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I haven’t taken any nicotine this year. Has made me sleepy af, been taking naps all the time lol.

yeah I know. I think he started struggling with that pretty early on though. I'm in a good position because I was born a cynic so I can only be positively surprised.

from "The Science of Algorithmic Trading and Portfolio Management" by Robert Kissell. So this is from 2012 so things might look different now but one can see the trend: only about 7% of the market are retail traders (that is, regular people like you and me including day traders etc), 23% are...

I get David Foster Wallace pretty consistently. which is not bad.

This video talks about a new paper that basically suggests that the Nobel-winning paper which concluded the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and explained that with "dark energy" was based on erroneous inference The gist of it is this: in order to measure the rate of expansion...

this guy makes immense music

I agree that the collection of behaviors and modes of thinking we refer to as INTP has some weaknesses and counterproductive elements to it. My solution is to simply develop some work ethics and principles to follow. Some things, like habits, can be changed. Others, like deeper patterns of...

btw here's the currently most used sources of alternative data in the financial industry, maybe they can provide some ideas:

it's pretty crazy that some people buy computers based on what the desktop theme looks like just install linux and you have an infinitude of choices in desktop themes

well we have to keep in mind some basics here 1. market efficiency. Certain people (mostly academics) believe that it's not only difficult to beat the market beyond replicating the return of a broad index like S&P500 (which has an expected return of 5% or so annually), but that it's impossible...

My hypothesis would be that if you’re willing to get this emotionally invested, this quickly, with every girl you meet, you’re setting yourself up for getting exploited or just being used as some sort of human teddy bear, and it will probably not help you with getting what you actually want -...

Isn’t this the classical INTP syndrome where one takes a handful of data points and builds an elaborate logical system that accommodates those few examples

how do you make the case that Einstein had no imagination?

this exact situation has been a theme since day 1 I've been a member here, so when people are talking about the good ol' days, apparently this must be wayyyyy back in the day. I wonder what members like QuickTwist would say about the moderation here, and he's been here almost as long as...

yeah 2020 is a cool number. Looking forward to typing and writing it many times.

probably the latter. That's 2 major advantages of 5G – faster internet and all food is cooked automatically.

some people here make the case that some people should be silenced because they are not open to alternative viewpoints. If you define their default viewpoint as "shitty" or whatever at the outset, that's obviously pretty handy because then you can say "they have a shitty opinion and they refuse...

I always have my popcorn ready dude

depending on power and frequency, some electromagnetic radiation absolutely does harm to biological matter. Problem with 5G is that the experiment which will determine whether it's dangerous will be performed on live humans in society and the surrounding nature.

Isn't that the subject mods have been decidedly most stringent about, yet membership has been dwindling? I mean I've had had multiple people message me – people with standard right-learning views – that they felt the moderation here was too biased for them to stay around. These people are long...

how come none of those environmentalist fanatics say anything about 5G? They'll yap about how eating red meat causes more CO2 emissions all day long, but blasting ourselves and the surroundings with electromagnetic radiation? that's all cool, let's just see how it turns out.

that reminds me lol, every time I'm talking to people about quitting some addiction, starting some workout regime etc, there's always someone who tells me that there's some "app" for it. I don't need no mo goddamn apps, in fact I usually want to smash my phone into little pieces and never see it...

I remember this one girl who was a roomie of mine, she was a bit chubby and decided to lose some weight. So one morning at like 6AM I'm looking out the window and suddenly I see this girl outside running. Apparently she went from having no workout regime to going military-style training at 5AM...

I'm of the view that it's just a forum and not a big deal – if one doesn't like it one can simply close the tab. It's not like we're dealing with the government or something here. But one would think that if anyone gave a shit about this forum one would at least have mods who held themselves to...

Marbles actually referred to him as "he" and "him" before making the circumcision comment, so it's quite clear what kind of circumcision we are talking about (or at least what meaning was intended)

ah, I missed the part where you wrote that wishing mutilation on people is unacceptable when it's specifically female circumcision. I also missed the part where you specified that it was the hazardous nature of the operation that was the issue oh wait, you never mentioned any of that

I said it as a joke in the random thoughts thread, but still, just blatantly and persistently characterizing circumcision as "mutilation" ad-nauseam, isn't that promoting a negative view of literally billions of people out there?

how are we supposed to explain this Marbles ban to the muslim and jewish communities though #foreskingate

dude we both know I cannot be banned. Because if I'm banned, who is going to provide all that yummy righteous indignation?

Is this a new epiphany you've had, 7000 posts into your shitposting career? lmao now we're gonna get all sanctimonious about that circumcision comment good stuff

what I'm curious about is how does this forum state in terms and rules that it complies with GDPR yet also states users cannot request their account to be deleted

as mods can probably attest to, I've brought this kind of stuff up many times before. I've pointed out that certain political opinions get more scrutiny than others. But that's fine though. In the end, as long you state your case with some tact and reason, you can have pretty extreme opinions...

the classic INTP reply to "merry christmas"

@Marbles merry christmas!

I feel so INTJ when I bring up data from the real world :smoker:

Here's one example of the use of IQ as an explanatory power vis a vis things like motivation in school: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspp0000185.pdf table 3 contains regression weights for educational attainment 11 years after measurement. "Resp student" is a factor measuring...

I'm not really sure which part we agree/disagree on, but my stance is quite simple: it's a statistical variable which explains a certain % of variation in certain things like academic achievement, income etc. And yeah, most people don't understand how to interpret statistical variables like...

when it comes to assessing the validity of a metric like IQ, one obviously has to talk in terms of all-else-being-equal. Someone with 85 IQ can become, say, a better mathematician than someone with 115 IQ by studying harder, but all else being equal I would sure as hell bet that the 115 one will...

interesting plots, where are they from? what I see from that one is that 1) as expected, IQ is a much better predictor on the low end than high end, 2) median income doesn't change much in the 100-130 range but the mean certainly changes since the distribution becomes very right-skewed as you...

although its correct that variance goes down as you pool more people together, it will still be a predictor on individual level.

I think I have brought this up before but isn't it crazy to think that half the population has a sub-100 IQ? And about 1 in 6 has a sub-85 IQ? When Im on public transport I enjoy playing a game where I try to guess who that is.

@Rebis AMD has a price/earnings ratio of 240 (which is fucking insane), intel has 14. So it seems the market agrees with your analysis and has astronomical expectations for the future performance for AMD, thus having driven up the price. Moreover, AMD has a profit margin of 3%, Intel has 30%...

I hope it’s clear I was joking

It’s been shown that humans have a preference for people who are similar to themselves in appearance, yes. But it’s also been shown that humans have a preference for the familiar. Eg if you have a feral child that grew up around wolves out in the woods, that child will probably develop a...

What if your infection mutates into a super-virus, spreads across the world and wipes out the human race? Just a thought.

Let me just say it’s exceedingly unlikely you’ve had an interest in this type of business lol. But if you were to base it on your own experience what would you say?