Oscar Howie

Blogging at The 1001 // Sport & suchlike
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It took the greatest show on earth for people to act as though 3 is greater than 2.

Being right is not enough: https://t.co/l6XxO6Jh4s

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Once again the Administration changes its mind in dramatic fashion, and one can only assume they’re reading the Blog

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Being priced out of Madison Square Garden is the real community building

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Knicks Advance to the Finals

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Young Rafa The Raging Bull changed the life of at least one teenager. And a year on from that bizarre funeral for his career at Roland-Garros, it's a good time for me to acknowledge He isn’t the GOAT, and neither are Federer or Djokovic.

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Shot: “Rafa gave absolutely everything. He gave us everything he had.”

Chaser: “I gave my life to one of the most individual sports that exists.”

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Shot: “Rafa gave absolutely everything. He gave us everything he had.”

Chaser: “I gave my life to one of the most individual sports that exists.”

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Rafa Nadal isn’t the GOAT, and neither are Federer or Djokovic.

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Perfection is an impossible goal, and impossible goals are bad

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A thought I have often had is, how do professional athletes do it?

So much of the answer is often humility and trusting the process

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Jalen Brunson thrives under pressure in a way few ever have.

Because of that, and my very recent 12-round bout with anxiety, I wanted to learn more about his relationship with pressure so I can continue to better understand myself.

Free for all:

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Can be helpful to remember that athletes are also vulnerable, that we all are

One of my favourite sports books is A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke

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TIL the term of art tradeoff aversion and it's my favourite idea now, so much explanatory power in so few syllables

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You don’t have to stick to your picks

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@YourManDevine For all their flaws, prediction markets are great theatre

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Reading stories about how the US administration is these days in favour of regulating the most powerful technology ever and thinking it’s good somebody over there is reading the Blog
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Never a bad time to revisit the Power Rankings, but it’s an especially good time in the wake of the US administration changing its mind about the impermissibleness/inevitability of AI regulation

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Mythos changed the game.
Seems notable that Mythos’s capabilities were a) predictable and b) predicted by some with remarkable accuracy while being vehemently decried by others as impossible.

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Trump’s AI executive order shows what AI safety advocates have argued all along: you can’t not regulate AI. Sufficiently capable models force national security responses, turning even the most ardent opponents of regulation into begrudging regulators.

It's a huge blow for opponents to regulation. The accelerationists got the most sympathetic administration imaginable, and a direct line to POTUS. But what the models could do mattered more than anything they could.

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@ChetHolmgren you're the face of this post!
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on this day a year ago

@ChetHolmgren i get that a young man these days doesn't want to read books, but what about at least trying the Blog?

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Chet Holmgren doesn’t pretend to be someone he’s not. When GQ Sports asked him to talk about his favorite books, he pulled out a small collection of coffee table books like they were sacred. No novels. No heavy reading. Just pictures, vibes, and chill energy. He even said, “Too many words on the page kinda hurts my brain… so I like when there’s a lot of pictures in there.”

One book was all basketball shoes. Another one was just cool buildings. Chet’s bookshelf is basically your Pinterest board in hardcover. It’s so unserious it loops back around to iconic. He could’ve lied and said some deep stuff like The Alchemist or Can’t Hurt Me. Instead, he went full honesty.

Chet Holmgren... the 7-footer with insane feel for the game, elite defensive instincts, and a reading list made for fourth graders with taste. What a legend.

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