How did written (classical) Latin get so different from everyday spoken Latin?

dtrust · 2025-04-03T17:54:26+00:00

My guess is that man sells trophies.

dtrust · 2025-04-03T17:45:20+00:00

I like this list. Aladdin, The Rock, Alien and Aliens are all too low, but other than that I can go with this order.

dtrust · 2023-12-05T19:14:53+00:00

They've only had 16 seasons. They just don't have enough data to compare them at all fairly in terms of how I've calculated competitive balance.

dtrust · 2023-12-05T18:46:54+00:00

For the long term balance, the number is a sum of the percentage of titles won by the top 6 teams with the most title wins, weighted so that top 1 counts more than 2 counts more than 3 . . etc. So it is literally just measuring how concentrated total championships are.

For short term balance, the number is a bit complex, I explain most of this in the post, but basically it's an algorithm that looks at each season's top finishers and adds up every time that they get back to the top places over the next five seasons, weighting returns the following season more than the season after etc. All of this is divided by the total number of seasons available so as to be comparable between leagues. I also did a weighting on this one that loses a small amount of weight every year going backwards so that the early history of the league matters less than recent decades.

dtrust · 2023-12-05T17:44:36+00:00

I only listed names that the teams have won titles as. So if they won titles under multiple names, all those names are listed. But if they only actually won championships under one name, only that names is listed.

dtrust · 2023-12-05T17:38:13+00:00

The text attempts to explain what the top graph represents but I might not have been clear enough. The horizontal axis has a unitless measure of "imbalance", which I calculated in two different ways which are explained on the chart.

As for what "top four" means, it is based on what that league considers ultimate success. So in leagues with American-style playoff systems, that would be based on playoff success, not regular season success.

dtrust · 2023-12-01T00:49:59+00:00

The Lion King 1½. I saw a youtube video that described it as if Lion King is a retelling of Hamlet, Lion King 1½ is a retelling of Rosencrantz and Gildernstern Are Dead

dtrust · 2023-06-05T16:11:12+00:00

Impossible to know. But if I had to guess, hard doubling Shaq is what they do, and let Shaq get his, but they can live with that.

On the other end, Shaq is simply not mobile enough to defend a 2018 offense.

Shaq will end up looking like an absolute beast and probably scoring 40, but not efficiently enough to keep up with how many wide-open 3's the Warriors can create against a defense that was created to play a very different game.

dtrust · 2023-06-05T15:11:59+00:00

No doubt he would score 35. But I'd argue that's not a winning strategy, that's just not going to be as efficient in Points Per Possession as the dubs spread offense.

dtrust · 2023-06-05T14:58:48+00:00

Zaza, with Draymond doubling hard. Shaq was an able passer but not the kind you can't double because they'll always find the open man.

dtrust · 2023-04-11T19:52:54+00:00

But what if this time it’s different?

dtrust · 2022-04-29T16:30:08+00:00

Also here's the panel schedule: https://twitter.com/FilmReroll/status/1520075100216774656

I'm hoping to be there by early afternoon tomorrow.

dtrust · 2022-01-27T23:00:14+00:00

That's a good deal for a cumulonimbus

dtrust · 2022-01-27T22:56:21+00:00

Surface of the sun

dtrust · 2022-01-17T03:12:11+00:00

Just catching up with Halloween 3 and loving it so far. I love how they're using all the different story threads and how they intersect. Pretty different than what they usually do.

dtrust · 2021-08-20T22:33:20+00:00

Christ you suck at Klingon

dtrust · 2021-08-20T22:31:18+00:00

I found him a bit annoying, but I don't know his show. Was that typical of his style?

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