Automated Archives for March, 14th 2025
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-1-6
Net Elo Change: -12
Games Played
- IDLEH2017 - LOSS
- HelloMik - LOSS
- dcnepm - WIN
- cptbllk - LOSS
- DanDanza - LOSS
- G4m312 - WIN
- Luks4 - WIN
- ChocoBalerma - WIN
- PMicho2856 - LOSS
- Iwanow-83 - LOSS
- Par14 - DRAW
Blog Posts On This Day
- March 14, 2024 (1 post)
- March 14, 2023 (2 posts)
- March 14, 2021 (1 post)
March 13th, 2025
Dope Thief (2025)
Katie and I checked out the first two episodes of the show. The first episode is among the strongest I've seen in a while, it was excellent.
March 11th, 2025
"Is This a Stock Market Correction or a Bear Market?"
I don't think I had ever known the technical definitions of a pull back, a correction and a bear market. So this post delving into them and what the market appears to be doing right now was enlightening.
A pullback is a market drop of 5-10% and is very short term. It is a dip from a recent high during an ongoing bull market while upward momentum is still intact, and is a normal adjustment to a market cycle.
The market is in “correction phase” after a drop between 10-20% and can last a few months. These moves are typically met with higher volatility. Corrections can be violent as investors’ fear levels rise and panic selling may hit the market.
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A bear market occurs after a drop of 20+% over at least a two-month time frame. In a bear market, investor confidence has been shattered and many investors will sell their stocks for fear of further losses. Trading activity tends to decrease as do dividend yields.
Bear markets tend to become vicious cycles when rallies are sold and not bought This happened in 2000 and 2007 and can typically be seen on charts as the market makes lower lows and lower highs. Bear markets tend to occur in the contraction phase of the business cycle and last, on average, approximately 16 months.
March 10th, 2025
Happy Endings, Season 3
For various reasons I have discovered that IMDB, Wikipedia and Hulu do not agree on the order of the episodes of Season 3 of Happy Endings.
The underlying reason? Hulu is missing an episode: KickBall 2: The Kickening.
I have no idea why. Maybe it has something problematic such that they don't want to stream it?
"Who is Mark Carney, Canada's new prime minister?"
I asked my friends and followers on Bluesky about Carney yesterday and the responses were generally positive.
Among the replies:
March 9th, 2025
"Why layoffs don’t work"
"All of a sudden," David Gelles, author of the Welch biography The Man Who Broke Capitalism, told NPR, "other CEOs saw that… if we rapidly wind down the cost of our labor, we could potentially see a meaningful increase in earnings per share for the next quarter and Wall Street sure liked that."
That ethos remains today. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 1.5m-2m Americans are typically laid off or discharged every month, a number that increases during recessions.
March 8th, 2025
March 7th, 2025
Why yes, I'm spending my Friday night learning about higher dimensional geometry for the purposes of D&D worldbuilding. Why? What do you do with your Fridays?
Feedback
I was just watching/listening to Ben Stiller on Hot Ones, when Sean Evans asked him a question of whether test audiences were a force for good or a force for evil. Ben's answer was essentially that he likes them for comedies because you could hear when people laugh, and when they don't. But that the surveying of additional opinions afterwards were less useful.
This reminded me of an answer Brandon Sanderson gave in a recent interview on The Tim Ferriss Show where Brandon discussed how he used beta readers. He doesn't ask his beta readers to do grammatical editing etc. And, while he cares about catching continuities etc, the main thing he wants the readers to do is to tell him when they're enjoying it and when they're bored, etc.
Having written this, I guess it isn't actually that wild of a coincidence actually, but--I was struck by how two people working largely in two different mediums both reflect on a very similar need in their revision process.
