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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’d believe it if you count every random plot people make as “design.” It blows my mind how much people do in excel. On one hand it’s pretty cool how much it can do but you end up with these monster spreadsheets that should really be their
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’m not going to claim I’m a medieval military tactician, but if you have some amount of resources stockpiled and friendly armies in the field, why surrender immediately? Your forces or allied forces could pin the siege force against your w
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I also recall reading that, in the agrarian Middle Ages, women in farming communities (though also men and children to a lesser degree) did things like spin cloth to sell during the winter when there wasn’t much work to do on the farm to bo
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by tnecniv 3y ago
This is incredibly common due to multiple levels of media hype. I got interviewed by someone from university PR for a series on what different grad students were working on during my PhD. We had a 30 minute phone call and the result a week
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Baseball has a load of resources like this! Besides FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference (both offer some historical data download ability but have more advanced stats you’ll have to scrape yourself), the MLB offers an API to get pitch-by-pitch
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by tnecniv 3y ago
There’s an old joke that you finally get to do the research you want to do when you’re an emeritus professor
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The usual: eat hot dogs, try and get an autograph during batting practice, hope catch a foul ball, sing during the 7th inning stretch, make fun of the awful Galapagos Gang costumes, boo the umpires, overreact to fly outs thinking that they’
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Every few years you hear about a kid dying playing baseball (the last major league death was almost a century ago despite the ball flying around a lot faster and hundreds of thousands of games are played by people of all ages every year). I
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by tnecniv 3y ago
My parents gave me similar looks of distaste if I ever used a cheat code, game guide, or game shark. They never punished me or anything, but it took years for me to use cheats in video games guilt free even though I knew it was whatever
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The price of being a dominant naval power for centuries
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by tnecniv 3y ago
In my undergraduate engineering ethics class, our professor (who had an engineering and legal background) pointed this out in one of the first lectures and said “this is the first reason why I am not going to pretend to teach you ethics in
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I watched all of ER a few years back. There was only one episode where a doctor killed Simone by mistake because they were stuck there way longer than they should have been due to a staffing issue. However basically from the opening of the
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by tnecniv 3y ago
For me, I just straight up never use the number pad. I never integrated it into my workflow. It just takes up unnecessary space for me. What I hate are those tiny arrow keys on the Mac keyboard
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They’re probably sitting in an office chair that is either awful or good but not set up ergonomically
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To add: the heron-marked blade is used pretty well in other ways as well. For context for the unfamiliar readers perusing this thread: heron marks indicate a blade master — a titled earned by defeating one in single combat or by undergoing
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I am about to finish my first time through the series (listening to the excellent audiobooks). And I agree with OP that somewhere in the second or third book, Rand annoyed with his slow character growth and refusal to accept that he was the
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Rule 34(b)
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This was my freshman dorm. It was repurposed from an apartment building or a hotel (I forget which) 20-30 years before I arrived. I had the smallest unit on the floor (it was next to the lounge and you could tell they took space from my roo
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Clearly your professor hasn’t had to stand upright in his career or walk for that matter. The (spring loaded) inverted pendulum was one of the earliest analyzed models of legged locomotion.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’m similar with the addition of advanced degrees and my friends have told me in an unsolicited way that I have fairly high emotional intelligence as well. I’ve always struggled with dating, especially with dating apps — lots of first dates
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by tnecniv 3y ago
This is kind of a tangent, but I’ve played instruments all my life and I never really understood how to use sheet music beyond the initial learning of a piece. I always see musicians actively referencing it while playing, but I’ve never bee
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I agree with you but to add, OP also misses some plausible explanations: 1. The individual has an incomplete LinkedIn that is not representative of their experience. 2. The title doesn’t matter much at the company in any meaningful way beyo
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That’s mostly the case — the line between ML and statistics is blurry. However the concerns of a practitioner of machine learning and a practitioner of statistics can be different. The ML community has a greater interest in stuff like “can
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That’s not just ML, that’s linear algebra. Moreover, across fields in math, the dimension of an object is defined differently, but it’s always a very fundamental property of an object that captures loosely how complex an object is. Often, t
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Was not expecting to see an Atari game produced in my home town today
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Well then building doohickeys would be your new “going to work”
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As someone that does robotics junk, I’m not sure what I’d use this fire but I like the concept a lot
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I checked: his doctorates were in law and political science, with his undergraduate background consisting of a combination of philosophy, psychology, and economics.
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I’m mad because I saw this coming but I lost mine in a move last month. I use them basically every day so I didn’t want to wait for a new model. I’m not upgrading my iPhone soon so I’ll still be using lighting, so it isn’t like I’ll have ju
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That would be the frequentist interpretation. A Bayesian would say that probability is to be interpreted in belief that an outcome will occur. Neither is really right or wrong, it depends on what you're modeling. If we’re analyzing so

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