Yondoza
@Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Now that the DOW is below 50,000, are we allowed to care again? 3 hours ago:
It’s a useless metric for the state of the stock market. It’s used because it has been around forever and people hate change.
Why is it useless? It is calculated by tracking 30 companies on the stock market and pretty much adding up their current stock price. This is a meaningless metric because you could have one company that is worth $100 that offers two shares of stock, each worth $50. Another company worth $100 chooses to have 50 shares of stock each worth $2.
The companies are the same value, but their stock price is vastly different. Let’s say they’re both on the DOW list of 30 companies. When the first company doubles in value, so does it’s stock price. Now the company is with $200 and the stock is worth $100. That means the dow increased by 50.
When the second company doubles in value, it’s stock also doubles to $4. Now the DOW increases by a value of 2…
This is why the DOW is useless. It’s intent is to measure the general trend of the stock market, but with the two examples above it clearly fails at doing that. There are many better stock market indexes that provide a more reliable insight intoarket trends, the S&P 500 for example. The DOW is meaningless and anyone who is using it as a reference for the health of the stock market is an idiot.
Anyone using it to talk about the health of the economy overall is out of their gord and should be in the loony bin.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 1 week ago:
This was a fantastic ELI5. Thank you for your effort in writing this up.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.
it’s just an incredibly tiny amount Indicates you are not describing a short.
Sure, there is technically current flowing, but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes. There is leakage current for every insulator, we don’t call it a short.
- Comment on Orange man good 2 months ago:
That is the fanciest ping pong paddle satchel I’ve ever seen! It’s also the first.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 months ago:
SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don’t think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.
I’m not a SpaceX fanboy (I’m a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don’t think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.
- Comment on I promise I'm not 3 months ago:
And price controls have a pretty terrible track record of providing a net benefit.
- Comment on Just in time 4 months ago:
Plus, probably still required to do military service, only you get no armor and face knights in full plate who have trained their whole lives to kill you.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 5 months ago:
Onewheels are so much fun.
- Comment on The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide 5 months ago:
Its been speculated that was probably done intentionally (making removing the detailed copy easy to remove but the adhesive hard to remove) knowing the standard response would be to take it down.
It would fit the more performative art style that they’re known for.
- Comment on Encouragement 5 months ago:
Yeah, it seems like a demise built around suffering and helplessness. If you crave the sweet release of death, this isn’t it.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 5 months ago:
I think the most reliable way to advance a scientific field is to find a technique used in a different field and apply it to yours. Even more reliable if you use techniques from theoretical math.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 5 months ago:
It’s so weird thinking about how we’re just copying DNA. That’s pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ‘copy forever’ algorithm.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 6 months ago:
Some states have anti-gerrimandering written into their constitutions, so that would not be easy.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 7 months ago:
Oh yeah, location sharing will have almost no effect those risks. Totally agree.
Just disagreeing that
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 7 months ago:
Risk assessment is probability and severity. The probability can be vanishingly low, but if the severity is astoundingly high then acting like a high risk situation could be appropriate.
Take asteroids. The last planet killer to hit us was 94million years ago. A rudimentary estimate could put the probably as 1:94mil. (That is much less than the murder rate in America at 6.8:100,000). The severity of an asteroid impact of that magnitude is off the charts, so it is reasonable to consider it a risk and act accordingly to spend resources to search for and track asteroid trajectories.
The severity of abduction, murder, and rape is probably pretty high for most people, so considering it a risk even with a very small probability is not unreasonable.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Luckily Lemmy isn’t that popular yet. (Plus we’re all poor.)
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 8 months ago:
I agree it feels very slow, but identifying the correct action and then building consensus around that action takes time. Once consensus is built it is very stable though. That is supposed to be the biggest benefit of democracy; stability built through coalition.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 11 months ago:
1 fascist beating ~= 10 citations.
Get to it, bud!
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 11 months ago:
Surprisingly, Star Wars is a great example of this. A rinky dink political group (rebels) blowing up a military installation (death star) is terrorism. That does not mean the action was unjustified.
- Comment on Don't you demonRATs UnDeRStAnD, I just need the people I don't like to be hurt!!!1!1!! 11 months ago:
- peacefully
- Comment on "Poetic take" on the state of the US 1 year ago:
There’s also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 1 year ago:
I agree, LLMs have the amazingly human ability to bumble into the right answer even if they don’t know why.
It seems to me that a good analogy of our experience is a whole bunch of LLMs optimized for different tasks that have some other LLM scheduler/administrator that is consciousness. Might be more layers deep, but that’s my guess with no neurological or machine learning background.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 1 year ago:
This is a cool take! I don’t think I agree though. I assume we developed pattern recognition before music/language. Many animals have the ability to note attributes about plants and animals even without the ability to communicate complex ideas (ie language or oral tradition). I assume that type of pattern recognition was a good blueprint for functions like music and language, but my guess is it started from a general pattern recognition, then was retuned for music and language.
Again, pure speculation, but there is some logic behind it!
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- Comment on What do you create? 1 year ago:
What does this mean? Cameras? Machines that can identify things via images?
- Submitted 1 year ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 1 year ago:
I love how he’s the only one not called Dr. On this chart.