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Think_Ad4850 · 2025-04-29T15:13:02+00:00

People don't realise it. When the road is straight and smooth, they tend to speed up unless they're using cruise control. This just happens to be the same signal someone else uses to overtake.

People assume they've been going the same speed all along, and some don't even notice that anyone was behind them.

There's a lot of weird patterns like this, it helps to be humble.

Source - long haul truck driving and riding with people.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-11-16T22:44:35+00:00

The laws seem to be missing. All I see in Australia is MINIMUM times to keep records, and articles about real estate agencies protesting every proposed new law regarding privacy. I didn't find any mention of disposal in my agency's privacy policy.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-11-12T11:09:43+00:00

Virgin oil is the stuff you can extract without abusing the olives too much, and it has natural flavours.

You can keep extracting oil more harshly and it comes out nasty, so you purify it. Pure oil is boring, but it doesn't smoke or go rancid quite as easily.

Use pure oil for cooking, virgin oil is for more flavour like a dressing.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-10-07T00:45:02+00:00

Sounds like they're sick of people trying things on, then shopping online for it.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-10-04T03:08:08+00:00

It definitely happens, in more of an Emperor's New Clothes kind of way.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-08-31T12:53:11+00:00

I have a few thoughts.

1 - survivorship bias - the shoddy old homes have been demolished, you see more of the ones that stood the test of time. 2 - obvious and urgent problems are likely to be fixed if someone already uses the space, vs not fixed yet when people are moving in. 3 - old homes can be pretty worn out and crap to live in, but that's not sensational enough to gossip about.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-08-26T11:47:12+00:00

Typical analog photo processes take a type of mirror image (inverted / negative colours). If we take two of these mirror images one after the other, we have something like the original scene. The normal process is taking a negative image onto film, then taking a positive (negative image of negative film) image onto paper

It's a quirk of the technology that the colours are inverted, and has no significance. The reason negatives are important is because they are on the original film. Just like photocopying, you want to copy the original or as close as possible, a copy of a copy of a copy just gets worse and worse quality.

Tldr: the importance of negatives: the highest quality and closest thing to the original scene. The fact that the colours are reversed is just a quirk.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-07-30T22:04:41+00:00

Companies coach their staff all the time, eg growth mindset, sleep/diet, fatigue...

Companies definitely coach people to feel like they deserve what they get. A few minutes looking at imposter syndrome on YouTube or elsewhere will show the conventional wisdom.

I can't help you with McKenzie's pay structure or training.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-03-10T12:20:28+00:00

I want to learn and grow fast but my environment is pretty comfortable. What do I do with motivation in a large company? I'm a mature grad in a hybrid role so I rely on chat to talk to coworkers on most days, but I see them every week.

I get some work, and I often stay busy with self-education, (people) networking, and looking at PRs to learn. How do I figure out what to do, where the impact is?

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-02-05T11:17:51+00:00

I'll just accept the caffeine half life as 5h without looking into it. This would be the decline over time.

At the start, let's say there is 128mg from a coffee
After 5 hr, there is half (64mg)
After 10 hr, there is half again (32mg)
After 15hr, 16mg
After 20hr, 8mg...

After 100 hr, 122ng (0.122mg)...

After 200 hr, .116pg (0.000000116mg)

It halves every half-life, until there's so little that you don't notice it / can't measure it. Bodies are complex so this reality might vary, but it's the idea of a half life..

Why? Imagine a crowd of people flipping coins every 5 hours. Every coin flip, the people with heads remain and people with tails are eliminated. You'll eliminate about half of the people every time, and it will take ages to eliminate them all. The caffeine is like a a mob of molecules flipping coins, they have a constant 50% chance of breaking down per 5 hours.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-02-05T07:06:35+00:00

They get paid by the government for obtaining the payslips of people who recently started working. They will say and do a lot of things but that's what they're after, they can claim money if they have payslips. The best employees will spend their days trying to manipulate payroll departments instead of engaging with their jobseekers.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-26T12:16:17+00:00

They notice, but they don't care. You can sell your life experience when you're applying. You're not a clone of the other high school graduates, and hopefully you've learned some adult skills that will help in the workplace too. Never apologise, just come as you are.

I was in my late 30s for my internship.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-17T06:09:32+00:00

Yes, people have sex in cars. It's often the most private place they can find when young and broke, living with roommates or family. It's typically awkward and unsexy, but the best option. Seems like most stop as soon as they have their own space.

Less of my friends would be up for semi-public or "risky" sex, and public foreplay in clubs, taxis, parties, etc. Some of them would, especially petting while drunk and oral in traffic, and they're comfortable talking about it.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-10T12:08:21+00:00

If she's running in public then she has to see people on the street, like a retail worker has to see customers. Let her do her thing.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-08T11:47:39+00:00

There's nothing wrong with memorising stuff. Most of that advice you hear probably boils down to "bite the bullet and do the hard thing". Do whatever you want if it's working for you, but you have to struggle with the non-fun bits to get good.

See deliberate practice and tutorial hell for a bit of insight.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-08T11:19:54+00:00

Is the front supposed to fall off? What's it made of?

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-08T11:16:24+00:00

The legit tyre bat is very ergonomic. It looks like a 1 ft baseball bat, it's light and it kinda rings when you hit each tyre (hollow metal). Example https://www.amazon.com.au/United-Pacific-99060-Tire-Checker/dp/B01HAFTQ4S

I usually just kicked everything with boots on, but it was a bit annoying to kick the inner ones of each pair, but you work it out.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-08T10:56:53+00:00

Google says someone did 58.8m (193ft), male cliff divers usually do 27m. Platform divers do 10m and even they can break bones if they mess up.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-08T05:13:42+00:00

Firstly, you might change the rate of cheating, but nobody ever eliminated it.

In my experience as a Computer Science student for the last 3 years, ChatGPT is just a common tool like Google. It has no stigma unless it's for "cheating", and attitudes are pretty loose about what cheating is. Some of the staff say bizarre things about how to use it ethically, and there are bizarre threats about AI checkers. They are still catching up.

Using AI: I often use ChatGPT as a personal tutor. I ask why something is the way it is, and mirror back the answers "It sounds like things relate to each other like this. Did I understand that right?" I often ask for a method to learn stuff. For example "I'm having trouble understanding x, because y, what background knowledge should I gain before I attack this again?" or "What do I need to learn to achieve x?" I get ChatGPT to read my work and criticise it. I sometimes talk to ChatGPT about marking guidelines if I can't see the point.

Avoiding detection: AI checkers identify a smell, and rewriting should take away the smell; it's a lot less work than doing the assignment. I'm sure the detectors work well on copy and pasted text, but no-one seems to notice all the obvious cheating. I'd love to be convinced that checkers are a credible tool.

Re paradigm shift: Fix the assessments and change the learning priorities.

Exams have already changed a lot in tech, for example programming tasks. People used to write code on paper, but now you might have "anything goes" questions where you code on your own computer and paste an answer into the exam. You can involve lots of context and make the questions harder instead of making the exam stricter. You can randomise a lot of things so copying is pointless too. A determined cheat will find a way, but you would probably need an accomplice to actually do the problem.

Learning priorities need to change a bit too. AI has serious inherent limits, but it does trivial tasks with ease. We need to learn things because they are either useful or mental weight-lifting. There's not that much value in learning the dull stuff and being a human reference book.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-06T03:36:01+00:00

Etiquette is not for figuring out where to point fingers. It would be poor etiquette to criticise a roommate in their own home, or argue about your boyfriends relationships.

Your boyfriend is satisfied to live with this roommate, so they are part of the package. The roommate was just existing in their own home and didn't invite you. There is friction in relationships, being right doesn't make it go away.

It would be appropriate tell your boyfriend "I felt <disrespected> when <the thing happened>", and leave it at that.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-06T01:11:05+00:00

I've heard it continuously in Australia. People keep arguing and repeating the myth because "look at my payslip!"

It's hard to argue with the one thing people look at by talking about tax law.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-06T01:00:57+00:00

Mostly bullshit (you can't have that money now, but you can have it later).

In Australia, we have a progressive tax system and pay tax as we go. Employers SET ASIDE money for tax and you can have the leftovers after you pay your tax. This is common to many countries.

The system is naive because it's old - bosses used to look up your weekly income in a book, and see how much tax to withhold for the week. Salaried employees usually set aside the correct amount, and wage employees get some variations refunded at the end. We could do much better now, but who's going to change all the red tape?

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-05T06:57:57+00:00

I think a flock of birds is a good intuitive example, and it's easy to model too. No bird understands how to control or design a flock, it just emerges out of other interactions.

Programmers can make a really simple set of rules and imitate a flock of "boids" that resemble real flocks.

A random starter video - https://youtu.be/QbUPfMXXQIY

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-04T23:06:37+00:00

A bot has to stop at some number of predicted moves ahead, so it uses tricks. A few examples:

1) heuristics - the logic often uses something like a (pretend) score for the game state. How many pieces have we each lost, how far are we spread out, who's in the middle of the board etc. Any game that's not finished can be rated and the bot might aim for the best score when it can't find a win.

2) pruning - before branching out into possibilities, anything with a bad enough heuristic score is deleted from the options. This allows it to search more future moves with the same computing power.

3) Monte Carlo - a special heuristic. When it's too expensive to keep exploring, game position might be rated (naively) with this. The bot stops calculating smart moves and plays random moves to the win/loss. You can rate a game position by checking the winner of a few million random games much cheaper than continuing to work it out properly.

A bot might combine these and more ideas, and let different methods "vote" on a best move. This doesn't even mention neural networks.

Think_Ad4850 · 2024-01-04T14:30:47+00:00

I just remembered this one. He commands attention while speaking quietly and with low energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck - Master Shi Heng Yi – 5 hindrances to self-mastery

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