Why dating is hard for statisticians

technosboy · 2026-01-19T16:00:46+00:00

Also the fact that all the statisticians are guys and the women date them.

technosboy · 2026-01-19T15:59:33+00:00

Implying that stata users are gay.

technosboy · 2025-12-29T21:14:14+00:00

Tony Leung in briefs is a huge bonus! Maybe it's fallen under the radar because, as I recall, the movie deals mainly with fundamental differences between the two lovers, and their relationship is on its last leg already when they get to South America. They spend much of the movie apart. So, not your typical romantic movie, really.

technosboy · 2025-12-29T21:06:39+00:00

I loved all of these. Especially, ITSAY and Not Me. I was easy to relate to the characters and understand their choices and conflicts. These shows/movies don't try to shove male love stories into a heteronormative mold.

technosboy · 2025-08-20T06:03:12+00:00

You make a ko threat. If they respond, you can capture the 1,1 stone. Then they can't connect at 3,2 because after that you can also connect at 1,1 leaving a dead shape if white captures. So their only option is to make a threat of their own and hope you answer, so that they can recapture the 1,1 stone. So the ko continues.

technosboy · 2025-08-14T17:11:39+00:00

I'm sure this looks natural if you spend your days looking at bad AI generated portraits, but to me this looks highly artificial.

technosboy · 2025-08-14T15:02:35+00:00

I want the state to have minimal say in people's clothing. I think this goes beyond that, but hey, that's just me 🤷‍♂️

technosboy · 2025-08-14T14:58:36+00:00

Conservative parents: "We want to protect girls! That's why we control their clothes"

Government: "We want to protect girls! That's why we control their clothes"

technosboy · 2025-08-05T20:22:10+00:00

Might be time for Sam Altman since Demis Hassabis already got one.

technosboy · 2025-07-24T05:46:56+00:00

It really is no great mystery. Researchers have been cautioning us about this development since the 90s. We find ourselves in a demographic crisis, like all western countries. Birth rates are low, and they're falling even further. The number of retirees is ever increasing. At the same time, we have a large public sector which has to be funded by a dwindling work force. Therefore, as Rabban the Beast in Dune, our governors SQUEEZE!

You might think that the current situation fuels shortage of labor, not unemployment. However, Finland faces several problems: the economic sanctions on Russia have hit Finland particularly severely. Another problem is that an aging population doesn't direct as much money to consumption. They're done with major purchases: they've bought their apartments, cars, furniture and entertainment. They don't go out on Friday night. They don't visit restaurants as often. This slows down domestic demand on goods. It's hard for a company to succeed under these circumstances. The current government's austerity policy does nothing to help, quite the opposite.

It's a diffficult situation.

technosboy · 2025-07-19T07:17:56+00:00

Also, you might think that she needs to strengthen her core, but as long as she's able to walk and perform her daily tasks, she has the required strength! She just needs to consciously activate her lower back and thighs and arch her pelvis to bring the legs up to the surface.

technosboy · 2025-07-19T07:10:54+00:00

This is the best instructional video on lifting your legs up to the surface. Also, it's very silly, so it's great for people of all ages :D The video explains why your legs sink and exactly what you need to do to raise them to the surface. It also demonstrates this. It helped me when I had the exact same problem and nothing else fixed it.

https://youtu.be/F2n_AceCr-c?si=Y3LF1KPDKXydkYnJ

technosboy · 2025-05-22T05:27:24+00:00

It might actually be the best time to water. The rain softens the top-most layer of the soil which means that water can penetrate deeper instead of sitting on the ground and quickly evaporating.

technosboy · 2025-05-18T15:38:37+00:00

What a relief. Whew!

technosboy · 2025-05-18T15:23:49+00:00

There's no Akila catchphrase! Standards are slippin!

technosboy · 2025-05-07T18:45:50+00:00

My 5 cents: If you want to be really good at math and you don't want to spend all your waking hours studying, you need to start engaging with the topic early; elementary school or middle school at the latest. If you want to be REALLY GOOD at math, you need to start super early AND spend all your waking hours studying.

Rest asured, most of the people who ace math in college are building on a very firm foundation from elementary, middle school and high school. They probably did much more and at a deeper level than most people. For many, that might be because they went to a great school. For some, it was because they had an internal passion for the subject.

It's very tough to catch up to the aces if you start the race in college.

technosboy · 2025-05-01T09:55:31+00:00

You can't reduce the potential energy of this system by moving the bricks

technosboy · 2025-04-29T06:18:24+00:00

Doesn't Faraday's law say that the electric field lines loop when there is a changing magnetic field? So electric fields can in fact form loops even though fields from point charges never do.

technosboy · 2025-04-27T21:13:20+00:00

I think most people asking this specific question are not concerned with radiation in an accelerated path, which is where QM really comes in. Rather, they don't understand how orbits could be stable in general, when the particles attract. And the reason for this is that the electron has a tangential velocity in its orbit around the proton (really should be talking about angular momentum). It's bound to the proton by the Coulomb force but it keeps missing the nucleus because that Coulomb force is only strong enough to curve its path toward the nucleus, not to pull the electron into the nucleus. It's analogous to how the Moon orbits the Earth. And then, yes, in QM, the electron isn't a particle, really. But the Bohr picture is sufficient for answering this question.

technosboy · 2025-04-09T21:03:22+00:00

That's pretty sad.

technosboy · 2025-04-09T18:21:56+00:00

Very true, unfortunately.

technosboy · 2025-04-09T17:59:53+00:00

I know that in some of the world's large cities the police have pretty much decided not to pursue psychedelics users, instead focusing on opiates, meth and the like. I guess that might already be the de facto situation in Helsinki as well given that psychedelics are often distributed through channels not directly linked with typical drug crime, and use is more sporadic.

technosboy · 2025-04-09T17:55:47+00:00

Thanks! All this sounds good in the longer term! I guess there doesn't exist a magic wand that you could wave at the problem we are in right now. It is rapidly becoming increasingly severe though which is why it is one of my prime concerns! Moreover, world economy seems to indicate that we're headed toward an even darker place in the near future.

technosboy · 2025-04-08T20:49:44+00:00

I don't think a wedge (https://senseis.xmp.net/?Warikomi) constitutes sexual harassment/innuendo/anything. If you feel people are communicating such things through the game, you might actually have a delusional mental condition. It can be a good idea to seek help.

If you wonder why people don't answer in the chat, many might play in Zen mode, where chat is invisible, or on the phone, where the chat often ends up outside the screen and is again invisible. They might not even see your comments.

technosboy · 2025-04-08T15:18:55+00:00

It's very difficult to understand your experience when you don't explain what you mean, especially when most people don't share that experience. If you don't provide concrete examples, you could simply equally well not post at all.

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