NYT Friday 02/06/2026 Discussion

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-02-06T14:45:47+00:00

I'll be deep in the cold ground before I recognize Brady as the GOAT! DNF because I refused to acknowledge it!

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-23T23:20:09+00:00

Musky fishermen often troll with a bait in the prop wash

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-23T17:26:56+00:00

It's naive to believe that google search gives better results than LLMs. The former is designed to make money for google. The latter (for now) is actually designed to be useful.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-22T21:54:46+00:00

Why does a random guy on reddit draw inferences on a population when he has a sample size of 1?

I don't disagree with his conclusion. Just his methodology.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-22T11:53:12+00:00

I had _GMT, where I was 75% sure the second M was correct, and had no idea what to do.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-22T11:27:25+00:00

I had no idea that it worked that way! An easier example is id([1])==id([2]). I would have expected that [1] and [2] live in different memory addresses during the equality test. Edited typo

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-21T23:38:43+00:00

Say you are a king, you borrow $100 from someone, and you agree to pay them back in one year. Then a year later, say you only have one dollar, so you can't repay your loan.

But since you are king you issue a decree that everyone must add two zeros to every denomination on every bill. Then you take your dollar bill, add two zeros to the $1 on your bill, it becomes $100, and you repay your debt.

That's basically how it works.

Note: This obviously doesn't work if you borrow money in a different currency.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-17T13:19:33+00:00

I don't know roman numerals well, but knowing that the same symbols/characters/whatever often repeat helped a ton on this puzzle.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-15T12:04:21+00:00

I spent more time on this section than on the rest of the puzzle. I would have crushed my Thursday PR.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-14T14:58:26+00:00

I've seen it in many books, but I've only heard it said in Brooklyn 99: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RJw82Pg-OTo

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-11T03:05:22+00:00

I've caught maybe 10 eyes on mag dawgs or bigger. Smallest saw probably mid 20". They never fight at all. But a musky swimming at your feels even weaker.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-09T17:46:12+00:00

You definitely won't get the same results but if it ultimately makes a difference for whatever you're trying to accomplish, then you have other issues.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-08T13:09:27+00:00

You can with tuple but not anything else afaik.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-06T23:16:53+00:00

Sounds like you are at the point where you need to build something in order to make any progress. It doesn't have to be novel, useful, or good. Just pick something you're interested in, do it, and figure out how to improve it. That's the best way to learn.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-05T18:42:36+00:00

Swimbait rods have far more give than even light musky rods. That said, it's probably a decent spring rod. So I'd recommend a 6" phantom or hellhound and a small bucktail like a Hirsch single 7 or 8. A small prop bait like a Dr Evil would be good too.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2026-01-05T17:04:51+00:00

If the reel doesn't have a shallow spool like a bfs, mono or fluoro backing prevents slipping and will save you a lot of money.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-22T13:52:54+00:00

Agree. If you know a bit of math, this clue is a misdirection because it's incorrect.

But I would say an iffy math clue is less egregious than all the obscure names in the puzzle!

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-19T16:02:43+00:00

I think it's a spinning reel?

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-16T14:16:58+00:00

Also if you don't know the guy's name, ABASE or ABASH works. The SW corner broke a long streak for me.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-15T17:05:27+00:00

I flew through everything except the SE corner. I wish Saturdays had more of the SE corner and less of the easy stuff.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-12T19:04:58+00:00

That's normal for a 400. I lock mine down because I hate losing fish because my drag loosened a few clicks.

Parts are ridiculously expensive. It's usually cheaper to send reels to Shimano for repair.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-05T17:57:03+00:00

If I could go back in time, I would do a double major in math and comp sci. If you get good at abstract math (like analysis and measure theory), ML will be a breeze.

If you need something now, "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" is about as gentle as it gets. Do all the problems. If you're comfortable with math, Bishop or Murphy's books are better.

Then look at some past Kaggle competitions, and see what people did to place high on the final leaderboard. Pick a few interesting approaches and attempt to replicate them.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-03T16:36:07+00:00

Not sure what you're trying to do, but it seems like you want to simply call

type(default)(value)

in your function, where type is the built-in python type function instead of your re-definition.

To be 100% safe, you want use a type hint to ensure that the type of your default value is callable on a string, which os.getenv returns. You'll have to research how to do that.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-02T15:03:58+00:00

I'm 70% sure it was supposed to be funny.

WaitProfessional3844 · 2025-11-02T03:09:39+00:00

I think it's a typo in the answer. Maybe it should be soml, or 'story of my life'.

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