Random thoughts.

I thought the CK thread was gonna be open untill Octuber 15 at least, one day after the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. That would've been a better time to close it.
Just a random thought, not backseat moderating at all.
 
My friend has been listening to a lot of Kreayshawn. He really loves Hispanic and Italian women. I thought she was Hispanic so I looked her up on Wikipedia and to my surprise I found out she's one of my tribe aka Jewish. That was really cool to find out.
 
AAA batteries inside of TV remotes last for fucking forever these days.

I have a Samsung TV remote, that I have carried over for 2 TVs now (they are all mostly intercompatible), and I swear that remote has had the same pair of AAA batteries inside it for at least 5 years now...

how the fuck are they still alive? it's the main TV remote I use.
the new fangled one that came with the new TV is way too simplified and misses too many essential buttons for my liking, so I barely use it (that one is solar powered, with a rechargeable battery)
 
I voice chatted for the first time with chatgpt and...it still feel like a glorified speaking google search, they are still far from emulating a real discourse.
 
I wonder if the laws of physics appear to switch / break down at the very small scale -- not being coherent with things at the larger scale -- because that's the point at which the math on the simulation was deemed accurate enough and it's all just random noise down there. If you look at AI now, it's not perfectly accurate by design, very high accuracy is eschewed in favour of maximising speed on specialised hardware blocks and we simply say "that's good enough".

We may not be in a rendered simulation, but an inferred one based on the same AI principals used in what we're building now.

We may be looking below the noise floor and it's all nonsense down there, in turn we may never be able to reconcile the big with the small and this is it.

At the quantum level things can appear to go backwards or even as if they're in two places, perhaps explained by aliasing (think the wheel going the opposite way on camera) or a misalignment of sampling.

Surely if a simulation has a limit in either it's sample rate or precision, then our inherent ability to sample that retains that same limit; and any attempts to push numbers further would result in noise.

*disclaimer: I know nothing of physics, lol
 
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This is so dumb.

The stories are right there in the games, no fan cares about your original stories or characters.

I'm gonna write my own script, fuck these muppets.
 
I suck at math.
In high school I had to work twice as hard just to get 65%-70% grades.

For no reason I remembered being so stressed out and anxious before an exam. I think I also had the shits just before 😆

Funny looking back how insignificant this was in the grand scheme of things.
How we lose perspective when we're in our own little bubble.
 
John Marston said:
I suck at math.
In high school I had to work twice as hard just to get 65%-70% grades.

For no reason I remembered being so stressed out and anxious before an exam. I think I also had the shits just before 😆

Funny looking back how insignificant this was in the grand scheme of things.
How we lose perspective when we're in our own little bubble.
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No doubt.

For me school was easy and I was one of those night before studiers when it came to exams. University and grad school were no different.

But, for all the content I learned, almost all of it is forgotten aside from vague concepts and some technical skills like understanding accounting and economic graphs. All of that stuff I learned has little resemblance to actual business jobs. The only one that does relate closely is accounting class since all those statements apply to real life too. But all the other stuff is filler.

It's amazing in business classes how easy they make it sound with textbook theory. But in real life all that has to happen is a buyer at Walmart head office doesnt like an account manager or company, or a competitor just locked you out for 2 years with a special vendor agreement..... come back in 2027. And all that theory about how to succeed doing this and that gets thrown out the window.

Business classes and textbooks never threw curveballs at you what to do if shit hits the fan.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
No doubt.

For me school was easy and I was one of those night before studiers when it came to exams. University and grad school were no different.

But, for all the content I learned, almost all of it is forgotten aside from vague concepts and some technical skills like understanding accounting and economic graphs. All of that stuff I learned has little resemblance to actual business jobs.
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I did 2 years of a Bsc. in criminology before quitting.
I had great grades but all it required was learning stuff by heart which I would eventually forget.

I stayed in touch with a couple of former classmates who graduated; one was a social worker and the other worked in the prison system.

They told me they applied about maximum 20% of what they learned at university.
The rest they learned on the spot.
 
John Marston said:
I did 2 years of a Bsc. in criminology before quitting.
I had great grades but all it required was learning stuff by heart which I would eventually forget.

I stayed in touch with a couple of former classmates who graduated; one was a social worker and the other worked in the prison system.

They told me they applied about maximum 20% of what they learned at university.
The rest they learned on the spot.
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Finance classes were a joke. They were heavily skewed to banking kind of finance (net present value and stuff like that where you grab your finance calculator and churn out numbers).

Real life finance spans across all kinds of analysis from sales to costs to (as I said earlier accounting finance which is much different than other kinds of finance). Work at any traditional company, and the finance dept will be split into a handful of core functions..... sales/revenue, trade/discounts, COGs, plant, supply chain/inventory, warehousing/transportation, accounting, receivables/payables/invoicing, taxes, M&A, IT/finance systems. Some functions can blend with others. It's more than just numbers. There's also strategy and what to do to improve things.

In university and grad finance courses, you'll learn pretty much ZERO about these topics unless you choose the accounting path, go through courses and get a designation. At least in my day, that's how it was.

MBA was the biggest joke ever. You literally cannot fail. The courses even publicly stated the avg GPA per class in the booklet where it was bell curved from a C to A, and the avg mark was a B/B+. Only way to fail is just not show up or do exams. As long as you handed something in you got a minimum C mark. When grades were posted outside the profs door after a test, yup.... all the grades were C to A skewed heavy to B/B+. Just as they said. What kind of dumb ass program predetermines grades?

The schools just want your money, you graduate and you give them donations and good reputation grade for passing.
 
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Yeah university doesn't prepare you to deal with a convict infected with HIV spitting in your face 😆

Happened to my social worker classmate.
Her tests were negative she turned out ok but still traumatized.
 
Some dumb fucking asshole drives by every night between 1230am-1am and he has a super loud muffler plus races up the street. I don't know how anyone in 2025 can still think having an annoying vehicle is cool and that tearing through a street when most people are sleeping is fun. I hope his car wraps around a pole someday.
 
Beretta said:
Some dumb fucking asshole drives by every night between 1230am-1am and he has a super loud muffler plus races up the street. I don't know how anyone in 2025 can still think having an annoying vehicle is cool and that tearing through a street when most people are sleeping is fun. I hope his car wraps around a pole someday.
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It's a day and night occurence in the city. The noise pollution starts early in the morning with the transport industry. Let's say around four in the morning.

Then people wake up and the chaos ensues. You open a window and it's a full on assault on the human senses.

I encourage everyone to move out of the city.
 
EerieArcade said:
I used to keep a dream journal. Not long after I started, I started to remember more dreams and in greater detail. I might start doing it again.
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Have you tried lucid dreaming? I found it easy to start by just watching my hand routinely during the day as it would signal that I was dreaming(hands are messed up in them). I stopped eventually for some reason a few years ago before I managed to stabilize the lucid dreams, but I'm thinking about trying again.

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I had a sore throat for a few days. It went away for a few hours and now I have chest infection :(
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At this rate it will become a penis infection soon and then a foot infection.
 
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Trilobit said:
Have you tried lucid dreaming? I found it easy to start by just watching my hand routinely during the day as it would signal that I was dreaming(hands are messed up in them). I stopped eventually for some reason a few years ago before I managed to stabilize the lucid dreams, but I'm thinking about trying again.


At this rate it will become a penis infection soon and then a foot infection.
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I've had a couple of lucid dreams by accident, never through trying. I've read about the finger method and the clock method. Maybe I'll try one day.
 
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