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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I spent almost two decades as a game developer and many of those years were spent developing professional lottery products.

    I argued with a buddy for over 5 years about the gamblers fallacy and various other aspects to do with probabilities.

    See, in his mind, he could somehow claim to understand the underlying statement that past events are not a predictor of future events… but he’s still insisted that if he monitored the “patterns” in the random, he could somehow break through this truth.

    I could never get through to him that there was no “system”… You can bet in the most mathematically advantageous way but you’ll never “beat the odds”. You’re just fucking gambling dude.

    Zero progress… and I refused after a while to discuss anything to do with probabilities.

    E: I’m sorry for the scrambled up writing, I’m having a rough day, hope you get what I mean

















  • For me personally, until a month ago I had no idea why people would prefer to watch at faster speed.

    Then I was assigned 10 hours of training at work, and it was all the worst fucking videos you’ve ever seen, no editing for clarity or brevity, points being repeated ad nausea. Repeating footage. And it’s not like I could skip vast portions of it, I never knew when a little piece of key information would be snuck in which was in the knowledge test.

    Finally said to myself fuck this and I put it on 2x. I found it kind of life-changing in that moment and I’m going to consider using faster watch speeds from now on.