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  1. Very small sample size, but...
  2. Would be a lot funnier if Tesla's actually had a multi-speed transmission.
  3. This post is the equivalent of farting into the PA microphone at Costco.
  4. So for torpedo bats, the mass goes middle out.
  5. All true, with the caveat that the tradeoff with the loss of mass in corking is more than overcome by the gain in velocity. K = 1/2 mv^2. Change in velocity has a greater relative impact on total kinetic energy than a change in mass. That's why Bonds swung such a light bat.
  6. I tried to watch this yesterday, because I like Dr. Mike's approach in his videos. I had to give up after this guy took the seat. He was completely incoherent and made me want to smash my monitor. "I have brief access to a broadcast platform, so let me take this opportunity to mention every issue I have a crackpot theory about rather than make a single logical argument."
  7. Nah.
  8. I'm still calling bullshit. Five days ago you would not have been able to articulate why Volpe was swinging a torpedo bat. But you know what... fuck me for trying to have an actual discussion with the Helo character.
  9. So you saw the torpedo bat and immediately knew that video and stat analysis showed that Volpe made more contact closer to the label, so they reworked the bat to move more mass to the label area? C'mon, man. Sure, we all saw it and could intuitively see how a change like that might affect contact, but very few people could articulate the true "why" without the underlying analysis. Granted, the person who did the initial analysis is with another team now, so it's not like the method is Yankee proprietary info. But make the rest of MLB do their own analysis to figure out the "why."
  10. Easy to see the "what", but the "why" may not be as obvious. Let everyone else figure it out for themselves. As it stands, this particular "competitive advantage" lasted all of what... four days? People understood that Billy Beane was doing something differently with roster construction, but they didn't have the math behind it. They didn't know the "why." People obviously saw the infield shift happening, but it took a while for people to understand the numbers and for that to overcome traditional positioning as the norm.
  11. Tim’s arc over the past three episodes hasn’t been about what he does, but about how he’s thinking. Previous episode has him struggling with thoughts about how to kill himself, then the monk gives him a model of the afterlife that gives him the resolve to actually do it. But before he can do it, Victoria says she can’t live an uncomfortable life, which he knows is waiting for her, so he adds her to the plan. Now Saxon throws his eggs into Dad’s basket and links their fates. Tim hasn’t “done” anything… except cook up a plan to murder/suicide his family which IMO has been fascinating to watch. I think it’s pretty ingenious the way they have shown it progressing.
  12. OK… so pitch’em outside. That’s what makes baseball great. There is a counter move for pretty much everything. I personally don’t think it’s as much of an innovation as people are giving it credit for. Weight distribution and shaping of bats has been an evolution throughout the history of the game. A few years back axe handle bats were the rage. That said, if the Yankees really did believe they had gained some competitive advantage by reshaping the bats, it’s pretty fucking stupid to come out and say “this is what we did and this is why we did it.” They should have just said “the bats comply with MLB rules” and left it at that.
  13. Freakonomics podcast is doing an interesting series on "sludge" aka "enshittification" right now: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/sludge-part-1-the-world-is-drowning-in-it/
  14. Most current FSD build with latest hardware easily passes the Roadrunner test: The second vehicle tested has the same hardware and software build that I do, so I still need to be on guard for desert road murals, anvils, and bundles of dynamite.
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