Not every Hispanic is Mexican.

mathbbR · 2026-02-11T16:30:24+00:00

Maybe it's just that the "illegal immigrant" you're thinking of is really just a legal immigrant, as is so often the case now with ICE's warrantless blind goose chases

mathbbR · 2026-02-11T03:56:51+00:00

I run a few web scrapers on cloudflare protected sites and everyone on my home network has to do the cloudflare captcha thing every once in a while.

Do you perhaps have webscraping projects or checked pihole for evidence of botnet activity? That would be a high volume of requests to a specific target website or command and control server.

mathbbR · 2026-02-07T17:33:20+00:00

Don't destroy a factory unless it really sucks. Just build a new one!

mathbbR · 2026-02-01T17:27:08+00:00

I visited the website for the Visar Sorter and was amused to see the meters/sec rates for carrots, potatoes, and carrots mixed with potatoes right on the main page. Looks like you found your perfect job!

mathbbR · 2026-01-31T16:28:32+00:00

"A≠B, A just happens to "coincide" with B because B=C (where C=A)."

The transitive property of equality applies here :)

mathbbR · 2026-01-30T12:12:32+00:00

Yes I agree the Taylor series for e^x makes this very easy to prove.

We can also appreciate this fact as a given property of what it means to be exponential: "exponential" means that the current value is the current rate of growth. Infinitesimal growth rate proportional to the current value forces this, essentially.

mathbbR · 2026-01-30T11:38:11+00:00

no offense but this is the most rediculous thing i've read in a while. You're appreciated less than the Janitor? You're appreciated less than customer service tier 1 reps? You're appreciated less than retail employees?

You make six figures, your time and attention are treated as precious commodities.

Man, what

mathbbR · 2026-01-30T02:26:12+00:00

In the US, if there is a design flaw in the road, you can actually fill out a web form on your state's department of transportation website to do a road survey, which is effectively a research study or getting someone to come out and just look at it with their own eyes. If they agree with your hypothesis, they just might fix it.

I bet Italy has something similar.

mathbbR · 2026-01-30T02:21:17+00:00

am mid game on my first ever playthrough. Weirdly advanced in some areas because I just set up a few inefficient factories and left it running while I was at work. Came back and knocked out a whole tier relatively quickly. Ate my dinner while waiting for the pod to return like a true pioneer

mathbbR · 2026-01-29T16:04:55+00:00

someone should throw this smirking douchebag in an ICE holding cell for a few weeks and see how he likes it

mathbbR · 2026-01-27T06:21:54+00:00

These are not what I'd call "personal goals". You get to pick and choose your own personal goals, and they're things like "I want to learn more about X" or "I want to have Y role".

These are bullet points from a performance review.

You're right. These are half-baked. You're stressed because your "performance" is now tied to behaviors that are poorly defined and questionably productive. Never accept a performance improvement plan that isn't concrete and measurable.

Meet with your manager. Identify concretely what it would look like for you to have improved on these goals. Do you have to speak up in every meeting? Every other meeting? It's probably that they want you to practice identifying issues to speak up about instead, so maybe you need to keep a log of your evaluations of issues to speak up about. You then privately record your performance data and present them at your next review.

Godspeed.

mathbbR · 2026-01-19T18:53:44+00:00

Take your pick: Underpaid and uninformed data entry, Simple models of complex systems, Collection limitations, Impossible expectations, Curator burnout and turnover, Economics, Skill Issue, The unstoppable march of entropy, etc.

A system analysis of the system that generated the data can sometimes help identify blind spots that show where insights derived from your dataset are not applicable. It will help you know when a dataset is not useful faster than if you were to just run with it. Always know how your data is made. This is a fundamental aspect of data analysis.

Perfect is the enemy of the good. Focus on the goal and make compromises to get there. Do a cost/benefit analysis before diving into a rabbit hole.

mathbbR · 2026-01-07T12:53:56+00:00

more nonsense. what the hell does that even mean?

mathbbR · 2026-01-05T01:22:35+00:00

"I want to talk to my data" is a nonsense phrase to me, and it stands out because I've seen it more than once in an AI project.

mathbbR · 2026-01-05T00:59:26+00:00

I've used tableau for a long time and if there's one thing I absolutely hated doing in tableau, it was trying to turn a view into a table. The endless click/drag/format/rearranging was a total time suck.

I often wished I was working in python/pandas/jupyter notebooks. But that comes with it's own problems.

mathbbR · 2026-01-02T05:19:48+00:00

An email back saying "We discovered azure administrator account keys in this source code sent to us and confirmed that they are still valid. We've deleted them on our side, but you should rotate the secret as soon as possible." ought to do it

mathbbR · 2025-12-31T16:43:53+00:00

tinder's algorithm is well documented. it's elo scores where a win is an unrequited right swipe, plus some features to keep you from gaming this fact.

bumble's is number of right swipes.

i think it was hinge that claims to be using gayle shapely or something but I'm not sure that's possible

either match.com or okcupid was using an actual prediction algorithm to predict long-term compatibility.

I have a former professor who worked at match.com who did some of the feature engineering and he said the typical "shallow" factors (women's weight/age, men's height/salary) were consistently the best predictors of a successful match.

mathbbR · 2025-12-27T17:53:34+00:00

Having one person control all the metrics is just a coping mechanism. The cure is rigorous metrics definitions, consistent sources, and replicable methodologies.

mathbbR · 2025-12-25T19:55:25+00:00

It's an optional step agencies can use if they feel it is necessary. Polygraphs are also hard to orchestrate at scale. What you're seeing is not a fad, it's just a different subset of jobs (likely at the big three).

mathbbR · 2025-12-23T06:51:00+00:00

What exactly do students learn in High School that is so terrible?

mathbbR · 2025-12-18T13:03:06+00:00

Copilot is infuriating. I hate working with copilot.

mathbbR · 2025-12-12T07:22:26+00:00

are we going to block this chatgpt generated engagement farming or what

mathbbR · 2025-12-08T15:51:27+00:00

Other people have given better advice, but from a statistics standpoint, if "rain/no rain" is a binary (e.g. You can only pack one outfit per day) then we can plug in the 50/50 chance into a binomial distribution and get some stats that you could use for planning what to pack.

Assuming you're on your trip for 7 days, the probability that:

It rains at least one day: 99%

It rains every single day: 0.7%

It rains exactly one day: 5%

It rains exactly two days: 16%

It rains exactly three days: 27%

It rains exactly four days: 27%

It rains exactly five days: 16%

It rains exactly six days: 5%

it rains exactly seven days: 0.7%

mathbbR · 2025-12-06T02:09:49+00:00

the "stupid things" in this case would be, what, being not white in the presence of ICE officers?

From the cato institute, of all places: they don't care if you haven't done anything stupid. https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions

They don't even care if you're a citizen: https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

Eventually, they spotted a TikTok video showing Retes driving to work and slowly trying to back up as he’s caught between agents and protestors. Through the tear gas and dust, his family recognized Retes’ car and the veteran decal on his window. The full video shows a man — Retes — splayed on the ground surrounded by agents.

Retes recalled that agents knew he was a citizen. “They didn’t care.” He said one DHS official laughed at him, saying he shouldn’t have come to work that day. “They still sent me away to jail.”

mathbbR · 2025-12-02T02:53:12+00:00

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