It had been 10 years since I did a "Solving Sol", and for some reason I got the idea to do one this morning. You can play around with it at llimllib.github.io/solving-sol/... if you're so inclined

Went out to play disc golf and got attacked by a pair of Kingbirds. Merlin’s description is accurate

All systems' outputs are independently distributed from without and correlated within

Goals scored so far this world cup, by age of player

I can't decide whether I like rooting against England or Duke more, they're both such enjoyable hate-watches

I have a neighbor that sparks up at 4 PM every day right outside my office window It's a little annoying? But good on you for finding your chill I guess

Iran has the oldest squad in the World Cup, Côte d'Ivoire the youngest

My brother asked me about average world cup squad heights, so I could hardly help myself. Turns out that Netherlands vs. Japan is only the 7th largest height differential game we'll see in the group stages; Bosnia vs Qatar is the largest

I’ve watched every game the US has played in the World Cup since 1994, and that was easily the most dominant and comfortable they’ve ever been

@jmduke.com nit from www.jmduke.com/posts/victor...: Kenny Atkinson is the coach of the Cavs, not JB Bickerstaff, and the one who claimed they were "up analytically" www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

I ran a test of container file system performance on Mac OS by the simple expedient of measuring `npm install` with a cold cache. github.com/llimllib/con... Orbstack did shockingly well, paying basically no performance tax whatsoever for running in a container. I've not previously used it

Leading causes of death among Children and Adolescents in the United States source: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... guns and cars are what kill kids

Interesting experience working with @jdx.dev : - I tried out aube and hit a bug - I created a discussion for the bug: github.com/endevco/aube... - Four minutes later, he/his bot/some combination replied that the bug had been fixed: github.com/endevco/aube... From my perspective, this was a great +

Raptors vs Cavs net points by player

Celtics players' net points in the postseason. Incredible how Tatum has been able to come back and be clearly the best player on the team so far

1:59:30 in London! I honestly thought 2 hours would not get broken in my lifetime

Good luck to all the runners today! Perfect weather for the marathon in Boston today. I’m grateful not to be sitting on a bus to athlete’s village shivering and nervous right now though

@meodai.bsky.social I wish that in Charcuterie, when you hovered over a character, you could see info about it without having to click; would make it easier to browse the similar characters without committing to clicking on it

The Huskies have not put the ball in the basket many times, that seems to be their main issue

David Hogg's article on LLMs in Astrophysics, "Why do we do Astrophysics?" is the most thoughtful critique I've yet read on the topic, and relevant for computer scientists and software developers: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.10181

@noadalzell.bsky.social enjoyed your article on D White’s block! Just a nit: you misspelled Pelle Larsson’s name three times

@deanolytics.bsky.social looks like today's NBA summary isn't working

I am just coming back to life now, I actually died when Braylon Mullins hit that shot

Picked up Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison and enjoying some peaceful listening, thinking that not all things are bad

Last night I made a tool for creating player comparison graphics based on ESPN Analytics data. Here's Julius Randle vs Karl Anthony Towns; you can also expand it out to look at different play types Compare any two players here: billmill.org/nba/compare#...

Working on a widget for comparing two players by their @deanolytics.bsky.social net points components

At work the question came up of how we ought to label the y-axis of charts that have large values. Especially if we cross orders of magnitude, should the whole axis be labeled in the larger order of magnitude? Which made me wonder how some popular charting libraries handle large numbers by default

The UConn women are nearly breaking the @barttorvik.bsky.social ranking system. Teams' overall strength is listed as the probability of a team beating an average team, and given to four decimal places; the UConn women are listed with a 99.96% chance of beating an average team; .03% from the limit

This concert by Ana Vidovic is spectacular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEe... Recommended if you like classical guitar, or think maybe you might. Tremendous thinking+working music

ANA VIDOVIC - LIVE CONCERT - LAMBRECHT – CLASSICAL GUITAR EVENTS

YouTube video by SiccasGuitars

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Sweet 16 teams four factors graphs; first up, eFG: Michigan has the second best eFG defense and the best eFG. Purdue scores a lot but gives up good shots, and St. John's/Tenn/Houston have great defense but trouble scoring efficiently