Marcos de Rojas

Internacionalista, historiador #historiaglobal #globalhistory 🇨🇺@🇲🇽

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

Isleño

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Chris Steed @csteed]

🚨 ADVANCED ANALYTICS MYTHS 🚨

Advanced analytics is simply the interpretation of large data sets to predict outcomes.

It is no different than a basic P&L model in business.

- Advanced analytics is not a ‘system’. Princeton/Triangle/Flex are systems.

- Advanced analytics is NOT ‘shooting lots of 3’s’. Advanced analytics is shooting quality (catch and shoot) 3’s because 3 > 2 and gives a higher EV (expected value).

- Advanced analytics is not playing as fast as you can. It’s hunting the first, best available shot.

- Analytics isn’t a ‘belief system’ or ‘philosophy’, the data just exists whether you embrace it or not.

- Advanced analytics is tilting the total possession and/or EV in your favor, PARTICULARLY when there is a skill disparity. This increases variance.

For example : Instead of losing 70/100 games by 10 points, you will lose 55 out of 100 games, but when you lose, you will lose by 25 points on average.

As everyone has heard the data shows the rim, the free throw line and the catch and shoot 3, give the best EV (expected value).

Systems are optimized based off of this data set. ALL SYSTEMS. 1990s and 2000s basketball did the exact same with the LIMITED amount of data they had at their disposal.

Buzzwords like ‘dawg’ and ‘pure hooper’ do not counteract data. Every professional/college team you cheer for, and every player you see as a ‘pure hooper’ fully embraces, or plays in a system that fully embraces, advanced analytics. EVEN if they don’t shoot a lot of 3’s.

NCAA Champion - Dusty May is one of the most forward, innovative, data dependant coaches on the planet. Todd Golden is probably second in the country in this regard.

NBA - Mark Daigneault and OKC do EVERYTHING based off data (including Presti in the war room). The Dynasty Warriors were built on data, Bud and the Bucks, Malone and the Nuggets, etc etc. These are all teams built on advanced analytics.

[♠️ Gentleman ♠️ @Gentleman_1965]

#Tintin

[Johanna Cilano @CilanoJohanna]

Ante el anuncio del gobierno cubano de otorgar beneficios penales a 553 personas, desde @AmnistiaOnline exigimos la liberación inmediata de todas las personas injustamente encarceladas por ejercer sus derecho en Cuba, particularmente a las personas presas de conciencia.

En este momento, hay mas de 600 personas detenidas por su participación en protestas desde el 2021 y nueve personas presas de conciencia —Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel Castillo Pérez (Osorbo), José Daniel Ferrer García, Loreto Hernández García, Donaida Pérez Paseiro, Roberto Perez Fonseca, Felix Navarro, Sayli Navarro y Luis Robles — siguen privadas de libertad.

El gobierno cubano debe poner fin a la represión y garantizar los derechos a la libertad de expresión, asociación y reunión pacífica; así como derogar leyes represivas que criminalizan la protesta pacífica, la libertad de expresion y asociación.

Las personas encarceladas por ejercer sus derechos humanos nunca debieron ser criminalizadas, Libérenlas YA.

[Michael Deibert @michaelcdeibert]

In the context of the extraordinarily cynical quid pro quo we saw between the Biden administration & Cuba's dictatorship today, I think we should stop calling the many hundreds unjustly held by the regime there as prisoners & call them what they are: Hostages.

[Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR) @instar_cuba]

Este martes comienza el Festival En Zona en la Ciudad de México, con proyecciones de filmes que han integrado la selección oficial del V Festival de Cine INSTAR.

No te lo pierdas‼️

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

👇 on weak autocracies

[Dan Slater @SlaterPolitics]

Weak autocracies are far more common than strong autocracies.

They are also often far more dangerous and damaging than strong autocracies.

Never take hope from an autocrat’s weakness. Instead, prepare for the worst.

A 🧵 based on 2 of my books: (1/N)

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

🎼🖤

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of producer, songwriter, composer and arranger Quincy Jones.

As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including records, live performance, movies and television.

His career spans over six decades, with a record 80 Grammy Award nominations and 28 Grammy Awards. Jones’s contributions to the jazz world include his iconic recordings and arrangements for Frank Sinatra (including “Fly Me To The Moon”), the Count Basie Orchestra, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, and Dizzy Gillespie, in addition to his 39 recordings as a leader.

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

@JustinWolfers @natesilver @diego_econ 👀🧮

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

@DanieLorenzini @TereMartinez 👀

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

Discussions on the award of the Nobel Prize in economics to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson have often focused on their empirical papers on economic growth.
A🧵 to point to the big picture: how they transformed the discipline.

[Teresa Martínez Trujillo @TereMartinez]

Mesa 1. Foucault en la era del Antropoceno: biopolítica y crisis climática. ¡Vengan a charlar con nosotres! #foucault40años #foucaultdesdeelsurglobal #Confines
Registro: https://t.co/RqZgBEP2JA

[SLAS Society for Latin American Studies @SLASLatAm]

7⃣ The seventh contribution to BLAR's Special Issue is 'Autonomous Responses to the Russia–Ukraine Conflict? Evidence from the Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America', coauthored by @KendraCarrionV, @alexandrajg90 and @jangelecon89 (@TecdeMonterrey).

https://t.co/rTGdHhtL63

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

@joelpena89 @AnahuacMexico @anahuac Muchas felicidades!

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

Over 850,000 Cubans have migrated to the US in the past 3 fiscal years. To say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who migrated to other countries.

For perspective, during the first 14 years of the Revolution, under 600,000 exiles arrived in the US. https://t.co/Ix0UVZEHcS

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

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[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock in the studio

Herbie is showing Quincy a demonstration of the legendary Fairlight CMI synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation…

[Alexandra Jima-González @alexandrajg90]

Pasen a leer nuestros dos papers en este issue del Bulletin of Latin American Research (@SLASLatAm) -y están en Open Access.
Gran colaboración con @jangelecon89 y @KendraCarrionV ♥️🤓

#SomosCSociales
#TecSocialesPuebla
@CSocialesTec
@TecdeMonterrey
@TECcampusPUE

[Marcos de Rojas @MarcusDeRojas]

@DiegoGalego3 Felicidades Diego! Mucho éxito!

[CSocialesTec @CSocialesTec]

🗣️¡La Revista #CONfines presenta su No. 39! 🤓

Abrimos con un dossier temático 🗂️ dedicado a analizar las relaciones México - Brasil, además, presentamos una conversación con el embajador de Brasil en México 🇲🇽 🇧🇷

📌Disponible en:
https://t.co/NcJRTlVG4e

#SomosCSociales

[Rafael Rojas @librocrepusculo]

Ya Flacso publicó este libro fundamental de la Dra. Velia Cecilia Bobes, sobre el estallido social del verano de 2021 en Cuba. Quien quiera debatir con seriedad lo que sucedió los días 11 y 12 de julio en la isla no podrá evitar este libro, un análisis sociológico sobre aquello.