Patrick McEwen

Patrick McEwen

@pmcewen.bsky.social

Lacrosse guy, but no one seems to talk about sports here, so I guess I'm here for the political news? Maybe some finance and economics stuff too?

356 Followers 400 Following 1,619 Posts Joined Oct 2023
3 hours ago

If he drives there is a non-zero chance of a steal and layup at the other end.

Not saying I agree with it or that it maximizes the chances of winning, but that is the rational

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4 hours ago

Prioritizing not losing by making sure to safely take the shot at the last possible moment

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4 hours ago

Cursing feels like one of those things where polls don't help much because you need to do authentically.

Maybe most politicians shouldn't, but if you are angrily ranting in a thick Long Island accent and not cursing, I'm not going to believe you are really upset

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2 days ago

Even more sociopathic given that what they are actually doing is really only the former without much of an ability to even articulate how the latter could happen

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2 days ago

Honestly sociopathic, given how "this will get rid of the boring parts of your job, so you can do 10x output only doing the fun bits" would be a positive vision, and "suck it loser, you'll be out of work while I sail the sky on a dirigible made out of dollar bills" is a psychotic sales pitch

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2 days ago

Never a great sign about someone's decision making when the fake Seinfeld plot even has George solving their problem

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3 days ago

Taiwan Strait

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4 days ago

I feel like that risk is sort of like how in theory the ideal inflation rate might be just above zero but deflation is so bad that it’s better to err on the side of a little more in inflation so the Fed targets 2%

16 retweets might be less use than you want, but too little >>>> too much

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4 days ago

Isn't that somewhat close to the ideal? You don't want someone who never uses it, but you really don't want someone who cares way too much about posting

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6 days ago
Champ Series Semis Are Set: Guard vs. Charging in WLL, Outlaws vs. Chaos in PLL | Inside LacrosseInside Lacrosse

PLL and WLL Semis are set, here's your Friday night recaps:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/cham...

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1 week ago

I haven't thought this all the way through, but I'm not sure how much it actually matters because everything is subscriptions now anyways.

A sort of funny result is that you can't copyleft any code either

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1 week ago

Election results on #atproto when?

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1 week ago

Given that it's looking like all software is close to being written with AI and AI outputs aren't copyrightable, feels like only a matter of time until people start assuming that all software is not copyrighted

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1 week ago

I'm not necessarily sure this is the right way to judge the results. I think it makes sense that more diverse recommended content would produce a lower like rate. But that doesn’t mean that a user isn’t overall happier with the content they are viewing

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1 week ago

3 styles? I think there are 5 being played today by college or pros

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1 week ago

Probably late on this, but the Anthropic stuff today makes me realize some variation this is why Elon Musk is in such a hurry to take SpaceX public. If everyone holds it in index funds, it's much easier to argue shareholders need fair compensation

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2 weeks ago

I think that's spot on.

And I think that tension also happens even within activities that lend themselves well to scouting if there is any sort of specialized equipment. Feels so much easier to get very into kayaking, fishing, rock climbing, archery, etc than 50 years ago

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2 weeks ago

Been thinking about this recently with regards to open sourcing some code. Feels like written specs that allow most LLMs to one shot the code in a language and data format of choice is more valuable than the code of your specific implementation

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2 weeks ago

That's exactly why this won't matter though. No Dem or anyone left of center is willing do the performative freakout

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2 weeks ago

Thinking it was a Cuse alum only narrows it down to about a dozen people

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2 weeks ago

I just want to go on record in case I need to reference this in the future: the State of the Union has always looked like a miserable experience and you couldn't pay me to go

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2 weeks ago

Watched a little film from this game and the new Hampton goalie is a transfer from Marist that is legit. Not saying it's likely, but goalie plays out of his mind and steals a game is a classic upset recipe

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2 weeks ago

Cuse losing to an undefeated team and having the team that they beat to propel them to #1 lose and then still getting a #1 vote. Hope that wasn't you...

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2 weeks ago
Guy standing in a corner at a party thinking "They don't know" meme

The different discussion energy between US politics Bluesky and atproto dev Bluesky is pretty wild. Feels like this meme but I'm not entirely sure who is the one standing in the corner and who is dancinf

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2 weeks ago
Goal details from the Hampton VMI game showing it tied at 15 until VMI took the lead with 1:42 left

Tied at 15 until 1:42 left to play

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2 weeks ago
VMI 17, Hampton 15 from the Inside Lacrosse scoreboard

Right on schedule for next week

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2 weeks ago

That's why I don't predict* things.

*Technically, my professional rule is that I will not predict things that can also be predicted by a goldfish

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2 weeks ago

Ah with you now. The difference between polls are bad because we know nothing and polls are fun because we know nothing

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2 weeks ago

All those are questions that are very succinctly answered by where teams are ranked in the polls.

Like recruiting rankings, polls don't in themselves have any inherent meaning, but they are a useful way to aggregate people’s perceptions of things that do matter

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2 weeks ago

Admittedly I am extremely biased on this subject, but being correct isn't what makes polls and rankings useful or interesting.

The purpose is setting expectations. Was MD-Cuse a matchup of national championship contenders? Is Maryland starting 1-2 a surprise? Was Harvard over Syracuse an upset?

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