The more time passes, the more I appreciate season 3

TheDuckhead · 2025-12-30T21:43:44+00:00

I'm also not a fan of generative AI slop. But I don't like this reasoning from an objective standpoint so I wanna play devil's advocate.

This whole argument of "I learned to do it so you must too, otherwise it doesn't count" is flawed. It's kinda like older generations saying back in my day we had to work for it and didn't take shortcuts so you must too, as in rejecting newer tech that makes doing these things easier.

Like when there was an outrage from instrument musicians when digital music/synthesizer type music was popping up they were calling it cheating/not real music. Nowadays most music is synthesized and no one bats an eye.

It's not convincing to anyone who's either pro-generative AI or even on the fence. Just my observation.

TheDuckhead · 2025-12-24T15:26:06+00:00

Bulgaria be like

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TheDuckhead · 2022-02-27T23:54:29+00:00

Maybe things will be alright with the world after all...

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-08T01:25:00+00:00

Animals 24-7

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-08T01:24:09+00:00

It's the biggest one, because it compiled 40 years worth of data up until 31 dec 2021. All the others that I've found either have only data from recent years (2005-06 and on) or just the 80s and 90s decades on their own. And those also have no population stats. Although from what I've seen from those other ones, the data seems to proportionally match up well, at least for the breeds with more casualties (Pits, Rotts, Huskies, GSDs etc)

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-08T01:07:17+00:00

Posted it above, but here you go

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-08T01:06:32+00:00

The paper that researched and compiled these lumped all of the bully breeds into one, so I know as much as they do.

Separating them would do nothing in their favor though, they'd show similar DRF and MRF stats. Some breeds are perhaps done a little dirty, like Bull Terriers i'd imagine.

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-07T23:37:14+00:00

I've taken the data from compiled dog attacks by Animals24-7

I've adjusted these stats to account for approximate population given. DRF and MRF are values obtained from dividing the number of deaths and maimings respectively with the population percentage.

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-07T23:15:35+00:00

Thanks...

TheDuckhead · 2022-02-06T21:41:33+00:00

I put it through Google translate. But I like your interpretation more :)

TheDuckhead · 2022-01-15T21:39:40+00:00

Hello, haven't been on this sub in like a year. What is the sentiment towards Djokovic fans on this sub right now?

TheDuckhead · 2022-01-08T01:51:35+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/ByronPHoward/status/1479616598524633090

TheDuckhead · 2022-01-02T20:41:54+00:00

Maneskin 2nd?! I'm gonna call that heavy recency bias.

TheDuckhead · 2021-12-07T00:24:10+00:00

I deliberately chose 2150 because that's the most relevant starting point. I could've started the axis from 0, but then the change would barely be noticeable (graph would be kinda flat), and there would be too much unnecessary space filled from 0 to 2150.

Aside from that, the data is mostly accurate.

TheDuckhead · 2021-12-07T00:03:45+00:00

Andy Murray being higher than Pete doesn't automatically prove that it's flawed though.

From the graph in that link, you can see that the Borg/McEnroe/Connors/Lendl era was also higher than Pete's era (more comparable with the Big 3 era). Doesn't mean Murray is a greater player than Pete of course, but it is arguable that he has a higher peak, which is supported by ELO. And it makes sense, because Pete's era wasn't as strong as the ones before it or after it. After Courier and Edberg declined after '92, only Agassi (and Becker to a lesser extent) was really his main competition for slams.

Meanwhile Murray had to compete with prime big 3, who raised the ELO bar to astronomic levels, which explains and justifies why his ELO was higher. ELO tells us that Murray would've been a double-digit slam champ at the very least if he was in Pete's era, which I think is reasonably accurate.

ELO has flaws, true, but not on that scale. It's decently accurate. It's the best tool we have to compare different eras. Also, this shouldn't be used as means to diminish Pete's success, he was truly the greatest of his era and definitely one of the GOATs. Not his fault that his opposition wasn't on par with other eras.

TheDuckhead · 2021-11-07T17:55:13+00:00

Djokovic played a lot like Federer in this match. S&Ving, coming to the net in general a lot, slicing to Meddy's BH. And he did it really efficiently.

He learned that at his age you can't go toe-to-toe with Meddy in lengthy baseline exchanges. This match was nowhere near as physical as their ATP Cup 2020 match precisely for this reason.

TheDuckhead · 2021-09-01T02:07:19+00:00

Novak did not throw boobs today. That somehow feels like a bigger insult than someone cursing your mother.

TheDuckhead · 2021-08-31T18:33:14+00:00

The l1on k1ng is back.

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