4877 pts ยท August 2, 2016
Furry and a PhD math student. I study martial arts and draw when I'm not gaming :)
I wonder if it's an alloy of gallium with something that raises it's melting temp somewhat?
Dysphoria was my first thought too
You gotta respect the commitment though
Nihilist egg just cracked mid comment xD
I agree. I like to live my life in a way where I surround myself with people that don't leave me feeling like I have to posture or defend myself
We can look at lighting as a great example of why it's so hard to factor everything in. We have direct lighting which already needs to factor in the material properties perfectly. Then you have reflections, and then scattering, diffusion, diffraction, combinations of all of them for every point in a single frame, subsurface scattering, ambient occlusion, glow, fluorescence and other niche effects. Then there's colour matching, dust which will need fluid dynamics, etc. it's nuts
So we have the math to solve physical problems, which means the simulations could theoretically be perfect. But what happens is there's a few caveats. The first is there's always some effect we didn't think of that makes a big change. The second is when we solve these equations in a way that can be put into a computer, there's feedback and instability in the equations themselves that cause issues for the computer and create unrealistic behavior, e.g. jittering.
My brain autocorrected it to "cybertruck" and I still got the same meaning
We got unlucky in that our AI progressed faster than robotics. Hopefully robotics catches up soon and we can have robots that do chores
I'm a TA at a university. Deep breaths and two important notes: 1) The first few weeks largely determine your grade because you're forming habits. Start with good habits! (Don't get worried if you bomb the first quiz, everyone always does, that's why it's a quiz and not a midterm)2) If you got in then you're meant to be there. Be proud and have faith in yourself. Remember you're there to learn, not to know everything. You're expected to struggle sometimes and nobody is expecting much of you <3
Congrats!! Enjoy being the best "you" you can be :)
Importantly too: don't just focus on the situations you can affect, but the situations that have meaningful outcomes. There are many situations where coasting through puts you in the same place as going maximum effort.
Flow comes from the Bruce Lee quote about being like water. How it can crash and how it can flow. Vector cones because flow is always taken as a username so I choose something people hate: math
> specifically believe that their bet is better than yours. Buying and selling based on speculation is arguing that your intuition and 15 minutes of googling headlines is more sound than the most advanced statistical models to date employed by corporations whose sole existence is to make as much money as possible. The only way to reliably profit from these markets is by relying on the time value of money. I.e. diversify, hedge, and wait.
One more crucial note. If you get any investment advice from online about something specific "buy this, store this". Then you're being exploited. The market reacts to news on the scale of minutes and seconds. Companies are launching satellites into space to monitor oil stocks to predict price changes. Unless you're the one harvesting the data from the satellite you're too late to any worthwhile event. Every trade you make likely has a team of PhDs and industry veterans on the other side who>
Speculation doesn't work in practice. Hold a diversified portfolio of at least 20 assets and make sure it covers as many sectors in the market as possible. Throw money in there and forget about it for 20 years. People misunderstand the stock market. It's not a money printer because it's a 0 sum game. All it does is exchange money for time (loans) and time for money (lending). If you don't know what this means then you should ask your bank to do it for you.
So I work in math finance, so you need a big liquid market to work with. Oil and gas make up like over 60% of the bigger commodity indices, so inevitably the discussion circles around there. But personally I've always found metals more interesting, especially with the rise in demand from batteries.
My masters stuff got published too* damn gesture typing!
I'm doing research into commodities markets. I did so for my masters degree too. In my masters I proved the commodity prices don't tend towards a specific number. I later learned that commodity prices follow seasonal patterns and you have to remove those patterns first. Now I'm in my PhD and half the dissertation is just going to be correcting the nonsense I did in my masters. My masters did got published too.
I just see one Blind Blue-Haired Slender (Wo)Man. Where's the other Brazilian of them?
27 starting out here! All ages are valid!
There are trans friendly discord servers. You might be able to join voice on one and have a few people listen :)
:)*
There's a modded community called "movie battles 2" that overhauls the game. It's really fun. You can get the base game cheap on steam and then Google the mod :(
Gambler's ruin problem! If you don't have a set upper limit to walk away at but you have a set lower limit ($0) and the odds of winning are less than 50% (they are) then the probability of walking away with money is exactly 0. In this case a few people walked away early
Just a heads up. This can cause hip issues in the future. I had an aunt with the same thing and she needed special shoes to keep her hips even.
Sauce: https://youtu.be/z497lu4t5XI?si=niKSwjD-cqV7pFWH
It's a dark meme referencing the demon core. The joke is if the kids toy closes properly then it'll emit radiation and kill everyone. The humor is supposed to be in the contrast of child-like carefree innocence with what is possibly one of the most dangerous objects you can hold in your hands. It's a long running meme to depict the demon core with an innocent, dumb, or unknowing character like this. Kyle Hill has a great video on it
It's the surprised Pikachu meme. The static is red/yellow and the Pikachu is green
That "Oh..." Is so distinctive when it happens too. Like for a second you realize and then you go from a completely normal moment to everything changing permanently.
I wonder if it's an alloy of gallium with something that raises it's melting temp somewhat?
Dysphoria was my first thought too
You gotta respect the commitment though
Nihilist egg just cracked mid comment xD
I agree. I like to live my life in a way where I surround myself with people that don't leave me feeling like I have to posture or defend myself
We can look at lighting as a great example of why it's so hard to factor everything in. We have direct lighting which already needs to factor in the material properties perfectly. Then you have reflections, and then scattering, diffusion, diffraction, combinations of all of them for every point in a single frame, subsurface scattering, ambient occlusion, glow, fluorescence and other niche effects. Then there's colour matching, dust which will need fluid dynamics, etc. it's nuts
So we have the math to solve physical problems, which means the simulations could theoretically be perfect. But what happens is there's a few caveats. The first is there's always some effect we didn't think of that makes a big change. The second is when we solve these equations in a way that can be put into a computer, there's feedback and instability in the equations themselves that cause issues for the computer and create unrealistic behavior, e.g. jittering.
My brain autocorrected it to "cybertruck" and I still got the same meaning
We got unlucky in that our AI progressed faster than robotics. Hopefully robotics catches up soon and we can have robots that do chores
I'm a TA at a university. Deep breaths and two important notes:
1) The first few weeks largely determine your grade because you're forming habits. Start with good habits! (Don't get worried if you bomb the first quiz, everyone always does, that's why it's a quiz and not a midterm)
2) If you got in then you're meant to be there. Be proud and have faith in yourself. Remember you're there to learn, not to know everything. You're expected to struggle sometimes and nobody is expecting much of you <3
Congrats!! Enjoy being the best "you" you can be :)
Importantly too: don't just focus on the situations you can affect, but the situations that have meaningful outcomes. There are many situations where coasting through puts you in the same place as going maximum effort.
Flow comes from the Bruce Lee quote about being like water. How it can crash and how it can flow. Vector cones because flow is always taken as a username so I choose something people hate: math
> specifically believe that their bet is better than yours. Buying and selling based on speculation is arguing that your intuition and 15 minutes of googling headlines is more sound than the most advanced statistical models to date employed by corporations whose sole existence is to make as much money as possible. The only way to reliably profit from these markets is by relying on the time value of money. I.e. diversify, hedge, and wait.
One more crucial note. If you get any investment advice from online about something specific "buy this, store this". Then you're being exploited. The market reacts to news on the scale of minutes and seconds. Companies are launching satellites into space to monitor oil stocks to predict price changes. Unless you're the one harvesting the data from the satellite you're too late to any worthwhile event. Every trade you make likely has a team of PhDs and industry veterans on the other side who>
Speculation doesn't work in practice. Hold a diversified portfolio of at least 20 assets and make sure it covers as many sectors in the market as possible. Throw money in there and forget about it for 20 years. People misunderstand the stock market. It's not a money printer because it's a 0 sum game. All it does is exchange money for time (loans) and time for money (lending). If you don't know what this means then you should ask your bank to do it for you.
So I work in math finance, so you need a big liquid market to work with. Oil and gas make up like over 60% of the bigger commodity indices, so inevitably the discussion circles around there. But personally I've always found metals more interesting, especially with the rise in demand from batteries.
My masters stuff got published too* damn gesture typing!
I'm doing research into commodities markets. I did so for my masters degree too. In my masters I proved the commodity prices don't tend towards a specific number. I later learned that commodity prices follow seasonal patterns and you have to remove those patterns first. Now I'm in my PhD and half the dissertation is just going to be correcting the nonsense I did in my masters. My masters did got published too.
I just see one Blind Blue-Haired Slender (Wo)Man. Where's the other Brazilian of them?
27 starting out here! All ages are valid!
There are trans friendly discord servers. You might be able to join voice on one and have a few people listen :)
:)*
There's a modded community called "movie battles 2" that overhauls the game. It's really fun. You can get the base game cheap on steam and then Google the mod :(
Gambler's ruin problem! If you don't have a set upper limit to walk away at but you have a set lower limit ($0) and the odds of winning are less than 50% (they are) then the probability of walking away with money is exactly 0. In this case a few people walked away early
Just a heads up. This can cause hip issues in the future. I had an aunt with the same thing and she needed special shoes to keep her hips even.
Sauce: https://youtu.be/z497lu4t5XI?si=niKSwjD-cqV7pFWH
It's a dark meme referencing the demon core. The joke is if the kids toy closes properly then it'll emit radiation and kill everyone. The humor is supposed to be in the contrast of child-like carefree innocence with what is possibly one of the most dangerous objects you can hold in your hands. It's a long running meme to depict the demon core with an innocent, dumb, or unknowing character like this. Kyle Hill has a great video on it
It's the surprised Pikachu meme. The static is red/yellow and the Pikachu is green
That "Oh..." Is so distinctive when it happens too. Like for a second you realize and then you go from a completely normal moment to everything changing permanently.