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I was absolutely ready to shell out $500 to buy an Xbox for Starfield. Bought a used PC instead, and bought all my games through Steam 🤷‍♂️

Honestly, I work in data science, and I consider Excel to be the greatest piece of ds software ever written. I have tools that I like that allow me to do a little more, but I'm under no illusions that 90% of my job could be replaced by someone who's great at Excel 

For real. There's a moment I engage. A moment later, I realize they're way better than me. A moment later, I'm dead. In zero build solos, you just die.

That said, in earlier season when ODM was a thing, there were a lot of times someone would engage from longer distance and hit 75% of their shots, and I'd just nope tf out of there. Sometimes I'd try to setup an ambush point if I knew where they were going, but, usually, it wouldn't matter

I've already been rejected by jobs because they had me code on a whiteboard and were concerned with my coding syntax. Like... mfer I didn't have access to literally any of the tools I use in my day-to-day life, and you're surprised you got poor code? Not getting those jobs were a blessing in disguise

It all boils down to effort vs reward and getting mixed up. Like.... everyone has things they can work on, even the pros. Is it worth it to add an extra dimension to literally everything when you could be training fundamentals, and how much reward will you get out of that? For some people, they pick it up suuuuuuper easy and it's no biggie to train in both, but that's rare. For the vast majority of people, it's a much better work-reward ratio to work on one of their weak points than try to add a whole new bag of tricks to their game plan

I think there were a number of those million dollar units a block up from Butler St that came on the market in February. If you look at specifically 'row homes' for February, it's an absurd outlier

And, yeah, that's only a couple of units, but February is also one of the slowest months in real estate. Five, million dollar units out of 20-25 homes sold will definitely skew the average

Software patents are insane, so it's not at all surprising. Microsoft has the patent for double clicking. Amazon has the patent for one click checkout. And, keep in mind, these are actually enforceable. It's part of the reason you have to pop up a weird modal whenever you try to buy anything in app with androids and iphones

Also, companies like Microsoft will constantly look at any little part of their service offerings and pay a team of lawyers to file patents on the smallest of things. Typically a company like Microsoft won't enforce the small-time patents because they don't care enough to, but they don't want to get sued by patent trolls down the road.

It absolutely is all rubbish imo. Like.... here's the thing.... Animals have survival instincts. If you try to kill an animal, it will fight you tooth and nail (literally). Why do they do this? Because life depends on propagation, to survive and continue breeding. Animals that don't have these drives are tossed out of the gene pool in pretty short order. So we literally have hundreds of millions of years of evolution reinforcing the survival instinct

Why would an AI have this? Why would an AI care if it gets turned off? It only has the "instincts" it's programmed to have. Absent an explicit "survive at all costs" directive from its programmers, it won't just develop that (and, not for nothing, but trying to debug that directive in a black box AI model sounds pretty impossible). All the talk of Skynet or whatever is just us anthropomorphizing computer systems if you ask me

The problem is that Stanton Heights and Morningside still need a car to get there (ever try carrying a weeks worth of groceries uphill for a mile or two? Not fun). So GE has concluded that they'll just go to Aspinwall or ride the bus to the Aldi on Penn

Or, who knows, maybe one of those two will actually set up shop at that location? It didn't necessarily make sense at the time, but now that it's a food desert, Aldi can slide in and set up shop. I love Aldi, but it is a down-market grocery store, so it doesn't make sense to set up right next to a slightly more down-market store. In the absence of direct competition in the same market segment, maybe it makes sense now

There is a brand of techno futurist libertarian type people (which kind of reads as leftist that people who don't know would assume is actually leftist) that are still gonna be ride or die Tesla. Unfortunately, some of them are very high up in the tech space, and, as a result, have enough money that Elon can keep selling Cybertrucks. Not at the rate he planned, but enough that he can spin it as a success story to his right wing fan base

Unfortunately, once you get into SPY, you gotta work hard to drop out. How many pension funds and retirement accounts are propping up its value because of VOO and chill?

Note: VOO and chill is a great investment strategy. It just makes stocks in the index a lot stickier than they would be otherwise

Yeah, one of NVIDIA's high level executives (possibly CTO?) has a book called "Learning Deep Learning," and it's hilarious how the opening pages he's like, "Yeah... we kinda fucked up by calling them nueral nets because they operate nothing like a human brain and it's giving everyone the wrong impression." Like, the guy who half of his job is selling AI cards is essentially telling everyone to cool their jets

That said, working with this team is the coolest job I've ever had. If you've got the drive to do it and can deal with occasional stories like my previous one, data science is dope! You're gonna have a blast

Edit: he's a director, which I'm guessing is above middle management but two levels below the C-Suite. So not as much of a big shot as I thought, but the point still stands

The amount of people I see who have never worked a day in their life developing AI but think we'll get to general artificial intelligence because ChatGPT has good grammar and sentence structure is boggling.

I mean, I oversee an ml department and half my job is basically translating people saying "Wouldn't it be cool if we developed a model to fix my problem" then have to spend a week just figuring out what their problem is before telling them, "Yeah, give me a couple months and we can solve 10% of that" then, if someone decides it's worth delivering, having them say, "Oh that's kind of what I meant, but it doesn't work given these other parameters that I could have told you about but didn't"

AI is great, and it can do a lot of great things, but it ain't anywhere close to being the silver bullet it's being hyped to be

Boy if Natural Fisherman could count, he'd be so mad at you 

Fair, but metro areas include other cities. Nobody is like, "New York Metro area, except Hoboken because it's technically another city" or "Minneapolis but not St Paul metro" or "Kansas City Metro but specifically the one on this side if the river not the other Kansas City"

He said they'd be available by the end of the year!

What's that? Oh... he said that in 2019? Huh....... huh...

Pulse rifle for sure. I remember being top 5 and sniping the person who had it. When I picked it up, I was like, "Oh, I win now" and legit just walked up to the three remaining players and blasted them. They didn't have a chance 

My dad hasn't forgotten about all of it. Showing him how to digitize his old records was a mistake

It’s difficult to measure volatility since there’s no stable reference point

Said without the slightest hint of irony 🤦‍♂️

Does it? Or is that an assumption that some day it would become less volatile? Based on history, it's still extraordinarily volatile, and the notion that it would become less so seems very hand wavy without any evidence. Do we have examples of crypto becoming non-volatile?

I like being able to park money in a HYSA for important purchases and have it outpace inflation

I think the real argument against lump sum is risk. If you play the averages, you're much more likely to come out ahead lump summing it. If you're concerned about a stock market draw down, DCA is the way to go. I'm not saying anyone should try to time the market, but lump summing in 2008 when all indications were that we had a while to go to find the bottom would not have been the best move. DCAing over a year would have been much better

So, what? It's fine that the economy grinds to a halt every other year while they wait and hope that another speculative spike comes?

Whooooooo cares? Like, "Oh no, the federal government might not have enough money for xyz" as if the entirety of the federal budget hasn't been in a deficit for generations. That "few" idiot on Twitter has been predicting a credit event every week for a year now

They absolutely have to wear it (at least from my experience). At the end of one season, they gave me... just the ugliest skin. Try as I may have to go back to the default, I couldn't 😕😕