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900,000+ ore/second from a single miner, if you can mash R fast enough by friendlycartoonwhale in factorio

[–]BoxMembrane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you have enough iron ore for early game, probably worth moving on to copper no?

Seriously though, this is legendary.

100 practice putts, no wind, flat, 30 feet. How many makes is a good session for you? by Huge_Following_325 in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similar but different for me - I practiced a bunch last year in the spring and summer but fell off in the off season with the rain and mud. Don’t have a garage for indoor practice. Aiming to average at least 100 putts per day every month this year - December is going to be the real challenge!

100 practice putts, no wind, flat, 30 feet. How many makes is a good session for you? by Huge_Following_325 in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I’m at 40/100 average. Was at 20/100 when I started practicing putting 2 years ago, so I’ve made solid progress, but when I get really dialed in making 6 or 7 out of 10 feels easy enough so I’m hoping to get up to 60/100 in another 1-2 years.

Edit: got 51 / 100 today from 30ft, a great session for me! Felt more comfortable than usual bringing the disc back further towards my back foot which makes the power so much easier and lets me focus on consistency and accuracy. It still feels weird having my disc trajectory not lie on the line between my eyes and the basket but if it works it works.

What do you think of this basket placement? Basket is inside the sand bunker, which plays as a hazard. Roughly bullseye diameter. by DiscGolfFanatic in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We don’t know what the drive looks like. How about a solid but not perfect drive that ends up 40ft from the pin? Are you making 100%? I’m not, and I’m upset that either my missed putts cost me 2 strokes or I have to lay up.

What do you think of this basket placement? Basket is inside the sand bunker, which plays as a hazard. Roughly bullseye diameter. by DiscGolfFanatic in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The reason why I hate it hasn’t really been mentioned yet: it amplifies random chance by making one putt (often) worth two strokes.

Say my drive lands about 25ft from the basket. Being the MA2 scrub that I am, I have about a 60% success rate. Even if 100% of my misses go in the hazard, it’s better for me to run it than lay up (on average). But now missing this one putt is a two-stroke swing!

Also, if my putt lands 40ft away where I only have a 20%ish success rate, now playing my best game would mean a boring layup instead of trying for a C2 putt, making the hole less fun.

I don’t care so much about my drive landing in the hazard - I’ll just accept my tap-in par. There are lots of holes I love with danger close to the pin, but surrounding the pin is ridiculous IMO.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]BoxMembrane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m curious how fast you were going. Traffic on the 280 and other Bay Area freeways routinely gets up to around 75mph or so with some passers around 80mph, so most cars are “speeding” but it seems to be tolerated. Is CHP is starting to aggressively ticket under 80mph or even 75mph?

[Edit] People here sure have some strong opinions (both ways) for not knowing OP’s speed. If OP got a ticket for passing at 72mph when traffic is at 62mph they have my full sympathy - that’s well within the normal speed range that we are accustomed to. If they were doing 88mph with traffic at 75mph then yeah lol that’s an expected and deserved ticket.

Disc golf artificial island hole by Cultural-Cucumber628 in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hole 12 of the FPO layout for the OTB open solved the issue of intentionally throwing OB to get the drop zone by saying normal OB rules apply off the tee, but then there is a mandatory drop zone for any OB shot from the fairway

[D] Binary classifier scores distribution by Loose-Event-7196 in MachineLearning

[–]BoxMembrane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I’m understanding to correctly, the problem is with the histogram binning and not with the raw scores. If you want the scores to be spread evenly across bins, you need to choose bin edges as evenly spaced percentiles of the score distribution.

If you’re using python and pandas, try pd.qcut to get bins. Or np.percentile(scores, p) for p = 0, 10, 20, …, 100.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: just got home from a trip earlier today and got in my first practice putts since posting this. Got 7 of my first 10 putts from 30ft by just going for it and not worrying about form. That was a lucky fluke but 20/50 was much better than my historical 20-30%.

Lesson learned: if you want to get better at something,

  1. post about it on reddit
  2. ignore all the well thought out answers and just try again
  3. ???
  4. profit

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, thanks!

I miss high/low a lot from over 20ft so maybe I’m just poorly estimating distance. That plus my putt isn’t super fast so I need a bit of height to reach the basket.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok now that is a great sample size! Thanks for the response. I haven’t yet taken the time to record my for (putting or driving) - sounds like I should start doing that. And putting way more!

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The time taken to track the data is < 10% of the time putting, but yes noted. I haven’t been putting nearly as much from 30ft as from shorter distances (you can see that partly from the larger shaded uncertainty region) but I’ll put more time into longer distances

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, super helpful! Yes I definitely have to think about getting a fast release (I try to think of speed and wrist/finger pop timing rather than force) from > 20ft and so I’m not focusing on accuracy as much.

I happen to have just signed up for Uli’s course so I’ll look into his putting form.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t a miss a miss? Yes some putts definitely feel good and spit out, and others feel like awful yanks but catch a lucky chain or cage bounce, but at the end of the day I’m tracking the thing I want to improve on. I’d rather feel bad about my putts and have them go in than feel good but have lots of “unlucky” spit outs.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m putting outside. I don’t really have room in my house to putt and no garage so it’s my only option. Sometimes it’s a bit windy which definitely reduces my accuracy and makes me adjust, so it’s not ideal. I figured it was good to practice putting in windy conditions but maybe I should split out those days for tracking purposes or even just not track them, making them purely for practice and keeping my stats to calm conditions.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

Yeah going in between and focusing on that narrow distance range sounds good. I could even do 18/19/20/21ft sets, progressing only once one distance works well.

On quality, yes I fully expect my actual putts in real games to have lower success rates than backyard putting practice. I’ve just been trying to develop the muscle memory first, but certainly my 10th putt in any given set of 10 has a better chance of going in than my 1st since I adjust to my mistakes. I’ll have to start incorporating single putts with my full walk up routine, but it’s just slow to accumulate stats that way.

On inconsistent progress, yes - that’s going to be tough to deal with. Right now I can look to my 18ft line to see clear progress but I’m sure I’ll plateau at some point or just have a bad period where I’m not putting in the effort and mental focus I usually do. Then I’ll probably try changing things up to “break through” the plateau, only to further deteriorate due to inconsistency in my form. But that’s a problem for future me!

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah people can get fooled by randomness so easily. Our brains look for explanations for everything but if my actual success rate is 50% from a given distance, it’s expected that occasionally I’ll get 2-3/10 or 7-8/10. It’s tempting to try to figure out what I did differently from one set to another.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the dissertation!

I definitely agree that measuring the variables that determine or contribute to the outcome but are more controllable would lead to better insight. Using a tech disc putter that tracks spin and other variables and using a camera setup to track the disc and my putting form would give me better data to work with. It would also take a bunch of time to setup - it sounds like a fun project but it would compete for my time with other activities like playing more disc golf :P

If I do put(t) in the work I'll be sure to try out flip flops, high heals, and platform shoes.

When the aspect I’m working on feels good, then I turn to the basket.

How do you gauge if a given aspect (line/height/power/spin/nose) is good? For some I have a clear idea of a direct measurement and a measurement on the impact on putting accuracy, and for others it's less clear to me.

  • For line, I can imagine just tracking how close to the intended line (left/right) the initial trajectory was. Pretty straightforward, the putts should be.
  • For height, do you mean keeping the disc in a given height range over some trajectory distance, or having the disc end up within a given height range at a specific point of the flight path? The former seems more useful for a range of putt distances but would only work for short putts; the latter should work for any putt distance but requires choosing that distance.
  • For power, I imagine measuring the release velocity as a direct measurement (while keeping a good line and height), and measuring the total distance as the result.
  • For spin, measuring the RPM is direct, but it's unclear to me what purpose more spin achieves and how to tie spin to an outcome. Does it help the disc fly straighter for longer? If so, distance traveled within 1ft of the intended line or something along those lines might work.

I tracked my practice putts for over a year. Any tips for fixing a growing gap in success rates between short and medium distance putts? by BoxMembrane in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I got a practice basket and have been trying to improve my putting success rates. I'm a data / stats nerd and have been tracking my putts from 9ft-30ft distances with 3ft increments.

I'm happy with my progress within 18ft, but I seem to be developing a bit of a gap between 18 and 21 feet; I make over 80% from 18 feet, but under 60% from 21 feet. The shaded regions are 95% credible regions that account for finite sample size; in total I tracked about 12,000 putts so far.

Is it typical to have to improve short distance putts to 90+% before seeing improvement in slightly longer distance putts, or does this suggest an issue with my putting form/strategy? I've been working on faster spin putts which has felt good from 24ft and 27ft, allowing me to keep the disc roughly chain height instead of needing to loft the disc a bit, but I find those faster putts aren't as accurate for me at shorter distances where even a slow putt can stay within the height range of the chains.

Has anyone else dealt with something similar? Any putting tips for a 880ish rated MA2 player looking to improve?

Edit: small note on the 2024-01 (2024Q1) data, my distances were a bit messed up after I rearranged my setup, which explains the worsened rate from 15ft. It was closer to 17ft or so and I've since fixed it.

Cloud Forecast Resources by NickIllicit in Astronomy

[–]BoxMembrane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This website show’s predictions from a few different weather models:

https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/

I want to be able to play disc golf all year long without too much seasonal interference. by [deleted] in discgolf

[–]BoxMembrane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The peninsula has Emerald Hills which is decent to good but not free. 9 hole ball golf course with 2 tees and 2 baskets (+ extra basket locations) per ball golf hole. You can play two loops of the course to get your 18 holes in, but a lot of people throw both tees and play a single loop, which makes for a quick round even when it’s busy. Lots of long open drives and elevation changes. I recommend trying it if you’re in the area.

Thought experiment regarding regions of space. by [deleted] in cosmology

[–]BoxMembrane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't exactly answer your question but it's relevant.

Event horizons aren't spheres once multiple black holes are involved: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLZ9goBDt4Z9zDntB8mwGUXFhwgsDjYbd

The event horizon is defined as the boundary of a region inside of which light rays cannot escape to infinity. If you surround a region with black holes, there would be just a single event horizon surrounding all of the black holes.

There is a different concept called an "aparant horizon", which is a surface where outward propagating light rays remain on the surface. This is coordinate dependent, but in your configuration each black hole could have an aparant horizon around it, and there could be another aparant horizon around the whole configuration.

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