Alex Pickle

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Nico Harrison is going to trade the first pick for Marcus Smart.

First guard in 30 years to win DPOY. Defense wins championships. It's a no-brainer for him.

Nobody could have seen this coming...

If you were granted immortality in the year 1 AD, you made twice the hourly wage of the Top 1% 2024 salary in the US, you worked 24/7 with no days off until the present day, and you never spent a nickel of what you earned, you'd have just about as much money as Elon Musk LOST in the last 24 hours.

YouTube video by MSNBC President Donald Trump's Infamous Gaffe Correction Strategy | All In | MSNBC

"I guess you could say..."
"I call it _____"
Or he does the thing where he misreads a word and pretends like he meant to say it. My favorite is when he said that people "sacrifice every day for the furniture, and the future, of their children." Here's some more:
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When Trump tries to read, he does so with the cadence of a first grader. When he inevitably fumbles over a word, he panics, latches on to one word or concept, acts like it's some profound insight, and then just vamps.

The amount of times I've been so disappointed to be proven right lately is staggering.

There's not a single coach in a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd & 15 situation, that would trade one of their 3 timeouts to gain 5 yards. It sounds absurd framed that way, but a default decision the other way around for some reason. It's a perfect example of the cognitive bias called "loss aversion".

Hell, if Huff wins the first two next year, I say we go ahead and give him most of his potential incentive pay. #SMTTT

I'm going to be so excited to go 6-6 next year, and any record better than that will be appropriately appreciated.

Anyone can be excited about a double digit win season (except for Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, and apparently Marshall). Talk to me when you sell no less than 20k tickets in a season without an FBS win.

Marshall fans can say what they want about USM. But I can tell you for certain that if USM was 5-4 w/a Top 10 win, was hosting a division rival that was also 5-4 w/a Top 10 win, & had a chance for a division title still in play. We'd sell a lot more than 24k tickets. (See 2022 Marshall vs App St)

Watched the Coach Huff intro press conference from my home office. Accidentally ran through my wall and now it's cold.
#SMTTT

I'd love it if one of my favorite basketball teams could manage a season without being decimated by injuries.

I'm not an SMU fan, but the best team that Alabama beat was Georgia, who needed 8 OTs and referee help to be Georgia Tech last week. They lost to Vandy who lost to a team that went 1-7 in the Sun Belt. The difference between the SEC and the rest of the country is propaganda.

I loved the idea of Marion, but Huff is a hire you make 100 times out of 100 if you're able to. He just won our conference championship with a team primarily built from the portal. Things can turn around quickly.

Text messages from Southern Miss AD Jeremy McLain to an anonymous booster leaked after the news of Marshall HC Charles Huff leaving for USM the day after winning a conference championship. #SMTTT

Feel this in my marrow. Our two year old could be awake for 2 straight weeks and it wouldn't touch the cumulative sleep deprivation caused by the first kid.

NYT Connections result page shows Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green and a skill score of 98.

It's frustrating how often I play #Connections, get the Purple & Blue in the correct order, and then can't figure out which of the last two categories is supposed to be easier. My most common result since they added Skill Score has been Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green.

Take the 2 Waffle House guys (1 from Hardy, 1 from Broadway) and bring in 2 drunk grad students smoking outside the Grill & Grocery. Then go to frat row w/a bullhorn and ask, "who's got thoughts on international politics." Pick the dude with the loudest "woo."
Now that's a panel.

Maybe let's try copying the healthcare systems of the other countries on that graph? Just a thought.

I know a place situated near the center of a triangle created by Montgomery, Jackson, and New Orleans with plenty of Civil Rights history

Cobie "Game 6 Klay" Montgomery

I'll continue to say it. I'm going to teach my kids to shoot a basketball using Cobie Montgomery highlights. #SMTTT

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Only thing more embarrassing than publicly finding out you're not your best friend's best friend is crying about it.
When push comes to shove, the University of Mississippi will never be invited to sit at the SEC cool kids table, because it's not just about how rich your dad is.

Lane Kiffin has been bragging all year about how he's best friends with the popular kid, but he just found out he didn't get invited to the kid's birthday party because his mom said he could only invite 12 friends. #CFP

NYT Op Ed:
Hank Green lied to us about Taylor Swift, and that's why I no longer believe in climate change

What's the stated reason for that change? Like, I understand the benefit to Musk is that they can recycle old tweets into the algorithm with more obfuscation, but what's the "cover" argument they're using?

Spotify really should be able to use their data to find accounts that are obviously parents and do some sort of banner when you open the app to make that feature widely known.