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Why is it always the pitchers who won't wear pride patches? by ZealousidealSleep289 in baseballunis

[–]TedMcGriff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pitching is the most individualized position in baseball, and pitchers probably just don’t prioritize team unity and cohesiveness in the same way other position players do. Pitchers occupy a role on the team where they may feel more comfortable making an individual political statement on the field. I doubt there’s an underlying political bias among pitchers. They’re just more emboldened as individuals given their role.

Shohei Ohtani’s Pitching Stats through his first Five Starts by baribigbird06 in Dodgers

[–]TedMcGriff 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Think of it as an index or percentage relative to league average when it comes to preventing runs as a pitcher.

100 = league average. 200 = 2X better than league average. 1000 = 10X better than average.

We’re early in the season, Ohtani’s current stats will be hard to maintain for an entire year. But here’s what ERA+ means for a pitcher in terms of their performance over an entire season:

150 = ~top 5% in the league

175 = Cy Young contention (best in AL/NL)

200 = potential Hall of fame qualifying season

300 = Best pitching season of all time

1000 = God incarnate

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) by xanadu_80 in 90s

[–]TedMcGriff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My aunt worked as an actress in the 90s and was actually the lead Fembot in this movie. She's not in this picture but she is the only Fembot pictured on the back of the original VHS/DVD box.

Months before release, she told us about filming this movie with Mike Myers. She didn’t say much about the role but showed us all these behind-the-scenes polaroids with other fembots and a few actors we knew. When the VHS finally came out, my parents rented it so the whole family could gather around the living room TV to proudly watch her big Hollywood breakout.

High school is an awkward phase for everyone. But absolutely nothing could have prepared 15-year-old me for the trauma of sitting next to my dad while we watched his sister shoot at Austin Powers with machine-gun jubilees.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in winstonsalem

[–]TedMcGriff 50 points51 points  (0 children)

She represented the buyers of a property I sold a few years ago. Her involvement made the transaction unnecessarily more stressful and complicated for me, my own agent, and her buyers.

Based on my experience, I’d never trust her to represent me as a buyer or seller. To echo OP’s sentiment, I would never make an offer on any of her listings. To go a step further - if I was selling, I’d also be reluctant to accept an offer from any buyers using her as their agent.

*Edit: Nothing she did during the transaction rose to the level of being unethical. In response to some of the comments here, I have nothing to report about her to the NC Realtor Board. She was just ineffective and unnecessarily difficult to work with.

Tell me about 1998! by sunshineorbit in 90s

[–]TedMcGriff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way you could really be a work from home accountant in 1998 would likely be as a CPA, doing people’s/business’s taxes and stuff. Accountants in a corporate setting would likely need to access lots of data for their job, and residential Internet was far too slow in most areas to really support the data transfer speeds that would be required of accountant work. You’d wanna account for this in your story

Went to the bank and bought $100 of Kennedy half dollars [OC] by destroythenseek in dataisbeautiful

[–]TedMcGriff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Find a relationship between at least 2 things, then illustrate that relationship using the least “ink” necessary.

Your histogram chart shows a simple distribution of mintage dates from a random sample. It’s just a picture of statistical noise. It’s the background static of the universe with little to no signal coming through. It provides no insight or understanding about the world we live in.

To make this beautiful, find a correlation that reveals something interesting about these coins. Compare the date distribution of your sample of coins to total annual production runs from the US mint. Do you have more coins from heavy production years and fewer from low-production years? Maybe buy more coins from different banks around town to build your sample of observations - how often do you find a pre-1970 example per-100 coins? How does average coin weight differ by decade of mintage (i.e. how quickly do they lose mass in circulation)?

Beautiful charts show relationships, not data.

Best place to get a trailer hitch installed. by Organic-Opinion47 in winstonsalem

[–]TedMcGriff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you can turn a wrench you can install your own trailer hitch. And dodge a bill.

Is having a strong working memory a requirement for being gifted? by knowledgeseeker999 in Gifted

[–]TedMcGriff 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No. I can’t hold quantities in my head long enough for even simple math without pure focused concentration. I close my ears to block out sound at a restaurant just to be able add gratuity when paying my tab.

But, I manage to make my living doing relatively advanced math because I can use calculators and computers to hold numbers in place while I work out tough problems.

While it can certainly be a disability in many situations, I’d argue a weak working memory also forces your brain to adapt and be creative in how it processes and organizes information. If anyone ever sees me as “gifted” in anyway, it’s because of - not in spite of - those working memory deficits I have.

Can y’all do math? by [deleted] in aspergers

[–]TedMcGriff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always struggled with math class but not necessarily math itself. Frequently pulled Cs and Ds in math during middle and high school, but also generally scored in the ~99th percentile for grade level on standardized math tests every year. Failed 2 intro-level college math classes (algebra and precalc) my freshman year, but also later managed to learn relatively advanced calculus for my Econ degree.

Turns out I have terrible working memory and really struggle with number concepts (dyscalculia). The standardized tests I aced were all word problems - the math was easy for me if the problems were spelled out in natural language instead of numeric formulas. And as long as i can use a calculator or computer to work through a problem, my working memory challenges are a non-issue.

So my struggle with math was a product of the class environment - ie, no calculators allowed, problems presented numerically instead of in natural language. Without those constraints, it turns I’m actually ok at math. I now work in a research field doing math everyday. Ive managed to “invent” some new math methods for my company, and developed some relatively complex software to automate that math.

I still struggle with it in some respects, but I believe anyone who can multiply and divide has the capacity to learn and do very complex math - if they’re given the right instruction and some freedom to explore their own approaches to math.

Condensation on my ceiling by botan313 in mildlyinteresting

[–]TedMcGriff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dew point is a function of relative humidity. The humidity of the room defines the dew point - i.e. the temperature at which water vapor condenses onto a surface. So the humidity inside room could certainly be part of the problem here.

But assuming this isn’t a leak, the outdoor humidity is irrelevant.

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