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@6digitstudio @Griffin69211438 @SamRo where in the original question does it say which to pick? it says which has higher expected value (e.g., A at $10 vs B at $9)

No, I never said they have no expected value, that would be insane. I said you should expect to win 0. If this nuance is lost on anyone, that is more alarming than the results on the original survey. If the expected value was 0 nobody would buy the lottery. This is an uphill battle, but to try to back of my point: "E: Don't gamble" Which one would you pick now? If you pick anything but E, you are financially illiterate. Being good at math/statistics is not the same as financial literacy.

I love a financial literacy test that sees if you can pick the better lottery to play.

@6digitstudio @Griffin69211438 @SamRo your take on financial literacy and how people shouldn’t play the lottery: sure, valid. but that’s answering a different question. maybe your “always being broke” is telling

I didn't "misunderstand the question", I obviously refuted the premise. The fact that this seems to be hard to pick up is saying quite a bit about English literacy in this thread. I do math at University level, I've been coding for 40+ years. I am always broke. This makes me financially illiterate, but above average good at math (see, I understand averages). I can solve the question EASILY, but that is a concept that is COMPLETELY ORTHOGONAL to my financial literacy; my ability to handle money. But I am not so financially illiterate that I calculate percentage chances of winning the lottery, because that would literally be insane. The test is obviously bad. You not rejecting the test on bad design in a test for financial literacy, which is literally defined as "money skills" is frankly quite alarming. It is at best a trick question, and the (only) correct answer is "Don't play the lottery if you don't have money to burn".

@6digitstudio @Griffin69211438 @SamRo reality defines “expected outcome/winnings” as a statistical concept. note: the question wasn’t “should people w/o extra cash buy lotto” crazy how eager you are to die on the hill of “obviously misunderstood the question”

@Griffin69211438 @mdt22_ @SamRo This is the difference. You define "financial literacy" as "good at math". I define "financial literacy" as "good with money". We are probably 100% in agreement on everything if we just decide which definitions to go by.

@6digitstudio @SamRo bro can’t recognize the worlds most basic expected outcome question, and tells ME that IM a favorite at vegas😹😹😹

@mdt22_ @SamRo The cost of the ticket doesn't matter, you should expect to win 0, because it is overwhelmingly likely that you will win 0. If you truly EXPECT to win given those odds, I am sure you're a favorite "customer" on the Las Vegas strip.

@6digitstudio @SamRo “should be”, sure. but it never says the cost of a ticket. assuming they are both free to play (and you can only play once): - A has $10 expected winning - B has $9 expected winning

@SamRo C is the right answer. The expected winnings in both lotteries should be "0", like they are in almost all lotteries. The correct thing is to play the $90,000 lottery if you have disposable income, because literally nobody cares about $200.

@JaidCodes @ggerganov i wonder if @sama has any AI model recommendations…

@ggerganov Do you have any recommendation for a local inference engine?

These are some of my LLM assisted contributions from the past month. Nothing amazing, but I'm slowly getting better at it. Atm, using Qwen3.6 27B exclusively. For hardware - switching between M2 Ultra and RTX 5090. Both are good options, though after using the RTX and going back to the Mac, it always feels like a snail. Yet for most tasks, I feel like both hardware can do the job comfortably.

what will be the next big “wave” in tech? - quantum computing / CRQCs - human-computer interfaces (HBIs in particular) - scaling brain modeling - something else?

@KaiXCreator i have 24GB unified memory. it’s plenty. 64GB+ tho would greatly benefit tho…

As a developer, how much RAM is enough for you? 1. 8 GB 2. 16 GB 3. 24 GB 4. 32 GB 5. 64 GB 6. 128 GB+

@yacineMTB somebody seems to have just (re)watched pineapple express

There's an entire genre of movies that I call stoner Jew bros. You guys know what I'm talking about right? All the Jewish guys and their token white guy (James Franco) and they're always like duuuuude

@sama an OS designed specifically for AI-enabled configuration i picture like a modified version of NixOS and a buttload of SKILL.md files (or similar) custom software FTW!

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future? maybe we can help!

@RepLuna @CIA what are the odds anything happens or anyone gets arrested over this?

Someone at the CIA is actively undermining an executive order @CIA. I suggest you figure out who and quick. Punitive action incoming.

i miss good tacos…

@trashh_dev im going to go out on a limb and assume you are a linux pleb and using arch/nix. try mint/fedora until you no longer feel linux-dumb, or just try omarchy experience does matter, bc is designed to just do what it is told (and not much more)

i regret fkn with linux. give me my time back.

@yacineMTB what task?

Doing reinforcement learning to solve problems It feels like I've seen God

@thdxr gotta start pushing people to setup busywork workflows through the night idk: media aggregation or research or some shit

it's very important our inference business has customers world wide the entire game is keeping GPUs busy hard to do that if your customers are all in one timezone

@yacineMTB mmmm how about:

20nm is all you need

@hthieblot fuck i just got my 10th

The next billion-dollar founder has 9 followers on X rn. I will find you & fund you!

@tomhacks shhhh... it's my competition believing this-- I say we let them

If you eat out... not worth to learn cooking If you're enjoying twitch... not worth to play any game If you enjoy chatting... not worth hanging out /w ppl Such a bad take.

@yinbyte @cinamarina i wouldn't go as far to say "never" (although we are nowhere even remotely currently). i would agree in that it doesn't behave exactly like our own minds, but i think the semantic differences are not as large as many people would like to admit check this: nih.gov/news-events/ni…

@mdt22_ @cinamarina And I don't think we will ever understand every detail of it. That's why we will never be able to reproduce it and achieve the same level of creativity or decision-making capability. Hence, I can't say it behaves like our own minds.

Hot take: Human creativity > AI creativity. Convince me otherwise.