SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
6d ago
But what if you lose?
Would you rather be 95th percentile in Lesotho, or 40th percentile in America?
Revealed preference suggests that most people would rather "lose" in a wealthy country full of highly-skilled people than "win" in a third-world country run by incompetent people.
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
Given that they didn't remove any of those comments, that seems unlikely. You probably just got autojannied.
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
Speaking of which, /u/JTarrou, what did you get the mop for?
I got about 8k my first month, 4k the next, and have really slowed down the last two months as I hit stuff that's new/completely forgotten. A couple times in the past two months I've had to go back and spend a day or two just doing some uncredited reviews of things I'd forgotten. Reviews are undertuned and don't come often enough, IMO.
The first month was just a review of high school math, so I speed ran it.
How did your graduate without passing math classes?
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
From this thread on X (here if you don't have an account) back in April. People were dunking on him because he made it sound like he was struggling with basic algebra, though he later admitted that he was being disingenuous and just wasn't spending time on it because was busy with other things. I saw it when TracingWoodgrains linked to it here (no-account link and decided to give it a try. I've always kind of regretted not taking more math classes in college, so this seemed like a good way.
It turned out that I've already taken some version of every class they currently offer as part of my CS degree, but a lot of the material I either never learned or have completely forgotten, and the classes currently under development (other than CS I) are totally new to me. Weirdly, I took the equivalent of Methods of Proof my first year of college, and I have no recollection of it at all. It's not just that I'd forgotten the material, but that the only reason I know I took it is that I ordered a copy of my transcript last month.
Who's Howard?
SerialStateLineXer
11d ago
I hit 15k this week, too. I finished up Math for Machine Learning, and it looks like it covered about 60% each of Linear Algebra and Stats, and 30% of Multivariable Calculus, so now I'm going back and finishing up the remainder of those courses while I wait for them to finish up Machine Learning I.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
On a related note, I have no idea what Netflix is thinking with their games strategy. Who wants to play Grand Theft Auto on a cell phone?
UBS estimated that in 2022, 96.6% of Lesotho's population had a net worth of less than $10k.
https://rev01ution.red/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/global-wealth-databook-2023-ubs.pdf
In 2017, 89% of Lesotho's population lived on less than $10/day:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-living-with-less-than-10-int--per-day?tab=chart&country=LSO
Edit: Also, top n is less informative than top x%. The poorest person in Tuvalu is in the top 10,000 richest adults in the country. Top 100k in Ethiopia (pop 132 million)? Sure, probably richer than the average American. But Lesotho's economy just isn't productive enough or large enough to support 100k genuinely wealthy people.
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