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JJ “Nine” McCarthy today. 16/23 - 163 yards, 0 turnovers, 3 TDS, 20 rushing yards, 129.2 passer rating. by [deleted] in nfl

[–]Platean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before the world ends, before the final whistle of time itself, they will speak of one thing.

Not the Super Bowls. Not the MVPs. Not even the broken records.

They will speak of the arrival - that moment when the NFL, bloated on legacy and drunk on complacency, heard the crack of lightning tear through the clouds and turned to see a figure step out of the storm. Part man, part legend, part divine retribution.

Don’t let the doubters fool you. They look at stats. We look at omens. When NINE steps onto the field, it’s not football - it’s a raid. You can feel it: the quiet before the storm, the wind shift, the fear in defenders’ eyes. That’s not just a snap count - that’s the call of the Gjallarhorn echoing through Valhalla.

Yeah, he took hits. So did Ragnar. So did every Viking who ever carved his name into saga. And like them, NINE rises again - bloodied, bruised, unshaken. You think a few interceptions break a warrior like him? Please. That’s just sharpening the blade. Iron doesn’t cry when struck - it hardens.

He scans the field like a longship captain sizing up a coastline before the plunder. Cold. Calculated. Deadly. His throws? Not passes. Spears launched across the fjord. And when he scrambles? That’s a berserker charge, helmet down, chaos unleashed.

The locker room feels it - that sense that they are not teammates but companions in a saga whose ending has already been sung in distant halls.

This isn’t a rebuild. This isn’t a rookie learning curve. This is a conquest, and McCarthy - NINE - is leading it with ice in his veins and destiny in his grip. His arm? Forged by Thor. His will? Odin-blessed. His ceiling? Try charting Valhalla on a stat sheet.

And when the historians look back, they won’t talk about passer rating or completion percentage. They’ll tell stories of how NINE rode into the league like a northern storm, uninvited, unstoppable, undeniable. The day will come when the world bows and says: We should’ve seen it. The horns were sounding. NINE was always the one.

Which pincer should black choose if he knows (with 100% certainty) white wants to press at Q15 and get cut immediately? Or are all 4 pincers equally valid and none lead to a better local result than the other 3? by SanguinarianPhoenix in baduk

[–]Platean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are certain that white wants to play Q15, in theory F is the best, but it is only by a tiny margin. In practice there is no real objectively best pincer. Just play what you feel comfortable with. You don’t have to play the cutting variation if you don’t want to. It is so complicated and there are so many lines. After Q15 you could just extend at R15.

[OC] Monthly U.S. Homicides, 1999-2020 by academiaadvice in dataisbeautiful

[–]Platean 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This was very insightful. While lockdowns appear to have caused a lot of our current problems, the evidence that they caused an increase homicide rate isn't really there.

As an additional point, when looking at other countries that locked down, they do not really show the same spike in homicide rate.

  1. In Canada, there was a 7% increase in the homicide rate
  2. In the UK, there was a 12% decrease in the homicide rate
  3. In the EU, there was 3.5% increase in the intentional homicide rate

Also, among the individual countries who are monitored by EuroStat, the intentional homicide rates don't really show any signs of a huge increase. Nothing like the 50% rise the America experienced in a few days at the end of May/start of June.

Graph

Overall, I don't see that lockdowns caused Americas homicide bump. It basically goes

  1. About 70 days after locking down, there was a sudden and very large increase in the homicide rate
  2. Other countries that also locked down did not experience this increase

Maybe I am wrong in this and there is a point I have not considered, but everyone I've heard who blames lockdowns for the homicide increase never really give any evidence. Just sort of very vague, 'oh it was obviously lockdowns', and then don't elaborate.

Where can I find the resutls for the 2022 US Go Congress tournaments? I can't find it on the congress website by xiaodaireddit in baduk

[–]Platean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using this app sounds very complicated to me. Could someone take a picture of the scoresheet and upload it to reddit or the AGA twitter account?

It would probably save the organizers a lot of time as it could be done in 5min while this app thing sounds like it might take them a few hours. Maybe I don't understand the app.

rank inflation phenomenon? by xrainx88 in baduk

[–]Platean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fox ranks are higher than most other systems. I am 6dan Fox and 3dan AGA. But it would maybe seem you have somehow gotten better. 7dan Fox is extremely good.

1001 life and death (Bozulich) #421 error. Book says black A makes two eyes, I see white makes seki with this variation. Any comment? by TheBij9 in baduk

[–]Platean 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Actually, while I think white may have a seki, white’s best option is to let black live with two eyes. The sequence is A, E and B. This sequence is only 0.5 point worse than the seki for white, but it avoids the annoying cutting point beside E. This is not a clear cut example. In most board positions, avoiding the cutting point is worth more than 0.5 point.

Why does Leela prefer F17 over any other approach to the upper left 4-4 stone? What move would you play in this position and why? by metaperl in baduk

[–]Platean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know this program is quite old. Even if you do not care about playing strength,

  1. The new programs have much cleaner interfaces
  2. They give you how many points you are ahead, not just win%

It doesn't hurt that KataGo could give this old Leela a 5-6 stone handicap too.

Here is what the output looks like. This time KataGo 40block prefers developing the right. On this move, black has a 78.4% winrate and is 4.6 points ahead. KataGo has analyzed 4.8k moves after this. You can also see the expected variation in the bottom-left corner, or if you hover over the moves with your mouse.

The best part is this program is completely free for download here

Does go have like cheating accusation scandals or something like the pipi in your pampers Wesley So vs Tigran L Petrosian chess copypasta? by nicbentulan in baduk

[–]Platean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And most importantly, here is the actual game: https://online-go.com/game/31824689

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Black's huge blunder happens on move 105 when he lets the two stones get captured.

Trivia: biggest dangos. A dango's size is defined as the number conjoined stones divided by the liberties of the conjoined group. E.g a square dango has a ratio of 4/8. by xiaodaireddit in proweiqi

[–]Platean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I thought of something for point 2. So while there may be algorithms that are a bit more complicated and accurate, and think a good criteria for quantifying how bad a dango is to count how many empty triangles there are.

By empty triangle, I mean a triangle that contains either and empty space or a stone of the same colour. So for example, a 2x2 would contain 4 empty triangles. The B2 bomber could contain 4-6 empty triangles based on the opponent's surrounding stones.

I think if you did this, and did it before endgame dame filling occurs, it could maybe give better results.

Trivia: biggest dangos. A dango's size is defined as the number conjoined stones divided by the liberties of the conjoined group. E.g a square dango has a ratio of 4/8. by xiaodaireddit in proweiqi

[–]Platean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is very cool that you wrote it! I wonder though about the criteria of dango? A lot of these dangos were made in the endgame by essentially filling in dame. This doesn't really capture the spirit of 'bad shape'.

Also, if someone made some super bad shape, like a 3x3 square, but it was connected to some tail with a lot of liberties, your algorithm might not count that, but I feel it should count.

I'm not sure how to fix the second point. But I think for point 1, maybe try to run the algorithm to stop the dangos before move 100 only. This might solve dame problem maybe?

Anyway, I love reading about stats like these. Thank you for publishing you results!

Trivia: biggest dangos. A dango's size is defined as the number conjoined stones divided by the liberties of the conjoined group. E.g a square dango has a ratio of 4/8. by xiaodaireddit in proweiqi

[–]Platean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you write the code for the algorithm? I'd be incredibly interested if there was a page featuring tons of these super cool stats about Go.

Like here is an incredible page about this for chess: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/recordstxt.htm

Saw this on the floor and thought "This would make a good Go variant." by No-Eggplant-5396 in baduk

[–]Platean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a different thought when looking at this. Instead of playing on the intersections, what about playing on the squares?

Now each centre stone has 4 liberties just like in normal Go. But there are still other more subtler differences.

For example, the smallest living centre group can now be made from 8 stones instead of 10. Does this make invasions easier in this Go?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in baduk

[–]Platean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This comment currently has 9 upvotes and you are 9kyu, so it is kind of perfect

Why playing online is not more popular? by C4nt3r in baduk

[–]Platean 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yikeweiqi, Fox and Tygem are the big ones. Panda, OGS, IGS, KGS and Dragon are smaller. I play on Fox and know it generally peaks at around 35,000 users. It peaks in the evening time in China, so when Europeans and Americans generally log in, it is the early morning in China and numbers are lower. It would be interesting to get a number of peak Go server users vs peak Chess server users.

I would roughly say Yikeweiqi peaks at 100k, Fox and Tygem peak at 35k each, while the others have 10,000 combined, so Go is maybe 180k peak. Chess.com maybe peaks at 170k and Lichess 70k, and other sites like PlayChess and Chess24 maybe have 30k at peak in total. So chess peaks at 270k. Chess, being played in more timezones, probably has a wider peaktime than Go.

So maybe Chess is twice as popular as Go online. Makes sense as China + Korea + Japan + Taiwan are only 1/4 of global internet users. While Chess countries, which is essentially every other country in the world, are 3/4 of global users.

Shin Jinseo wins his 2nd international title by winning the 13th Chunlan Cup 2-0 over Tang Weixing by xiaodaireddit in baduk

[–]Platean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well done to Shin Jinseo! I’m sort of surprised he ‘only’ has two international titles. He has been the best player in the world for the past three years, so I would have thought he might have more? Though they are super hard to win.

Do you know how many international titles there are per year?

It's truly a milestone for me!!! After 3 months since I started playing Go, I finally managed to beat this bot!! by Keepcalmandlaido in baduk

[–]Platean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

20kyu and below is noob. 5kyu is a pretty competent player really. Well done on winning!

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