Actually, if you made 500x 1/50 times you would be doing really good. That's a 10x profit. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I never thought I could predict stocks. I stuck with mutual funds. Now, at my age, it's mainly fixed income.
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Actually, if you made 500x 1/50 times you would be doing really good. That's a 10x profit. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I never thought I could predict stocks. I stuck with mutual funds. Now, at my age, it's mainly fixed income.
Silver always seems to be a mess. The one (relatively) nice thing about silver is that it is relatively easy to hold the physical metal. Getting an appreciable amount of gold comes with a real security risk, but silver is valuable...just not THAT valuable. You could keep it under your bed without being too concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
With gold, I assume you are buying gold shares rather than chunks of the actual metal that you have to store in a vault. The latter seems pretty messy, unless you already had the vault for other reasons....like keeping your booze away from raccoons.
When I was down in Florida, my landlady told me about somebody breaking into her house. They apparently sat on a valuable coin collection while drinking up all the wine in the house, after which they were kind of done with the robbery. They never knew the coins were there.
Bonds and some stocks give you some return (interest or dividends) while also varying in price as the markets move. Gold does the varying in price without those returns. A 5% bond will still return 5% even if the face value has dropped. It kind of provides a way to feel good about it while also having a way to feel good or bad about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
And then there are funds...
I was being hyperbolic, I don't know the numbers lolQuote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Gold is pretty value-compact though.
A new truck costs about a truckload of silver (ok, maybe 3 to 4 monster boxes of Eagles). That's a lot of space and a lot of weight. Like 120 to 160 pounds!
Yet a single tube of gold Eagles would be far more than enough.
Burying silver in the back yard would be nuts. Gold is almost practical though, even if you spread it out in several caches. You could buy some copper rounds cheap to make non-ferrous decoy caches too if you are paranoid about metal detectors. :p
Damn metal detectors!!! That's why I have to always remove everything metal from body before I bury it in the back yard. What a pain in the butt. :wave:
You bury your body in the backyard...frequently?
It's a whole lot easier burying somebody else's body.
Orthopedic implants can't be detected, so you are safe burying that... um... raccoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I went for a walk today, as the weather was pretty nice. In fact, it was perhaps a bit TOO nice. I was sweating more than I should have been, so I stopped to sit on a bench. Unfortunately, I was immediately inflicted with a case of COL and was unable to leave the bench for about an hour. During that time, I found out that "Stuart" was well known in the community for being unusually outgoing. Everybody in the area had encountered him. Several people in the area apparently fed him. I was both told that, and had ample evidence weighing me down.
I couldn't break your code. What every the infliction I hope it's gone and that you didn't over feed Stuart.
The COL?
I have cases of overwhelming laziness almost everyday. Well, after work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
So did Stuart pay you a visit by the bench you refused to leave, keeping you there a few minutes longer than you planned?
Stuart, of course, is a cat. I was sitting on the bench, he decided to sit on me. It did keep me there several minutes longer than I had planned.
He likely would have kept me there for several more hours, but eventually I had to evict him.
That and I didn't know if "Stuart" was an animal, person or something else.Quote:
The COL?
My guess was a squirrel or a homeless person.Quote:
Stuart, of course, is a cat
Might be a homeless person...would probably eat a squirrel, but Stuart is a cat, and COL is a TLA for Cat On Lap.
My AI's short-term memory tests from a day ago:
Running STM integration tests...
[test_stm_influence] OK (diff=4.98219)
[test_stm_override_ep] OK (avg=10)
STM integration tests completed.
Running STM + Semantic integration tests...
[test_stm_semantic_combined] OK (avg=10, fidelity=1)
avg_r=10 (episodic baseline=0.00999999, semantic mid=2, stm strong=10)
[test_stm_leakage_clear] OK (avg_with_stm=10, avg_after_clear=0.267355)
[test_stm_capacity_eviction] OK (oldest evicted, size=3)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 0 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 1 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 2 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
STM + Semantic integration tests completed.
Today I successfully tested it's long-term memory:
Running Phase 2.2 LongTermMemory tests...
[test_ltm_basic_store_retrieve] OK
[test_ltm_stm_integration] OK (avg_with_stm=10, avg_after_clear=4)
[test_ltm_persistence_cycles] Cycle 0 OK
[test_ltm_persistence_cycles] Cycle 1 OK
[test_ltm_persistence_cycles] Cycle 2 OK
[test_ltm_consolidation_basic] OK (ltm.size=3)
[test_ltm_query_by_concept] OK (score=1)
[test_ltm_query_blended_reasoning] OK (avg=8.20001)
[test_ltm_similarity_query] OK (closest=concept_A)
[test_ltm_update_concept] OK
[test_ltm_delete_concept] OK
[test_ltm_persistence_save_load] OK
[test_ltm_weighted_aggregation] OK (avg=5.63142)
Phase 2.2 tests completed.
After I harden long-term memory, and all previously added modules, I'll add it's ethics and safety module.
If you know what COL means, your post makes perfect sense. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
My posts ALWAYS make perfect sense....just depends on how drunk you are.
Not me, of course. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Nobody has submitted a battleship contest yet :(
Posting is just down everywhere. Not even an AI battleship....or CGI, like the movie?
This is the stressful time of the year for me, and that hasn't changed just because I'm retired.
Cooking, coding and errands. It has even cut into my exercise.
Though I guess running around is a form of exercise, so long as I do it literally.
You cooking Christmas gifts???Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'll take Banana Nut Bread or Brownies. Surprise me.
It's all fudge. Some is relatively healthy, some is not, but it's all fudge.
Never mind. Not a fan of fudge. Been so long since I've had any that I can't remember why. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Technically, I'm not even sure if what I made counts as fudge. It depends on what defines fudge.
Wikipedia states that fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar, butter, and milk.
Those three ingredients, or some form of each, is found in every form of fudge that I make. It's everything else that creates the variety. I always thought that fudge tended to be chocolate, but that's not the case. It's certainly not the case for the fudge that I make, though some are chocolate.
I'll try to have mine up tomorrow. I've been programming it since I told you, but had alot of distractions.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Been having fun the last couple of days. My granddaughter broke the fuel filler door off of my van. You wouldn't that was a big deal. But it seems the whole van is built around that door. To remove it you have to remove the back seats, remove the inside panels, then various other thing just to get to it. But the van is 28yrs old and they don't sale new ones anymore. I've found used ones but there is no way I'll ever match the paint. This van has always been kept in a garage and the paint is like new (only has 37k miles).
So I thought first I'd try epoxy. My son and I rigged it up and applied epoxy. But I learned later epoxy doesn't cure well in cold weather, so I went back and setup a space heater to blow hot air on for a few hours. Checked this morning and it was a little better. Don't think it's going to last but for now I have a fuel door on the van.
That's better than the fuel filler doors in some of the newer vehicles. They don't have "caps" like they used to, instead the door itself acts like a vacuum to seal the gas line.
I have a cap.
You might try JB Weld. It probably has the same curing issue in cold weather as any other epoxy, but at least you can make it look bad, too.