makeshiftreaper

joined 2 years ago
[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

People always remark how /r/relationshipadvice tells everyone to break up without considering 2 self selection biases:

  1. People in happy healthy relationships don't ask for a lot of advice. "I love my wife, we go on weekly dates, have couples therapy, are helping each other in our careers and our sex has never been better. Wat do?" is not something people will post
  2. If you go to a drama discussion, shockingly, more dramatic content gets more attention. More drama in relationships almost always leads to" just stop dealing with it and break up" as advice
[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

2nd pro tip:

If you've never attempted this before, when someone is pointing a gun at you is probably the incorrect time to try it out

You're correct on fundamentals and technicals, it's been a while since I took a Financial Mathematics class and I don't remember doing very well in it regardless

I'm sure there's multiple versions, that'd be good too. It's mostly just getting people to talk about things they like in their life

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Typical advice for this is talk about FORD:

  • Family
  • Occupation
  • Relationships
  • Dreams

and avoid RAPE:

  • Religon
  • Abortion
  • Politics
  • Economics

FORD is talking about the people they love, where they spend most of their time, and what they're excited about. RAPE is a list of topics that are frequently contentious and that people are bad at having productive conversations about (also don't talk about rape)

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

The entire for profit Healthcare system is setting up problems for later

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most algorithmic trading is not done by AI and won't be at any time in the near future. Algo trading is primarily used for HFT (high frequency trading) and fundamental trading, both of which AI are terrible for. In the HFT world traders are fighting for fractions of microseconds, so AI is far too slow to be helpful. Trading on fundamentals also won't work with AI because AI makes frequent (by trading standards) math errors

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man if there's a city that might hate Trump more than DC does it might be New York. New York city residents fucking hate that man, he's been a stain on the city since the 80s

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're putting words in the mouth of someone uninvolved in the conversation. Hank Green wasn't in anything you posted and you're slamming him like he is. I posted evidence in contradiction of your baseless statement

Truly, what the fuck are you talking about?

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I find it weird you're criticizing Hank Green in your comment but use 2 links that don't directly reference him at all and in fact the 2nd link uses AI generated art and summaries of the article. Hank Green has had a varied and nuanced take on AI that largely lands on it being a negative for society

Here's him calling it a bubble: https://youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk

Him saying AI generated videos are bad: https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10

Talking about AI datacenters being a problem: https://youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA

All within the past 2 months

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey man, I live here. We're not a republican state. We have more registered Democrats than Republicans, and between the two major metropolitan centers (Charlotte and The Triangle) we actually should be voting largely Democrat. However Republicans bunched all those voters into a few districts and then gave rural bumfuck nowhere disproportionate representation on a state level. Then they used that to gerrymander themselves into a supermajority, then used that to start rat fucking the good reps out of districts (pour one out for Jeff Jackson). We literally had maps so fucked up our current supreme court said "that's too far" and all they did was submit shittier and shittier maps until we got stuck with the first unconstitutional one because "we didn't have another option"

We're not quite a Mississippi where we've been shooting our own feet for decades, Republicans have wrested undue control over the state by being cheaters and it's important for all of you to see that because they'll do it to you too

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Multiverse really does feal like early access FTL 2

 

I was watching an XKCD "What-If" video recently and Randal off-handedly mentions the title fact as a given. Upon a further Google search I see explanations about why sound moves faster in liquids than gasses but nothing for my specific question. Is there an intuitive explanation for that fact or is it just one of those weird observable facts with no clear explanation

 

For those of us who still use reddit on occasion, I'm sure you've noticed AI is running rampant over there, from the multitude of variations of "Am I the Asshole", "Malicious Compliance", and especially in the comments. A lot of the explain the joke subreddits and in particular "Peter Explain the Joke" seem to ask questions so obvious that I am curious if it's designed to test AI responses and use upvotes to score the results. I know there're a lot of dipshits out there but are there so many that those posts routinely reach the front page multiple times a day? Is it just plain old karma farming?

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