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25 minutes ago, TheDoyler23 said:

Rodriguez’ plan of throwing the ball directly over the middle of the plate is not working out tonight. Sheesh. 

Well if any saving grace, he hasn't allowed any "big innings".  Just lots of small ones...

Trout choked ... stared at three pitches in the zone.

I'll take it.

Just need 10 runs here ... 

At least we saw Mateo make a great play ... I wasn't paying attention and didn't know about the switch to cetner ... looks he really wants to stay on this team. 

This is one of those situations where I wish Rougned Odor was still on the team.

1 minute ago, zCommander said:

 

After the regular season is over with. 

Hey its cool being able to actually enjoy the regular season with lowered expectations, where making the playoffs actually feels like an accomplishment.   Brings back that 2007-2010 era feeling.

One second from a shutout ... 

Well at least Ovechkin is now credited with the game winner

I like writing code and producing useful things.  Work environments can really suck though, with all the bureaucracy, politics, intrusive performance tracking, etc.

8 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

That’s not gonna work 

Apparently it has, 35 times.  

Crucifixion was actually meant to be a lengthy, grueling punishment.  There are reports of people surviving days.  Which leads to debates about the plausibility of crucifixion account (but I don't want to go down that road)

1 hour ago, mhd24 said:

 

And yet Leonsis was too cheap to retain the coach who led the caps to that title.  

Not sure if I can fault Leonsis for that one.  The Caps had suffered so many early playoff exits, and Trotz could not get past the second round in three years of coaching.  So they waiting on extending him in his final contract year they ended up winning the Cup and then Trotz was a free agent.  They did make a good offer but Trotz just saw greener pastures.  The Caps were between rock and hard place going into his final year.  If you extend him early, then suffer another early exit, you look like idiots for extending a mediocre coach.  

Ice hockey coaches (at the NHL level) are somewhat overrated in any case.  Its mostly about the players and how they gel.  And having a hot goalie.

If anything, Leonsis was often too easy on people in his organization.  At least early in his tenure. 

3 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

Interest rates are generally low when the economy sucks right?

Since the 70s generally yes.  I think maybe a brief period in the early 90s where it didn't align.

The Fed really doesn't like inflation.  We like being the world's reserve currency and if people have to eat Noodle Ramen out of a tent in order to maintain stable value of the USD, well too bad for them.

On 3/25/2024 at 1:14 PM, mhd24 said:

Leonsis is far worse than Angelos.  His recent actions regarding his greed and new stadium shows that.  Angelos was never leaving Camden yards.  Now, Angelos wasn't a great owner obviously, but I'd take him 1000X over Leonsis (by far and away the worst owner in the NBA).

 

Leonsis just basically stole 70 million for the Wizards practice facility that was inadequate the day it was built.  He's trying to leave after 5 years there.  There are numerous accounts that I have posted on how much of a scumbag Leonsis is.  

Owners can be an ahats, but if their teams win locals tend to forgive quite a bit.   JKC was no saint either.

I can understand why Wiz fans would dislike Leonsis, but the Caps at least have raised the championship banner (first to do for a DC area team in 27 years), as well as convincing a generational talent who will almost certainly break one of the marquee NHL records to stay on the team for his entire career (up to this point), which was not guaranteed.  You can argue, and I would agree, they probably should have been more successful during #8's prime but they did check off that pretty important box. 

In terms of winning, Angelos was actually not quite as bad as I think alot of Os fans make him out to be.  That 14-year losing streak was pretty horrenduous to witness, but part of the problem they were stuck in the hardest division in baseball, probably in all of sports, as a mid-market team in a league without a salary cap.  And they weren't too shabby in the 90s.  Its just that for O's fans, given their history the expectations were probably higher than for alot of other franchises.  I think they've righted the ship fairly well over the last decade.

Maybe we could start calling it the The Strome Dome.  At least sometimes.

Amazing what merely cutting dead weight does for a team.  Its not exactly like we had a fire sale, our big name vets were mostly injured/underperfoming.  But moving on from Kuznetsov and Mantha I has woken this team up a bit.  Would be hilarious if we somehow made the post season.

On 3/21/2024 at 6:40 AM, Busch1724 said:

Let's face it, Ohtani is the one who gambled. Does it void the contract he just got?

If he is suspended by the league, then yes.

I cannot believe he would be that stupid.

Then again all Japanese people seem smart to me. 

On 6/5/2023 at 7:45 AM, ixcuincle said:

In order to inflate their IPO Reddit is shutting down access to all third party apps through their API.

 

As a very casual Reddit lurker (/u/ixcuincle) this is absolute bull**** and will shut down any third party apps which make Reddit somewhat usable.

 

Hope more reddits participate in the pending blackout / lockdown.

What I hate more was "you must use the app to use this site on mobile" garbage.  Both from a consumer and a developer perspective.

Prior to the to WWW becoming popular, this is how things used to work.  Every company/organization/entity that provided a network service, had to define their own client/server protocol, and their own custom rendering code for each platform.  It was a big ****show, as any developer who worked during that era will attest.  Don't get me started on CORBA 💩

The beauty of the WWW was in part, you don't need that anymore.  We're going to define standards (HTTP, and HTML) where anyone with this thing called a "user agent" (aka "web browser"), can access our service.  And from a developer perspective, you just follow the standards and it worked* on any platform

* Yes, this was only partially true depending on what you wanted to do, in practice the competing browsers did not all implement everything the same (looking at you IE!)

Yet the trend now has recently been, let's go back to the mess of the 90s and before where everyone was silo'd off into their own custom runtimes and sometimes even protocols

On 2/28/2024 at 9:19 AM, tshile said:

Once naked pictures of you are on the internet, they’re never going away. That becomes a lifelong issue. And it’s not like it’s reasonable to think someone just needs to explain they’re fake, for their whole life. 

Meh, once everyone's naked photos are on the internet one will care anymore

So maybe once everyone turns 18 they have to get photographed naked and it will be posted on the internet.  Like to get a drivers license or something

25 minutes ago, capcrunch98 said:

RIP Chris Simon. Before the injuries started piling up, you were one scary mother f-er who gave us some good years.  Keep your hair long in the afterlife. 

 

Fond  memories of the “HSB” line circa 97-99  ….  no one messed with those guys …

None of the last three CEOs of Boeing going back to 2005 have had a background in engineering or even aviation.  They've all been pure businessmen/marketers/accountants/"finance bros".  I guess this is what you get when the leader lacks an appropriate background  

On 3/12/2024 at 5:01 PM, China said:

Just ask yourself how many options you have.  2,  Airbus and Boeing.  What do you do if you have no choice but to take Boeing?  Not go?

Fly private?

Not that it would be cheap ... but I think you might be able to get away with "only" 3-4x a commercial flight. ..

I’d say it’s a strange culture but it’s it like ours isn’t 

Looks like Russia hit one of the Patriots 😔

On 3/6/2024 at 1:12 AM, BraveWarrior said:

Just getting tired of the idea that this team can't enter a rebuild while Ovie is chasing the record. I think if I were the GM, I'd tell him "look, if you're going to get the record here then you're going to do it as the leader of a bunch of new and young players. If you're truly great, you'll be able to do it under those circumstances." It's not like it's the team they thought would help him get there anyway. Backstrom is essentially gone, Kuzy is gone, Oshie is almost always out of the lineup with injuries. Orlov has been gone since last year. I'm probably forgetting a few. The team has been steadily declining since winning the Cup, which is now 6 years ago. 

 

Ovechkin's contract is up so we can tell him whatever we want, but he can take his talents wherever he likes at this point.  So if we want him to remain on the team, we'll have to accommodate him.  Like I keep harping on, we should have restarted the rebuild 5 years ago after it was apparent the team was done after the Cup run and Ovechkin was under contract.  Would have been a much better position now.  As it is, I don't know how much Ovechkin is going to play past 40, so it will be a tough to complete a rebuild before he seeks greener pastures.

Having him break Wayne's record wearing anything but a Caps uniform would be an embarassment for this franchise.  I'm hoping even he sees how its just not possible for the Caps to be competitve again while keeping to slap bandaids on the team.

9 hours ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

Counter offensive? With what weapons? America has left them high and dry. I hate to say it but the best thing for Ukraine right now would be Zelensky getting assassinated and galvanizing western support.

Probably meant Russian counteroffensive.  

Every offensive after the initial attack has been billed as "counter offensive" because it followed an offensive from the other side.

I don't think Zelensky getting assassinated would help.  It would just make it seem like Ukraine was a lost cause.

On 2/22/2024 at 2:23 PM, tshile said:

 It to mention AI is this overly gross collection of components. 
computer vision

machine learning

natural language processing 

expert systems 

speach recognition

AI planning

 

Any one of those is pretty ****ing hard and complicated. Most try to specialize, to be an expert on one or two, and generally understand the others. 
 

it’s just too much ****ing work for a 4 year degree without considering a balanced curriculum of other gen ed requirements, and prerequisites. And to put that on a 18/19/20 year old living alone for the first time?

lol

Some of the image processing/signal processig does require some fairly heavy math.

But things like understanding ANNs, which are used frequently all over the place, for classifiers (also speech recognition) isn't really that hard.  Its basically just a big matrix multiplication. And after that, getting the right labelled data, tweaking parameters and testing the model. A lot of grunt work

The challenges are just having the right data and the economic cost of storage/retrieval.   That's why there's been such a big resurgence after it was dormant since the early 90s.  We now have the dat, processing power and storage

The basic models haven't changed all that much since backpropogation was discovered I 1986. yeah, they came out with CNNs (convolutionalneural networks).  But those are really just an extension to account for image offset/rotation/scale.  Its mostly a case of "we now have the hardware"

Not sure how I come up with these ideas