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  1. Tuco

    Gamer Retirement Homes

    We'll see. We've all been raised to chase after new games and new gaming technology. I just don't see a point where that'd stop.
  2. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I like how they say, 'People weren't ready to have a rational conversation'. Ok dude, let's have that conversation now. Tell me what cool stuff you have to go with the shit you're trying to shovel. Because all I saw was trying to take the profitability of having a Steam based system without...
  3. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Here's a max of 15: funs over, time to get some real work done
  4. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I couldn't help myself: Note that those win counts are over all ten games. So in one game that guy that won 24 times skewed the whole fucking result a bunch. If he didn't win that time it'd be way over. Another cool observations that are intuitive if you think about it is each win count is...
  5. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Hehe, that's exactly how rand() is supposed to work, it's not fubared. fromrand - C++ Reference This number is generated by an algorithm that returns a sequence of apparently non-related numbers each time it is called. This algorithm uses a seed to generate the series, which should be...
  6. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Plus the PS4 uses opengl. Hopefully that alignment makes it easy to make games run natively on SteamOS, but I doubt it'll be that easy.
  7. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    What whole TRT thing? Don't Hendo and Belfort both rely on a lot of TRT?
  8. Tuco

    Gavinrad's Mass Effect 3+ Thread

    You play Keith David playing Keith David from Saints Row 4 plays Captain Anderson in the first contact wars. No surprise that they're making a new ME game though. They always said they would, just without Cmdr Shepherd.
  9. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    IF that's true how would they get the Ps4s in the warehouse?
  10. Tuco

    The E-cig Thread

    Izo give it a rest.
  11. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I ran it 100000000 times (literally, check out the while(i<100000000) { } statement, that's C++ code for "Run this shit 100000000 times bro" as long as you're increasing i each time it goes through.)
  12. Tuco

    High frequency trading

    Cool, thanks.
  13. Tuco

    High frequency trading

    Ok that makes sense. My perception of HFT was that we'd see Joe start buying a basket of stocks on Wed, so we'd buy the stocks he wanted before him and then sell it to him at a slightly higher price. This would make Joe pay more for his stock.
  14. Tuco

    Weight Loss Thread

    NIH Human Microbiome Project defines normal bacterial makeup of the body
  15. Tuco

    Weight Loss Thread

  16. Tuco

    Weight Loss Thread

    What do you mean? Surely in terms of mass most organisms in my body are human!
  17. Tuco

    High frequency trading

    Would it be possible for you to post in a nutshell why this is?
  18. Tuco

    Weight Loss Thread

    The idea of bacteria and weird shit in my colon/intenstines always grossed and weirded me out.
  19. Tuco

    High frequency trading

    The reason I'm against HFT isn't because I think it's free/easy money but because as a layman I don't see the value in it for society. Maybe it's naive but I see the investment market as a way to move capital to good(profitable) causes. There's a ton of aspects that pervert this(derivatives...
  20. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    btw if someone knows how to calculate the average payout I'd like to see it. I think it'd be a summation from 1->infinite with x^2 and 0.5 mixed in but I don't really know how to do it.
  21. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    From my model about $13 output: avgVal:[12.922964] avgIt:[1.999862] max:[33554432] maxTimeToTails:[26] It would be a viable (if boring) casino game if they put a max (say 1024 or something) amount of gain from it, that'd likely drop the value dramatically.
  22. Tuco

    Health Care Thread

    Yeah the more we hear about the healthcare.gov website the more pathetic it is.
  23. Tuco

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    What if All 32 NFL Team Logos Were Fat? | Kissing Suzy Kolber
  24. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I would take the money and run assuming that $1/2 = 0 or $0.01/2 = 0! simulation: In other words, following this process will almost inevitably brings you to a zero value.
  25. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Yup, and Obito helps break Naruto out of the genjutsu.
  26. Tuco

    Health Care Thread

    Your own chart says we haven't been in recession since 2009.... this is pretty bad, Merlin.
  27. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    bet confirmed, PS4 will outsell Xbones 5 to 1 by next year or Sean gets a new avatar.
  28. Tuco

    High frequency trading

    On FoH a guy was engaged in HFT and made good money, posted proof and stuff but said it sucked his life away. Personally I wish they'd make HFT illegal or untenable. As a layman it seems like it imposes a financial tax on investing and it also attracts some of the most talented...
  29. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Gonna need Sean to offer an avatar bet on this one.
  30. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Thanks for the link. There's a store near me (twelve oaks mall) that has it, but I don't see anything corroborating your statements about xbones being available to play there?
  31. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Yup. Even if they think that the host took out 98 doors and knows where the door is, it doesn't matter, they still have a 50% chance of having the right door. But really they'd probably get tired after being told to pick a door ~25 times because both contestants kept not picking the right door.
  32. Tuco

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    bro if you gonna come you best come correct
  33. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I haven't seen their Oculus killer, but all their HMDs thus far have been very expensive and have had narrow FoVs (Because it's intended to replace a cinema rather than offer a virtual reality experience).
  34. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Before it seemed like your argument was that parents will see the advantages of the PS4, buy it and their kids will deal with it. Now it seems like you're making the argument that parents will buy the xbone out of ignorance.
  35. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    3-5x in the US? And how much of those xbox sales are because of brand loyalty and ignorance vs informed buyers legitimately liking the benefits of xbox (kinect, xbox live, exclusives etc) better?
  36. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What is your predicted Xbone vs PS4 sales a year from now?
  37. Tuco

    Weight Loss Thread

    Meat has a plentiful supply of one of the most difficult nutrients to consume on a vegan diet: protein.
  38. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's tough to say. I think the ps4 will be the gift to have but Sony is really pushing a ton of units compared to previous generations and there's just too few PS4 exclusives coming before Christmas.
  39. Tuco

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    yeah this is how I feel too.
  40. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Holy shit column make your point and get out. Reminding people that gamers play games isn't necessary.