Paul Deming

Engineer, I love data

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@stats_feed Which way is the wind blowing?

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@positiverplyguy @RepThomasMassie Yes these are good points and Thomas would have made good money if he stayed with the house but the property itself appreciated at 1.5% above inflation annually. Property has not suddenly shot up out of step.

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@RepThomasMassie Please comment if I made a math mistake

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

168,000 is about $386,000 in today’s dollars. Mortgage rate today is 6.8%, so payments are about 10% less today. Or we are paying a 10% premium today, so $680,000k is $612,000 equivalent today. So house appreciation was about 58% in 30 years. I’m not including maintenance costs, but over 30 years someone probably put in $200,000 in fixes. So 58% over 30 years is an annual appreciation of only 1.5%.

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@RepThomasMassie Truthfully does not make home investment attractive.

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@MarioNawfal I thought the Democrat party super delegates that could override the primary voters

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Please share this with everyone. Let’s never listen to these liars ever again. I guess CNN doesn’t need Sanjay to be a useful idiot anymore

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

The numbers don’t lie—at UCSD Medical School, black and Latino applicants were more likely to be admitted than white and Asian applicants with higher scores.
Using “hardship essays” as a proxy for race-based admissions is ILLEGAL—@CivilRights @TheJusticeDept is taking action.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Today in 1979, you roll the dice on your family’s fucking lives and disable the smoke alarm in order to play some Mattel Football.

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

Since 1948, the time price of a McDonald’s cheeseburger has fallen by 63 percent.

You get 2.7 cheeseburgers today for the time price of one in 1948.
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[Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr]

CNN, ABC, NBC, which aired Joe Biden’s “Red Speech” — in which he declared that half the country consisted of domestic terrorists — are refusing to air President Trump’s address to the nation.

Democracy dies in darkness, as they say.

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

Compared to 1956, we now enjoy 532 more square feet per person as well as homes packed with 3.7 times more amenities—and all of it for about 24% less time per square foot.
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[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I finally figured out what's wrong with "everything."

It's a system problem. The introduction of Trump into the system(s) broke almost everything, and in multiple ways.

The fake news created a White Supremacist hysteria, which led to the Fine People Hoax and the George Floyd Hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence in all of our systems at once.

Add wokeness and cancelation and we can't discuss the issue, much less fix it. That's a system problem. The corrective mechanism (free speech) has been removed.

On top of that, the Trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt. They probably always were, but as long as we didn't notice, things limped along okay.

Now we notice.

Now we don't accept "the science" we know is corrupt. We don't accept the omnibus bills we know are corrupt. We don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy. We don't accept elections we can't fully audit. We don't trust the news, for good reason. We don't trust our intel services to not be agents of one party. And we see the justice departments weaponized.

While all that happened Soros found a way to take control of all American systems via funding of non-government entities and integrating them into the American systems.

But at the head of the snake is the fake news and fake science. There is no correcting mechanism.

The X platform is the only counterforce, and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out, and Musk at the same time.

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

History's most successful civilizations, from Song China to the Dutch Republic, rose by embracing trade, tolerance, and intellectual freedom—and fell when they abandoned these commitments.
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[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

Computer science professor at a major state university just finished the worst faculty meeting in 32 years of academia

Department head dropped the placement statistics like a bomb at 2:47 PM on a Wednesday

2023: 89% placement rate within 6 months of graduation
2024: 67% placement rate
2025: 34% placement rate
2026 projections: 12% placement rate

312 CS majors graduating this spring. Industry contacts saying maybe 40 will find work.

The dean wants to know why enrollment is still climbing while job prospects crater

Faculty sitting there like deer in headlights because what the fuck do you tell 19-year-olds taking out $40k per year in loans

Half the curriculum is already obsolete. Teaching data structures while companies replace entire engineering teams with Claude and Cursor.

One professor suggested pivoting to "AI collaboration skills" and got laughed out of the room

Another said we should warn students. Department head said that would "damage program reputation and university revenue"

So they keep taking tuition money from kids who will graduate into a wasteland

Career services still posts those bullshit salary averages from 2022 when new grads were getting $140k offers

Now the same companies are hiring 2 senior engineers with AI tools instead of 12 junior developers

Every CS professor knows their students are walking into a meat grinder

But the university needs those enrollment numbers to hit budget targets

They're literally selling degrees that lead to DoorDash driving

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

The share of U.S. households earning $100,000+ (in inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars) has grown dramatically since 1967, while low-income households have steadily declined.

The long-run trend is clear: rising prosperity for all.

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@ChrisMartzWX The 30 dead people are still (not moving) and in the room. Living people can move.

[Paul Deming @PaulDeming1]

@CoachDanGo Does body fat percent correlate to bmi?

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

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