I guess I publicly owe the Boston Sports Guy an apology for all the times I rolled my eyes about his NBA/Knicks Draft conspiracy tales1. To quote The Zvi — “I am not saying the NBA fixes the draft lottery, but… no wait I am saying the NBA fixes the draft lottery … On the other hand, I do like that tanking for the first pick is being actively punished, even if it’s being done via blatant cheating.”
Hurry up, the Universe is expected to decay much faster than previously expected.
A video on a Bonsai masters art.
(Famous Bridge Players) Barry Crane and Grant Baze couldn’t agree on which bidding system to use, so decided to simply play whatever system their opponents were playing.
My Alma Mater created LegoGPT …. an AI that turns your requests (via text) into structurally sound lego designs. (GitHub Repo)
Google claims that AlphaEvolve has improved on several hard math problems, including Matrix Multiplication and the packing problem.
Game Theory says what people should do, but what does sociology/anthropology say about how humans actually co-ordinate?
Everybody is mad about Uno? Yes. We’re mad you’re still playing Uno.
Building a peta-hertz trahsistor using light
Resolved: Tom Cruise is the G.O.A.T. (Movie star? I’ll agree but Actor …. uh, I can see the argument. Remember Peter O’Toole’s character from The Greatest Year — “I’m not an actor! I’m a movie star!”).
“Mr. Data — Could that be a Dyson Sphere?” (part 2, see prior part here). “Unlikely sir. 21st Century Astronomer Brian Lacki postulated that Dyson Spheres would not be mathematically stable due to Kozai Mechanism, Yarkovsky Effect and other …” “Thank you, Mr. Data.” (video)
Planet orbits between two stars …. retrograde.
Spin Magazine Interview with Sparks on the release of their 28th album.
The Web Fiction Canon — If you can’t admit how geeky you are on a site about games, where else can you? (But maybe don’t admit it when trying to get dates — see “you’re single because you chose the wrong hobbies.”).
A reviewer once said the phrase that could be applied to all of Malcolm Gladwell’s books was “This is important … if it is true.” The 10,000 hour rule / deliberate practice? Not so true.
Headline that usually announced the 20 minute mark of a horror movie: Unidentified Bacteria discovered on Space Station
- To recap — That David Stern had the Knicks envelope frozen so he could pull it by feel to give them Patrick Ewing. ︎
