Search found 15900 matches

by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: Advanced Retroadaptics Podcast
Replies: 91
Views: 22932

Re: Advanced Retroadaptics Podcast

Mostly I was just reflecting on how sometimes something can be a "solved problem' in general terms, even when it isn't a solved problem in concrete terms in the moment. Maybe it depends on where/how the "slack" in the system is stored/maintained? These are some of the problems I'm gr...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 468
Views: 158602

Re: ERE City (US)

I think the blue is only for residential speed limits (lower than 25mph), so I agree that it is not very useful and may actually be misleading. The points they assign to cities seem to align well with my experience in the cities I biked at though. "Berwyn" is a bit underreported in your d...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 468
Views: 158602

Re: ERE City (US)

More generally, what do people here think of New Haven and thereabouts in terms of ERE friendliness? DW and I are talking some potential mid-term life plans. I don't know the area. I was expecting "rich New Yorker"-prices, but surprisingly that's not the case. https://www.zillow.com/homed...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Investments Trade Log
Replies: 3045
Views: 773959

Re: Investments Trade Log

Which is why I believe “the stock market is an inflation hedge” to be a mostly true statement Sort of yes. A simple model is price = price/earnings * earnings. Inflation tends to increase earnings, but the market tends to decrease the p/e multiple due to uncertainty about how much of the increased ...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Investments Trade Log
Replies: 3045
Views: 773959

Re: Investments Trade Log

The markets are currently euphoric without any apparent reason. A few reasons ... US unemployment has not been this low in many decades. Wages are increasing faster than consumer prices, so real incomes are up. US energy production is higher than ever and increased energy production translates into...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 26
Views: 1117

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

Well, if you have both ... but I understood the point as being that AI would replace one or the other. A collaboration between two people (or entities) who each understand half the problem will never ever be as effective as one person who understands both due to the limits of the Q&A channel of ...
by jacob
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 26
Views: 1117

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

I suspect researchers at any level that are not integrating AI into their workflow are becoming dinosaurs. Remember that AI is a much broader category than chatbots. The creative spark is essential but tends to get bogged down in the memorization of facts and trivial calculations. Researchers that ...
by jacob
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 26
Views: 1117

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

Just tagging onto what @Laura Ingalls said… I’d be curious which IQ test they were using and whether or not it was an abbreviated version (potentially less accurate). Also, I wonder about the sample: size as well as finding individuals who’d take the same test prior to COVID. Most adults haven’t ta...
by jacob
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:33 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: ERE City (US)
Replies: 468
Views: 158602

Re: ERE City (US)

People for Bikes comparison for Eugene, Cicero and Corvallis.They do not have Madras in their database. https://bna.peopleforbikes.org/#/places//compare/c5c560af-d76c-4c30-a94b-2f1157f8b745/1a767352-e47e-41d8-b95c-d2a3deb8b4e2/e2b6e6a8-ae65-4b34-aa29-a3f42f7a2255/ They don't seem to have Cicero, IL...
by jacob
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smashter's Great Adventure
Replies: 127
Views: 24562

Re: Smashter's Great Adventure

I'll do a shorter one. An entropic pocket is the same as what permaculturists call edge-spaces. A space of high-interaction between differences. It helps to understand what entropy actually is. Lets metaphorically consider rolling two dies. The result of adding can be anywhere between 2 and 12. Some...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 26
Views: 1117

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

okumurahata wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:29 pm
Are there examples in the opposite direction?
Regularly engaging in creative problem solving boosts intelligence. It has to be uncomfortably hard. This means learning new things, not just repeating or improving on old lessons. Most people stop doing that after graduating college.
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: bostonimproper's journal
Replies: 422
Views: 119274

Re: bostonimproper's journal

I'm curious if you have ever grown more cynical after seeing things from different levels? Maybe this was/is just a military thing for me, but I'd say that there were times when seeing things from a higher leader's perspective was more demoralizing than anything else because I realized that the inc...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Giskard's Journal - slingin code to reach FI
Replies: 199
Views: 88575

Re: Giskard's Journal - slingin code to reach FI

Let me explain something to readers: this coin is trading at a market cap of 200+million. Does that mean its worth 200 million? No. There is only $2.5 million in liquidity (see screenshot). The way an automated market maker works means that if you tried to sell 2 million dollars worth of this you w...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 26
Views: 1117

What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/ Mild and resolved case: -3 IQ points (on average) Shortness of breath: -6 IQ points (on average) Admitted to hospital: -9 IQ points (on average) (based on a dozen studies with a milli...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:04 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: bostonimproper's journal
Replies: 422
Views: 119274

Re: bostonimproper's journal

Perhaps people are looking for title or status but sometimes we are looking for greater responsibility. I know that my job satisfaction grows with increased responsibility, as long as I am given the authority to execute the changes I desire. In Spiral Dynamics, this [regret] is all color Orange. Th...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: ADHD meds
Replies: 18
Views: 1169

Re: ADHD meds

I really hope we don't turn a question about meds into a question about the disease itself. If a forumite has asked about the meds, chances are they've over-researched and overanalyzed the topic for themselves (our specialty on the forum ;) ). Maybe worth noting - a diagnosis is based upon a collec...
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:31 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?
Replies: 13
Views: 777

Re: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?

Another analogy might be how tutoring is often bimodal between the freedom-from F-students, who are looking to pass, and freedom-to A-students, who are looking for a perfect score.
by jacob
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: What is your ERE housing score?
Replies: 91
Views: 36479

Re: What is your ERE housing score?

Current score : NA Houseless since October 2022. It would be 0 if you live rent-free in a restaurant where you also work (or not) and eat all your meals. Even someone who lives on the street would likely have a non-zero score. Otherwise, it's calculated like this: Based on this, I propose the follo...
by jacob
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:06 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smashter's Great Adventure
Replies: 127
Views: 24562

Re: Smashter's Great Adventure

I think doing some chat therapy with one of these systems would be super interesting. Certainly better than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA ... I suspect one problem with an internet based analysis is that it might miss someone's development (if any) over time. I for one would prefer not to hav...
by jacob
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:39 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: bostonimproper's journal
Replies: 422
Views: 119274

Re: bostonimproper's journal

There is an article that @Jacob has linked to a few times bout a high-powered executive who pursues FI, retires, and finds some success as a sculptor. He talks about the opportunity costs from a careerist perspective, and what he gives up when looking at his friends who stayed in the game (or rat r...