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by katastrofa
March 27th, 2023, 11:17 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: is twitter for mentally ill people?
Replies: 597
Views: 104732

Re: is twitter for mentally ill people?

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by katastrofa
March 24th, 2023, 11:45 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: do I really need a recruiter?
Replies: 8
Views: 207

Re: do I really need a recruiter?

If it’s a small shop, they may prefer that you approach them directly, because then they won’t pay the recruiter fee. At bigger companies recruiters may be more effective for the reasons you mentioned (but even better to get a referral from someone on the inside). I prefer candidates approaching me ...
by katastrofa
March 23rd, 2023, 4:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Polish plumber goes wild
Replies: 49
Views: 12527

Re: Polish plumber goes wild

Wild aka natural?
The Polish plumber promoting Eastern Europe in Western Europe got dully assimilated: +40 kg and own finance company (-:
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Seriously, he seems to be a positive guy.
by katastrofa
March 22nd, 2023, 9:22 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Running free
Replies: 302
Views: 43482

Re: Running free

Maybe he can use the break for swimming or tennis?
by katastrofa
March 22nd, 2023, 9:12 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Basic fixed income question: the meaning of "one month ahead"
Replies: 8
Views: 1283

Re: Basic fixed income question: the meaning of "one month ahead"

Is "modified following" that DavidJN writes about the same? I think for bonds they use 30/360 convention or similar. Don't ask me to explain more, though. There was one moment in my life when I had to figure this out. Now i just want to un-know it (-:
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 6:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stupid question of the day
Replies: 2981
Views: 294993

Re: Stupid question of the day

Or asymmetric gain-loss function. Try to kick someone and then be nice to them, or in the opposite order. Anyway, they won't like you anymore. Huh?
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 3:56 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Why is Animals underrated?
Replies: 31
Views: 108864

Re: Why is Animals underrated?

Them people’s fish, as God created it, not some sea monsters!
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 2:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stupid question of the day
Replies: 2981
Views: 294993

Re: Stupid question of the day

There's a new branch of mathematics waiting to be born - information theory including fake news, lies, trumps, russian green men and maskirovka...
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 2:04 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stupid question of the day
Replies: 2981
Views: 294993

Re: Stupid question of the day

Thats why I thought this could be conveniently described by the Landau order parameter formalism (not that I'm biased coming from Easter European solid state physics science :-) ). The order parameter could be some preference of an individual in the system, e.g. bullshit or beardom sentiment. But su...
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 12:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Why is Animals underrated?
Replies: 31
Views: 108864

Re: Why is Animals underrated?

Only 5% of people with high IQs can solve tricky animal brain teaser - Mirror Online

I'm not sure I'd solve it so quickly if I wasn't a diver :-D
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 12:22 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Stupid question of the day
Replies: 2981
Views: 294993

Re: Stupid question of the day

Are those black swans tail event or something out of distribution? Not that I follow the frequentist picture.

My feeling was that now is the opposite of 2008. Nevermind...
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 12:18 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Why is Animals underrated?
Replies: 31
Views: 108864

Re: Why is Animals underrated?

Det virker umulig, men disse kjendisene er venner med ekskjærestenes nye kjærester (msn.com) ("It seems impossible, but these celebrities are friends with their ex-girlfriends' new boyfriends") There's a simple way to achieve this. When you keep it clear with your current partner and exes...
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 9:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Happy 1st International Day of Happiness
Replies: 15
Views: 8043

Re: Happy 1st International Day of Happiness

Swedes seem happy by nature. I must have met a biased (albeit very small) sample from The Netherlands, because they seemed pretty pessimistic or frustrated by their life. Poles are underrated imho, perhaps because of their habitual complaining about everything (but really, so what that the inflation...
by katastrofa
March 21st, 2023, 9:17 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: is twitter for mentally ill people?
Replies: 597
Views: 104732

Re: is twitter for mentally ill people?

No, I think from the scientific and technological perspective there's a realistic change of that. They had a delay, though, but the time frames are impressive anyway: " The reactor was expected to take 10 years to build and ITER had planned to test its first plasma in 2020 and achieve full fusi...