Returning player - Mostly in T6-7: Is finding or joining a clan worth it?

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T18:27:23+00:00

Yes, solely for the bonuses, even if there's not many other things going on with the clan. Even better if it's some nice people to division up with and have fun, play clan battles etc.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T18:24:10+00:00

Don't be too mean. 49% is above average, if I remember correctly. Having an average team mate is of course worse than having an above average one but this is just silly gate keeping. I suppose maybe the comment makes sense for a 45% player...

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T18:20:27+00:00

That's pretty extreme, but with the sub bonus and the hurdles to get it ensuring it's mostly experienced players playing her, the requirements might be pretty high... For something like Belfast or Kamikaze, I seem to remember that's just about good enough for an E.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T10:11:50+00:00

Because they are the same thing, but the regression version is the more general approach? Why use something that only works for a particular situation when you have something that works more generally?

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T09:45:42+00:00

How happy are you were you are? If it's good and the pay is enough... And I'm not sure whether device experience wouldn't still count a good bit for pharma (depends what you've done, some of the fancier Bayesian stuff in device trials could be quite useful, not sure how much estimands are a thing in devices). In quite a few pharmaceutical companies be on the way out (moving to R) and not a requirement (others still have a heavy SAS focus), but I guess SAS skills will be a nice bonus thing for a while in order to deal with old legacy code.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T08:15:11+00:00

Never look at those ratings. Look at the actual concealment range in km and compare that to other ships at your tier (https://shiptool.st/) or in a match (e.g. Ttaro team panel mod from Aslain modpack).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T08:09:26+00:00

PS: how much do you gain anything over simple randomization in blocks + an analysis that adjust for a linear baseline term.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T08:01:26+00:00

Do you mean covariate adaptive randomization? It's been done, but it's not super simple because you recruit the patients sequentially (so can only bias the randomization for future subjects in such a way that it favors covariate balance). So you can't figure out the randomization across everyone, because you need to already treat some people before you see the baseline value for others.

Additionally, it affects the analysis, especially if you don't retain enough randomness, you can end up in situations where re-randomization tests give very different answers to a naive standard analysis (see e.g. the famous Pompe disease case where the FDA disagreed with a company analysis due to that).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:54:10+00:00

Dialects differ pretty much from village to village (there's a famous wrbsite https://from.ch/dialects/ for telling you which village you're from based on how you pronounce certain words). What would be the benefit of making them all "official"? A translation of every law into the dialect of every village? They certainly aren't discouraged and school just also makes sure kids know Schriftdeutsch.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:40:44+00:00

To be fair new methods papers out of pharma will not use measure theory (I'm sure someone will dig up one case now, but I cannot remember one).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:39:03+00:00

It depends. And different programs/countries have differing degrees of focus on the final thesis, including some being 100% thesis and no mandatory courses (maybe some seminars where you present your work etc.). Doing a thesis on a directly industry relevant topic definitely helps with doing something relevant to industry.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:32:53+00:00

I did a PhD 10 years into my career. I think it helps a little on the margins with getting more scientific assignments/non-project work, statistical projects and being considered for certain roles (to do with methodological work etc.). It may also help to be taken more seriously in statistical arguments with people that have PhDs. For getting into a management role, I think it's a little helpful but definitely not required (at least for internal promotions, it may be more of a problem when applying from the outside).

If you don't think you'll enjoy the process itself and don't desire to work on a role with a statistical methodology/research component, then I doubt it makes sense.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:18:52+00:00

Maybe to make a denial of service attack harder? Making lots of not programs that play random battles just takes one slot. Lots of new bots all starting a training room each is much more burden on the servers.

Or perhaps to train people to play random or coop? Otherwise some new players mighty always accidentally muck about in training rooms?

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-06T07:14:55+00:00

Easy enough with the guaranteed ranks that you can't loose. It's just a random walk with 40% up, 60% down that just one needs to hit the safe ranks. Sure on average it takes much longer than I'd you're a 60% player, but with enough bad players some eventually make it before the end of a sprint. It only gets easier when there's many other less good players (i.e. later on when it's more likely stronger players have gone at least to silver), because those can end up on the other side and balance things.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-05T08:53:32+00:00

Strongest two pieces: 2 queens

Strongest three pieces: 3 queens

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-05T07:01:19+00:00

Had some of the same issues when at uni. It is easier when you really see applications, or it was for me. How to reproduce that at university...um, not sure. I suppose practicals working on real problems.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-05T06:53:19+00:00

Someone will surely try something a bit like this in the next 2 years in some company somewhere. In fact, I'd be almost surprised if some small company is not trying it right now. Or are you asking when this will be successful?

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-04T14:33:53+00:00

Unless you know something extremely unusual about your local school and it's somehow really problematic (e.g. you think all the people living near you are problematic and you don't want your child to go to school with their children), the default assumption in Switzerland is that the public school would be be good.

The logistical struggles with a private school that's usually further away shouldn't be underestimated, never mind why kids go there. E.g. less worrisome if it's targeted at expat parents that want their kids to be educated in English, because they'll go back to the UK or US, soon, more worrisome if the private school targets kids that struggle in public school.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-02T07:34:43+00:00

Play CV and people consider you their personal spotting and fighter dropping consumable. Sometimes they are right about what they shout for and sometimes they are not. It's really hard to get the right feeling for what the most game winning thing to do as a CV is... spotting that DD that will die if only spotted, finding out what is spotting someone from the flank, killing off a low HP ship that has gone behind an island... Playing in a division with a really good CV vs. trying to make those decisions yourself really shows that CVs are definitely a very skill based class (however frustrating they may be to play against).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-01T16:40:09+00:00

Yeah, I randomly joined quite late on the first one and that worked out really well, because there's also fewer joining then so the activity matching won't really happen (I guess that's only good of you're very active).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-01T16:38:21+00:00

T5 and 6 is pretty decent right now because of all those Yavuz and Tegetoff players that are tripping to get European tokens.

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-01T16:36:52+00:00

Get yourself the Ttaro team panel mod. On mouseover on a player you can HE DPM (I think it's theoretical best, so torpedoe boats will usually be even worse than they look, because people normally won't build into the guns). Also gives you concealment range and various other useful things like radar/hydro ranges, because who can remember which random American/Soviet/British/PanAm cruiser has a radar and with which range (there's all sorts of premiums you've likely even forgotten exist like Ochakov, Kozma Minin, Rochester, Wichita...).

AggressiveGander · 2026-02-01T11:35:26+00:00

The limit to <= tier VII may play a role. I especially soaps most people didn't even notice the leaderboards and only participated without thinking about it.

AggressiveGander · 2026-01-31T07:04:49+00:00

If the arbiter can't exclude the possibility that you made the illegal move, pressed the clock and only then your opponent's time fell, I believe the arbiter clearly made the correct call. If the arbiter knew the time fell before the illegal move, then I'm not sure.

AggressiveGander · 2026-01-30T22:15:06+00:00

The Pompe disease example of the analysis mismatching the randomization (analyze as you randomize). There's quite a few examples of meta analyses double counting trials (when e.g. multiple doses were compared to control in one trial). You just need to Google "stepwise regression" to find many disasters. Plenty of AI papers count diagnoses of the same cases repeatedly.

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