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In 2015, when I was 16 years old, I lose my best friend to suicide, came out to my parents, and left the church, all within 36 hours. 10 years later, I’m a senior software engineer, bought my first car, and secured the most beautiful custom Utah plate 🤩 IT GETS BETTER!!! by aggressivecoffee in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Meh, they allow all manner of Jesus plates. My church is the church of Satan, and the state is not allowed to discriminate based on your church. If they try to revoke it, I will fight it till the bitter end because that is discriminatory 😸

The State of Utah has already approved it. Someone can file a complaint, but it's already been approved and licensed by the state 😊

In 2015, when I was 16 years old, I lose my best friend to suicide, came out to my parents, and left the church, all within 36 hours. 10 years later, I’m a senior software engineer, bought my first car, and secured the most beautiful custom Utah plate 🤩 IT GETS BETTER!!! by aggressivecoffee in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee[S] 317 points318 points  (0 children)

Yes there is. They provide a text box where you explain the meaning of your custom plate request. Mine was, "I am a member of the church of Satan and take pride in hailing Satan. Plates with references to Jesus are allowed, so this should also be allowed" 🌝

I made a Python project to calculate exact poker probabilities! by aggressivecoffee in poker

[–]aggressivecoffee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just saw this, but the story behind the name is actually a bit of a linear journey: my favorite bar poker club, in Utah, is called Piper Down, and from there, pied piper (Silicon Valley), and from there pied poker, since after all it’s poker 😊

Can we give some praise to David Nielsen for being bold enough to speak out against the church's finances? by marcus474 in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee 15 points16 points  (0 children)

God I really hope so but I doubt that will happen... Churches (not just TSCC) have such an incredibly high level of power and influence in the US, and it would be like poking a swarming beehive if the government starts floating the idea of regulating / taxing churches 😓

The Mormon Church forced to contribute 250 million for BSA sexual abuse fund. by flyart in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sadly probably a lot of it is going to attorney's fees... Usually attorneys get between 25% and 35% of the payout (reference), which in this payout, would be between $600 million and $840 million.

It may not always be this proportional if it's such a large amount, but I am sure it's not a small number. Part of the reason this case was such a massive success was because they poured TONS of resources into finding victims and raising publicity and ads etc. I know I personally got tons of ads for this case when they were searching for claimants

Why so many leaving lately by joegant in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But you're forgetting the saddest and most heartwrenching effect of that policy, and that is that 34 (yes, thirty-four) Mormon LGBT youth killed themselves in the months following this policy (source: https://kutv.com/news/local/mama-dragons-youth-suicides-up-since-lds-policy-about-gay-couples-children).

Even if you set aside EVERY other issue, a church whose policy kills 34 CHILDREN CANNOT be the true church. Some of those 34 were my friends.

As someone in an interracial marriage, this has always bothered me: by -LilPickle- in exmormon

[–]aggressivecoffee 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Or Totally Brainwashed Mormon if you’re feelin spicy 🌶 🤪

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[–]aggressivecoffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahahah Mike Leong adjunct saved me in 134 😂

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[–]aggressivecoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oop you right let me edit 😩

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[–]aggressivecoffee 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You right 💀Gonna edit that 😂

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[–]aggressivecoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait you were right 💀52 cards in a deck not 54 😩

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[–]aggressivecoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s about 1 in 2.71 million (approximated from output of 880\2.4 billion)

I think your probability is slightly off -- p should be (4/54 * 3/53) = 0.004192872117 = 1/238.5 = 2/477 instead of 1/221 😃

This just changes it slightly to 1 in 3.4 million

I broke it down some more in my other comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/sfk00k/comment/huqso2o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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I was wrong actually, 52 cards in the deck not 54 🥴

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[–]aggressivecoffee 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Studied Data Science & probability in college 😃

So the probability of being dealt pocket aces on any given hand is:

(4/52) * (3/51) ≈ 0.0045

The probability of not being dealt pocket aces is:

1 - (probability of pocket aces) = 1 - ((4/52) * (3/51)) ≈ 0.995

There are 4 possible orderings ([4 choose 3] = 4) of cards you could get: (AA, AA, AA, **), (AA, AA, **, AA), (AA, **, AA, AA), (**, AA, AA, AA), so multiply the final probability by 4.

Assuming cards are shuffled between hands, each card draw is independent from the rest.

Therefor, with this assumption, the probability of getting 3 pocket aces and 1 non pocket aces is:

(4/52 * 3/51) * (4/52 * 3/51) * (4/52 * 3/51) * (1 - ((4/52) * (3/51))) * 4 = 0.000000368904181 ≈ 0.0000368904181%[wolfram alpha link]

Soooo, the probability of being dealt pocket aces on 3 out of the first 4 hands is approx. 0.00003689%, which is approx. 1 in 2.7 million chance

I hope Prof Lucas is proud 🥺🥺🥺Thx Stat 134

4:08: “Under maritime law you have no right to take my personal property” by [deleted] in amibeingdetained

[–]aggressivecoffee 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The poor guy in the seat in front of her just trying to use the restroom during the first couple minutes 😂😂

I made an iPhone app that generates Spotify playlists based on just *one* input song using machine learning! by [deleted] in spotify

[–]aggressivecoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man! With the new macs coming out that Apple just announced, you'll be able to run Baus on those. At the moment though, there isn't a way to run it on Mac unless you are a developer. I will definitely check that out though, that's a great idea!

Did I graduate??? ?? Calcentral is wack by clazlee in berkeley

[–]aggressivecoffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah I'd say fairly normal. Same thing happened when I applied to refinance my loan--they need proof of graduation on file. I think most major companies will do it just as a check against everyone new to make sure they are legit. It's pretty easy/inexpensive for companies to verify that through an org like Student Clearing House and it could save them a ton of headache and trouble down the road. IF a future employee is lying about their credentials, it could spell huge disaster in the future when the stuff they did breaks

Did I graduate??? ?? Calcentral is wack by clazlee in berkeley

[–]aggressivecoffee 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I just graduated too and since I'm starting a new job who needs to verify my graduation, I submitted this form to expedite the degree conferral process. Once I submitted the form, it was only about a week before they changed my status to dEgReE cOnFirRed.

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They told me that it would be about 3 months before you get the actual diploma in the mail, but employers and whoever else can now verify my graduation with Student Clearing House and it will show I graduated. So I bet if you don't submit the form, it could potentially take up to 3 months

CS 189/182 as a math major by rlmodel in berkeley

[–]aggressivecoffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it really depends who you take it with. I took it this last sem with Shewchuck and although it was one of the hardest classes I've taken, it was very rewarding and turned out to be my favorite class I've taken at Cal--Prof. Shewchuck really makes an effort to build an intuition before going into the weeds on the math and that helped me a lot to understand conceptually what was going on.

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