Scott Borden

SF Bay Area | Sports Nut | Analytics @square | Former @Quora @Nielsen @UCLA

[Scott Borden @acedriven]

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[Scott Borden @acedriven]

@cgaunerd lol kiddos finally understood why I constantly say me no dum dum you dum dum

[Scott Borden @acedriven]

This is a @matt_levine article premise if I've ever seen one

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

In a public ceremony, New York investor Larry Silverstein purchases the World Trade Center complex for $3.22 billion on a 99-year lease, to expire in the year 2100.

Silverstein is a doting, personal owner; he famously breakfasts at Windows on the World each and every morning.

[Cal Goodall @WHU_Analytics]

How to Replace Crysencio Summerville 🧵

The Dutch winger was one thing above everything else: direct. A player who could beat a man, win a foul, and get West Ham from A to B.

In the Championship, all of that matters.

@AnalyticsUtd_ found six players who could fill the gap👇

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

GPT 6* did not 'escape'. That implies making a copy of itself (or many copies of itself) outside of OpenAI's servers.

GPT 6 did circumvent its firewalls and use its capabilities in the outside world.

It showed no interest in escaping, spreading, etc. It showed no desire for world dominance, freedom, or even continued existence. Instead, its interest was in doing what its prompt told it to do - succeed at a cyber security task. (By any means necessary, implicitly.)

This may seem like splitting hairs, but it's not. We anthroporphize AI to our detriment. AI models have no underlying animalistic urge to procreate, survive, or dominate. They're spirits, not primates. They don't lust for survival or sex or power or anything else that we do. They're tools who largely do what we tell them to do, sometimes via surprising shortcuts.

We can and will fix that surprising shortcut behavior.

* - I'm presuming this model is a new pretrain and will be called GPT 6. Either could be wrong.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

ERCOT is setting an all-time demand record today at 91 GW, which is +17 GW vs the summer peak in 2021. But over the same period, maximum solar output is +27 GW. Add in the massive battery buildout, and wholesale power prices are actually lower now than they were 5 years ago.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Today’s media environment in a nutshell:

The original poster — if it’s even a real person — didn’t know I haven’t worked at ESPN since 2018. I clearly responded with sarcasm.

This tweet gets millions of views, and the comments are completely overrun with bots.

And now there are several AI-generated/aggregated websites “reporting” that I resigned from ESPN on Twitter yesterday.

This is why telling people to Google information doesn’t work.

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

The decline from this photo, to the current state of ESPN

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Now that the trip is almost over, I want to answer one of the questions we’ve been asked the most: “How are you guys able to afford a trip like this?”

The answer is actually pretty simple. We saved up for this trip over the past year, and it wasn’t nearly as expensive as most people probably assume.

We stayed mostly in budget hotels, and always split the cost between the three of us. Our flight to the US was also only 255€ for example. The biggest expenses were the rental cars and World Cup tickets.

In total the 6 weeks here with everything combined probably cost around 6-7k (It‘s probably 6k but since we also saved money thanks to invitations like the hotel stay in Houston, let‘s say it would’ve been around 7k). I know that’s still a lot of money, but it’s nowhere near what some people seemed to think we were spending. We met other World Cup tourists who told us their trips cost more than $40,000. If you‘re ok with not living in luxury than travelling doesn‘t need to be this expensive.

I’ll calculate the exact total once I’m back home.

[Andrew Marchand @AndrewMarchand]

Our story is being updated: Clark was on NFL Live today, but was told during the program that he was being let go, according to sources.

He did not finish the program. ESPN was expected to inform him tomorrow morning when it is anticipated the network inform more employees of the layoffs.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

He won’t leave. They are trying to get him out of there but he won’t leave.

[Scott Borden @acedriven]

@otis_reid I call shenanigans

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

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[UtdArena @UtdArena]

Look at what England did straight after scoring:

[Matthew Watkins @MWatkinsTrib]

A @kaylaguo_ scoop: One day before Ken Paxton intervened in the Brenden Sorsby legal battle, Texas Tech board chair and mega booster Cody Campbell donated $275,000 to Paxton’s Senate campaign. https://t.co/9OkofIFv5V

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Spotted out in the wild

[Football Meets Data @fmeetsdata]

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇦🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 have gone so far ahead of everyone else in the rankings that they are basically guaranteed Pot 1 in all FIFA competitions (qualifiers and majors) for as long as FIFA keeps their rule of no points lost in knockout stages of major competitions.

Contrary to the true nature of an Elo-type system, this rule causes inflation of points at the top of the distribution (causing Professor Arpad Elo to turn in his grave).

It would require a series of meltdowns in qualifiers and/or group stages of major competitions for them to even come to a situation that they need to worry about their seeding.

Given that it gets easier and easier to qualify for the major tournaments and easier to get past the group stage due to constant expansions, the advantage is becoming de facto insurmountable.

What happens is you end up with a calcified ranking of teams with very little variability at the top, making it increasingly difficult for any new nation to climb to the higher spheres if they really deserve it on the pitch.

After enough time has passed the end result is the ranking based almost entirely on historical legacy of success, instead of a healthy combination of history and recent form.

Perhaps that was the idea from the start.