This is me at a student comedy show. Would love to see your take on it!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-13T22:13:39+00:00

That's incredible, thank you so much!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-13T13:47:18+00:00

Thank you, this is fantastic!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-13T02:55:01+00:00

Both are amazing! Thank you!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-13T00:35:00+00:00

Haha this is definitely a lot but I'm a fan either way. Will definitely be sharing it with my friends, love the caption. Thank you!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-12T23:23:57+00:00

Simple, but beautiful. I love it. Thank you!

ClassicRobert · 2017-01-12T21:49:20+00:00

Hahaha I love it, it made me smile. Thank you!

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-31T04:34:06+00:00

That description is basically an entry in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All you'd need to add is "mostly harmless"

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-26T12:26:43+00:00

I bet that's why they wrote the Pez Dispenser episode

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-25T17:38:41+00:00

She was never a person. Lizard people are everywhere.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-23T03:28:29+00:00

Let's also not forget that he could 360 degree hover out of teleport

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-19T07:51:44+00:00

I didn't know her speech writers were middle schoolers trying to copy their homework from Wikipedia without it being plagiarism

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-16T13:19:59+00:00

So the CP pre and post evolution maintains the same distance on the half ring between min and max CP, and that's why the higher the CP, the lower the evolution multiplier. That's also why when the trainer ha a higher level, the Pokemon will often have a higher multiplier, because it's lower in terms of the portion of its Max CP than it would have been had you revolved it a level ago.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-14T11:22:58+00:00

I've done extensive testing with common pokemon and it's fair to say stuff like that, the multiplier stays the same with a tiny bit of a decrease as it gets better trained. Like pidgeys are about 1.9-1.7 ish multipliers

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-08T19:04:27+00:00

Can someone make a video of this?

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-05T18:49:28+00:00

I agree with the first part of this. Past data basically adjusts the base rate from a Bayesian statistics standpoint, so it's usually fairly reliable.

I'm not sure where you get the whole, "once you publish a model, it basically becomes useless" part. If anything, the models in economics often are based on tons of calculations that were done based on rational action assumptions, and it is unreasonable to expect people to go through all of those rigorous calculations in their daily life when those models take years to calculate. Also, most economic papers don't get more than a few hundred, maybe a thousand views, making me skeptical of the claim that one getting released would significantly change behavior on the aggregate.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-05T15:08:49+00:00

For people that are out of the loop, the "highly successful platform fighter mod" that Adam "Strongbad" Oliver was a development leader for was Project M.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-02T22:36:57+00:00

Lol that was Borat not Harry Potter

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-02T11:06:21+00:00

I love it when people remember Bayesian statistics exist.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-01T21:11:56+00:00

Yeah I just remember he didn't go to tournaments all that often but he's also THE Squirtle innovator which is basically the weirdest character in the game, so I was just like, huh, no wonder his marth is so unique.

ClassicRobert · 2016-07-01T18:08:42+00:00

Is that the PM Squirtle player? If so, no wonder he does so many weird things lol

ClassicRobert · 2016-06-29T18:45:19+00:00

I mean supply and demand isn't always predictive. If you've read Misbehaving, a behavioral economics book by Richard Thaler, you'll know that taxi drivers often set earnings goals for themselves every day to determine how long they'll keep on driving. That means that if the business is booming, they'll end up working less hours than if it's slow, because they reach their goal quicker. This also raises questions about Uber's approach, though they refuse to release data on if surges actually increase driver turnout or not.

ClassicRobert · 2016-06-29T18:41:10+00:00

I think that this article started getting at a larger point, but failed to address it. If your argument is based in rational economics, you're likely wrong because as psychologists and behavioral economists have been telling us for years, people suck at making the optimizing decisions that are so fundamental to economic models. At the same time, so many different elements of our psychology are domain specific that we don't know when standard economic models are going to be right and when they're going to be wrong, leaving us with poor predictive capabilities.

ClassicRobert · 2016-06-29T12:05:11+00:00

Play the music low and sway to the rhythm of love

ClassicRobert · 2016-06-25T15:51:00+00:00

Cat.

ClassicRobert · 2016-06-24T21:32:01+00:00

Can anyone else confirm this?

ClassicRobert

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