sethpartnow.bsky.social
Current: NBA Data Science @ Penn Interactive.
Author: “The Midrange Theory”
Prev: Director of Basketball Research @
Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA Analysis @ The Athletic
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We’re here already?
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Appreciate you.
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The combined wisdom of LinkedIn influencers does not a good counselor to children make, I’ll be brave enough to say it.
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That’s incredibly harsh on JWP
but I laffed
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I mean it was JWP so it’s kind of like outrunning the punter on a return.
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Shareholder value, baby.
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I often get asked why I tend to be more critical of bad data use than non-data use, and your last point is why.
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Even pretty enlightened people have a hard time grasping the degree to which data is/are constructed. What is recorded, and how, reflects assumptions (either explicit or implicit) about what matters, which in turn propagates through the entire analysis. Which is why “objective data analysis” is BS.
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No he gets saved by the, erm, walnuts being described here at the end of the book quoted above. I don’t think he gets seriously wounded at any point in Killing Floor.
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Jokes aside, I, uhm, doubt it.
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I remain baffled that someone thought adapting the series with TOM CRUISE as Reacher made sense.
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Obviously, there’s some selection bias in terms of what people post, but I’ve never seen anything quoted from this guy that DIDN’T make me want to tell him to shut the fuck up already. It’s not even right or wrong on the merits, every word oozes self-contented smarm.
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Sure seems like you’re calling them mediocre ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I mean if you’re going to come in and insult me and my friends to prove your point…
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Tell me more about Ben and Nate…
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Dude on the right is Benjamin Linus from Lost
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Don’t go to Points East.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ early reporting suggest so but I am not a science doctor
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Nailed it
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Nope. Hanlon’s Razor.