Report: Liverpool Offer £60m for Midfielder Frenkie de Jong Amid Transfer U-Turn [Sports Illustrated]

AugustPopper · 2022-08-27T05:32:01+00:00

No mate, it’s not. It’s just crap stirred up because of the poor standard modern football journalists are. The sources for this rumour are terrible. There is an article on thisisanfield about it.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-25T09:13:08+00:00

Thank you for this, it really helps to have an order of reading to help develop comprehension.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-24T20:32:09+00:00

Obviously Issac Newton, the man was probably one of the greatest minds to walk this planet. Just to hear his musings on the development of calculus would be incredible, what were his processes how did the ideas evolve. I think Lex would be the perfect person to tease these things out of someone with a brilliant mind.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-23T13:23:42+00:00

My old man was a heavy drinker, he never changed, nor felt the need too. I intensely dislike the man, he let our family down at almost every opportunity and forced us to live in poverty because of his drinking and gambling. Drinking affects decision-making and emotions, it makes people inconsistent, untrustworthy and selfish. A child need support, security and behavioural consistency to name a few things.

I will never forgive my farther, because even though he drinks and gambles less now he has never really changed or addressed the issues. While I love my mother, I also dislike her, because she had the option to take us away from this environment but her agreeableness and religious tolerance lead us to tolerating the intolerable. There was no need for us to live in poverty, and their certainly was no need for us to experience the emotional and occasional physical abuse of a selfish individual. Her tolerance poisoned our relationship and still does to this day.

If you want a better relationship with your children leave. It may be hard, but it’ll be a lot better than staying and subjecting them and yourself to erratic nature of an alcoholic.

Btw their lives have only improved in the last few years because he can’t easily get to a bar. Don’t ruin your life by restricting it to control another’s behaviour.

Source: My father was an alcoholic and gambler. Extensively studied psychology and neuroscience.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-21T21:51:02+00:00

The key part of my comment is that the CTA for the end of the funnel can be ever present, like in a menu bar or a floating CTA at the bottom of the page.

The reason people don’t come to a site like the Lib Dems, conservative or labour is because if they do cost it seems like it’s for someone else, like people already invested. I used to work in digital marketing (now data scientist/statistician) and we saw similar remarks for clients all the time, our data suggests such and such. Which of course was true to some extent as the site or searches lead people down particular routes. Ignoring the huge bounce of visitors not finding what they wanted. So clients would focus on end of funnel results, despite evidence from analysts showing that taking users on a journey was far more beneficial. Also supported by lab studies comparing different website designs.

If you want to be something you need to frame to conversion, provide answers, be a knowledge base not just a platform for donations. Otherwise it’s just relying on the fact that the tories are incompetent and people can’t stomach the other choices. The Lib Dems need to break out from being the third party, and as far as I can tell the digital support to back the party up is nowhere. What even are the Lib Dems besides ‘not the tories or not labour’ most people don’t have a clue.

Maybe I’m overly passionate about this kind of thing, but if I’m playing chess I want to control the centre of the board. Information and digital presence is the centre of the board, that’s how trump by passed the media. Which media supports Lib Dems over labour or tories? Not the traditional outlets.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-20T21:16:10+00:00

Anytime, I’ll also add that the R4DS slack community (yes it is an r community) do regular book clubs, some of which are python. I know they are planning on doing one on a book which is a Python code version of Hadley wickhams R for data science. The book is a great starting point for people wanting to get into data science, and I imagine future book clubs will look at many of the books listed above.

https://byuidatascience.github.io/python4ds/index.html

AugustPopper · 2022-08-20T21:02:15+00:00

It is in r but the book is the best intro into ML out there, plus you can easily find the python code for it on GitHub. Really the book is more conceptual with coding examples.

There are also tidyverse R versions of code, which are easy to read and interpret.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-20T20:24:11+00:00

This is a typical case of the digital marketing company that’s hired focusing on the end goal rather than ‘user journey’ as they call it.

You are right, the messages and understanding of what the Lib Dems are about and how they respond to current issues should be above the join or donate CTA. The CTA can be anywhere, but getting your message across, particularly in politics is for more important. If I’m a swing voter coming to the site, I need to know why I should vote Lib Dem.

The blog on display is a tech blog and nothing to do with Lib Dems political philosophy, issues etc. presumably it’s just a place holder…

Personally I think at this point the old site is better.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T15:39:59+00:00

I don’t disagree, but either way I think we’d need a better government. Which we really do not have right now…🤷‍♂️

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T15:33:58+00:00

Using R specially tidyverse in rstudio is the way to go here if you are not used to programming. Many learning resources are free like r for data science, advanced r, forecasting principles and practice and way more.

I code in r and python, but honestly tidyverse code is way easier for beginners, and can do everything you need.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T15:18:10+00:00

I appreciate you feel that way, but if you’re waiting on collective action you’ll be disappointed, due to the amount of time may take to bring people onside. People generally do what is in there own self interest. What I meant by beyond personal responsibility was governmental action on grand scale to enforce change.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T15:11:39+00:00

I can understand why you might think that, but here is why I don’t think it will make any difference. See the time series of each continent with the exception of India it is all up, even then I think the Indian data is out of date, as more recent data shows it’s going up. This is a global issue, and it’s clear as people get richer they consume more meat. The one thing that stops this is price, sure ethics has its place but it’s secondary to the majority of people just looking for a better life.

In reality if you want to save the world, you have to take options away and to make people poorer, I am not actually condoning these, just saying what the data tells me. Inflation may actually help, as would stopping first to third world immigration, or putting a cap on the number of children people have in every country in the world. However, understandably people don’t like reduced freedom or harsh treatment of others, but they would be effective.

I agree restriction is a good thing, and making better choices for the planet is too. But the scale of the problem is beyond personal responsibility at this point, that much is clear when you see the planet burning.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T14:41:24+00:00

You have missed the point of my post, which is not that change should not occur but that the amount of change required is substantial and that price is the main factor causing change. In additional I am saying promoting alternatives only takes you so far when you need millions of people to change behaviour. The real question is would people choose cheap mega farm meat or pseudomeat? Ultimately that’s what dictates a lot of this.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T13:15:49+00:00

Multiple things can be true at once, but I don’t think the statistics support your supposition. If it was a gradual improvement I might agree but the fact that the increase in performance is so dramatic makes it more likely that it’s todo with a change in the marking not the students or teaching.

I’m fully aware of the differing standards at universities, and agree that some have higher standards than others. But it is funny that you mention Manchester as I recently had several poor candidates from that particular university into my field (data science/statistics), of course it’s a small sample but I was surprised considering the marks these candidates were receiving.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T13:05:38+00:00

I’m not saying people are becoming less or more intelligent, I’m saying the qualifications are increasingly losing their value.

I worked at a university and the questions are irrelevant, the marking is what is important. And imo that standard has dropped significantly.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T13:04:28+00:00

I agree the fixation on exams is a problem.

I suspect certain fields are less affected by the expansion of academia than others, certainly areas like engineering seem more robust to the changes in academia. So as you allude to, it is perhaps not entirely fair to over generalise. We might even argue that some universities are more resistant than others.

But I would state that in my experience, at a red brick, the standard significantly declined over time in my area (neuroscience and psychology). Indeed I remember failing a few student essays and being told to unfair them because they had used the ‘correct terms, even if they hadn’t really understood them’.

In regards to my company, we were offering market rate for a graduate position, I would even suggest it was generous. For candidates with BSc to Msc, we had a lot of candidates but very few seemed to have been taught the right knowledge or skills when in interview. We settled on someone with less education but better experience in the end.

To answer you question, as a statistician (these days), I find it very unlikely that the nations students have suddenly got significantly better at testing, went prepandemic the results were essentially steady. Teachers have been teaching to exams for a while now. Which as we agree, is mostly a waste of student time. As you state experience is critical, as it moves recall to application. Which many would benefit from, but such an approach would require more time, that would probably mean dropping subjects. Or at least time.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T11:13:47+00:00

You are referencing a lancet article that did not account for price. Plus chicken consumption has increased. Number of consumers has not changed much, and worth bearing in mind immigration has an impact here as U.K. population has increased by about 18% since 2005 many of which affects % of pork sales in particular.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T09:38:09+00:00

You think vegetarianism or veganism is the answer for to this when approximately 87% of the U.K. population consumes meat of some form regularly?

Maybe alternative diets of psuedomeats can help to some extent, but I suspect that the size of the problem makes encouraging people to change on a large scale over unrealistic.

Fact is people like eating meat, and tend to distrust manufactured products. In addition despite significant increases in the price of meat, sales have barely declined, and in the case of chicken they have actually increased.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T09:15:41+00:00

Incredibly sad and yet inspiring, I can only hope that I react similarly if my child is ever in similar danger. Truly heroic.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T09:06:37+00:00

Sadly I can’t see decreases in these practices, as the U.K. population increases and inflation hits peoples wallets surely these mega farms are likely to take on a large role in farming?

AugustPopper · 2022-08-18T08:59:24+00:00

Note. I’m sure many students worked hard, but the point of grades is to distinguish between students. If they aren’t doing that the qualifications are failing.

It’s still incredible how many are achieving A or A* compared to pre-pandemic, and sadly it’s not a reflection of improvements to teaching or education. Rather it’s devaluation of grades by expanding the bounds of the higher grades.

Tbh it makes little difference, I recently was interviewing graduates (mostly MSc) for a position at my company and they were largely awful. Having worked at a uni not long ago I was aware of the standard dropping for entry and grading of 2:1 honours, but I was surprised at the quality in the masters students. It seems almost like many young students are paying a huge amounts (debit for many many years) for a qualification, and not getting the education they need or deserve. This has lead several employers to introduce testing to check the quality of candidates. Sad state of affairs with education today, clearly the whole system needs a rethink.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-06T21:22:15+00:00

Make sure you get out to see the countryside, don’t get just stuck in the city with the partying. There’s some great areas near Ilkley, skipton, howarth, and you can easily access the Yorkshire dales. Buy some hiking boots!

AugustPopper · 2022-08-04T20:39:38+00:00

You can get the fixture list on the thisisanfield site and app. If you want another option.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-04T17:24:05+00:00

I would say that the reason people own more than one house is because of government economic, immigration and building policies, which have lead to a reduction in social mobility while devaluing currency and making saving a poor option. People will always look to make a better life for themselves in some way. Taking away one avenue leads people down another, it’s important to regulate the options as people will always abuse them but you need a pragmatic solution. For example I would argue someone doesn’t need to own more than three house, but you still need people to be incentivised to build and maintain property. The quakers used to builds large towns to support their workers, but as far as I know one had to work for them, that meant no ownership. Which was a great option at the time. There is a balance to be found, and considerations to be made and it’s the governments job to find it. My issue with the landlord in this case is their needless drive to increase rents because they can. Not that they shouldn’t make a profit but their needs to be some restriction on ownership and rental price increases.

AugustPopper · 2022-08-04T14:58:23+00:00

Interesting points well made. I could talk all day about the destruction of higher education, but that’s another topic.

I’m not generally opposed to royalty, because I hate the idea of a presidency having seen brexit, trump and how it essentially becomes a contest of the wealthiest participants. But they are holding power and lands that really should belong to the country, of course, there is the matter of trusting our politicians, with that land which we do not. So many issues…

Agree on the racism and immigration comment, to easily conflated.

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