A stack of bills is roughly 0.5 inches. Assuming a 12-ft joist-to-joist spacing, that's 12 feet per floor \times 12 inches per foot \times 2 stacks per inch = 288 stacks per floor = $2.88M per floor since a stack of 100s is $10k
So that would be a 1,000M / 2.88M ~ 347 story building.
Or is my unit conversion wildly off from dealing with sick kids over the holidays?
A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to get into this so I started self-studying probability theory (with measure theory) [0] as a bridge to start in on stochastic calculus [1]
I think the hardest part of self-studying anything that has some formal math foundations is knowing _what_ to pay attention to. There's so much in just the first chapter of the probability book. Is having a general understanding of set theory enough or should I actually know how to prove a function is a singular function?
That's why I often like to find a university course with lectures posted online so I can use that as a rough guideline for what's important, but I haven't quite found that yet for stochastic calculus. Would love if someone coul point me to one.
The Rust-CUDA project just recently started up again [0], I've started digging into it a little bit and am hoping to contribute to it since the summers are a little slower for me.
Still broken though! Has been for years. In a recent GH issue regarding desires for the reboot, I asked: "Try it on a few different machines (OS, GPUs, CUDA versions etc), make it work on modern RustC and CUDA versions without errors." The response was "That will be quite some work." Meanwhile, Cudarc works...
Totally, it's going to take a minute to get it all working. On a positive note, they recently got some sponsorship from Modal [0], who is supplying GPUs for CI/CD so they should be able to expand their hardware coverage.
I see this a lot as someone that came from a solidly middle-class background (parents were a teacher and secretary) and went to a "highly-ranked" university with plenty of upper-middle or upper class students.
I work in the same jobs as my peers, but there is a clear wealth difference in how our lives are spent.
We have a nice house in a good neighborhood, but our peers have very nice houses is some of the best neighborhoods due in large part to down payment gifts, gifts for remodeling, etc. We can both afford the mortgage payment, but the down payment would take us probably a decade to save for.
On vacations, we'll drive a couple hours away with the kids, while our peers will fly to Europe and spend two weeks since they pay for the flights and their parents pay for lodging and food.
And then there is family support. Some of my peers have parents who bought second (or third) homes to be closer to their grandchildren, or will pay for the very nice private school, etc.
It's taken me a lot to not very bitter about this -- and I'm clearly still a little bitter -- but I also know that we will likely be in a position to offer some of this support to our kids in 20+ years.
> It's taken me a lot to not very bitter about this -- and I'm clearly still a little bitter -- but I also know that we will likely be in a position to offer some of this support to our kids in 20+ years.
Wealth inequality has been increasing for decades, if the trend continues and nobody does anything the wealth gap could easily become so large that you might not be able to provide any meaningful support to your kids, and even if you manage to, your children won't stand a chance to provide it to theirs in 40+ years.
Many of our current rights are only there thanks to bitter people.
Grew up in a very small house with two lower middle class parents. Frugal upbringing.
My wife and I out earn my parents by more than 10x. And so we can afford to do some things that I couldn’t as a kid like “ski weekend in Park City”
I’ve jealously looked around many times and frustrated myself with comparisons to wealthier people. They can do X and I can’t.
But as I’m getting older and raising kids, I’m continually reassessing the value of these high cost adventures. Am I happier, healthier, more refreshed, etc or is it instead my access to high-cost that fools me into feeling those ways?
I see the path forward similar to you. I’d like to help my kids however I can while not giving them a financial ticket for life. Want to do things that fulfill us without feeling too extravagant or costly.
I'm trying to download my 1099 forms from TreasuryDirect and it's coming back as unavailable. Probably unrelated to everything going on now, but the fact I thought that it could be related for a second is crazy.
>>> TreasuryDirect is unavailable.
>>> We apologize for the inconvenience and ask that you try again later.
I feel like his first term benefitted from his administration being wholly unprepared to govern, as witnessed by the numerous stories of there effectively being no transition plan for a vast majority of departments.
The only real policy victory his first term was the TCJA. Otherwise, it was a lot of bark, no bite.
But now with four years to prepare, they came in barking and biting like hell.
Ironically, losing in 2020 gave MAGA time to create a game plan which we’re seeing in action now. A second Trump term right after the first would have been more effectual than the first, but not to the degree we’re seeing now.
A stack of bills is roughly 0.5 inches. Assuming a 12-ft joist-to-joist spacing, that's 12 feet per floor \times 12 inches per foot \times 2 stacks per inch = 288 stacks per floor = $2.88M per floor since a stack of 100s is $10k
So that would be a 1,000M / 2.88M ~ 347 story building.
Or is my unit conversion wildly off from dealing with sick kids over the holidays?