So, I just finished House of Leaves, and so far my theory is that it’s about cycles of trauma and how they can only be understood in context. The monsters (read: broken people) they create are answerless without understanding their creation
The NFL pressure model debut
So, I’ve been working on-again, off-again on an NFL pressure model for a year and a half, maybe two. It’s really just a mutation of Richard Mcelreath’s cat-bird model (https://gist.github.com/rmcelreath/17a0b9373b04f50e335f027c17d379f5). The main differences are that this model is multivariate and lets the presence rate vary by team. The code itself is here: github.com/JSTrostle… It’s a lot, but not quite an eldritch horror. The data section is pretty self explanatory. The only thing of note is that the QB EPA, CPOE, and air yards are all in a matrix together rather than being vectors on their own.
Widow (female) Widower (male) Widowest (gender neutral)
Spinst (male) Spinster (female) Spinstest (gender neutral)
Me listening to “Silk Chiffon” after drinking espresso at 10:00 PM
I was just at a concert for #FontainesDC and people were trying to move around and there wasn’t a lot of room… But let me tell you, when the guy behind me hit me with the “‘xscuse me, brother” in a thick accent, I turned into Flat Stanley. He was getting where he wanted to go
The new #Transformers movie is really good. Like, shockingly good.
With the news of Tesla’s robot puppet and the news that Amazon’s grocery identifier was a metric ton of underpaid workers from India, I really hope we don’t see a future of most everyone in the U.S. having a robo-butler controlled 1–1 by some destitute kid halfway around the globe
Finished #MirrorsEdgeCatalyst. I didn’t love it. Maybe I’m too smooth brained, but I never felt like I was moving fluidly despite beating the game an hour quicker than average. The open world did nothing for me either. Increasing the FOV helped, but not enough to save the experience
I feel like we need to have a discussion about the implicit bias of using “tribalism” as a pejorative, but a lot of people aren’t ready for that. Y’all ain’t talking about Gaul, are ya
So, I don’t like Led Zeppelin (I don’t like Roy Lichtenstein either), but further more, I never got the appeal of Led Zeppelin.
But I keep relistening to “De Selby (Part 2)” by Hozier, and now I get the appeal of Zeppelin; I can see what it was going for but that never clicked for me
Testing to see if this cross posting thing works
Moving from the combat and traversal of Sekiro to that of Mirrors Edge Catalyst is night and day, and not in a good way. I really liked the first Mirror’s Edge, but the second one / reboot just doesn’t feel right (and the combat isn’t doing anything for me either)
Kirk Cousins broke the dog-in-him scale
Seriously, I had to rescale the Y and X axes to fit him on. A player isn’t supposed to have that level of dog in him.
A new phase in sports microblogging
I’m going to experiment with moving my sports posting over here rather than on my main Mastodon account. Let’s start with an image and see what happens. #NFL
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