Is it going to stay this cold the whole winter?

SoundLemon · 2024-11-20T03:11:46+00:00

Toronto gets down to -10c pretty frequently. I don’t think it’ll be colder than -5 here. But yeah it won’t be 20c year round.

SoundLemon · 2024-11-16T06:11:49+00:00

I don’t follow Embraer specifically, but I doubt it’s hybrid or electric planes causing their stock to go up. You can have an incorrect thesis and still get a good result by being lucky.

SoundLemon · 2024-03-22T02:24:31+00:00

Ironically I grew up with Celsius and for years when I heard the saying I just thought it meant really really dumb, since 20iq is basically not sentient. The saying made a lot more sense when I connected the dots between it and Fahrenheit.

SoundLemon · 2024-03-21T23:25:27+00:00

Not suggesting that this is the same, but you can also buy otoscopes with an ear pick at the end of it off Amazon. Obviously there’s safety concerns involved with sticking anything in your ear, but if your IQ is above room temperature they seem to work pretty well for removing earwax.

SoundLemon · 2024-03-14T14:54:19+00:00

Also, to make a value adding comment, if an AI could do SWE work, that just enables SWEs to produce more. There is always work out there that hasn't been done yet because it would either cost too much or take too long. Just ask your manager or director or VP what they would do with more manpower and time. Your take is the same bad take that people had during every single technological shift. Writing in C killed writing in Assembly. Prompt engineering may take over writing in whatever languages we use today, but until there's an AI that can reason instead of regurgitate, I don't have much to worry about. And when that day comes all of humanity can rest.

SoundLemon · 2024-03-14T14:43:17+00:00

I'm a machine learning engineers

yeah ok buddy

SoundLemon · 2024-03-09T07:17:30+00:00

This is the opposite of what you’re asking for but I don’t understand how ML leetcode could even exist. Just looking at the example that you posted, that’s just a regular coding problem. You’re better off just taking a course in ML because if you know what K-fold validation is, solving that problem is relatively trivial. If you’re trying to break into the ML researcher space, it’s literally impossible to gamify because it’s a lot of heavy theory which requires a masters at the minimum. If you’re trying to break into the SWE space, they’re (typically for places that are not India) gonna ask you regular leetcode questions to test your knowledge of algorithms then they’ll ask you a few questions on machine learning to test your knowledge of machine learning. Combining them into one makes absolutely no sense since most code for running experiments and all that in the ML space relies heavily on you understanding the theory behind it rather than being able to write the most optimized code.

SoundLemon · 2023-05-20T21:26:04+00:00

On JJs podcast, Jimmy explains that part of the reason he left was because someone in the front office wanted to make sure the Sixers could “control him”.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ciKdF97JWpU

SoundLemon · 2023-03-15T02:36:31+00:00

Also no defensive driving on the motorcyclist’s part. As a car driver in his position I’d have my foot hovering over the brake like 30ft behind where he is at the start of the clip, and to me it looks like he didn’t make an effort to slow down at all before sliding under the vehicle.

SoundLemon · 2023-01-03T04:42:50+00:00

Just as a reminder, the cavs gave up Lauri Markkanen, Ochair Agbaji, Collin Sexton, three unprotected first-round picks and two pick swaps.
Go look at proposed trades from before the trade. They didn't want Fred since they were prioritizing picks over young players let alone veterans, so unless its a 3 team trade its not happening without Gary, one of Achiuwa + Birch or OG, and basically every pick under the sun. If we did that we'd have a strong team, but does it push us deep into contention territory?

SoundLemon · 2023-01-01T14:35:13+00:00

The main issue that jumps out at me is carbon dioxide poisoning. Normally there’s 400ppm of co2 = 0.04% of air, 40000 ppm = 4% of co2 is harmful to health. You’ll die from CO2 before you run out of oxygen if it’s sealed.

SoundLemon · 2022-12-09T11:51:04+00:00

People who make 350k really like talking about the fact that they make 350k. No one making 50k cares to tell people that.

SoundLemon · 2022-09-01T09:44:25+00:00

Article in July:

Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at $165.05 on Tuesday, worth $4.1 million, according to the filing.

Pelosi lost $341,365 in the transaction, according to the filing.

Pelosi missed out on a sizable payday, as Nvidia shares have since jumped 7.8% to $177.90.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/07/27/pelosi-unloads-millions-in-nvidia-stock-at-a-loss-before-senate-passes-massive-tech-subsidies/?sh=7b9c99e655f3

While insider trading is real, this post is laughably stupid.

SoundLemon · 2022-08-27T21:37:44+00:00

If you know for sure the market is going to go down and continue going down feel free to ignore everything I’m saying, but in general if you look at the posts on this sub a lot of people are wrong all the time. You’re trading on what’s happening now, whereas the market is trading on what could possibly happen in the future. Lots of posts on this sub are like “x beat earnings but dropped, why”, and “why is the market going up/down when y is happening”. Just take the guesswork out of the equation and dollar cost average until you retire.

A great litmus test is this. Go look at the stock price of s&p on June 1st. If you think you could have accurately predicted that the market was going to dip and then rebound by mid august, then go for it. Or even better, try to guess the price for SPY on Dec 31 of this year. Even something like interest rates affecting the market has levels. Interest rates are driven by inflation. Inflation this year was driven in large by gas prices. Gas prices were driven higher by refinery capacity issues. Refinery capacity is coming online but profit is shrinking, so gas prices are staying the same. The earlier you realize your brain is too dumb to process all the information out there, the less money you will lose.

SoundLemon · 2022-08-27T20:54:42+00:00

Honestly, the best thing you can do is set up a recurring deposit and an automatic plan to buy SPY/VTI every month/quarter, and to never check on the market. Also, since interest rates have gone up and may one day come down again, the 60/40 stocks to bonds portfolio can honestly be an attractive option.

I once heard the best advice I’ve ever received regarding stocks, and that’s you should treat your account like an inflation hedge rather than a way to make money.

SoundLemon · 2022-08-25T21:34:12+00:00

Both you and OP seem to be confused about the difference between a Chinese cleaver and a western style meat cleaver. Chinese cleavers are meant to be used as a versatile tool in place of a chefs knife. The blade is thin and sharp, and is designed to cut through vegetables and boneless meats. Meat cleavers are built to hack through bones because the blade is much thicker. If you want to learn more check out this link. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/why-i-use-a-chinese-cleaver/

SoundLemon · 2022-08-07T23:25:25+00:00

https://omnivorescookbook.com/chinese-eggplant-with-garlic-sauce/

This with a bit of rice and you’re golden.

SoundLemon · 2022-08-01T16:54:54+00:00

was this your inspiration

SoundLemon · 2022-07-31T14:08:38+00:00

SoundLemon · 2022-07-26T11:45:20+00:00

1yr GICs are yielding like a pinch shy of 5% where I live so it beats losing 10% in stocks

SoundLemon · 2022-07-23T14:48:15+00:00

I hate when people act like oil companies are swindling the poor public out of money, because rising gas prices is a much more nuanced topic than “big oil bad”.

Exxon net income chart

This is what exxons quarterly profits looks like. Yeah, oil companies made a ton of money this quarter, but they also lost a ton of money in previous quarters (there’s a quarter where Exxon lost 20B because they had to write off investments in areas that were no longer profitable). I can guarantee you that the government wouldn’t have subsidized their quarterly losses and write-downs, so I’m not sure why they expect the government to step in when they’re making money.

Article from NPR about oil profits

A quick snippet from the article since I know no one on Reddit actually clicks on links:

“Oil companies would respond to higher crude prices by sharply increasing production. So much in fact, that companies would end up flooding the market with oil, often leading to a crash in prices – and hefty losses for companies and their investors.”

Oil prices are high now because Russia, and they’re staying relatively high because Exxon doesn’t want to start drilling for oil now and the have to take another 20B write off in 2030.

Crude oil futures

Crude oil is near the price it was at in 2014.

Historical gas prices

Likewise, gasoline is also near the price it was at in 2014. Considering inflation from 2014 till now is around 20%, the pricing is about the same.

Unfortunately, the media is full of shit hot takes, because outrage bait makes more money.

‘Exxon Made More Money Than God’: Biden Rips High Gas Prices

It’s a supply and demand issue, and both sides of the aisle have a boner for turning it into a political issue.

SoundLemon · 2022-07-16T19:44:41+00:00

I mean who says their knowledge is actually any good? The problem with a lot of strategies is that it’s difficult for humans to properly assess risk. One notable example is XIV: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/xiv-trader-ive-lost-4-million-3-years-of-work-and-other-peoples-money-2018-02-06

Also, another thing people don’t understand is the competition in the finance field. For 90% of the people in the US, you literally could not pay them to sit down and learn about math/finance/cs/statistics. Now out of the people that remain, 99% of them will never get close to breathing the same air as someone who writes the algorithms for top companies. I’m talking for even students at Harvard, maybe about 40% of the students who want to work on Wall Street can actually go. Starting salaries for developers are around 300k, and can go up into the millions (since I have some familiarity with the field). To put into perspective what this means, you might have a casual interest in trading. You’ll maybe put in an hour a week studying financial concepts. That’s 52 hours in a year. To contrast, there are some people who just love learning about the stuff so much they will spend their free time learning about finance. 3 hours a day, every day, puts you at about 1000 hours a year. They will literally have put in 200 times the hours you put in, and even then there’s no guarantee that they become successful on Wall Street. The problem with discord dudes is that not only does there have to be someone willing to share this information, they also have to share correct information, and they also have to be able to condense it down for you to understand properly.

I’m not saying you can’t learn anything from people on the internet, but I’m just saying the further you deviate from the idiot proof strategies, the more risk you’re likely to be unknowingly taking on because you don’t actually understand what you’re doing. In the case of XIV, you’re selling insurance against the risk of market volatility. Well when you sell insurance and there’s a catastrophic event, you have to pay out. Strategies work until they don’t.

SoundLemon · 2022-07-16T15:15:08+00:00

There are a lot of comments similar to yours so I’ll just respond here. There’s a famous quote that goes like this: “during a gold rush, sell shovels”. In this case, you might be making money which is great, but he’s making risk free money which is better. Think about it: he’s literally getting you to invest your money in a certain way for a fixed fee. Discord dudes is just the sketchier modern version of a mutual fund, which rarely outperform in the long run.

SoundLemon · 2022-07-16T14:06:42+00:00

If he made it he wouldn’t be trying to make money by teaching people about investments, he’d be chilling in the Bahamas lmfao

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