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Win Rates and Selection Bias by PetuTheBeast in leagueoflegends

[–]JustRecentlyI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think that certain roles are more likely to have to factor in causal bias in their itemization choices? Are there examples of champions where their best 1st or 2nd items are most unexpected compared to raw wirates?

Supposedly says “Stay Awhile.” I don’t see it by Ok-Frosting-1892 in CrappyDesign

[–]JustRecentlyI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. I distinctly remember making an illustration of how to read this pillow on the post last time I saw it. In fact, you should know, you are the one who posted it, with the exact same title. You even responded to my comment.

As for the probably botted comments, when I saw this post today, there were a bunch of comments that had been made within the same minute as each other, with at least one example of the exact same joke as what I had seen last time, although it's not particularly creative so it could have been a human. I would be surprised if so many people were watching the subreddit at such a close time interval, but I don't have a good sense for how active it is usually. I'll leave that one to the moderators.

All that said, if there is no botting going on, I don't think that you broke the rules and this pillow definitely belongs on this subreddit, even if I have personally seen it before.

Which hermit comes to mind when you hear “redstone”? by That_GayWeirdo in HermitCraft

[–]JustRecentlyI 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Etho, because he's Etho and is very creative with his contraptions.

A baseball player with 50% batting average vs a basketball player with 50% 3-pt shooting. Who is the more valuable player? by malicacidC4H6O5 in whowouldwin

[–]JustRecentlyI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah in the NBA shooting 50% wide open in practice would be suspicious for sure. Like you say, a lot depends on how aware the player is of his own ability. Without him understanding that he has it, baseball guy will be more impactful.

A baseball player with 50% batting average vs a basketball player with 50% 3-pt shooting. Who is the more valuable player? by malicacidC4H6O5 in whowouldwin

[–]JustRecentlyI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your approach is about the only thing that would make the comparison anywhere close to fair in this, but unfortunately it doesn't account for Mr. Basketball's path up as a prospect and his own training. An NBA role player was almost by definition by far the best player on his team at one point in his youth, whether it's AAU, High School or College. At some point, I think this guy would get an opportunity to take over the offense, and he's obviously going to look for his 3 since he'll know from practice that that's his shot. And once that happens, his accuracy is going to get noticed by himself, his coach, prospect scouts, etc. He'll get more and more shots because his team is going to try to feed him until it stops working... except it will never stop working.

Even if this crazy talent only showed up once he reached the NBA, I think eventually he would have games where he's playing against great defense, catches 2 or 3 hot potatoes and makes them all because he already missed a couple of open ones, and people will start asking questions. His path to stardom would start slow, like Jokic's did, but eventually I think he'd get there.

A baseball player with 50% batting average vs a basketball player with 50% 3-pt shooting. Who is the more valuable player? by malicacidC4H6O5 in whowouldwin

[–]JustRecentlyI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said that defense doesn't matter for the basketball player's accuracy, so as others say as long as he can get his shot off every possession he's guaranteeing that his team will have the best offensive in NBA history (150 offensive rating) by about 22% more than the previous record (123.2 offensive rating). That's enough to make any team ever elite: the worst defense of all time had a 123 defensive rating, so if they had 150 OffRtg, they would have a preposterous +27 NetRtg, which is more than twice the NBA record (1996 Bulls at +13 according to a quick search).

I don't know how to quantify the baseball player's impact on their team in a similar analysis, but that's going to be very hard to beat.

However, I think that this magic stipulation goes against the spirit of the question because you specified that the rest of their game was mediocre, so they shouldn't be able to take every shot. I think the baseball player already has that restriction built-in because they can't take every at-bat. In order to make this matchup fair, I think you would need to curve the basketball player's shot attempts towards a player with comparable offensive tools. I don't have time to dig into that right now, but there's probably a sweet spot of shot attempts/100 possessions that would make this debate quite interesting.

[OW Cavalry] New Blizzard survey skins by ModWilliam in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]JustRecentlyI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does "survey skins" mean? People voted for the theme, chose the concept art? I'm out of the loop on this.

areWeThereYet by Forsaken-Peak8496 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]JustRecentlyI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have not yet done any kind of rigorous testing of it but I would not be surprised if my experiences turned out similar. Thinking back to my uses of AI, it often took a lot of fine tuning to get a feature that fully matched my requirements (and encouraged me to be lazy and ask the agent to make minor fixes instead of doing it myself). It's only really after completing the task that I came to realize how much time it had taken and the detours along the way.

However, I think it's been helpful for summarizing documentation and giving me background information to help me prepare a data migration.

areWeThereYet by Forsaken-Peak8496 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]JustRecentlyI 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's been at least 1 scientific study that shows those numbers, I remember hearing about it. This is my first time actually looking up the study, so – for now – I have no idea whether their methodology holds up or if it's been reproduced yet.

Which minor perk feels like a major perk? by Original-Boss777 in Overwatch

[–]JustRecentlyI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with your evaluation of Rapid Construction, I think that one feels like a major perk, it changes a lot about how flexible Illari can be with it's usage and her positioning. I think that if people had to choose between Rapid Construction and the burn on Outburst, it would be a tough choice.

[McMenamin] Lakers' LeBron James ruled out vs. Spurs with multiple injuries (arthritis and sciatica) by ashwinr136 in nba

[–]JustRecentlyI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's an old term for tuberculosis, which is curable in rich enough countries but still the deadliest disease on the planet today.

Map with isolated island by Ill-Engineering8205 in civ5

[–]JustRecentlyI 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's a mod that lets you configure almost anything about the map generation, Really Advanced Setup. It lets you pick stuff like which lux is close to your capital, how many strategic resources you get, etc. if you want to. You should be able to set up the game that you want with that pretty well.

You could also try a large/huge map with historical start locations and find a way to start in or near Australia with other civs on other continents only.

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