David Gerth

But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences.

Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful

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Something I'd be curious to see is a comparison between a model w just a hitter random effect vs model w the underlying data

wow, all these Dems looking for the left's Rogan, as if a thrice-weekly, very long sports podcast that loves stats and science BUT ALSO baseball players kissing THOUGH ONLY IF THEY WANT TO isn't right there WOW

underrated worst part of the lottery is Morey getting bailed out. It's like seeing SBF getting pardoned

Take Me Out to the Mudcats An Experience with A-Ball’s Most Exciting Squad

Our recent piece with @downonthefarm.bsky.social spotlights the Carolina Mudcats, who may be MiLB's most exciting team! We take you on a gameday experience with analytical evaluations and the good old' eye test. Read it here: downonthefarm.substack.com/p/take-me-ou...

I keep trying to hammer the point that LLMs do a much better job replacing the work of MBAs and coders than liberal arts majors.

How to Fit Monotonic Smooths in JAX using Shape Constrained P-Splines Let’s say you have a trend you are trying to model that you know to be monotonically increasing or decreasing; this could be something like default as a function of risk, power usage as a function of ...

I've had instances in the past where GAMs make crazy predictions out of sample and interested to see if this methodology helps that. Here's the article: statmills.com/2025-05-03-m...

Read this nice article on Shape Constrained Additive Models yesterday. Tried it out today on some generated data, comparing a standard GAM to a SCAM with upward trend (correct) and SCAM with downward trend (incorrect). GAM and correct SCAM are similar, with the SCAM being less wiggly.

Two of the offices without senior officials are Houston and Tampa, which, whew, that’s not good.

A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.

And they say you can't make nice graphics without ggplot

🚨 The Packers took a first round receiver 🚨

Absolutely love them getting Matthew Golden. Playoff loss showed they needed someone who could take the top of the defense and beat man coverage. Sharp route runner with terrific hands who wins at all three levels.

My favorite pick of the draft so far.

double digit roi for sure, wish i could throw that in my 401k

Congrats!

As a Mets rookie makes his long-shot MLB debut, the scout who signed him is beating his own odds Justin Hagenman was a 23rd round pick in 2018. The Dodgers scout who signed him, Jonah Rosenthal, is recovering from a stroke in December.

As a Mets rookie makes his long-shot MLB debut, the scout who signed him is beating his own odds. With @TimBritton. www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...

@lukeepplin.bsky.social, just finished up "Our Team." Excellent work, I found all four angles to be fascinating and it was well written

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Submitted an abstract for Saber Seminar! If you have an idea and could present it in Chicago this summer, here's the form for submission: forms.gle/687GBSbyw5tB... Saber Seminar is an excellent place to have your work seen by front offices.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

This was a cool article even though I haven't seen Severance

I find OOP to be weird (skill issue) in general, especially in R, but completed my first HW assignment using R6 classes and have to say I'm impressed how fast it is

Have you looked at how the dead zone has evolved over time? I've been meaning to look at how many pitchers fit the 2018 era of dead zone

This was a fun read

the best teams are winning in march madness? i can't believe it

Very disappointed that USC doesn't have names on their jerseys. I wanted to see Martin-Grudzielanek fit onto the back of one

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During that stupid Grimace gimmic i was going to McDonalds a ton but no stomach issues. Took some time off, went back twice in the past two weeks and got sick both times

Slight skew in the distribution of eigenvalues for normal symmetric matrices I've just started tinkering with random matrix theory, and to do so I've been performing some simulations in R. Something I've noticed is that the distribution of eigenvalues shows slight skew from...

I am a random matrix hobbyist, got a nice answer on this question I asked about the skew of eigenvalues for a symmetric random matrix with standard normal entries. mathoverflow.net/questions/48...

don't you have a tractor auction to pay attention to?