. I chose to take M4ML first in order to benefit from the interleaving of topics, instead of doing the full sequence one subject at a time.
You can definitely do software engineering without all this math. I studied most of this in college and haven't really ever used it, except some concepts from discrete math. There are specific domains where it can be useful or even essential, but you can have a solid career and make a lot of money basically never using math. One of the best engineers I've ever met told me he almost failed out of college because he wasn't good at math.
I don't know much about how much math you need for ML, as I'm not an ML developer. I would start with discrete math and M4ML, just in case.
SerialStateLineXer
11d ago
I finally finished Math Foundations 3 on Math Academy, a course north of 6 thousand xp
Interesting. It came to about 5k for me, possibly because it most of it was review for me, and I blew through it in under a month, consequently not getting many scheduled reviews.
I also finished Methods of Proof, which was interesting although it focused a lot more on integer factorization than I expected, and am now about 80% of the way though math for machine learning. The more complicated linear algebra material was a bit of a speed bump for me, as I had to go back and do some reviewing to get a better understanding of what was going on. I should be ready for their ML course when it comes out, and maybe even have time to finish up the parts of the LA => MVC => Stats sequence not covered in M4ML.
The Complete Works of Saki. Pen name of H. H. Munro, a bitchy gay early 20th century British writer. Mostly wrote short stories, which are delightful.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
this study seems to show some convergence in educational outcomes with Hispanics (although it includes all kinds of Asians)
The problem with cross-sectional comparisons of different generations is that each generation is from a different wave of immigrants. This study was published in 1998, using data from students who were in eighth grade in 1988, meaning that the 3rd+ generation were from families that had been in the country since long before the 1965 reopening of the country to Asian immigrants. And 20% of 3rd+ generation were Pacific Islanders and 50% "other Asians"; who knows what that means?
Because the legacy Asians come from very different cultural and genetic backgrounds, you can't necessarily attribute to generational differences to assimilation.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Where are you from?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
And meat. A little in ruminants; more in fish, pork, fowl, and eggs.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Canola oil is unusually low in LA for a seed oil. Also, it has about the same LA content as almond oil, and considerably more than whole almonds, which are only about 50% fat by weight.
Maybe? But there was only a 1.1-point difference in SNAQ score (range: 4-20), so I don't see how that could lead to such a large adjusted difference, nor does it explain the discrepancy between baseline, end value, and "change from baseline."
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
Right, that makes sense. I forgot what I had said in my original comment, so I misunderstood your response.
I was referring to his 1912 run for President with the Progressive Party, beating out Taft for second place, leading to the unfortunate election of Wilson with only 41% of the vote.
Technically that was a campaign for a non-consecutive third term, not second.
Edit: Oh, I see what you mean. I forgot that I had specified "after losing reelection once" in my first comment.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
They have a challenge called "Squid Game," right?
Make more Jews, please. We're running out.
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