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What a time to expand range

[Pat @patsunrick]

The @nyknicks championship inspired me to build an AI basketball coach to improve my 1v1 game

Built with:
- Robloflow RF-DETR to detect players/ball/rim
- MediaPipe to capture body angles
- OpenCV to analyze and annotate the clip

[Pat @patsunrick]

Here’s the repo: https://t.co/RGRxzn1bqZ

[Pat @patsunrick]

I vibecoded the Wii. The first video game console my parents got me 20 years ago.

[Pat @patsunrick]

With some math, I can turn those sensors into a Wii pointer:
- Integrate the rotation speed over time to get "how far have I turned"
- Correct the drift by letting gravity + compass constantly pull it back to the truth
- Turn angles into a pointing direction relative to how the user holds the phone

[Pat @patsunrick]

@yijiefeng Lfg🤑

[Pat @patsunrick]

Goodhart's law

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[Pat @patsunrick]

@jay_azhang When is season 2 coming out tho

[Pat @patsunrick]

@_vmlops I think you forgot to tag me haha

[Pat @patsunrick]

@_____Lightning @nyknicks All i had was a tripod and my phone. But yes the court mapping is definitely not optimized

[Pat @patsunrick]

The @nyknicks championship inspired me to build an AI basketball coach to improve my 1v1 game

Built with:
- Robloflow RF-DETR to detect players/ball/rim
- MediaPipe to capture body angles
- OpenCV to analyze and annotate the clip

[Pat @patsunrick]

@Th0rgal_ @ouraring Alright im stealing this

[Pat @patsunrick]

@josephofiowa Will do🫡 Love roboflow

[Pat @patsunrick]

@HSlifelearner @nyknicks Thanks for feedback!

[Pat @patsunrick]

@mantaray87 @nyknicks I caught that reference

[Pat @patsunrick]

DM if you wanna 1v1 me (so i can get more training data🤓)

[Pat @patsunrick]

Also inspired by the goat @measure_plan

[Pat @patsunrick]

These mfs ship so fast

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield]

Meet Higgsfield Games.

For the first time, build and deploy multiplayer games from one prompt, in any genre, 2D or 3D, with best-in-class characters, props, and settings generated by Higgsfield MCP.

Powered by Claude Fable 5.
Try on Claude via MCP and on our Supercomputer.

[Pat @patsunrick]

Built with Opus 4.8

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

[Pat @patsunrick]

Absolute Cinema❌
Absolute Ponder✅

[Timothy Wang @timwangyc]

Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor.

It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories.

We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder and @MattHartman.

Joined by @levie (Box), @emerywells (Frame), @JaredLeto, @CommaCapital, the @nyuniversity venture fund, @cory, @darian314, @shiffman, and many more incredible founders, investors, and creators.

[Pat @patsunrick]

@timwangyc @seedtosunflower @Joshuabrowder 🇨🇦's finest. Congrats Tim^2!