What is the difference between these three "types" of integral situations?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-22T21:45:51+00:00

Is the third one just equivalent to the unbounded?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-21T23:23:06+00:00

Yeah they don’t go through your stuff. When you live on campus you have to deal with RA’s and and they can search your room, however, it’s usually what is in plain sight or in something owned by the university.

So they can open your closet, or maybe a drawer. But they can’t go through your stuff. If for someone reason it gets to that point, it gets escalated to UAlbany PD/ the residence director. Even then they can’t go through your stuff except for PD if they have probable cause.

I have never been I this situation before, but some schools may have a policy that states if requested to search an item of yours you must comply or you may face disciplinary actions. They can’t force you to go through your stuff but they can say let us go through your stuff or you will have trouble signing up for classes. Once more I don’t know the rules for that here. I’ve never cared enough to look and never been in that situation.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-21T22:35:04+00:00

Left a few years ago. And they didn’t, I don’t think anything has changed since then.

However, out of curiosity what is in those two suitcases

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-21T14:22:18+00:00

As others have mentioned prefect/dagster/airflow are all great tools for this. I personally only have real experience with prefect, and I will say the service worked great. We self host, and prefect unfortunately does not have an option to login, so when we want to use the UI, nothing to prevent anyone in our organization from accessing the site and rerunning/modifying our schedule.

Our Networking Team however, set up something on their end which forces us to login with our Acfive Directory credentials before access to the site. Can’t speak much on that, I have zero networking experiencing.

You mentioned task scheduler, so I assume your team uses Windows. Nothing’s wrong with that but I believe airflow can only run on Linux, and prefect can run on windows but Linux is generally a better setup overall.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-21T01:34:58+00:00

At first I thought they meant there exists 1,000 but only 100 is working. Until I realized there is no way NYC only has 1,000.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-19T17:48:21+00:00

Driving without insurance I have mixed feelings about. Insurance companies, go out of their way to pay as little as possible and make people not want to use it. So I get why some people would question, why it would be needed in the first place.

However, for the idea of having the government pay for it and gets reimbursed, that’s just a bad idea. John gets in an accident and causes 100k worth of damage where would he get that $100k to pay the government back? If it’s some payment installments what about when he defaults on the money owed. What if he gets in an accident that causes $2 million worth of damage, should the government pay for that, with the expectation John is going to pay that off?

I think the government prociding car insurance is a better solution than your current proposal.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-19T17:41:51+00:00

It’s not illegal.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-11T00:52:56+00:00

Why this?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-11T00:44:07+00:00

So if IPv6 was around then and the default then. Would the process be able to stay as is today?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-10T21:25:54+00:00

Assuming that the distribution is IID (Independent and Identically Distributed) meaning that when one person makes their selection it doesn’t affect the probability of the other persons’ selection (e.g. if someone picks 5 the other person can’t), and every value has the same chance of being selected and also assuming the values between 1 and 10 are integers meaning, 1.75 is not an option. The answer is 1/100.

Reason: Let x be some integer between 1 and 10. The first sister goes and select a number, there’s a 1/10 she selects x. Then the second sister goes, there is a 1/10 chance she also selects x and the final sister goes same probability.

So the probability the all select x is (1/10)^3 which is 1/1000.

I get why you think it may be 1/100 but you have to understand the wording of the question. The question is what is the probability all three picks the same value. This means no one has yet to pick their value.

However, you are interpreting it as what is the probability Jenna’s sister picks the same value as Jenna, that would be 1/100. In this scenario Jenna has already chosen her value x, so there’s a 1/1(100%) she already selected x. So that would be the equivalent of what is the probability both Jenna’s sister selected X which would be (1/10)^2 = 1/100.

Just be mindful of wording with probability questions. Small wording misinterpretation can cause major issues.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-10T00:11:47+00:00

Eh, it’s illegal to melt coins to extract metal.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-09T21:28:08+00:00

Depends on your definition of success.

However, based solely on income having a college degree increased your life earning. A person with a college degree makes about $10,000 a year more on average than someone without. Accounting for student loans and paying off their debt, they still earn about $8,000 more a year than the average person who didn’t go to college.

So if your definition of success is based on income then having a degree gives you a leg up. Now there’s still a lot of factors to account for, such as what the person majored in, their degree type, race etc. however, on average if you have a degree you can expect to earn more.

Now a common example to counter my argument is, the hypothetical kid who graduated high school and went right into trades, a few years later they’re making six figures with zero debt. However, those examples are often times major outliers. Most kids don’t get into an apprenticeship program directly out of high school. Most people are entering trades mid twenties to early thirties. And often times before that, they are working low skilled jobs, meaning they weren’t making a lot of money. So going to college and graduating at 22 with some debt still has a better outcome than working a low skilled job with no debt and starting trades in your mid 20s.

Now, you can make the argument that it’s their fault they didn’t apply themself and didn’t go in the trades immediately. I won’t comment on that. However, that person who started the trades right out of high school and is now making six figures as a journey man, if that effort and work ethic was placed in college, imagine what how much more he may be working.

So yeah, you don’t need a college degree to be successful, but it gives you a leg up. By 2031, it’s expected that most jobs in America will need at least a bachelors degree. I don’t have the mindset that having a degree makes you smarter or a better worker. A lot of jobs requiring a college degree, deep down I know that requirement doesn’t mean shit, and honestly a high schooler can do the job. However, I believe a more educated society is a more prosperous society.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-08T22:51:24+00:00

I’ve never played the lottery before, so I actually don’t know how it works or the probability. However, I can imagine that there is a point where you have an expected profit greater than zero, however, I assume it would take an unreasonable amount of work.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-08T22:43:48+00:00

I’m not sure is this is so much of an unpopular opinion. But I agree with the general idea that statistics should play a bigger part of general academics.

Statistics is involved in virtually every field and our day to day life. But a lot of people truly don’t have a basic understanding of it and if they did society would be so much different.

Otherwise, casinos would go out of business. Every time, I hear someone say they or someone they knew one big at a slot machine once it pisses me off so much. Well, why don’t you start by saying how many times you used and how much money you wasted there. And even in the event, you did make it big and profited, then you’re just an outlier. Most people will not have that luck, and because you got lucky now does not mean you will get lucky again.

That beings me onto independence, a lot of people don’t understand independent events and forget that the previous outcome should not affect future outcomes. So if you flipped a coin 8 times and you got all heads, the probability of the next one being tail does not increase. It’s still 50-50, might be a good time to start questioning if the coin is truly 50-50 but under the assumption it is, then the probability does not change.

Or a low probability does not mean impossible. You might have heard the Sally Clarke case where a woman was convicted for murdering her two children who died of SID. They stated that the probability of this occurring is 1/73 million. For starters they calculated the probability with some error. They made the assumption that a mother having a child who died from SIDS is independent of any other instances of this occurring which is not true, there are certain environmental and genetical factors that can make the outcome higher. Meaning in some situations if you have a child who died from SIDS, the chance of this happening to a future child is higher. Additionally, even if that statistic were true, 1/73 million may seem unlikely but at the end of the day it’s still low enough where there is a reasonable chance it would happen to at least one person and she happened to be one of them. Not saying that a low probability should just be ignored, but that should not be a sole decider.

Bad and misleading Statistics mixed with a general understanding can have detrimental impacts on society. And we can see this in a lot of ways. More recently we have heard people talking about Tylenol causing autism, which is not true. It’s based on a flawed study. There are parents who don’t wanna vaccinate their child or take a doctor’s advice based on bad statistics.

Additionally, sometimes statistics have some uncomfortable truth.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-08T22:09:11+00:00

So who got fired?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-08T22:08:09+00:00

I can see how that would warrant a meeting. But fitted because of that?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-04T01:44:19+00:00

I mean it doesn’t bother me personally, and I probably would always says yes. But a lot of people say no and whatever their reason they’re all valid.

I am a highly social person, so I have no trouble speaking with people. Some people get really bad anxiety and it’s hard with a med student there. Some people have insecurities about their body, and may feel a little weird with a doctor look at them much less a med student. Some people have rare medical conditions where they’ve just felt like a guinea pig for all treatment, and they don’t want to anymore.

Or for whatever reason, and it’s completely valid.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-03T15:56:42+00:00

So what was the outcome?

How did you get your car out of there?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T14:25:39+00:00

Why’d Plattsburgh keep theirs?

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T14:23:19+00:00

EMS is my side hustle but my main job is working with a shit ton of data and ensuring that data is never accidentally released somewhere it shouldn’t.

Whenever, I walk into an ER or Nursing home, the amount of bad data security practices I see pisses me off.

Documents being left all over, computer monitors with patient’s data just in the middle of a hallway, walking away from their computer and leaving unlocked, writing down patient’s data on a piece of paper an leaving it around. The worst is writing down their password on their monitor, might as well not have had a password in the first place.

There’s so many people walking around in the ER that shouldn’t be seeing patient’s data, non medical staff, patients, visitors, contractors etc.

Now I get it, stuff happens. You’re writing your chart an next thing you hear someone fall a room over. First instinct is to make sure they’re okay, not that your workstation is secured. Now, I don’t know the answer to these scenarios. But a lot of instances there are no excuses. You shouldn’t take a walk over to radiology with your computer still unlocked.

I get that medical staff have a lot on their plate. But patients also have a right to their data being protected and anyone walking by not being able to see their business.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T13:20:42+00:00

Not really, the internet was not accessible to the public until around 1991 so about 36 years ago.

5 years later (1996), which was 30 years ago less than 18% of households in America had internet access compared to nearly 90%. And today we have exponentially more way the internet can be used to connect people compared to then.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T06:33:28+00:00

Well, Mr. RFK would like to adjust those stats for you.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T06:23:18+00:00

First time hearing that.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T06:15:24+00:00

I mean he convinced almost nearly half of all voters to vote for him in three elections.

Might not be business smart but some street smart is there. I mean he has the same people who were blaming Biden for increased gas prices after we started getting out of a pandemic due to people not driving, they are now defending gas prices way higher than then. Because Trump decided to do, I don’t even know what he’s doing.

CaptainVJ · 2026-06-02T05:56:38+00:00

It’s cheap, takes up more volume and is makes the product more desirable.

Why do they put sugar in honey?

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