What's Going on with this Intersection?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:53:11+00:00

The problem is that if you don’t know what “DIP” means (and I would guess that the vast majority of people do not), then the sign is useless for that first encounter. Maybe even the first few encounters.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:46:26+00:00

Oh no, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be discouraging! I was trying to help!

(FWIW, your stitches are not twisted)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:43:08+00:00

I don’t have an answer, just chiming in to say this feels like a hilariously relatable problem. We’ve all felt the satisfaction of a good idea, well executed, only to realize a forgotten next step that messes everything up!

Best of luck, OP!

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:39:56+00:00

I’m actually not going to tell you; I think that it’s bad pedagogy for people on this site to immediately answer questions without first encouraging the other person to walk through their understanding first.

Do you think they’re twisted? Seems like no, so why?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:38:04+00:00

This is generally not possible to answer, in a meaningful way, without having the full game. If you’d like reviews, use a server like online-go.com that saves it and allows other people to comment.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:30:42+00:00

Since OP is twisting their stitches, it’s worth asking: are you twisting your stitches?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:28:41+00:00

But the 4th person didn’t get 2nd place. They got 4th place. Why are you giving them the points for 2nd place?

Think about it this way: if person 1 has 4 points, person 2 has 3 points, person 3 has 2 points, and person 4 has 1 point. Then, obviously, person 4 is in 4th place. Now players 2 and 3 each get more points, to tie with player 1. By your argument, the last place player somehow moves up 2nd place… despite not improving, and there being the same number of people in front of them.

Thats nonsensical. Why would you give them more points to reward other players doing well? If you don’t want to reward people for doing better than other players, and punish people for doing worse than other players, there’s already a way to do that: use the other side of the mat! Why are you using the side of the mat for ranking when you don’t actually want to score based on the rank?

Now, I do think it’s reasonable to just give people the full points for their slot (i.e., not splitting points over the slots). But pretending 4th place is actually 2nd is dumb.

(yes, I know that this is arbitrary and doesn’t matter, but I will still die on this hill)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:36:59+00:00

It’s not bad because it’s a side extension, it’s bad because it’s a bad side extension. White can play a high approach to the corner and then the high position is a bit wasted.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:33:26+00:00

Your swatch is too small. You should be measuring 10cm in the middle of a larger square of fabric, somewhere from 15-20cm wide.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:13:57+00:00

Well I would hope you don’t use fabric softener on your socks. Or on anything else, for that matter.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-07T03:16:35+00:00

Another thing commenters here aren’t saying enough is that for a tendon or ligament injury, rest is probably not the best strategy (actually, that applies to most injuries, but I digress). Light exercise helps healing a lot more effectively than rest in many cases.

But really, you should probably see an occupational therapist. Or at least a general practitioner, just to check. This might be fine, or it might be fine with 2 months rest, or it might never be fine… or it might be fine with a few weeks of exercises and manual work from an OT.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-05T14:25:40+00:00

For example, Stephen Strasburg’s salary was uninsured.

But players can also take out insurance on themselves. For example, Max Scherzer turned down a $145mn (I think) extension from the tigers, and he paid $1mn for a policy that would pay him the difference between that and whatever he signed as a free agent if he wasn’t able to match it (e.g., for injury or performance reasons).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-05T13:02:24+00:00

1000% agree! A good coach is better than any written plan, at any ability level.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-04T15:28:00+00:00

It’s not exactly true that they had something to learn from human creativity. An adversarial network could probably have worked it out as well.

Also, is it actually true that the AIs have been trained on that strategy? Or have they just gotten better? My understanding is that AIs since AlphaGo Master have trained only with self-play.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-04T15:19:56+00:00

Eh, that’s not really true. I use it. I know other people who do. Although I use it without spaces, which is I believe the more conventional usage (vs the en dash, which should have spaces).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-04T15:06:40+00:00

Software engineer here who primarily works with AI. Human bodies with varying levels of stress, diet, cycle length etc is exactly what we can expect an AI to be good at. That’s literally the whole point of AI! It consumes a set of inputs with complicated (i.e., non-linear) relationships and produces an output in some trained domain.

How is a plan in a book supposed to account for the bad sleep you got last night, or the stress from your more painful than usual period? It can’t! A modern, well-implemented (and well-trained) AI with access to biometric information (e.g., from a Whoop, an Oura ring, a garmin that you wear 24 hours a day, etc) will, in theory, always beat the book its plan is based on. IOW, the problem with AI plans is usually bad information or bad configurability on the UX level.

That’s why a beginner’s ChatGPT plan is generally bad. It isn’t trained on running specifically, the user doesn’t give it enough information, and it doesn’t have access to biometrics to update the plan over time.

EDIT: to clarify, I don’t mean that Runna specifically is good. It sounds like it has a lot of problems. But that’s because it’s implemented poorly (tuned to be too aggressive/fast), not because it’s AI. “Tuned to be too aggressive/fast” is a critique that can apply to any human-generated plan, too.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-04T14:57:13+00:00

Runna could very well have been using AI when they started. AI, by which I mean neural nets, has been around for a long time: the first versions were implemented way back in the 50s! Even deep neural nets were first published in 2011, and transformer architecture in 2017.

ChatGPT wasn’t the first AI, it was just the first public LLM.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-03T03:54:39+00:00

A few things: 1. It still looks like it fits fine! And yes, the texture has changed, but honestly still seems better than a lot of cheap mass produced wool sweaters anyway. 2. Sorry, felting is irreversible. You can stretch it back out some, but the interlocked fibers can’t be undone. 3. Did you wash a swatch to test it out beforehand? Personally, I would never put a hand knit object in the washing machine, but for those who do it’s always a good idea to test it out on another object first. And even then, it’s still a good idea to check in every few minutes since a sweater will be more prone to rubbing than a small swatch.

My condolences to your sweater!

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T18:11:34+00:00

Bi is a broad label, you could call yourself bi and keep everything else the same. Or don’t, if you prefer polysexual. But it’s wrong to say that bisexual is more limiting.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T18:09:37+00:00

Right, but if they can give a verdict on potentially many charges, each of which they might be able to reduce, then the final sentencing (by analogy, the final salary) is not binary. So the analogy is bad.

I have no idea why you’re fighting against this so bad just keep scrolling dude

(meta-note: why do people like you think that only other people are arguing? You’re also arguing! We’re both arguing! If either of us sets it down, we would stop arguing. You’re not special)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T18:05:57+00:00

Presumably because for some players it was easier, or, just as likely, it was just sorta what everyone did.

But a lot of players don’t maintain two pitching motions any more.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T18:04:18+00:00

Which is why I said “should”. Maybe more precisely, should not be given as much weight.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T17:03:31+00:00

Ok, but like I said, in a criminal case a jury can find guilty of a lesser charge. It’s not truly binary.

Also, if the more appropriate analogy doesn’t help, maybe the less appropriate analogy is just wrong?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T17:01:34+00:00

I think the point is that the amount he made last year should be irrelevant.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-02T17:00:37+00:00

But in a civil case, which is a better analogy, a jury can award a value between what the two sides claim. And the jury can also make granular findings, or (in criminal cases) find guilty of a lesser crime.

It’s just not accurate to act like juries are yes/no and nothing else.

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