The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

Omgwtf.

Noymt rinsing is extremely disgusting.

Otherwise my grandmothers did use two bowls or later one sink one bowl or even later the two "compartments" of the kitchen sink to do washing and rinsing without running water. I just keep the water running.

[Habbaku]

Of course now I just rinse dishes off and put them in the dishwasher, so no tub required.

You can skip that step (the rinsing), too with modern machines. Rinsing is a waste of water and actually makes the machine function worse.

[Sheilbh]

Ok - yeah I don't necessarily rinse items

Clean them and then straight on the rack.

[Grey Fox]

My girlfriend got irrationally upset over the washing up bowl and demanded we wash dishes in the stupid lazy student way.
Seems she isn't alone in this. All foreigners think washing up bowls are weird?

https://citymonitor.ai/economy/what-the-great-british-washing-up-bowl-says-about-the-economy

What is the stupid lazy student way?

[Sheilbh]

Leave the tap running - and waste water

[Grey Fox]

Oh. That's the right way.

[Admiral Yi]

I do the lazy student way.

Teh Bowl is common in Korea and Japan in my experience.

[Sheilbh]

Oh. That's the right way.

It's a waste of water

[mongers]

In my teenage years I once spent 78 days straight washing up in an Italian restaurant:

I use a bowl, washing off the worst food residue with running water, then I wash clearest items first and ending with pans/saucepans, rinsing in plenty of cold water as I go, leaving them to drain and dry naturally.   

Never ever used a t-towel to dry anything, as it's a highly unsafe thing to do, reintroducing lots of bacteria onto your clean washing.

[Grey Fox]

Oh. That's the right way.

It's a waste of water

Always relative. There's cubic meters of water in solid form outside my window right now.

[Jacob]

Of course now I just rinse dishes off and put them in the dishwasher, so no tub required.

You can skip that step (the rinsing), too with modern machines. Rinsing is a waste of water and actually makes the machine function worse.

My washing machine is old and not very good. Rinsing is necessary.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_aRPy1KVE

I found the factoid at the beginning of this lecture on option pricing interesting.  The prof claims that the cancellation of the US supercollider project in 1993 destroyed the career prospects of a cohort of quantitative PhDs, such as physicists, and they in turn went to Wall Street and created quantitative finance.

[Razgovory]

What is quantitative finance?

[Admiral Yi]

Quantitative analysis is the use of mathematical and statistical methods in finance and investment management. Those working in the field are quantitative analysts (quants). Quants tend to specialize in specific areas which may include derivative structuring or pricing, risk management, algorithmic trading and investment management. The occupation is similar to those in industrial mathematics in other industries.[1] The process usually consists of searching vast databases for patterns, such as correlations among liquid assets or price-movement patterns (trend following or mean reversion). The resulting strategies may involve high-frequency trading.

Although the original quantitative analysts were "sell side quants" from market maker firms, concerned with derivatives pricing and risk management, the meaning of the term has expanded over time to include those individuals involved in almost any application of mathematical finance, including the buy side.[2] Applied quantitative analysis is commonly associated with quantitative investment management which includes a variety of methods such as statistical arbitrage, algorithmic trading and electronic trading.

[jimmy olsen]

I love a dominant line. What the Rams defensive front did was a thing of beauty. Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen would be proud.

Obviously sucks for the Bengals. Three Super Bowl appearances and three devastating losses. But they had the ball with a chance to win or tie at the end of the game, hard to ask for more than that. They just didn't get it done.

The Bengals played a great game except for their o-line.  Makes it easy to know what to focus on for next year, especially since Mike Brown has the franchise QB now he is perpetually obsessed with having.

Weren't they missing starters due to injury?