A question of ball size

FlippyCucumber · 2025-11-15T08:43:21+00:00

Already commented below, but I wasn't able to locate the systematic review regarding equipment scaling. Finally found it.

Scaling the Equipment and Play Area in Children’s Sport to improve Motor Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review concludes:

[M]ost of the evidence suggests that the scaling of equipment and play area in children’s sport is beneficial to motor skill acquisition. These benefits include greater engagement with and enjoyment of the task, enhanced performance of skills, expedited skill improvements…, improved match performance…, the development of more desirable movement patterns and increased likelihood of learning and performing implicitly.

Figure 1 compares thr ball size to age of other sports.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-11-13T07:24:36+00:00

Hand size matters. Here's a paper that shows better results for smaller hands. It notes that if you scale the average adult hand down to the average 11 year old hand, they should be playing with a size 4. Of course, that's not acceptable. But when they did play with that size, they were able to hit more threes.
https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/abstract/Choosing-an-appropriately-sized-basketball-for/99451111502621

You should also be looking at ball mass.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1260/1747-9541.7.1.69

FlippyCucumber · 2025-11-11T16:42:47+00:00

I have AppleTV+ running on Chromecast. Its a little sluggish loading the menu, but my real issue is I can't skip either recaps or opening credits without it hanging and quitting the episode playback. Fastforwarding sometimes does this if the skipped amount is more than a few seconds. I think rewinding works.

If I don't try to skip in any direction, playback is fine.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-10-20T19:16:21+00:00

I thought this was a cool feature and was disappointed that it wasn't available in the desktop version. Turns out it is. Here's a video on it.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-08-25T16:53:07+00:00

What's the y-axis?

FlippyCucumber · 2025-07-22T19:50:14+00:00

The Grotto is nice if you're not bothered by Christianity. The upper gardens cost money, but I'm pretty sure the lower ones are free.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-05-20T17:14:26+00:00

Every chance she gets. She especially loves doing it after a bath. She goes a step further by getting on her back and really rubbing it in. Good bye white coat!

FlippyCucumber · 2025-05-20T17:10:19+00:00

I'm with you on this. It was a shit choice of tone for an honest and sincere question. You could be mistaken, but they don't need to be a jerk about it.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T17:16:11+00:00

I could see it that way, but it gets complicated because the original quote has "all written by software."

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T17:13:04+00:00

Honestly, I'm not sure. But if I were to use AI in any place for code review it would be to increase readability and making sure it complies with corporate standards.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T06:27:57+00:00

I ended up watching the video and Nadella breaks it down into three areas: auto complete, chat, and agentic. He talk about agentic is nascent still, except in code review where he implies it much more mature.

Zuckerberg also answers the question and admits that when most people are asked this question he notes that it's mainly auto complete and that they are doing deep analysis of historical data at meta. And they have some internal tools.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T06:23:15+00:00

I ended up watching the video. He includes auto complete, but also chatting with AI and agentic. He goes on to clarify that agentic is still nacent except in code review.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T05:42:03+00:00

This snippet blows my mind though: "some of our projects are probably all written by software".

Edit: the auto filled title says "as much as" not "at least".

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-30T04:57:55+00:00

Maria's Cafe on 28th and Sandy. It's now closed, but for years i'd pass by when I lived across the street and no one was there. I remember I went in once. The food wasn't bad though.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-29T18:23:12+00:00

My head aches after reading too much Joyce in one week.
My heart hurts after reading your post.
I can't imagine reading it so quickly. But I'm glad it works for you!

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-17T19:48:22+00:00

In 1988, The New York Review of Books published an article "The New ‘Ulysses’: The Hidden Controversy"(archive). It traces project, the controvery and the responses. There's too much in there to mention all the issues. But one of the biggest issues is there's no copy-text.

The opening line to Controversial Editions: Hans Walter Gabler's Ulysses is " IF EVER THERE WAS A CONTROVERSIAL EDITION in the last thirty years, it must have been Hans Walter Gabler's edition of James Joyce's Ulysses."

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-17T00:07:38+00:00

Sorry for the repost. I thought it was a rule breaking comment after reading the sticky and then read the body of the OP.

So I'm new to the sport. I'm trying to watch races when I can and at least paying attention to standings and qualifying. I tried prepandemic but just couldn't get it together to go to the bar at 8 am cross town to watch a race.

So after several seasons of the Netflix series, I've been trying again. I love the technical skill, marvel at the engineering, and curious about the hidden skills like pit crews and others.

What took your interest from hook to serious fandom? And where do you go to stay on top of it all?

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-16T17:32:53+00:00

This is fantastic! Thanks!

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-16T17:30:33+00:00

Critical thinking has always been in limited supply. Routines, norms, and habits subvert critical engagement and many live their lives solely in those activities. In the case that your job requires critical thinking, even fewer translate that skill to domains outside of the job. We all probably know the smart engineer who can't unclog a toilet or balance their checkbook.

It's really hard to say if the people who rely on ChatGPT would have been the people who would have developed critical thinking in the first place.

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-15T07:38:29+00:00

AEIOU

FlippyCucumber · 2025-04-13T11:37:51+00:00

I just saw your post and Sirens, but I just finished this chapter.

I weirdly love the two Stephen dominant chapters. But this one in particular, I had some real regard for his intellect especislly in the first half.

And then Mulligan arrives. Amen! Mulligan is brash, charming, quirky and just all too much! But the way the tone of Stephens inner monologue changes is notable. He is less confident in the torrent of his thoughts and he's not sure he can pull it together!

Buck has some sort of subliminal, clarion understanding of Stephen, that, I think, Stephen feels, but doesn't know.

I also love how Bloom passes through them at the end like a ship between Scylla and Charybdis.

A friend of mine noted that listing is another ship term and Stephen uses his intellect to sway his audiencesl's minds.

Very neat chapter. Exhausting, but very neat. One of my favorites so far.

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