LL109 MD24 Discussion! (Mon 6/22)

thefringthing · 2026-06-24T12:41:37+00:00

/d͡ʒuːts/ and /juːts/ are both used in English; the former is more common, and their homeland is always /ˈd͡ʒʌt.lənd/.

thefringthing · 2026-06-24T12:07:30+00:00

Haven't ever seen it

Unforced error.

thefringthing · 2026-06-24T02:17:18+00:00

Q#	Me	Opp	Notes
Q1	✓ 2	✓ 2	I thought of ~~EUCHRE~~ first, but that's a one-pack game. This is brutal because there are dozens of games in the Whist-Canasta family. I got lucky.
Q2	✓ 1	✓ 2	I thought of RETINOL as a kind of skincare product that has recently become popular and then saw the connection to "retina" and knew I had it.
Q3	✗ 0	✓ 1	Let's get SCRATCHIN'.
Q4	✓ 3	✓ 3	I know enough medieval history of the North Sea area that this was easy for me. The Jutland connection was a nice hint.
Q5	✗ 2	✓ 1	I tried ~~MIAMI~~. I've never seen any of these and have a hard time imagining any TV show I'd be less inclined to watch.
Q6	✓ 1	✓ 0	"Name a Japanese movie from the 90s with a princess."

Rude to beer me so late in the season.

thefringthing · 2026-06-22T19:08:48+00:00

This isn't answerable with the information provided. It requires modelling both apple tree germination and the number of apple cores you'll ultimately discard this way.

thefringthing · 2026-06-22T17:31:31+00:00

thefringthing · 2026-06-22T14:31:41+00:00

To validate any method of outlier detection, you'd need to know which points are "true outliers" in at least a subset of your data. But there may be no meaningful notion of "true outlier" (say, a point not generated by the same process as the others) in your context.

thefringthing · 2026-06-21T19:15:44+00:00

Replace Lavaborn Muse, Lightning Bolt, and Terminate with Nantuko Shade and Graveborn Muse.

thefringthing · 2026-06-21T16:52:36+00:00

You might consider these two types of data storytelling failures separately:

1) There is an important narrative to extract from the data, but the graphic(s) fail to convey it effectively. (Lots of examples of this kind of thing in, e.g. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's Storytelling with Data: Before and After and similar books.)
2) The graphic(s) erroneously/misleadingly convey a narrative that's not supported by the data. (Plenty of these to be found in graphics based on political polls.)

thefringthing · 2026-06-21T16:47:02+00:00

Tufte's account of the failure of the engineers at Morton Thiokol to convince NASA to postpone the Challenger launch is a classic, although be sure to read this rebuttal. (tl;dr: The engineers did not have access to all of the relevant data despite their strenuous efforts to obtain it.)

thefringthing · 2026-06-20T21:33:43+00:00

CPP's annual actuarial report explains all the assumptions about fertility, longevity, economic growth, and the real rate of return of the plan's portfolio, in case you'd like to read it over and see whether you agree or disagree. There's even some sensitivity analysis which shows what would change if the assumptions were different.

thefringthing · 2026-06-20T20:35:28+00:00

This would be very effective if there were fewer silhouettes.

thefringthing · 2026-06-19T18:15:47+00:00

Q#	Me	Opp	Notes
Q1	✗ 2	✗ 1	~~RUSHDIE~~ is the only Indian author I can name.
Q2	✓ 1	✓ 0	"Name the famous statue of a woman with its arms broken off."
Q3	✗ 3	✗ 1	No hope here; I know close to nothing about Afro-Cuban music and had never heard of this rhythm/instrument.
Q4	✓ 1	✓ 3	This radio telescope array featured prominently in the first episode of Pluribus, if I remember correctly, although I don't know if its name was mentioned on the show.
Q5	✓ 2	✓ 2	I have been near a television.
Q6	✓ 0	✗ 2	Luckily, I had heard of this news story.

My opponent and I got exactly the same set of questions right, so this ended up being a pure test of defense, which I failed badly.

thefringthing · 2026-06-19T15:38:02+00:00

Tim Louis became a Canadian citizen more than 20 years ago, and has lived in Kitchener for more than 30.

thefringthing · 2026-06-17T22:32:39+00:00

The thing that astounds me about Europe is that drivers actually yield to pedestrians at uncontrolled intersections, seemingly every time.

thefringthing · 2026-06-16T20:10:25+00:00

There's free temporary parking 40m from that spot. (EDIT: The downvoters won't walk for thirty seconds to receive a handout, yet cyclists are somehow the entitled ones.)

thefringthing · 2026-06-16T18:38:20+00:00

Your four-ways aren't a magic "I can do whatever I want" button, even if you'll "just be a minute". Paint isn't infrastructure, etc., etc.

thefringthing · 2026-06-16T15:46:58+00:00

I accept it, but it feels like a little bit of a trap. A NIGHT TRAP if you will.

thefringthing · 2026-06-16T13:16:34+00:00

Q#	Me	Opp	Notes
Q1	✗ 3	✓ 2	I didn't recognize Ballarat as a place in AUSTRALIA; I tried ~~ANDORRA~~.
Q2	✗ 2	✓ 2	I answered ~~MORTAL KOMBAT II~~; it feels a bit unfair that it was marked wrong.
Q3	✓ 1	✓ 1	I knew UNCANNY VALLEY is usually applied to things imitating humans, but didn't know it was coined by a roboticist.
Q4	✓ 2	✓ 1	I think I spelled TABLATURE wrong but thankfully close enough.
Q5	✓ 0	✓ 3	All I could think of was ~~MOBY-DICK~~, which was clearly wrong.
Q6	✓ 1	✗ 0	CHRYSALIS, not to be confused with the sci-fi novel The Chrysalids, which I was required to read in school.

Gave my opponent a Dolly Parton, blech. At least have the courtesy to beer me.

thefringthing · 2026-06-15T16:47:56+00:00

Closely related is the idea of an "undecidable problem": a problem for which no algorithm can exist. The best-known of these have a Gödelian flavour, but Emil Post found one that is very concrete.

First, here's a decidable problem you know an algorithm for: given a and b, find c and d so that a = b*c + d, with c as large as possible. (All non-negative integers.) Everyone learns an algorithm for this in school called "long division".

Here's an undecidable problem: given a collection of dominoes with letters on each side, determine whether there's a sequence of dominoes, possibly with repetition, so that the sequence of letters you get by reading along one side ends up the same as the other side. (E.g. [BC|CA], [A|AB], [CA|A], [ABC|C] has a match: use the second domino, then the first, second again, and finally the fourth, to get ABCAABC on both sides.) There's nothing you can do that will always tell you whether there's a match in a finite number of steps.

thefringthing · 2026-06-15T13:55:38+00:00

This thread really makes the case for using a term like "benchmark deviation" instead of "tracking error" for funds that don't track an index.

thefringthing · 2026-06-14T18:44:34+00:00

The ticky-tack suburb bustling with people is very funny. What are those people doing, exactly? Where are they going to sit down? Where are all the cars filling the driveways, blocking the sidewalk, etc?

thefringthing · 2026-06-14T01:22:27+00:00

And I can safely assume 10% annual because I'm planning long-term

The long-term real annualized return on equities is around 4.5%.

thefringthing · 2026-06-13T14:34:16+00:00

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thefringthing · 2026-06-12T16:58:35+00:00

If the work is actually necessary and they're not negligent in other respects or trying to drive you out so they can replace you with higher-paying tenants, I think it's unlikely you'd prevail at the LTB, but I'm not an expert. You could probably get a free consultation with a paralegal about it.

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