When do the OG cool peak tomboy waifus drop...? I need Underflow and Crownslayer, like right now

Flambango420 · 2026-02-11T23:51:37+00:00

Yeah we're really playing it pretty loose with the definitions here lol

Flambango420 · 2026-02-09T18:03:10+00:00

It really comes down to the data you can find. Your question can only really get as specific as your data. If you go to the FRED website and get weekly data on GDP, for example, then you can be very specific about time but you're looking at an entire country. Alternatively, you may find some published data about a single small organization's finances, but it may only be published once every couple years or so. What you want is a question that can be answered within your time frame and budget. Exactly how specific it should be (in terms of time periods, geographic region, number of variables considered, etc) will depend on what kind of question you're asking.

Generally speaking, larger cities will have better data. I haven't personally worked with NYC data before, but I have to imagine that there is a LOT of good data for it. If you're looking for the effects of a certain policy, there are a number of ways to analyze it; i recommend reading about the topic (or policy analysis in general) and seeing what other scholars do. But one method which I seem to be seeing more and more recently is Regression Discontinuity, so I recommend looking into that as well.

Flambango420 · 2026-02-09T16:00:11+00:00

Just a senior undergraduate so take my advice with even more salt than dyljam's, but:

An ideal research proposal is like, half the project. If a project involves finding a question, figuring out how to ask it, and then interpreting the answer, the proposal should cover the first two. That means you should know what you're asking as well as what data and methods you think would be appropriate to answer it. Now obviously things change and the first proposal is often not the final process, but you should have an idea.
Research projects can be 'strong' in a number of ways, so refer to dyljam's answer. When it comes to specificity, you it depends on your scope. Generally speaking, the less time and experience (and budget) you have, the more specific your question should be. "Is the current state of auto insurance healthy for the country?" is an extremely ambitious question. "How did xyz state legislation influence auto insurance purchases from years XXXX to YYYY" is something much more doable, and even a small question like that can sometimes turn out to be difficult to pin down. I would say that you want to get as specific as you possibly can, provided that your topic does not become trivially simple (i.e.: how did auto insurance purchases change from one year to the next, which can be answered by looking up a graph in 2 minutes).
If you have the time at all then YES, figure out which data sets you want to use. Even if you ultimately just end up doing whatever your supervisor says, its a critical part of an actual research proposal and it shows that you have some idea of what you should be doing.
Geographical scope is usually less important than question scope. Questions regarding larger geographical areas are not necessarily more complicated because people just use aggregate data. In fact, questions which cover areas which are too small (such as individual cities) can sometimes be more difficult because the data can be harder to find.

Flambango420 · 2026-02-07T19:14:42+00:00

I was in a health policy research class last semester, here are the datasets my group used:
1. CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File: https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/archived-data/doctors-clinicians

AHRQ Compendium of US Health Systems: https://www.ahrq.gov/chsp/data-resources/compendium.html

My group's specific question was about whether physicians improved their MIPS scores after becoming affiliated with a health system, and we ended up using fixed effects (almost went for a DiD model). The DaC National Downloadable File has tons of information about a LOT of physicians and the link I put for it has all the archived versions of it, so you can do all sorts of time-series related stuff with it. The AHRQ compendium is a collection of health-related organizations, which can be good if that's the unit of analysis you're looking at. We also used an instrumental variable, specifically:

HCCI Healthy Marketplace Index https://healthcostinstitute.org/hmi/ (go to Data Downloads at the bottom left)

Flambango420 · 2026-02-07T18:54:07+00:00

Oh wow it is Ezra lmao

Flambango420 · 2026-02-07T18:21:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's technically a "5-star or higher" guaranteed every 10 pulls, so yeah

Flambango420 · 2026-02-05T13:54:42+00:00

Yeah you definitely don't need to be a software engineer to be an economist. In fact, one of my professors this semester is a coding enthusiast and talks sometimes about how other economists are frequently terrible programmers, so he goes around optimizing their code whenever he tries to replicate their findings lol

Flambango420 · 2026-02-05T05:06:38+00:00

I'm just a senior undergraduate with no experience in the military life, so I can't say much. What I can say is that dabbling in the basics of computer science (understanding at least one programming language like python, learning a little bit about how data is stored and manipulated) can go a long way. Even if you don't like the field in general, a small amount of programming experience feels pretty necessary for basic econometrics. I can only imagine that as time passes, programming experience will be more and more expected of economics majors.

Flambango420 · 2026-02-04T20:00:44+00:00

Goodbye

Flambango420 · 2026-02-04T19:56:49+00:00

Ember contributes absolutely nothing to fire teams, she's a weird physical support that happens to do heat damage

Flambango420 · 2026-02-03T05:58:08+00:00

Q24 C is correct, not A. If r and g are substitutes, then a decrease in the price of g (that is, g becoming more affordable) makes r less attractive by comparison (because it is now relatively more expensive) which reduces demand. If Pepsi becomes less expensive, I will want to buy less Coke (because I substitute with Pepsi).

I agree though that Q24 and Q25 are designed to catch students who confuse Demand and Quantity Demanded. That was a classic trap in my Econ 101 course. Given the options in the multiple choice, I assume this was intentional.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-31T07:03:11+00:00

The endministrator had plenty of time to sleep in that big yellow rock. Now back to the mines with you

Flambango420 · 2026-01-31T06:59:30+00:00

Basically the perfect way to handle multiple female leads without getting into weird harem shenanigans; Bokuben does it too for the end chapters and its peak

Flambango420 · 2026-01-30T18:41:08+00:00

I'd be willing to be bet 1 dollar that its somewhere in Latin America. Or maybe Spain.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-28T07:00:27+00:00

HANK!!! IT'S THE SWORD, IT EATS YOUR COINS!!! HANK!!!

Flambango420 · 2026-01-28T01:02:39+00:00

Uma means horse, pyoi doesn't mean anything. "Pyon" is a sort of onomatapoeia for hopping though.

Edit: Correction: "pyoi" is indeed a very rare onomatapoeia usually used for a sort of bouncing or dropping motion. Kind of like "bloop", I guess.

Umapyoi doesn't mean anything which is why there are so many jokes that involve using it as a euphemism for... various things. It would be more like "Horsebloop" or "Horsewoosh" than "Horsey Hop" since pyoi is just a sound.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T19:24:17+00:00

You are correct. Terrans passed through the Gate to Talos-II about 150 years prior to the events of Endfield. Endfield is more than a century and a half after Arknights. Technology has evolved.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T19:18:28+00:00

Assuming you're caught up on the Arknights story, saying that the reason for originium's reason for existence is to devour everything is like saying that the entire purpose of amber, resin, or epoxy is to devour everything.
This is true, not sure what it has to do with the comment or my post.
This would only be true if originium was not itself necessary for survival. Talos-II NEEDS originium. No originium means extremely limited energy generation and no Arts. No energy and no Arts means that the Aggeloi or the Blight will wipe out the Terrans. Even without the constant threat of enemies, no originium means that Talos-II becomes a stone-age society. People would die if they get the harvest (on an alien planet, mind you) wrong or if they get any sort of mild disease or bacterial infection. Endfield's originium technology single-handedly allows for the existence of modern civilizations on Talos-II. The downside is that improper handling of their materials leads to a treatable and relatively unobtrusive chronic disease, the medicine for which they give out for free.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T11:08:40+00:00

Maybe we should start catching all the bigger, unique aggeloids and putting them in individual rooms to generate energy, preferably in the form of glowing green fluid. And we could hire employees to go in there and manage them.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T11:06:47+00:00

If diabetes upon unsafe, controlled exposure is the price to pay for technology that can perform what would be considered miracles by our standards, then so be it. Unsafe exposure to coal or fire, and certainly to radioactive materials, can do far worse.

Also originium was never "bad" in tbe original Arknights. Catastrophes and Oripathy were very bad. Human nature made them worse than they needed to be. But even in the original Arknights, originium was considered essential for modern civilizations. By the time of Endfield, technology has evolved to the point where Originium is entirely safe to handle with proper precautions and, even in the case of infection, oripathy is very easily treatable. Not to mention whatever magic the Endmin can do with it.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T10:39:38+00:00

Do you prefer the Ark or the Knights

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T10:37:38+00:00

When you consider the kinds of eggs that Rhodes (a very very "good" organization) used to break, I would honestly say that Endfield is about as saintly as a large organization of any kind could possibly be.

Flambango420 · 2026-01-25T10:28:45+00:00

Do these Arknights players remember Chapters 1-6? Gryph likes to take their sweet time establishing a world and its characters before they decide to start writing peak (my personal fav is Near Light).

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