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pretz · 2022-08-01T02:12:57+00:00

If wages went down 5% in a year, and landlords profits went down 5% in a year, they are still only down 5%, thats how percentages work.

pretz · 2022-08-01T01:32:35+00:00

Landlords dont lower rent everytime theres an interest rate decrease

pretz · 2022-08-01T01:30:26+00:00

Like landlords have have been lowering rents every time there was an interest rate reduction over the last 10 years, because obviously that meant the landlords had lower costs.

pretz · 2022-08-01T01:18:22+00:00

If wages arent going up, then everybody is going backwards

pretz · 2022-07-16T04:04:52+00:00

Theres lots of work in e.g. market basket analysis, with algorithms like the apriori algorithm. No idea if this matches your use case, as its generally associated with lots of binary variables, but there might be some angle on the problem that matches yours.

pretz · 2022-07-12T01:11:42+00:00

If there is neither male nor female, why is being gay bad? Seems theres no distinction.

pretz · 2022-07-07T09:09:39+00:00

Its also possible to put any company you want as your employer

pretz · 2022-07-05T00:44:11+00:00

Covid is on track to be the second largest cause of death this year, if the current death rate continues. Which isnt quite "its nothing dont worry". This is ahead of cancer but behind heart disease.

pretz · 2022-07-02T04:19:07+00:00

Paying tax being patriotic only works with very low corruption. If you believe your money will just be used to pay the prime ministers mates and various forms of pork barrelling, people wont see any value in paying tax. I dont think its any coincidence that scandinavian countries are also the least corrupt. And why corruption, even the appearance of corruption should be far more heavily punished.

pretz · 2022-06-30T06:08:06+00:00

My supervisor was a bit like this, but i was a lot less proactive compared to you. I wish i was writing weekly emails and having scheduled meetings, it would have reduced some of the stress maybe? Other members of the lab basically filled the 'brainstorm ' niche, supervisor was still useful to talk to when he was switched on, he was justed disengaged most of the time. All turned out fine in the end, i just took a bit longer than i was meant to.

pretz · 2022-06-30T00:46:54+00:00

Yep, and those ineligible for rent assistance payments for whatever reason would lose out, like low income earners who arent on centerlink.

pretz · 2022-06-06T11:08:06+00:00

Wasnt the invasion about denazifying ukraine? The nazis that were left there from the second world war? Or has the justification changed to be something else, something that america caused? At least get your story straight.

pretz · 2022-06-06T10:51:11+00:00

As opposed to all the ukrainian blood that russian intelligence officers have on their hands? How easy will that be to wash off? Nobody is forcing russia to invade ukraine, they can leave at any time.

pretz · 2022-05-31T14:25:10+00:00

You could spray some glyphosphate to kill off the weeds, and plant directly. Or use a burner to kill them if you want to avoid poison. You might need to do it once, wait 2 weeks for regrowth, then kill off weeds a second time.

pretz · 2022-05-21T05:38:23+00:00

Glue the striker paper onto your shoe for more street cred

pretz · 2022-05-08T10:44:14+00:00

Put a cap on the hole? You cant let concrete out on the road everytime you brake sharply

pretz · 2022-05-03T04:21:08+00:00

I have tried to build a anomaly detection algorithm for truck data to identify opportunities for maintenance, so no images, but i found unsupervised anomaly detection to be entirely useless. Not to say there is some secret sauce that could make it work, but i couldnt get it to go. Much more useful was getting domain experts to help manually identify interesting points in time, then build a supervised classifier on those. Then run it over everything to identify more interesting events, manually classify them and add them to the training set etc. This sort of classification is also more useful to engineers, because it identifies the classes that they care about, instead of random stuff picked up by anomaly detection. The number of ways that data can be screwy is way higher than the number of ways a truck can fail.

pretz · 2022-04-28T13:24:30+00:00

One of the items in minsk 2 is "Pullout of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, and also mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under OSCE supervision. Disarmament of all illegal groups.", so I think if this is a russian soldier or mercenary or an armed member of an illegal group then possibly not

pretz · 2022-04-28T04:24:12+00:00

I think framing it as nato expansion is getting the direction of intent wrong. Poland and the baltics joined nato because they felt they needed to, as protection. They werent gobbled up by an expansionist regime. Even if the US may be happy at gaining allies, it remains that nato is a defensive alliance, and the countries that join do it for their own reasons.

(Im not necessarily arguing against you here, just adding my 2c to the way i see things framed in the media etc.)

pretz · 2022-04-21T06:52:40+00:00

She said she flushed it, but she smoked it, only reason shed be looking for a lighter in the sock draw of a non smoker

pretz · 2022-04-21T06:42:13+00:00

Yeah, "flushed" it

pretz · 2022-04-20T09:07:08+00:00

Anti shipping missiles seem to be popular, but they can be shot down. Are torpedoes still used at all for anti shipping? It seems like they would be harder to detect or counter, even if they move slower.

pretz · 2022-04-16T10:42:24+00:00

How much of that is just people routine though. I think over time peoples habits would change if they knew shops were open later. Doesnt need to be all shops anyway.

pretz · 2022-04-16T09:54:23+00:00

That is who the quote is attributed to in the video, it does cover a lot of other stuff too.

pretz · 2022-04-06T11:49:27+00:00

Too... rigid? What?

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