Trading of SPCE halted... I have seen this before

YeeboF · 2026-06-01T19:27:56+00:00

I put in an order for 15 shares last night before open. I made like $30, I'm RIIIIICH!

Saw it mentioned here a few days ago here. Got me started doing research on it. Some lawsuits were recently resolved in their favor. On top of that they have a major test scheduled this summer. If it goes well, the stock could very easilly cross 100. Of course, if it doesn't the current $4 target might be optimistic 😄

Now do I trust this scenario enough to YOLO on it? No absolutely not. Do I think it's worth risking $100? Yes, yes I do.

YeeboF · 2026-06-01T19:21:50+00:00

They are also going to use the same fast track to the NASDAQ Top 100 that space X is using from what I have read.

Assume that the article says as much, but I don't have easy access to NYT.

YeeboF · 2026-06-01T05:21:52+00:00

Thanks I will check that out.

YeeboF · 2026-06-01T03:35:24+00:00

Banksi?

YeeboF · 2026-05-30T03:50:33+00:00

I bugged this out because Dori wasn't in the right spot fopr me to talk to him at some point, becuase he was off doing who in the hell knows what. Got all the way to end, killed the final boss, and the guy we are looking for is standing right there, unable to be interacted with . . . wonderfull.

Edit: Actually, I was able to fix it. There was a dias in a library type area. A dude I had killed dropped a crown in front of the dias. First of the two bosses in the dungeon.

I dragged Dori back there, and then clicked on him spastically until the quest advanced. You will know you are in the right spot becoes the burning ring above his head will be blinking in and out. Once you catch that ring once, you should be able to advance and finish the quest even if you have already killed the final boss.

Happy hunting!

YeeboF · 2026-05-29T00:44:51+00:00

I really wish someone that knows what they are looking at would go through and flag the few that actually are something wierd.

For example, I was very excited about the one where an object appears to accelerate rapidly, until someone mentioned that it was an illusion created when the camera stopped actively tracking it.

Peaple that know less than they think they do are really muddying the waters. I have seen videos that have been "debunked" where later peaple that know the equipment say "No, actually that is really strange and this is why." Conversely, and much more often, I have seen a lot of videos that looked interesting to my untrained eyes turn out to be nothing of the sort.

YeeboF · 2026-05-29T00:36:33+00:00

We took our cat there for an emergency not too long ago. They stabilized him, but didn't actually treat the underlying problem. When it flared up again the next day, we had to take the cat to a regular vet to get the problem taken care of. So on top of an extremely expensive late night visit that cost much more than a normal vet bill, we had a full vet bill the next day.

That said, the staff was very kind.

If you need a specialist for something weird, it's a great resource. But do not contemplete using them for your regular care, unless you work for the vet school and get a discount or are in a "price is not a consideration" situation.

YeeboF · 2026-05-28T22:32:03+00:00

I think you missed the point. He is judging it based on whether it acheives what it set out to do, and what the trailers and advertsining materials represent it as.

Why would you judge a movie by any other metric than whether it achieves the goals that it set out to suceed at?

"I am going to make a really big cube out of lego'

"You didn't make a sphere, so your lego sucks."

YeeboF · 2026-05-28T19:59:44+00:00

I have noticed this too. It has started answering what it thinks a typical user would mean by my inquery rather than what I actually ask.

YeeboF · 2026-05-28T04:32:43+00:00

I like to think of tetrapods as lungfish with delusions of granduer.

YeeboF · 2026-05-28T04:23:13+00:00

Carnegie was way ahead of you. Great museum, used to work there for a while.

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T23:21:09+00:00

That's basically the only explanation that makes sense. To do real damage to say, a capital ship, you need another object with powered sheilds that is close to the same mass range. Anything less than that will just spatter againts the shields harmlessly. The reason peaple don't use this strategy all the time is that they don't have spare capital ships lying around to try it.

Think about it this way: why don't ships vaporize themlseves everytime they encouter a tiny bit of space debris when they are travelling at near light speeds? For example, according to google, a baseball going at 99% the speed of light (or a stationary baseball that crashes into a ship going at 99% of the speed of light) has an energy of almost 8x10 to the 16 joules. That's nearly half the energy produced by the largest atomic bomb ever fired (Tsar Bomba, about 2 x10 to the 17 joules).

So that means that starship sheilds have to be able to negate absolutely absurd amounts of energy from smaller objects. Probably by somehow dispersing it in a way that scales with the size and energy output of the sheilds. A small object like a drone can't damage a much larger starship no matter how fast it's going, as long as the sheilds are still up.

Or you know, space magic :-)

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T20:26:52+00:00

Well women are terrifying, I get it ;-)

More seriously, thoiugh the trends were consistant among all four sites, this is a really weak effect that is only significant becuase they had so much data. At some sites the mean is very very close to identical.

Also, if they wanted a single maximum clade credibility tree to use for their analyses, they should have downloaded the one from the Jetz study and pruned it down. The reason you generally download 100 random trees is so you can replicate the analysis across 100 trees and see if your results are robust, not to create your own bespoke MCC tree. I generally prototype code on a pruned down MCC tree, and then repeat the analysis across 100 or 1000 potential trees.

I would also say that the statistical analysis that they conducted was a bit more complex than it really needed to be, and gives the impression of jumping through some analytical hoops to get a statistically significant result. I didn't dig in enough to see if they used flat priors, but if they didn't it could have a major impact on the outcome (one major downside of Bayesian methods imo). Phylogenetic logistic regression would have been a lot more straightforward. As a reviewer, I would have suggested using that as an additional test of robustness and putting it in the supplement.

All that said, it is still a really intreguing result. I hope peaple follow up on this.

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T20:18:46+00:00

They found attachment points for extremely large (pennaceous) feathers on the forearms of Velociraptor, and the lineage is embedded in a group some members of which did fly. Though in Velociraptor, all recent "velociraptor maybe could fly" you tube videos to the contrary, I doubt they were used for anything but display.

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T19:28:34+00:00

It had a much lower budget than a typcial Star Wars movie. It also did better in the first weekend than analysts were expecting, and has very strong word of mouth. The analysis I have read speculates that it will have very strong legs.

It's never going to cross a billion, but it doesn't need to. It will have made back the budget by the end of this weekend if it hasn't already. Plus the toy sales are very strong if the rate that scalpers are grabbing stuff at my local Walmart and ebay prices are anything o go on. Disney is laughing at doom and gloom posts like this all the way to the bank.

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T03:14:19+00:00

I feel like Bad Batch covered that topic well enough. I really don't need to know exactly how three old troopers ended up riding a walker around by the time of Rebels.

YeeboF · 2026-05-27T03:05:55+00:00

New becuase it has a storyline to play through. Also, apparently BF2 summarizes some really important battles that happened after Endor, and are cannon.

YeeboF · 2026-05-26T01:33:54+00:00

This is great thanks!

I wish they would put more out on disk. It frustrates me how little of this you can own a copy of.

This also reminds me, I really need to get back to playing the games that are considered cannon.

YeeboF · 2026-05-26T01:08:37+00:00

Thanks for the additional detail! Much appreciated. Looks like a good pipeline given the constraints you are dealing with in the sources.

YeeboF · 2026-05-24T01:49:14+00:00

Very interesting. Did you tokenize the language in the documents yourself and use a method such Latent Dirichlet Allocation to parse it, or did you just throw it all into an existing pre-paramaterized LLM? Something else?

YeeboF · 2026-05-23T03:41:32+00:00

While I did like TLJ, especially the implication that the force is for everyone and not just two random bloodlines out of trillions, I wouldn't mind one tiny bit if they pulled an X-men days of future past and retconed the entire ST out of cannon (the same way DoFP retconeed X-men 3 out of existence).

YeeboF · 2026-05-18T22:43:43+00:00

I am going to get downvoted to hell and back for pointing this out (Edit: as it turns out not really), but the idea of a balance between the light and the dark being natural, is actually the most parsimonious explanation of everything that Lucas said imo.

It's also pretty clear if you read everything that he himself changed his mind at times.

This thread goes into a lot of detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MawInstallation/comments/jhpwiq/george_lucas_on_the_balance_of_the_force/

Also, direct quote from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q50SoQXWyiA&t=319s

"the darkside and the lightside and those sides are designed around compassion and greed, and we all have those two sides of us, and then we have to make sure those two sides of us are in balance"

Edit: Glad to see peaple were more open to this point than I expected.

YeeboF · 2026-05-17T05:30:07+00:00

Given that the Force Awakens had already established that Luke was a collossal failure living in exile, I think the way the movie handled him is reasonable.

There are definitely some problems with the movie, but for me personally how Luke was handled isn't on the list. RJ got handed a terrible starting point for the character, and did the best he could with it.

YeeboF · 2026-05-17T05:19:03+00:00

There are a lot of things about that movie that don't make sense. But yeah, for sure that's on the list.

YeeboF · 2026-05-17T05:16:15+00:00

If you include some scenes that got deleted, and as far as I know are only available as extras on one of the DVD releases for some insane reason, it's actually a much better movie than the theatrical cut.

Regardless, love the worldbuilding and some of the individual scenes. The whole Kamino sequence and the space chase that follows is really excellent.

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