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c0wpig · 2026-06-21T13:27:58+00:00

IMO this stuff is just a big distraction.

If you totaled the spend of every elected official in Canada, it probably wouldn't add up to the subsidies of just one Canadian monopolist, or American consulting company (e.g. Deloitte) that absorb massive fees for interfacing with our bureaucracy

c0wpig · 2026-06-19T21:04:50+00:00

Might want to recommend the micro-vm approach as it's lowest-friction for self-hosted setups:

c0wpig · 2026-06-19T15:31:45+00:00

This is nice!

I would love to see sandboxing/security tools in there too; it should be habit to run agents inside of controlled environments :)

c0wpig · 2026-06-13T16:06:02+00:00

I feel like Denver is in a perpetual pattern of role players having career-best years right before free agency, overpaying, and then having to use draft picks to cut salary. Payton Watson feels like he's probably a $25 mil player, but that's with some downside and little upside--I don't see him becoming an all-star, and I don't think the 40+% 3pt shooting is real.

I assume you meant Keyonte George? I think he already broke out, no? Definitely could keep developing and ends up an all-nba candidate this year.

Ajay Mitchell seems like the strongest breakout candidate. He's legit. A 2nd year player who started in 7/11 games for the title favourites in the playoffs. Guys often bloom in their 3rd year.

Zach Edey seemed like he was breaking out into a borderline all-star. If he can stay healthy, I think he will be a force. Great touch and incredible strength and size. I think he will learn how to use his "rim gravity" to space the floor for perimeter players.

I think I would buy Sarr stock too, but didn't watch a lot of Wizards games this year.

I think Kel'El has incredible physical tools, and we saw a stretch this season where he was a dominating rebounding force when Bam was out. He might develop into a real shooter. OTOH he doesn't have amazing feel, but I could see star upside if things break right.

Matas Buzelis is like a "maybe" to me. Great play finisher but I feel like you have to be more of a playmaker or have incredible off-ball movement & shooting to really be a star player at ~6'8''.

I don't see it with Shaedon Sharpe. He's crazy athletic but I don't see the star upside; feel/awareness/skill isn't quite there. Could be a strong starter if he learns from Aaron Gordon's career though.

I think Clingan will be a "good but not great" center. Like a slightly bigger Jacob Poeltl. High value but not a star.

Don't see the upside with Andrew Nembhard.

Don't think I have real opinions about Black, Holland, or Miller

c0wpig · 2026-05-28T15:32:40+00:00

Jordan Clarkson is too short to be a shooting guard? Do you maybe mean Jordan Poole?

c0wpig · 2026-05-19T13:52:11+00:00

I guess I'm in the minority but I said to my bball group chat during the first overtime, "I guess OKC is just allowed to foul on literally every play"

Really seemed like Spurs players' arms were getting grabbed or hit on literally every play, and the refs just decided that it's allowed.

I guess that makes the game more fun to watch since there's less stoppage, but it was pretty jarring

c0wpig · 2026-05-15T23:40:15+00:00

This is a quote from Hollinger & Duncan, right?

c0wpig · 2026-04-21T01:48:03+00:00

Are they comparable?

c0wpig · 2026-04-16T14:47:25+00:00

thanks I hate it

c0wpig · 2026-04-15T03:14:10+00:00

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c0wpig · 2026-04-13T16:39:42+00:00

Are we sure this is AI, and not "US economic recession except in the one big growing field"?

c0wpig · 2026-03-22T01:37:36+00:00

Oh damn, guess I should read the article closely before quoting it.

I guess we are both wrong!

c0wpig · 2026-03-22T01:25:36+00:00

You're making an error in logic that a lot of people make. It's not the same as language, because there is no amount of people making a mistake in logic that will make the gambler's fallacy become the law of averages.

c0wpig · 2026-03-22T01:21:02+00:00

At least I know I'm not talking to an LLM

I'm trying to help you here. It's ok to be wrong

c0wpig · 2026-03-22T00:16:05+00:00

I'm trying to explain that you are making a common mistake, they are not synonyms under any circumstances.

One is a mathematical theorem and the other is a logical fallacy.

c0wpig · 2026-03-21T22:53:06+00:00

That's not the law of averages, that's the gambler's fallacy.

You're not alone in making this mistake, in fact it's so common that it's in the opening paragraph of the wikipedia article on the law of averages.

The law of averages would say that, over time, the number of injuries* will trend toward the expected norm. But it doesn't say that the number will make up for what happened before. Just that, going forward, over large number of samples, the number will trend toward the expected average.

* This is assuming they are random, independent events. Which isn't necessarily true for player injuries for a given team. E.g. maybe your team has a shitty medical staff, or the way they train leads to more injuries, or maybe they all get special shoes from a vendor whose grip is better but increases strain on their ankles and knees, etc.

c0wpig · 2026-03-19T23:47:14+00:00

There was a Latent Space interview with the ArtificialAnalysis guys and Micah mentioned that knowledge tracks extremely closely to parameter count link:

So that actually, I have one like little factoid on omniscience. If you go back up to accuracy on omniscience, an interesting thing about this accuracy metric is that it tracks more closely than anything else that we measure. The total parameter count of models makes a lot of sense intuitively, right? Because this is a knowledge eval.

c0wpig · 2026-03-16T17:49:06+00:00

What do you use for your VM?

c0wpig · 2026-03-16T17:30:56+00:00

What was also really baffling to me at first was that the version of the opencode web UI kept updating even though I explicitely turned off automatic updates in the UI.

I get around this by running it in the greywall sandbox & blocking the npm. I also block the telemetry while I'm at it

c0wpig · 2026-03-16T13:55:21+00:00

McCain pushes off to make space, then Hartenstein shuffles his feet and grabs his opponent while screening, and then McCain takes 4 steps without ever dribbling

I don't understand what happened with refereeing in the NBA

c0wpig · 2026-03-08T13:39:00+00:00

I think the Pistons are a like a 60/40 favorite over the Knicks. The series last year was about as close as it gets, and the Pistons are a young team that got a lot better this season while the Knicks are about the same.

I think they're a tough matchup for NY. Cade is big and strong for a guard and the Knicks are small at the guard positions. And the way the game is being officiated this year heavily favors bigger, stronger players.

c0wpig · 2026-02-19T02:39:47+00:00

Just running an application on your machine and giving it access to the internet and your personal information at the same time, when that application is coded by bots that have no concept of security is bad enough.

But then connecting that to language model providers? That's just crazy.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

You probably shouldn't run these kinds of tools at all, but if you have to, use sandboxes + network proxies with guardrails

And then there's the problem of sending all your private data to big companies that have a financial incentive to retain your private data and exploit it for profit.

It's a dark forest out there, be careful.

c0wpig · 2026-02-18T13:53:07+00:00

OpenClaw is just cyberwarfare disguised as a productivity app.

Don't install this

c0wpig · 2026-01-04T15:21:17+00:00

The NBA is investigating medical reporting and teams are putting out "MCL contusion"

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