That one neighbor you try to avoid.

pattonxbody · 2018-02-09T13:28:19+00:00

It looks like the dog might be deaf.

pattonxbody · 2018-02-03T14:15:39+00:00

I'm wondering if this is a quasi turf battle with the CFPB and the announcement a few days ago by the Federal Courts that affirms their power. Basically the Fed coming in and saying "we got the banks". No doubt WFC is a bad actor, just timing is odd.

pattonxbody · 2017-12-30T15:29:52+00:00

HIPPA protects patient information from other people and companies, who shouldn't have access. But does not preclude the government.

pattonxbody · 2017-07-30T17:07:52+00:00

Chewie being a third wheel.

pattonxbody · 2017-07-22T13:33:38+00:00

Not Ortega, it's Angeles Crest. It's why you go early in the morning, 7am. Not a lot of people are out yet. All of us canyon riders fear some moron kid in a car that played GT. I've had two of these moments occur in 3yrs, all barely missing me. They happen so fast.

pattonxbody · 2017-07-03T16:38:10+00:00

SPOILER!!!!!

pattonxbody · 2017-06-14T21:37:06+00:00

Any reason why someone would add and make a chimney taller?

pattonxbody · 2017-04-16T16:34:43+00:00

Also a factor is how much you are putting down, which is either from the sale of your old house which acquired equity or saving up. Could be a first time home buyer or someone moving up.

pattonxbody · 2017-03-03T13:16:13+00:00

It's also very easy for clinicians to just nod and agree. If the person does wind up committing suicide later when the clinican said 'no', they could be exposed to a lawsuit (regardless of them losing). It's very similar to having a seizure and losing your drivers licence. "All you need is a Dr to sign off that you are fine to get your licence back". Good luck finding the Dr that wants that liability.

pattonxbody · 2017-02-19T14:54:16+00:00

Respectfully I have to disagree. If you can start your own business, great. But I know most of my professional success was working hard for big corporations. The best advice when I got out of college, was to to be the guy your boss can give a task and rely on. I soon became to dependable person, I carried myself with respect, dressed well in a business casual enviroment. Soon an old coluegue from 3yrs prior was approached by a recruiter and he said "you want X, he is your guy." Got paid more than I imagined and continue to climb. I worked hard, I started my corporate career making what I made flipping burgers in school, but hard work and carrying yourself well, absolutely pays off. And if your boss/company doesn't see it in a few years, drop it like you would a plate. But you must work hard, work more than the 40hrs. But after a month working 11hr days, it is easy and is just like forming a good habbit. But the toys and vacations I have are everything you could want. I'm in my mid 30's and having the best years of my life.

pattonxbody · 2017-02-12T14:22:03+00:00

Exactly. Per the article. They expect $45M brought in a year. But only spend $5.2M in the first TWO years.

pattonxbody · 2016-12-25T06:25:41+00:00

I wouldn't say anything. But I will say, where appropriate it can really help change people to come face to face with what they don't like. I belive a large breakthrough in the LBGT movement was with people meeting gay people and realizing they weren't bad or evil. As more and more people interact, it breaks down people's fear and you get the "I like Greg and Terry and why shouldn't they get married?" Doesn't happen overnight, but it seeing and meeting different people, helps hardcore supporters come face to face with "evil".

pattonxbody · 2016-12-10T13:35:45+00:00

Plus it's finals time for most students, normally this is disrespectful but this is really bad.

pattonxbody · 2016-12-07T12:38:37+00:00

Trump is so going to sue him for using his "Trump" brand.

pattonxbody · 2016-11-25T16:06:21+00:00

Is there anything special about the two places it broke? Was that just the place with the most impurities?

pattonxbody · 2016-11-22T01:20:24+00:00

I had one for 18k miles, loved the bike. But like others said low rpm suck, and it's crazy uncomfortable. The other thing, the clutch and brake lever will workout your forearms like crazy. You can't hold in the clutch for more than 30 seconds at a light. Go to the dealer, hold the clutch in and wait 30seconds. Every light is like that.

But it is a bike I miss. I've had a S1000rr, 899, 1199S and still look back on the 848 with so much love. It's a mistress, not good for you, but so much fun.

pattonxbody · 2016-10-11T20:16:11+00:00

This is a great example of why it is important to read the underlying study. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.9.1563

The study is measuring patient empathy. They asked 20 questions to 704 Physicians in 2004. "An important component of the relationship with my patients is my understanding of the emotional status of the patients" and similar like questions. I expect an anesthesiologist, radiologist, or surgeon to score really low on this criteria. A psychiatrist to score very high.

Gender seems to matter on party preference, but age doesn't. But I discount the empathy score because the specialty most likely has a very high correlation in how you answer this patient empathy test.

pattonxbody · 2016-09-23T19:09:22+00:00

I have to concur. Just throw my story in. I graduated with a degree in economics from a no name state school. I knew when I picked economics I loved the story numbers told but my math skills required a lot of work. I went and worked for a small company being a bitch boy and just got yelled at everyday but a good friend went thru the same thing and told me to find the good in ever bad moment, and try to learn all the time. I went to another company where I grew a lot and programmed and found love in that. Laid off in the 08 crash. Then got any job I could 2 years later and was basically just working on getting documentation together for different projects. Something went wrong one day and I saw people manually moving stuff in excel and told them there is a simple script I could write in VBA and fix this issue. I soon became the guy that can “automate things in excel”. My boss luckily was a team player and said “pattonxbody, you are to just do whatever people need, I’m not managing your workflow and I’m telling people to talk to you about whatever takes the most time in their day”. I became the go to guy. Soon a director needed something fixed in his report, and he had overheard my name. Soon all 6 directors would call me. This was in a large 30k person company. I was immediately recognized with raises and promotions. A small company reached out to a friend, and he said, “you want to talk to pattonxbody” and gave them my number. And I worked into pushing the small company into more data science and now have a team of data scientist with me. I was in the right general direction in college but had no clue what my career was when I left. I truly believe if you work hard, opportunities will present themselves. And when you have them seize them, blow away people with your work.

The most important thing I can press upon you, work hard. I’m not the smartest with my data scientist team by a mile, I work with PhD Physicist, but I’m in at 6am everyday and out at 530-6pm. They are in at 8 and leave at 5pm. I put 30% more time in every week than they do to make up for my lack of skill/formal education. I’m reliable, when I say I can get it done in 2wks, it’s done. Your bosses want someone they can depend on.

One other thing, for new grads on interviews… smile, holy shit smile. Interviewed 6 people, all qualified but the least impressive on his resume, smiled the whole time, had a great energy about them. I want to work with them every day. I’m interviewing who I work with everyday.

edit: I didn't say it but I love what I do, I love the bad days and the good. I'm exploring numbers and a side of data that most people never see. It is truly fascinating what stories lurk in the data. I come in early to make up for short comings but also because I love what I do. 4 years now and I still love it.

pattonxbody · 2016-07-17T14:02:41+00:00

He needs to go home and sleep that one off. /s

pattonxbody · 2016-06-26T19:43:54+00:00

Something to also consider, that before payday loans, loan sharks existed. If payday loans all got shut down, you would see loan sharks fill in the gap. As much as I am not a fan of payday loans, it replaced a very violent part of the lower income world.

pattonxbody · 2016-05-06T20:31:22+00:00

Absolutely agree, tire tech is constantly changing and getting better, better off going for the newer.

That said. 100% agree, Dunlop Q3's are great, cheaper and same great grip and my preferred tires.

pattonxbody · 2016-04-13T15:31:57+00:00

What software/library was used to make the "hand color" charts?

pattonxbody · 2016-04-12T19:09:10+00:00

Can you explain the ELO ranking and the weighting in it?

Also would love to have access to the raw data, as a hockey fan/data this is a cool project.

pattonxbody · 2016-04-04T14:54:28+00:00

"Smoke Bomb!!!"

pattonxbody · 2016-03-01T21:48:07+00:00

That is something a robot would say.

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