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I just witnessed a soccer player heel flip a rainbow to himself into a bicycle kick for a game winning goal in penalty time. That was SCs #3 for the night.
Having played soccer, coached soccer, watched three kids play soccer, it was among the most insane, indefensible play I have ever seen.
Not the best play of the day, because some September callups in the MLB got robbed of home runs by pedestrian pleebs not named Torii Hunter.
Having played soccer, coached soccer, watched three kids play soccer, it was among the most insane, indefensible play I have ever seen.
Not the best play of the day, because some September callups in the MLB got robbed of home runs by pedestrian pleebs not named Torii Hunter.
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Just wait until basketball season when the top five plays every night are "monster dunks with no regard to humanity"...
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
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Nigel Tufnel
Choking on vomit
I just don’t know how he can explain how poorly his “model” performed.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
Yeah, I think that was the tweet that started me calling out his shit model. It’s pretty clear to me that he really doesn’t understand what a model should do. I mean, there’s the obvious idea that it _should_ be accurate (which it’s not), but for it to be respected, it should provide some novel view incremental to the other predictors out there. Otherwise, it’s an redundant also ran exercise.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
This is what a geek fight looks like, in case you’re wondering.
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And it should be predictive.
For hundreds of years, any scientist who wanted their hypothesis to be promoted to “law” had to show that it was predictive.
These days there are scientists in multiple fields blithely employing models that have failed this test for years on end. It’s part of a larger trend of a lack of rigor and standards in science. Like all trends, it is not proceeding evenly; there are exceptions everywhere. These exceptions do not obviate or even ameliorate the fact that there are things happening in science today that used to be unthinkable.
This is the part where I go off the rails... so be it.
I don’t think this is entirely bad
it seems to me that a lot of the crap in science and mathematics is due to modern media, including social media, giving complete hacks (like this guy) a platform to tout their models and theories as science.
As long as such fools are held up to public ridicule, there’s really nothing wrong with it.
You’re doing the Lord’s work, Sparc. Carry on.
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I am Steve19. I am a modeler. I endorse this message!
It may be geek humor but it's great geek humor. That right there is a curb stomp in our discipline!
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AJHawkfan
Wanna make $14 the hard way?
the first edition of their eliminator (whatever the fuck that is) came out today and I saw this:
Anything they do to artificially inflate the SEC...
Oh, they're subtly dissing Clemson in hopes that 3 SEC! teams can make their way into the CFP....
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...there-always-next-year-nebraska-florida-state
Anything they do to artificially inflate the SEC...
Oh, they're subtly dissing Clemson in hopes that 3 SEC! teams can make their way into the CFP....
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...there-always-next-year-nebraska-florida-state
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Nigel Tufnel
Choking on vomit
Seems like as much as anything, they are knocking Clemson because they haven’t looked like a top-5...and that was the expectation when we entered the season.
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