Daily news: This is Saturday, January 15, and today is day 15 of the year-long Stay Clean 2022 challenge. Our 14 day late-signup grace period is now over. If you forgot to sign up, it's too late to sign up for Stay Clean 2022, but feel free to leave comments here anyway, and join us over on the monthly challenge thread.

Guidelines:

• At the end of this post is a list of people who have signed up for the challenge, and who are still in the running. That means that they have not needed to reset because of a relapse or slip.
• Please check in with the group in the comments as often as you want! Feel free to share thoughts, feelings, experiences, progress, wisdom, encouragement and whatever else!
• IMPORTANT: if you relapse, please post a comment to that effect here and I will remove your name from the list. We will not judge you or shame you, we have all been there.
• Participants are required to check in once per month. If you have a "~" after your name, you have yet to check in during January. If it is still there at the end of January 31, you will be removed from the list, in order to keep the numbers as realistic as possible.
• We will not be accepting any new participants, but even if you're not on the list, please feel free to check in in the update threads anyway! And be sure to join us for the Stay Clean monthly thread!

Good luck!

There are currently 869 out of 941 original participants. That's 92%. These 869 participants represent 13035 pornfree days in 2022! That's more than 35 years.

Here is the list of participants still with the challenge:

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[Edit 1:15: For anyone who noticed a hiccup in the outputs 5 minutes before kick-off, it was just a referencing problem-- I haven't heard from anyone about it, but sorry if there was confusion!]

[Edit 2: I think I hate this season. Not other sources get any more accurate, but there have just been too many surprises these last 4 weeks! Chiefs/Titans, Bills/Jax... So not cool.]

Week 9 was a rough ride for Vegas expectations-- So it's nice to be back to a fresh week of delusion, convincing ourselves of the comfort in those nice projected points that have yet to disappoint us.

Anyway, here are the week 9 charts!

Many of you saw from my future projections that week 9 would be a rough one for D/ST streaming-- only 5 decent options. Hopefully you snagged ahead. The tough week means there's more risk for going negative-- roster carefully.

[By the way, Accuracy report here.]

Now to this week's topic, based on request from some of you:

Explanation of Overfit (Cause of recent model updates)

Some of you requested me to describe what is "overfit".   So here's ...really probably... more than you really wanted to know! Anyway, I hope like 3 of you out there will get something from this discussion, or at least get some insight into why my models got updated after week 6.

Overfit the issue I've been focused on, during October, putting virtually all my spare hours into that alone. Not to mention past years.  So it is an issue I treat seriously, to try to deliver the best possible recommendations.  I strongly belief my efforts to address overfit will make the second half of the season even better.

What is overfit? In my own words, an overfit is a feature in a model that causes wrong predictions-- despite the fact that the same feature well describes past trends.

Are there different kinds of overfit?  Yes, I'm glad you asked.  I'm not dealing with the classic example of polynomial overfit (when you try to fit a trend to y=a+bx+cx^(2)+...+zx^(25) when it could have sufficed to use y=mx+b).  The type of overfit I'm weeding out is of the "multivariable" kind.  When there are more variables than just "x", then issues of overfit get tricky.

Example?  Here's an easy example, and al

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.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Disclaimer  

I'm a physicist, but by no means an expert. Just a strong interest in both quantum computing and cryptography. I've also simplified a lot of concepts, because they are complex and don't really bring anything more to the discussion.

Introduction  

With IBM announcing their new quantum chip with 127 qubits, I thought I'd clear any misunderstandings concerning quantum computing as a threat to cryptocurrencies and cryptography as a whole. For this, we need to do a quick physics and cryptography recap.

The physics  

Qubits form the fundamental unit of quantum information, just like the bit is the fundamental unit of information in classical computing. Classically, the bit may take 2 values, either a 1 or a 0. In a quantum system, the qubit may be in a coherent superposition of both states. If this seems counterintuitive to you, I highly recommend the Computerphile video on superposition, which will give you a much more intuitive notion of superposition. Quantum computing has an edge over classical computing via the implementation of quantum algorithms, which perform better than classical algorithms for a certain class of problems.

The cryptography  

Cryptographic functions are used in different ways in the bitcoin protocol. I won't get into too much detail as it is beyond the scope of this piece, but will go over two main types.

1st - The public-private key pair. When you generate your seed phrase, you're creating a public-private key pair. These are interesting because both can be used to encrypt or decrypt a message, and consequently, to prove ownership of something. For example:

• Alice has both a public and private key
• Alice encrypts her message using the private key
• Alice shares her public key to the world
• Bob takes Alice's public key to decrypt Alice's message
• Bob therefore knows Alice is the one who wrote the message

We can see how this can be used in the bitcoin protocol. Simply put, each UTXO belongs to an address (which is derived from your public key, more on that later) and can only be spent by the holder of the corresponding private key (by signing the transaction).

2nd - The hash function. Hash functions are used for the proof of work part, where to mint a block, a hash of pending transactions and a nonce is generated (this is a gross simplification). The first person to generate a hash with a leading number of

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 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

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.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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.

There hasn't been a post all year!

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

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Just to clarify, 12345678

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.

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!