Apes are one hell of a fascinating breed of investor huh? I saw a comment way back in the early days that made me lamayo, wish I could credit the user. It said “Bulls think a stock will go up, bears think a stock will go down, apes rip your face and balls off”
True words those. The investing world will never be the same. Ungodly amounts of money spent to hire the supposedly most intelligent people in the world to create sophisticated algos meant to exploit human psychology. FUD campaigns designed by people who supposedly understand human nature better than anybody. They didn’t understand apes. That’s the black swan.
I am a third-year EEE student studying in a NIT. Prior to Covid 19, I was dead sure that I would go for foreign internships and finally go for Masters abroad (related to AI, I have worked on it). But, during the lockdown, I did some introspection. I found out that I wanted to pursue this not because I was interested in it, but because I wanted recognition (that one-minute fame that we get after we have done something marvellous like entering a foreign college). So, I started exploring different things. I read about anything and everything. I read about History, Economics, Political Science, Physics, Psychology, Philosophy and what not. Truth be told, I am not much interested in EEE and Computer Science (I have secured an internship in an IT firm owing to my good CG). The subjects are good, but I want to pursue something else. For the first time, since my childhood, I pursued stuff not because others are pursuing it (and to escape from the fear of missing out) but for obtaining knowledge out of curiosity(even if I don't get any value from it in the future, I don't care).
Currently, I am more inclined towards Economics and Psychology (more towards Behavioural Science and Economics). What all options do I have after completing my engineering?
I have a timeline of about 5-6 years where I can pursue my interests (as my parents are working and have about 8-9 years left before retirement). Going for a Masters Degree from abroad might put financial pressure on my parents (If I get some scholarship, then it's fine).
This is my first Reddit post. Please pardon me if I have made any mistake.
It's my opinion that consumer kits for home repair sometimes contain added features, such as directions and parts designs, that gently guide the inexperienced homeowner into making costly mistakes.
Usually these mistakes involve the breaking of a part that is not available separately. This necessitates purchase of a new kit. Thus a $x repair becomes a $2x repair, making the company's $y profit per unit into $2y.
Case in point: The K---- brand toilet flush lever kit (about $17 at A-- Hardware). This product is fairly sturdy and made of high-impact plastics. As such it appeals to people fixing an older commode with a cheaper plastic lever, which attaches to the handle with a plastic ring. This is about washer size and molded on, so as to be unfixable when it breaks.
The K---- lever design and material make this issue unlikely to occur. But there is a pitfall - and it is clever and subtle. It combines a single, inconspicuous design feature and a single sentence near the end of the direction sheet.
Step 8 in the directions is where you attach the flush lever to the handle inside the tank. You are advised to "adjust the fill valve for clearance."
This is actually a very easy move involving pushing a metal clip holding the valve to the filler pipe. But it is written so as to confuse the uninitiated user. Valve adjustment? How do I do that? Can I do that? Do I call a plumber? What's it going to cost? How long will my john be out of commission?
Now to the flush lever arm, the part attached in Step 8. This connects the handle assembly to the chain opening the flush valve (aka flapper). In so doing it passes by the filler pipe.
Here is the suspicious design feature in the K---- lever arm: When placed in position, it curves very shallowly inward, so it almost touches the filler pipe.
This curve causes the novice user to ask themselves whether it is somehow going to snag the fill valve - which up to now they have likely been intimidated from examining closely. After all, valve adjustment may be required.
As the lever is plastic, the user may choose to try to bend the curve out. This is the point of no return! High impact plastics break - they do not bend. The lever snaps in half with even gentle bending, and cannot easily be put back together to give sturdy service. As a rule, a whole new kit must be purchased.
The genius of the pitfall is that it is too subtle for the inexperienced user to see until it is *too late for them to avoi
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I'm graduating this year, and have an interview for the Data Analyst role at Bloomberg. I have already tried to prepare a bit, but was hoping Reddit could give me some further advice on this, as this is my first proper live interview, and I am slightly anxious about it. I have a large amount of experience with software development, but no "real" experience with actual data analytics, even though I find the topic very interesting.
So far, I've done the following
- Prepare a set of questions, both specific and generic, that I can ask the interviewers.
- Informed myself more about Bloomberg, and the team that my two interviewers belong to.
- Attempted at answering some generic interview questions to a basic level
- Very quickly reviewed the very basics of SQL and statistics. I have a lot of experience with SQL, although it's been a long time since I've last used it, but only know statistics from my college classes, which were also a while ago.
The interview is 1h and is supposed to be in the following format:
- A HackerRank assessment about statistics (Which I'm quite worried about, given that I'm not sure into what detail it goes. I'm confident about "knowing when to apply what statistical concept", but not about actually doing it in practice yet.)
- Behavioral (I assume the "typical" interview) in "STAR" format
- Data Analyst workflow re-engineering - Probably the crux of the interview, but I have absolutely no idea what to expect, and couldn't find much information about it online...
Basically, I'm unsure on how to prepare better for this. I do think that I would be fit for the role and can quickly learn the required knowledge, but I'm not sure if that's enough for the interview. I especially have very little idea about the process reengineering part...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I recently had an interview for an engineering role where I was asked the following behavioral question:
(First, the interviewer said a quick remark before the actual statement. I'll try to repeat verbatim.)
"Just a warning, be careful about how this question is worded. Tell me about a time where you worked with people with whom you had preconceived notions."
I feel like this is a loaded question in some ways, but I might be overthinking it too. I came up with a pretty quick response that I feel is either very strong or terrible but I won't repeat it here. I'm curious how anyone else would answer this one and also what you think the interviewer was trying to understand behaviorally.
This contest is closed.
Congratulations, winners! Details in comments. Winners are:
By selection: neongreenpurple, geekerjoy1, lexdudis
By raffle: TheWolfKin, Jessime9801, aimeenew
Special: boxofbuttonz
What's this contest about?
My wife has recently taken up knitting. She's really enjoying it, and she's a bit curious about these contests, so she has agreed to allow me to run a contest on her behalf.
There are two ways to enter this contest. The first is to suggest to my wife something that'll help her with her new hobby. It can be anything, as long as it'll help her knit and crochet to her heart's content.
The second is to include the phrase "Here, I made this for you" somewhere in your post, and I'll pick a winner at random using the raffle.
There will be at least two winners, but each person can only win once. My wife and I will choose a gift from the winners' wish list, but if there's something you want near $10 REALLY REALLY bad, feel free to link it.
We'll be ending the contest Thursday, after her knitting class, and picking winners then. Good luck, and thanks!
Edit: Today's the last day of the contest! Thank you, all of you, for entering and offering up suggestions! So many people chimed in, and I think it's totally amazing. It looks like my wife won't be able to attend her knitting class tonight, so we'll be closing the contest and declaring winners sometime after we get home from work, which should be around 7PM Central time. Or, in about 8 hours.
Thank you, again, for the suggestions and entries!
Any information on these classes and professors? anything that would be helpful. Thanks
An interesting article digging into the human side of Safety in construction and manufacturing. There's an interesting question at the heart of this that affects everyone working in Tech today: How can we integrate new technologies and human behavior to drive maximum safety and operation efficiency?
The FBI has a behavioral analysis unit that they use to profile criminals. Most tv shows like criminal minds that are based on FBI behavioral analysis unit are not based on real science. Silence of the Lambs is a great movie that uses the FBI behavioral analysis unit. Can Psychological Profiling be used in social engineering to help you better social engineer people or companies?
So I was talking to my ex yesterday, she asked how my MBA was going, told her I'll be done with it by December and after that I plan on applying for a PHD in behavioral science (she's a psychologist herself BTW), she told me that I should make up my mind on what I want, I'd actually never looked at it like that before and it really got me thinking if this would look bad on my resume.. Behavioral Science is something I would love to pursue more for my own sake than as a career choice if it makes any sense at all.
poster: Three_Letter_Agency, original conspiracy link
Introduction
> “In the 1950's and early 1960's, the agency gave mind-altering drugs to hundreds of unsuspecting Americans in an effort to explore the possibilities of controlling human consciousness. Many of the human guinea pigs were mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes -- ''people who could not fight back,'' as one agency officer put it. In one case, a mental patient in Kentucky was dosed with LSD continuously for 174 days.” - New York Times1
MK-ULTRA is the codename given to a CIA research operation into biological behavioral engineering, also known as mind control. Many people are familiar with the operation but incorrectly assume that it was limited to LSD research. While there were plenty of resources devoted to LSD research, it was only one area of a vast field of mind control operations. MK-ULTRA researcher Ike Feldman said himself that:
> “The LSD... that was just the tip of the iceberg... Espionage. Assassinations. Dirty tricks. Drug experiments. Sexual encounters and the study of prostitutes for clandestine use. That is what I was doing when I worked for George White and the CIA.”2
MK-ULTRA had several precursors. There was Project Chatter in 1947, which tested drugs such as the infamous Scopalmine during interrogations.3 There was Project Bluebird in 1949, which began studies into hypnosis.4 The document describing the initiation of Project Bluebird outlines these special problems, among many others, that they were hoping to address:
> Can we in a matter of an hour, two hours, one day, etc., induce an hypnotic condition in an unwilling subject to such an extent that he will perform an act for our benefit?
> Can we create by post-hypnotic control an action contrary to an individual's basic moral principles?
> Can we guarantee total amnesia under any and all conditions?
> Can we "alter" a person's personality? How long will it
> Can we devise a system for making unwilling subjects into willing agents and then transfer that control to untrained agency agents in the field by use of codes or identifying signs or credentials?5
Project Artichoke began in 1951, with a scope of ... “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our biddi
... keep reading on reddit ➡I have used mods in Skyrim for a couple years now, first on Xbox one through Bethesda and then on pc with NMM. I have a decent understanding of simple stuff like load orders and usually don't run into any significant issues in game. I've been seeing a ton of stuff about making Skyrim great through the use of Nemesis. Can someone explain to me exactly what it is? Start from square one and talk to me like I'm stupid.
I use quotes because I need specific words (or a string of words) to appear within the results. What I get instead are piles of results that contain few or even NONE of the words I typed in. What's worse is when I quote a string of words and the results will be missing that entire string. I'll even go to the websites and use the browsers "Find in page" feature, start typing in my quoted words, get to the third or so word and suddenly it's "0 results". Many of those words nonexistent inside that page. Here's another good one. The results are so bugged out that some words in quotes will give completely unrelated results from the start. The results will have absolutely nothing to do with what you typed and none of the pages will contain a single word you typed in. It's just a bunch of garbage results.
I started using DDG because I wanted to get away from Google. But with this I'm constantly having to go back to Google to do a search. It's a back and forth thing. Half the time Google sucks, the other half of it DDG sucks. The quality of these search results has really plummeted the last few years. I end up more frustrated and irritated after TRYING to find something in DDG or G. It would be nice if these things just worked..... like they once did years back. Not create ongoing anger issues.
