I am not the OP. u/Laser_Lens_4 is the OP from r/blind.

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[Rant] Math makes me resent sighted people

I don't like doing these, but I need to talk about my frustrations with people who actually get it. Maybe some good can come out of it. Maybe some blind math wiz will laugh and tell me I've done everything wrong and send me to a website that let's me do this all with perfect accessibility. so here goes.

I'm one week away from completing a remedial math course in community college here in the states. I'm tired, stressed, angry, and want it to end... oh, and I'm insane enough to pursue a computer science degree, so I've got years of math ahead. Let me tell you a bit about my math story as a blind woman.

I was terrible at math in grade school. In retrospect, it was probably because I spent so much effort on squinting at all the weird symbols that I had no time left to actually learn the content. Now that I'm in college and using a sight-free workflow, I'm actually getting it. The most surreal event so far is learning logarithms and understanding it easily whilst vividly remembering sitting in high school and being thoroughly confused.

So where's the rant? Well, the entire past 16 weeks have been an exercise in misery. So, I walk into class, introduce myself to the instructor, and listen to him talk about math for an hour and a half. I go home to try homework online. What do I find? Not LaTeX, not MathML, but some proprietary code on Cengage's website. It's not too bad at first, but mind you absolutely nobody showed me how to use this website, so the first week consisted of me aimlessly navigating by headings and form fields. Then we hit exponents and quadratics. NVDA straight up didn't read superscripts. Thus begins my first email chain bitching at disability workers and web devs. They tell me to use Firefox and Math Player with NVDA, so that means I have to switch browsers, install software, and count my lucky stars that I know how to use NVDA since they provided no instruction for that. Fine, right? Nope. I have to switch the math renderer on the website to MathML, oh and they had to create a duplicate course where everything had been made accessible. So you know, separate but equal... just like the 60's! But wait, there's more. I couldn't switch the renderer myself. I had to have a sighted

I am getting increasingly worried about the amount of warning signals that are flashing red for hyperinflation- I believe the process has already begun, as I will lay out in this paper. The first stages of hyperinflation begin slowly, and as this is an exponential process, most people will not grasp the true extent of it until it is too late. I know I’m going to gloss over a lot of stuff going over this, sorry about this but I need to fit it all into four posts without giving everyone a 400 page treatise on macro-economics to read. Counter-DDs and opinions welcome. This is going to be a lot longer than a normal DD, but I promise the pay-off is worth it, knowing the history is key to understanding where we are today.

SERIES (Parts 1-4) TL/DR: We are at the end of a MASSIVE debt supercycle. This 80-100 year pattern always ends in one of two scenarios- default/restructuring (deflation a la Great Depression) or inflation (hyperinflation in severe cases (a la Weimar Republic). The United States has been abusing it’s privilege as the World Reserve Currency holder to enforce its political and economic hegemony onto the Third World, specifically by creating massive artificial demand for treasuries/US Dollars, allowing the US to borrow extraordinary amounts of money at extremely low rates for decades, creating a Sword of Damocles that hangs over the global financial system.

The massive debt loads have been transferred worldwide, and sovereigns are starting to call our bluff. Governments papered over the 2008 financial crisis with debt, but never fixed the underlying issues, ensuring that the crisis would return, but with greater ferocity next time. Systemic risk (from derivatives) within the US financial system has built up to the point that collapse is all but inevitable, and the Federal Reserve has demonstrated it will do whatever it takes to defend legacy finance (banks, broker/dealers, etc) and government solvency, even at the expense of everything else (The US Dollar).

I’ll break this down into four parts. ALL of this is interconnected, so please read these in order:

Part One: The Global Monetary System- “A New Rome” <

[Part Two: Derivatives, Systemic Risk, & Nitroglycerin- “The Ouroboros” < ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o727oc/the_dollar_endgame_part

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Balance progress changes

We studied the rating situation after releasing the update and found unfair points, which have already been corrected in the game. There should now be fewer situations in which the difference between the wins and losses ratings will be too high. However, we'll continue to monitor the situation.Marcus

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Heavy Attack. Damage:

• Reduced by 17%

Special Attack. Damage from last attack:

• Reduced by 30%

Probability of critical attack:

• Reduced by half

5th level talent:

• Attack: 8% —> 5%
• Shadow Power: 8% —> 5%

Dev Notes:

Marcus has been the strongest hero for a long time. If we can't fix the situation with small changes, then we have to think about changing the basic movements and mechanics of the hero.

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Probability of critical attack:

• Reduced by half

6th level talent Adrenaline. Damage increase coefficient:

• 1.32 —> 1.2

Lower Attack. Damage:

• Reduced by 25%

Basic Attack. Start of unbreakable state interval:

• 18 frames —> 22 frames

Dev Notes:

We'll continue to make changes to weaken the Ironclad after the revision.

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9th level talent:

• 10% defense —> 10% attack and shadow power

3rd level talent:

• 10% attack and shadow power —> 10% defense

Dev Notes:

Shuffled talents to improve the hero's win rate at low levels.

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Wasteland Harmony ability:

• Multiplier at 1 stack - 1.05 —> 1.1
• Multiplier at 16 stack - 1.85—> 1.75

10th level talent Sand Storm:

• Multiplier at 1 stack - 1.18—> 1.21
• Multiplier at 16 stack - 1.85 —> 1.78

7th level talent:

• Attack: 5% —> 8%
• Shadow Power: 5% —> 8%

9th level talent:

• 10% defense —> 15% defense

Dev Notes:

*We decided to make the Wasteland Harmony abilit

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I made an iOS app AR OptionSim that lets you simulate and visualize option prices and Greeks in augmented reality. The app is 100% free, and you can download it in the link below and you can also watch the video below for a demo of the app recorded on iPad.

AR OptionSim Download Link:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1579196058?fbclid=IwAR1xHhYO7MRp_YnTdonrZeRhtYC8FADtb1W4KoBic2HrFrlgWKCamAJCyHM

AR OptionSim Demo Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHFGQzNHW_s

Main Features

This app implements the Black-Scholes model and supports both one-asset vanilla and two-asset basket European call/put, with and without barrier(s). It is designed to let you gain greater insights and better understanding of option's properties. For example, in the one-asset mode, the 3D price plot shows how the option's price changes with respect to both its underlying asset's value as well as the option's time to expiration at various points; and this is something that's typically hard to visualize with traditional 2D plots. You can also drag on the 3D plot to interactively visualize the trend lines as well as the Greeks (represented by tangent vectors) at different points on the price surface. Finally, you can also use the "Curvature Heatmap" plotting mode to visualize the curvature pattern of the 3D price surface easily (to find the region of the price surface with the greatest curvature for example).

Another unique features of this app is that it can also price exotic options (barrier options and basket options) in addition to traditional vanilla options. These types of options are typically harder to price due to their lack of analytical formulas and lengthy computation process, but are made possible on this mobile app with the help of GPU acceleration.

If you like the app or find it useful, don't forget to share it with your friends and leave a good review on the App Store! :)

Technical Details

The Black-Scholes partial differential equation is solved using the finite element method with implicit Euler time integration. The simulation algorithm also leverages GPU acceleration with Metal Shading Language.

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"The Air panels feature an efficiency rating of 20.9%, a low power-temperature coefficient, shade tolerance, wide spectral response, and hot-spot resistance.

Maxeon Air panels will be used in selected projects in Europe in the second half of 2021. General product availability is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2022."

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Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

seasonal colour analysis theory has become an increasingly trendy tool used by both AB beauty gurus and companies over the past few makeup seasons, taking personal colour matching a step beyond the basics of undertones. while it can be a bit complicated to figure out at first, it's actually pretty simple.

in this post, i'll briefly cover what seasonal analysis is, its limitations, how to find your type, and how to use this information. i'll use some AB makeup as examples to visualize, but please note that this is not going to a picture-heavy post (reddit posts limit the number of images that can be included), so please do google for more references! it's much easier to understand when you have visuals. but i'll do my best to include examples (all images are taken from online, they are not mine!)

DISCLAIMER: i am NOT an expert or makeup artist! this is just my personal, very basic understanding; please feel free to correct me or add in your own knowledge in the comments! im not sponsored nor do i have a blog/channel, so don't worry, i'm not trying to sell you anything or self-promote c:

table of contents

I. overview

II. tools

III. seasons

IV. recommendations

I. overview

seasonal analysis uses certain tools, to analyse certain subjects, to discern certain characteristics about your colouring, which we rank to determine your personal seasonal palette.

the tools - hue / chroma / value

the subjects - colour & undertone of: skin / hair / eyes

the characteristics - (hue) warm vs cool / (chroma) clear vs soft / (value) light vs deep

the seasons - spring / summer / autumn / winter

to present it visually:

the chart can be read 3 ways:

vertical measures the hue, i.e. warm vs cool. the left two (spring, autumn) are the 'warm' seasons; the right two (summer, winter) are the 'cool' seasons.

horizontal measures the value, i.e light vs. deep. the top two (spring, summer) are the 'light' seasons; the bottom two (autumn, winter) are the 'deep' seasons.

diagonal measures the chroma, i.e. clear vs soft (or 'mute'). from top left to bottom right (spring, winter) are the 'clear' seasons; from bottom left to top right (autumn, summer), are the 'soft' seasons.

it is important to remember that the goal of seasonal colour analysis is to find **what tones a

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

This discussion has become quite technical – sorry for that. Therefore, I start with an attempt to summarize the most important findings:

TL;DR / Summary

There is a statistically significant anti-correlation between the increase in GME DRS (Computershare) accounts and the percentage the trade-volume executed in dark pools. A linear correlations test results in a linear correlation coefficient r =-0.36 +/- 0.11, which classifies as a "weak anti-correlation". Therefore, it is possible that the percentage of dark pool-trades is reducing because of the large-scale direct-registering of $GME shares (DRS) at Computershare.

Disclaimer: There's the famous saying "correlation does not imply causation", which also holds here. Therefore, the correlation found here is no direct proof that the DP-% is reducing because of the DRSing - there could be other (more important) factors at play here. But it is a possibility. :-)

Data

The following graph shows the underlying data. Quick disclosure of the sources: The data of the percentage of $GME shares traded in dark pools (darkpool-percentage) was obtained from chartexchange.com. The CS account number was extracted from one of u/stopfuckingwithme's recent High-Score posts on r/Superstonk. The analysis would be more meaningful with the amount of registered shares at CS, but this data is not available -- the account numbers is the next best thing: for such large numbers we can assume that the amount of DRS shares are proportional to the account number (i.e. the average shares per account remains about the same).

The graph shows CS account number (blue circles) plotted to the left axis; darkpool-percentages ($GME) is plotted to the right axis. Dashed lines show linear fits to the DP-% data starting in August (that is when the DRS started). Shaded area gives the 2-sigma confident interval.

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Fit results

Fit for $GME results in a slope of b=-9.54e-07 ± 6.41e-07 (in units of %/seconds; strage unit, I know.. :D). The error stated here corresponds to the 2-sigma (95%) standard deviation. Even when considering the full range of the error, the fitted slope for $GME is still smaller than 0 (and b=0 means no slope/constant/no time-dependence). **Therefore, the fit indicates a statis

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

What? Do you not have patience, Exile?

TL;DR of this post - This is a regression analysis for player dropoff on leagues since Harbinger. I am looking for input for capturing more factors that are believed by segments of the PoE player base to be important for predicting player dropoff and retention. Thank you.

Edit: Here is an imgur link to the graph of predicted vs. actual dropoff. https://imgur.com/cShGrZr

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Edit2: I have produced what might be a better visualization. I include it below for discussion. Is this better for comprehension? The predicted values are the lighter shares, while the actual values are the darker shades, for each league.

Hopefully better visualization?

IMPORTANT UPDATE

As I stated, I am looking to find more (statistically significant) factors that contribute to player retention. And playing around with some numbers, I actually found one!

The starting point was to think about how to model a factor that represented 'time taken away from mapping' in terms of a 0-1 binary variable for each league. I then broadened it a bit to include 'significant time investment to perform league mechanic' as a factor. The leagues that were given a 1 for this factor were: Bestiary (nets), Delve (obvious, I think?), Synthesis (the memory board), Blight (towers), Harvest (garden planning), Heist (doors?), and Expedition (placing explosives).

This resulted in a statistically significant factor.

The updated regression equation is

Player Dropoff = 9.81% + 0.9% * League - 5.68% * Big Content + 6.84% * 'Time Consuming Mechanic' + 10.84% * Week

The R-squared value increased to 0.817.

Some explanation:

What we see change is the intercept (which is good; ideally it would be 0), and the Big Content value getting reduced. What this shows is that the fact that GGG pairs 'big endgame content' with simpler leagues is one of the reasons that 'big content' leagues do better. Having an involved League mechanic actively hurts player retention.

UPDATE 2: Kudos to u/butsuon!

Everyone, thank u/butsuon, for we have another factor based on their suggestion!

Actually, we have replaced the 'big content' factor with a factor whether Conquerors exis

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

I don't like doing these, but I need to talk about my frustrations with people who actually get it. Maybe some good can come out of it. Maybe some blind math wiz will laugh and tell me I've done everything wrong and send me to a website that let's me do this all with perfect accessibility. so here goes.

I'm one week away from completing a remedial math course in community college here in the states. I'm tired, stressed, angry, and want it to end... oh, and I'm insane enough to pursue a computer science degree, so I've got years of math ahead. Let me tell you a bit about my math story as a blind woman.

I was terrible at math in grade school. In retrospect, it was probably because I spent so much effort on squinting at all the weird symbols that I had no time left to actually learn the content. Now that I'm in college and using a sight-free workflow, I'm actually getting it. The most surreal event so far is learning logarithms and understanding it easily whilst vividly remembering sitting in high school and being thoroughly confused.

So where's the rant? Well, the entire past 16 weeks have been an exercise in misery. So, I walk into class, introduce myself to the instructor, and listen to him talk about math for an hour and a half. I go home to try homework online. What do I find? Not LaTeX, not MathML, but some proprietary code on Cengage's website. It's not too bad at first, but mind you absolutely nobody showed me how to use this website, so the first week consisted of me aimlessly navigating by headings and form fields. Then we hit exponents and quadratics. NVDA straight up didn't read superscripts. Thus begins my first email chain bitching at disability workers and web devs. They tell me to use Firefox and Math Player with NVDA, so that means I have to switch browsers, install software, and count my lucky stars that I know how to use NVDA since they provided no instruction for that. Fine, right? Nope. I have to switch the math renderer on the website to MathML, oh and they had to create a duplicate course where everything had been made accessible. So you know, separate but equal... just like the 60's! But wait, there's more. I couldn't switch the renderer myself. I had to have a sighted person physically right-click on an equation to switch the renderer over. Why MathML isn't the standard, and why this feature is locked behind something blind people can't access (even though it's meant for blind people) is beyond me.

So the renderer is final

It really does, I swear!

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

There hasn't been a post all year!

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)