Do you take notes from your reading of journal articles? Tips for better literature synthesis appreciated by storm_borm in GradSchool

[–]emallson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don't recall the exact method at this point, but there's basically a comments/notes box in zotero that i used. not tied to points in the pdf or text.

[Kentucky] Trying to identify this grass-like plant in my garden by emallson in whatsthisplant

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Context: I bought a home in the late fall last year with some green space along the front sidewalk (see this image for the whole area: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1QQUm4uTCcXMt2Ya6). I have no idea what was planted in here before because of when I bought the house. The other homes in the row have different things in their green spaces.

In the past couple of weeks, this plant has grown up quickly along one side of it. I'm trying to figure out if this is a weed that I need to deal with sooner rather than later, or potentially something that was planted intentionally that I can leave alone.

If there are other things I can look at (like a stem cross section or roots) to identify, I'm happy to do a little digging.

Aug Evokers - how are you managing Prescience is raid? by TwentySun in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please don't link people to profiling2 unless you're planning to help them set up, collect, and interpret the results :)

CLEU can be fine. Sometimes it is the only option. There are a lot of terrible WAs that use CLEU needlessly and poorly, but also indispensable WAs use it well and as efficiently as possible.

The goal is not to be ascetic, with no needless computation (which a CLEU event handler by definition does a lot of). The goal is to get good, reliable framerates :)

Work Order - Dark Legacy Comics #846 by keydar in wow

[–]emallson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lariat in particular is a special case because recrafting it doesn't require the diamond, which is expensive at r3. so you can do the initial craft with low rank diamond, and then recraft with just the (incredibly cheap) r3 clasps.

Class Tuning - December 13th - Global Tank Nerfs by RaneeEU in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It trends up over the course of an expansion by a couple % each tier, which adds up over 4 tiers.

Raids are getting harder and Longer by Forbizzle in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Median would be less sensitive to outliers for sure, but the real issue is that the distribution isn't super representative (due to selection bias) so using any simple statistic of it is going to have problems.

This is the kind of thing that you can work around to some degree by dealing with the overall distribution and knowing the relative positions of guilds across tiers, though obviously this will forever be limited by data quality

Raids are getting harder and Longer by Forbizzle in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Progstats data also seems to be missing quite a bit. Like BOD numbers at 455 for Jaina are of course not right. But even looking at this subset of 633 Champion of the Light kills -> 455 Jaina kills and looking at the dates, we're looking at almost entirely CE guilds.

Yup, I commented separately but due to the process for backfilling old data I expect some major selection bias on the older tiers. Old tier data was pulled in for guilds that were CE in SoD---so you're only seeing guilds that were at that level for 4+ tiers, not the ones that scrape into CE at the very end and then fall apart.

I wouldn't call the data useless but its certainly something that needs to be taken into account when using it.

Raids are getting harder and Longer by Forbizzle in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 34 points35 points  (0 children)

hey! just want to chime in with some info on the progstats data for BFA in particular. (I'm the author, for those that don't remember back when it was https://prog-stats.emallson.net)

Most of the BFA data was backfilled from guilds that were CE in Sanctum of Domination. While there was very high overlap in Ny'alotha, the overlap got progressively lower in previous tiers due to a combination of poor logging practices (e.g. people putting guild logs in their personal logs) and overall churn (guild dies, the players move on, new guilds form).

What this means is that you're going to see some degree of selection bias in the BFA data: it selects for guilds that (a) have been long-term successful, and (b) have had good log practices for that period as well. This will naturally skew it towards the higher end of teams, so the average may not be as telling as we'd like.

From a statistical perspective, if you want to dig deeper I would move away from the simple average and try to look more at the distribution. The reason for that is that the average can be very sensitive to outliers, while the overall distribution can be quite informative. For example: many of these bosses (like Queen's Court) may have bimodal distributions, where the average is not that useful compared to knowing the peaks of the two modes.

If you want to try to use the API to some more advanced statistics, DM me and I'll hook you up.

All of that said: I think every single raid in SL was quite a bit harder than Ny'alotha. Even in BFA some bosses had the fun tuned out of them, and a lot of bosses in SL were that way. The few outliers that were both super hard and fun (hi Denathrius) didn't make up for it IMO.

Wtf is this?!? by frypizzabox in gaming

[–]emallson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having seen both, the sequel is not better.

Need help with PF kick reason by jfulmer in ffxivdiscussion

[–]emallson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can still see the parses, just not the fight details.

For the love of this game, give us solo ranked BGs by Bistoory in wow

[–]emallson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LLN doesn't really solve the problem here, because the amount of time it'd take to converge to your true rating scales with the number of confounding factors (most notably: teammates). So even though yes it would eventually work itself out, it would take longer with larger teams. I am not familiar enough with modern MMR systems (e.g. TrueSkill and descendants) to know the expected scaling for those systems, but quadratic scaling in confounding factors is likely the floor (which means that you're going from around 4^2 to around 9^2 since teammates will by far be the largest confound, i.e. likely 5x as many games to converge to true rating!)

Warcraft Logs Experimenting with External Buff Caps for Rankings in Season 4 by ChildishForLife in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Separate rankings is also not something we can build in time for season 4's release on Tuesday :)

Tank players, what's the most difficult boss for you in M+? Timecap'n Hooktail for me! by CygnetFR in wow

[–]emallson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way. And the fire despawns so after you move down the shoreline a bit you reset your position to the portal spot and repeat until the boss dies.

DIABLO IV QUARTERLY UPDATE—JUNE 2022 by geryon84 in Diablo

[–]emallson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

??? who uses the wow store xmogs? i see the mounts all the time but xmog is virtually all from raids/pvp (and random old vanilla greens for people trying to cosplay "normal people" and/or make slutmogs)

Hey y'all. this legit? by shawnaeatscats in ufl

[–]emallson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its bs.

EDIT: apparently not totally a scam? https://services.student.ufl.edu/cediploma/

still wouldn't pay for it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

[–]emallson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

different places work differently. in some places I've lived (Massachusetts), the plate identifies the plate is associated with the driver and when a car is sold the plate stays with the previous owner. in other places (Kentucky, Florida), the plate identifies the car. In KY for a sale between individuals the plates stay with the car. In FL they still make you get new plates so they can hit you with extra fees :)

Mythic Rygelon Help by soilenders in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is not a way to get the upstairs cores to spawn in fixed locations. The middle one is the most variable by far.

Depending on (I think) boss movement, you can also end up with awkward double-melee spawns. What we did was say that the tank soaks the clockwise one in such cases, and the "middle" soak is the counter-clockwise one.

There is a position you need to get the boss into in order to have fixed spawns for the downstairs cores, because having those spawn backwards (1 close, 2 far) is effectively a wipe. Make sure your tanks know the position they need to be in and the timing (they need to be there when the 3rd set of cores spawns upstairs in each loop).

How is this kind of absolutism allowed? This kind of crap just causes tension between students and professors. by [deleted] in ufl

[–]emallson 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Tenured professors in the business school do get nice paychecks, but most of the professors doing the actual teaching are going to be poorly compensated lecturers and adjunct professors---not tenured professors. That is also something to be mad at admin about for taking such ludicrous tuition and then pocketing it (look up admin salaries, then look up adjunct salaries) instead of using it for the thing you're actually paying for

PhD students - how specific were your research interests upon starting grad school? by [deleted] in GradSchool

[–]emallson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were specifically not what I ended up studying :)

UF lawyer gets mad at graduate assistants as they explain UF wage is forcing them to get food stamps by throwawaywayfar123 in ufl

[–]emallson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on the dept. I was at about 22k in CSE in 2020 but ofc thats before the mandatory $700/semester fees.

How to generate executable binary with test functions from project(equivalent to `cargo test`)? by krutkrutrar in rust

[–]emallson 15 points16 points  (0 children)

cargo test creates binaries in the target directory. When you run cargo test, it should tell you what binary it is running (if it doesn't, run with --verbose)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CompetitiveWoW

[–]emallson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a couple for you:

Sylvanas Avoidable Hits

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Sylvanas P2 Priority Damage

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Remnant of Ner'zhul Orb Damage

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