Ami

Doctrinaire of Chances.

Interested in anything and everything.

[Ami @amithought]

*1993/94! As the graph shows.

1990/91 is correct only if you count Ronnie Ekelund and Michael Laudrup, but the former was a B-team player who only made two appearances.

[Ami @amithought]

If Barcelona hadn't signed Gabriel Jesus on deadline day, the 2025/26 season would have been the first since 1990/91 without at least two foreign players of the same nationality.

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

Barcelona’s line-up would have been in line with the pre-Bosman rules (max three foreigners). Very unusual these days.

[Ami @amithought]

En català @totcosta @LaTdT

[Ami @amithought]

Stafford Beer just needs to take the L on this one. POSIWID communicates something meaningful and interesting but only if you have the cybernetics context. Otherwise people rightly interpret it as complete nonsense.

It fails at the main aim of a pithy phrase!

[Ami @amithought]

@DirteeerMartini @_night_brain__ Honestly the only consumer of this I see is ultra rich people as an art piece. This is a complete dead end just on price and risk. It's a car that can do a kickflip once and then costs 10s of thousands of dollars and hours to recharge? Also if you crash it blows up.

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

When did suicide become an argument? https://t.co/Gr5s8i7AHw

[Ami @amithought]

@mortonSATgirl Oh, they changed the questions!

[Ami @amithought]

@mortonSATgirl low impact. Personally it was >30x impactful on my life than the counterfactual

[Vinay Tummarakota @unboxpolitics]

A little over a year ago, @cremieuxrecueil shared the results of a bombshell study purporting to demonstrate that Black-White IQ differences in the United Kingdom have a largely genetic basis. In my latest article, I argue that this result is not trustworthy and challenge Crémieux to prove otherwise.

🧵 A Thread

[Ami @amithought]

@ChrisHowellFCA For writing? 0%
AI writing is grating and repetitive to anyone who's read much of it, and more importantly is a terrible signal about the quality of the writing.

Why should I spend time reading your thoughts if you haven't even bothered to spend the time to organise them?

[Ami @amithought]

as per @duncanrobinson (on BlueSky)

[Ami @amithought]

The government's independent review into the prevalence of mental health conditions like ADHD and Autism is (at least) 50% AI slop.
We paid for this!
"None of these positions can be easily dismissed, and each captures something real"

[Ami @amithought]

@ishaharris0 112 words - too short surely?

[Ami @amithought]

@BigBreakfastLob I remember your project on extracting french CB data..

[Ami @amithought]

@EduardOfArpinum Yeah I guess that's true. I think I object to it being seen as a work of political genius tho, as in the QTed post

[Ami @amithought]

This is precisely the problem with the tapestry gimmick. The whole thing is navel-gazing.
How many swing voters are going to be see this post by Calgie and conclude that Andy Burnham is going to force us back to Brussels or whatever?

[Ben Gadsby @BRGadsby]

Every journalist has tweeted the section with themselves in it. And those sections each land key Tory messages. Fantastic execution of a creative idea

[PATRIOT NUMBER ONE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @nickisafraud]

Americans: "They don't teach us about slavery in school dawg"

Enlightened Product of Michael Goves Department of Education: "Ah the Doctors Plot, I recall that from A-Level History "

[Ami @amithought]

@_night_brain__ Do you know about the lunch credits

[Wilson King @WilsonMKing]

Neat paper!

Small-scale farmers in low-income countries are solving an incredibly sophisticated portfolio optimization problem under difficult conditions.

Even so, many farmers are close to the efficient frontier. Unconditional cash helps them get even closer.