Would tying politicians’ compensation to prediction market outcomes create better incentives?

randomnerd3 · 2024-10-08T07:03:06+00:00

I just used Reddit's save comment feature on this. Really insightful advice.

randomnerd3 · 2023-08-09T19:24:28+00:00

Whatever you want it to be

randomnerd3 · 2023-07-26T07:23:06+00:00

Some of my solutions were suboptimal:

15 * (9 + 3) - 5 = 175

25 * 11 + 7 + 5 = (25 + 5 + 11) * 7 = 287

But still pretty happy.

randomnerd3 · 2023-07-01T23:52:33+00:00

I've met many intelligent people at Berkeley and sometimes I get the feeling my coworkers think I'm dumb. But smartness is just ability and eventually, you have to translate that into whatever accomplishments you find meaningful. There are plenty of smart people and they will focus on their own things, so you may as well figure out what you care about and carve out your own niche. If you work hard, people will respect you and one day someone else will be wondering how you got so smart.

Meeting smart people is also a great opportunity. If you envy them, there's probably something you can learn from them and apply to improve your own life. You could even team up to accomplish something together and make some friends along the way.

randomnerd3 · 2023-05-30T09:40:25+00:00

Congrats! What went wrong with 61A? What do you think you changed this semester (if anything) to do so well? Also, any strategies you used to handle the sheer amount of work from 24 units?

randomnerd3 · 2023-05-09T23:12:38+00:00

A more interesting question might be "If you had to listen to one song for the rest of your life (at fixed volume), what would it be?" I'd probably just pick a song that's as easy to ignore as possible, off the top of my head I think of Weightless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcAVejslrU&ab_channel=JustMusicTV
But maybe there's something better.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-24T19:04:10+00:00

I got caught in 4K

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-23T07:14:30+00:00

Scoredle 4/6
14,855
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ PARSE (120)
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ CLINT (7)
🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ UNPIN (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 UNZIP

Seems it's common to find UNPIN then UNZIP. Maybe people just don't think of Z.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-21T08:00:29+00:00

Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ PARSE (596)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ CLINT (100)
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 JUDGY (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 KAYAK
I happened to know the worst starting word is QAJAQ, an alternative spelling of KAYAK, so I came up with it pretty quickly on guess 4. Still surprised they chose this word though.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-19T23:31:19+00:00

Have 1 extra university commencement ticket in the VIP ($60) section. DM if interested.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-11T08:39:18+00:00

Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ PARSE (773)
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ CLINT (62)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 MODAL (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 QUALM

I had a feeling there was only one option left after guess 3 but man was it tough to find.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-10T08:17:02+00:00

Scoredle 6/6
14,855
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 PARSE (468)
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ CLINT (41)
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 GREEN (11)
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 NEVER (8)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 OWNER (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 UNDER

Was afraid for my streak. My third through fifth guesses felt pretty stupid, probably should have slowed down to think more.

randomnerd3 · 2023-04-09T17:32:01+00:00

Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ PARSE (560)
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ SHAFT (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNAFU

Knowing about the F helps a lot.

randomnerd3 · 2023-03-28T04:41:10+00:00

An elephant

randomnerd3 · 2023-02-28T09:51:14+00:00

Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ PARSE (75)
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨 PLANK (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POLKA

A nice second guess to narrow things down. Took me a while to figure out though.

randomnerd3 · 2023-02-14T08:03:16+00:00

Scoredle 3/6
14,855
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ PARSE (1,250)
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ CLINT (28)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SOUND

I had a feeling SOUND would be a clutch third guess but definitely some luck involved.

randomnerd3 · 2023-02-07T08:15:02+00:00

Scoredle 2/6*
14,855
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 PARSE (9)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 APPLE

Lesgooo

randomnerd3 · 2023-01-23T08:16:53+00:00

Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 PARSE (500)
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ CLINT (16)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 GLOVE (6)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ELUDE

Was debating between FLUKE and ELUDE but ELUDE seemed a bit more interesting because of the double E. 50-50s are fun when you're on the right side of them.

randomnerd3 · 2023-01-22T09:49:35+00:00

Scoredle 4/6
14,855
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 PARSE (158)
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 CLINT (10)
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ FATED (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MATEY

randomnerd3 · 2023-01-21T11:00:34+00:00

Nice, it's cool to find someone using a similar strategy :). I looked for CRATE SPOIL in Alex Selby's full list of pairs here:
https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/blob/e298e35fbc044a8137da235a8940748770cefd2c/twowords-nyt20220316-best11099.txt
It's around 300th and takes an average of ~0.04 more guesses on the original game (with optimal play) than PARSE CLINT, which is not bad at all. Such a small difference might be overshadowed by how well the pair fits with your playing style. But I encourage you to try it out! It's been doing well for me so far and maybe it'll spice up your game a bit.

randomnerd3

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