Nikolay Dudaev

Must everything in this world be about growth?

Sadly, yes. I would also add that we should educate ourselves constantly about technology and train to see the lies and hallucinations and propaganda more clearly than ever.

How do we stop it?

The last sentence is the most scary, “they” want us dumber than ever, not asking questions but just consuming whatever they give us.

Asked AI for a solution (nothing major, how to do something in pandas). Spent 30 minutes explaining. Got two solutions, none of which worked. Literally, bugs and errors. Spent 40 minutes researching errors, because the corrections it suggested didn't work either. Ended up reading docs. Productivity!

Fuck him. My life choice is to be at a disadvantage

Matrix would work, yes

How do I read this? For example, how many trades the Yankees made with the White Sox? I need some sort of ruler to track the lines down. Looks cool form the first glance, but maybe you need to make aggregations like inter league trades vs in-league trades or something. By team it is unreadable

Jupyter seemed like a nice idea, but every time I work with it I hate it.

If you don’t mind me asking, why is it the most tolerable nb format for you?

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

Still…

You can’t predict baseball

One of those dull Yankees day games I see

Screenshot from Bandwagon newsletter about how Sintker has to look up words in the dictionary while reading Dickens

That’s how I read books in English too and it is not a fast process. Frustrating sometimes as I struggle through pages. It is good to know that native speakers do that too.

All 5 subs are still available. I have no money in this thing, but 2-3 emails about baseball stuff a week for free for a month is a good deal!

One of my dreams is to go to a baseball game and visit a SABR conference. The way the world is right now, I am optimistic I will do this as a retiree when I am 70 or so, assuming I live that long and the world still exists

Is it dumb to think that Skenes will be a better pitcher in the long run and will probably age better than Misiorowski?

96 mph slider is crazy…

Interesting, so Judge has actually improved from -2.77 last year and Soto has gone down from -0.54 (so far).

Arsenal FC tickets prices

I am going to London in September and was going to try to go to Arsenal’s match with my son, but 230£ per ticket is insane (for me). In Spain I could probably sit close to a pitch for this kind of money. Good bye, childhood dream, I guess…

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Nimmo HR | 06/21/2025 The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Phillies bullpen is not impressed with Nimmo's HR www.mlb.com/video/00u7xo...

No Ball Games Allowed sign near Goodson park in Liverpool

Interestingly enough I saw a few such signs near Goodison Park, but none close to Anfield. Maybe they should let the kids play and Everton’s faith will change.

I’ve caught one half inning of Nationals game before going to the airport and saw four homers, I think I like this Fan Exchange thing

The Yankees have the best third order win/loss record in baseball according to Clay Davenport, they’ve won ~6 games less than they should have based on their statistics. claydavenport.com/stats/standi...

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The more things happen this week the better I guess

As part of FanGraphs Fan Exchange I am supposed to follow the Nationals this week. They play 4 against Rockies and 3 against Dodgers. Should be fun

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