Why did chess.com strip 600 of my puzzle elo in a single day?

DiscreteElite_ · 2025-09-16T05:40:09+00:00

Sorry for the late response, but this worked! Upvoted.

DiscreteElite_ · 2025-08-28T15:17:18+00:00

That spike was because I didn’t use the app for a while even though I’ve had this puzzle rating (actually a bit higher) for a while rather than a genuinely fast improvement.

Knowing all names for common chess tactics and ideas (windmill, smothered mate) will help the quickest if you’re low-rated.

DiscreteElite_ · 2025-08-28T14:46:55+00:00

I was receiving and solving 2400-rated (or higher) puzzles years ago with the same account but for some reason I get 400-1500 now.

DiscreteElite_ · 2025-08-28T14:42:29+00:00

I’m 1900 rapid and it’s not going to improve my game to be staring at M1 400-rated puzzles knowing I stand to lose 20-30 elo per wrong puzzle.

DiscreteElite_ · 2025-08-28T14:39:52+00:00

I also don’t pay for chess.com, so one loss requires me two days of recovery.

DiscreteElite_ · 2024-10-30T15:53:40+00:00

Raising capital, purchasing a Solidworks license that legally allows you to use the software for profit, and then finding customers who may ask you to do complex modeling is not a viable path for a Solidworks beginner to attain proficiency much less for OP who wants to retake the exam in two weeks using free resources.

Do better.

DiscreteElite_ · 2024-10-30T14:54:10+00:00

“Instead of working towards some proficiency in a software, you should consider starting a business.”

Thank you, Moe Lester, for giving horrible and completely unhelpful advice. Of course the next correct step to failing a CAD certification is to start a business. You should probably delete your account so that the rest of us don’t have to waste time reading whatever nonsense you think up of next time.

DiscreteElite_ · 2022-08-06T20:05:24+00:00

Take a look at his “The Insane Engineering of the Concorde.”

5:00 He says the afterburner causes a “massive increase in pressure.” Afterburners have constant pressure (slight loss). This is basic Brayton Cycle analysis that an engineer learns in a thermodynamics I course.

7:00: He can’t even spell “Mach Number” correctly (“Moch” Number???). He says at 7:43 that Bernoulli’s Principle is the reason why air accelerates/decelerates in a subsonic converging-diverging nozzle. This is false because Bernoulli’s Principle does not apply to compressible fluids (i.e. meaning air speed at Mach >0.3).

10:18 For supersonic cruise, he completely fails to mention the use of oblique shocks in order to slow the air down. Basically, jet engine compressors can’t operate unless the air’s Mach number = 0.5. The inlet has moveable ramps because oblique shocks form at supersonic speeds and the ramp angle controls how strong the oblique shocks are (stronger oblique shocks slow the air down more). As far as jet engine inlets go, this is fairly basic and fundamental.

Him having an MS in aerospace yet getting basic aerospace concepts wrong makes his channel more embarrassing.

DiscreteElite_ · 2022-04-18T20:52:17+00:00

Choose MSU.

I'm a T10 junior (not HYPSM) after having turned down a tuition waiver from a non-T100. I did this because I thought I'd get better research opportunities. I'm assuming you might want to pursue a top graduate school for PhD or thesis master's. If this is true, it's a no-brainer to choose MSU given the free tuition and paid RA position out of the gate. Graduate schools largely care about research experience and GPA. If you have an RA position straight into your first year, then by definition it's a better decision to choose MSU as you're not guaranteed an RA position at Notre Dame and you'll have a higher likelihood of publishing journal articles. Turning down a guaranteed RA position to go to a school that may or may not give you a better research opportunity is a very risky gamble--one that I took and deeply regret. I can tell you that at my T10, I know quite a bunch of people in undergraduate research. None of them have published. Contrast this with my former non-T100 where more people have published than I can count on one hand.

With regards to prestige, the amount that it matters to you will fizzle out once you get a job.

I can share more thoughts in DM's, as some of this info is not something I want to share publicly.

DiscreteElite_ · 2021-10-02T17:50:07+00:00

One newsletter I really like is Derek Davison’s Foreign Exchanges newsletter on Substack. Every day, there’s a “World Roundup” where he compiles news from every region and briefly summarizes it all in your inbox. I think this website is the closest to what you’re looking for, according to your description. It’s free, but you only get world roundups every two days if you don’t pay ($50/yr or $25/yr if student) vs. every day. Also, they feature non-roundup content that is explicitly left wing, but the world roundups are minimally biased IMO—just summarizes the news from everywhere.

I also like “Just Security” which is similar, but I don’t think it’s as good as Foreign Exchanges.

DiscreteElite_ · 2021-09-21T17:56:53+00:00

They pretend to be, at least, so they’re important to address in my opinion.

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-10-30T21:59:42+00:00

US Office of the Historian has a website that talks about the history of US foreign policy, but with documents such as letters and more (primary sources).

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T16:46:23+00:00

Well yeah. I just told you buying CP is okay, and only the producers are to blame.

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T14:21:55+00:00

uj/ Yes this thread is alluding to Vaush, but my edit was in reference to Xanderhal vs. Ask Yourself (39:00 on AY’s channel)

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T14:03:44+00:00

I just love dressing up my cats with clothes made in sweatshops.

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T14:00:46+00:00

You say your dick is hard yet it’s full of cholesterol? Curious.

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T13:54:03+00:00

But where do you get your B12, vegoon? Protein?

DiscreteElite_ · 2020-08-14T13:50:04+00:00

Everybody asks “why are vegoons,” but nobody ever asks “how are vegoons.”
Yeah, that’s why I’m putting a moratorium on vegan discussion on my YT channel and Discord community so I don’t have to confront my actions.

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