weakfortress

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Dec 23

If you're going to ban me for something at least have the decency to really ban me. Shadow banning has been a frustrating experience that has resulted in me wasting literal hours of posting meaningfully to help my karma only to be either told I am posting too fast or I post but I am immediately marked dead. At least 20 posts will never be seen by anyone due to this system.

I find no use for this account anymore. It is no longer fun to participate in any discussion because I am never sure if I'll be a contributor or left marked dead.

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Comment · 3 years ago

It's interesting to see these unconventional solutions. Genetic algorithms evolving antenna design produce similar illogical but very efficient designs. Humans have a draw to aesthetic. Robots don't have such limitations.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've tried. In fact, I spent a good portion of my life trying to become more extroverted and "likeable". While I found I could very accurately mimic the people who had this trait over time it became exhausting to keep up with. As I've gotten older I've learned to work with what I've got. Instead of trying to chase this idea of what I consider a "good" personality I simply tried to improve the weakpoints in my own personality.

I would recommend you do the same. Don't "transform" anything. Just sand down the rough edges of what you have and find a group of people who are okay with you as you are. You will be happier for it and far less stressed. If you're anything like me, you will become exhausted very quickly trying to be something you are, intrinsically, not.

Comment · 3 years ago

These comments are always so hilarious. It demonstrates a significant lack of understand of how statistics actually works. You see this on reddit all the time, you'd think it'd be better here.

Power and sample size are determined by numerous factors depending on the question under study. You could have N=10 be statistically powerful and N=1,000,000 be statistically meaningless. It depends ENTIRELY on the subject under study. More is not always better and in many cases completely unnecessary.

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/BS/BS704_Power/B...

Here is a decent guide. You may wish to read it so you can learn when you can dismiss a study based on N. You never mentioned, did you back out the study numbers and determine the N=17 number was outside the range of statistical power? If so, would you mind posting your calculations?

Comment · 3 years ago

Dongles don't prevent piracy. Famously, I remember paradox cracking several dongle-secured audio tools that were claimed to be "uncrackable". You may not even need to clone a dongle to do it.