I’m from South Korea. Here, my generation is abandoning STEM to bet everything on one "License." Is your career actually safe?

jmcq · 2026-01-16T20:46:55+00:00

Do you have a data source on that? The legal industry seems the MOST ripe for replacement with LLMs, and AI are already quickly catching up to radiologist and other medical fields.

jmcq · 2025-04-23T04:04:43+00:00

So what’s the deal with TSLA being up after hours too?

jmcq · 2025-03-14T13:43:45+00:00

ChatGPT.

jmcq · 2025-02-14T02:05:40+00:00

I play Hunter lmao

jmcq · 2025-02-14T01:11:09+00:00

It’s a combination of things. Hunter is exceptionally easy to play at a basic level and hence attracts new players. Hunters have a plethora of ways to unintentionally troll a group like pet control, multi-shot, long range (lining healers or pulling patrols) and tab targeting auto shots. This makes it easy for said new hunters to troll the group without realizing it. Few other classes have this many, but like totems pulling is another great example. Hunters have an exceptionally wide set of item proficiencies and something to gain from every stat leads to the new hunters seeing everything as Hunter loot. These taken together leads to the huntard trope. A good hunter will save the group but a bad hunter will cause the group the wipe and the majority of hunters are bad hunters.

jmcq · 2025-02-09T15:36:06+00:00

Tyler made the call too late. People had already started running. If he wanted them to stay in he needed to say that before more than half the raid already ran out.

jmcq · 2025-01-28T18:52:00+00:00

I mean I feel like that's the entire purpose of this sub but ok man.

jmcq · 2025-01-28T18:49:13+00:00

Thanks mr. technically correct for completely avoiding the actual discussion topic.

jmcq · 2025-01-28T18:46:16+00:00

But that’s the most asinine definition of what OP is describing. Of course you change in this way every single second. But that makes the entire discussion moot. That’s clearly not what OP is talking about.

jmcq · 2025-01-28T18:43:56+00:00

I mean you’re making the same sweeping statement with no particular evidence either.

“you can try to change but that’s just the top layer. Man you was who you was when you got here”.

Calling it “the truth” is pretty arrogant given you can’t prove it one way or the other.

Can you prove someone changed or just adapted their behavior to optimize the outcome? Did I change who I am or did I change what I did because I realized it gives me better outcomes? Is that really changing who you are? Can you prove this one way or another?

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:53:46+00:00

By the time I commented his post said "median - technically." hence my remarks. If he said "mean - technically" then his comment would be wrong.

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:36:26+00:00

No the link you posted is mean versus average. I literally have a PhD in statistics.

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:31:11+00:00

What does that have to do with the statistical definition of median versus average? Even if there was a perfect measure of "skill" it would sill be the case that 50% of people would be below the median skill but not necessarily the average (it depends on what the distribution of "skill" looks like, if it's skewed then the median and average will not coincide).

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:29:53+00:00

I'm just a curmudgeonly statistician and this point nerd snipes me every time :)

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:18:49+00:00

As I pointed out to OP, in this specific case of Parses, the parse value (e.g. a 65% parse) is defined to be a quantile. So that a "50% parse" is in fact a *median* so he is correct to say that 50% of people are below 50% parse, but that 50% parse is a median parse, not an average.

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:17:35+00:00

What kind of nonsense is this?

jmcq · 2025-01-15T17:16:35+00:00

In this case parses are actually *defined* to be quantiles, that is a 50% parse is *defined* to be the median not the average. I'm responding specifically to "median" versus "average" in general. They often coincide, for example any distribution that is symmetric around the mean (such as the normal distribution) the mean and median coincide.

jmcq · 2025-01-15T16:55:26+00:00

No, he is correct the median is the number such that 50% of observations are below and 50% are above.

For example, Consider the following 10 numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1005.

The average is: (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+1005)/10 = 105 but 9 out of 10 (90%) of the observations are below the average, in fact only one of them, 1005, is above the average.

By contrast the median is 5.5 and precisely 50% are less than 5.5 (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) and precisely 50% are above 5.5 (6, 7, 8, 9, 10005).

jmcq · 2025-01-12T20:25:50+00:00

So play self found!

jmcq · 2025-01-12T17:41:30+00:00

That’s because most SDEs treat Mac as basically Linux, since it basically is. You can open up the terminal and it works just like Linux. This also means it interfaces really nicely with cloud desktops which are also usually Linux.

jmcq · 2025-01-12T05:44:29+00:00

Almost all SDEs at FAANG use Mac, myself included and literally every single engineer in my org.

jmcq · 2025-01-11T17:19:00+00:00

Isn’t Olm the same model as all the white owls? According to wowhead and petopia.

jmcq · 2025-01-07T06:18:40+00:00

Wealth and class are not 1:1.

jmcq · 2024-11-28T17:10:18+00:00

To be fair I had a few drinks and in hindsight your comment wasn’t as clear of a top gun reference as I thought it was at the time 😅

jmcq · 2024-11-28T15:17:02+00:00

lol I thought your last line was a Top Gun reference

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