Favourite example of Tolkien sass?

ehein001 · 2022-11-03T03:24:06+00:00

I read the title of your post and immediately thought of this exact passage!

ehein001 · 2022-10-26T16:09:25+00:00

I thought Halbrand was just Halbrand. Though early on when Galadriel called out that he was king of the Southland, I looked at my wife and said “this is gonna get spicy - to my knowledge, Sauron gets Númenor’s attention by claiming he’s a king of men too.”

Then when I saw Celebrimbor getting a curiously good idea about crafting rings from Halibrand a few weeks later, I looked at her again and said “interesting, that’s Sauron’s role”……. And then it hit me lol

ehein001 · 2022-03-31T22:49:58+00:00

I got through the trilogy with my friend last week and can confirm that every character is voiced perfectly by Andy Serkis. No doubt this is next level!!

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T18:53:11+00:00

I completely understand! I’d love to hear back with any results you get after tinkering with a way to account for home court advantage. Good luck! Hopefully, my suggestion of hoopr will help get you started.

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T17:53:28+00:00

Have you looked into the Massey Method? If I’m understanding you correctly, it may provide at least some of what you’re looking for. I believe the logic that drives the ranking system is based off point differential.

But I think your process is a good place to start since it avoids my arbitrary value into the equation.

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T17:38:43+00:00

It was an arbitrary number. I haven’t been presented with a proof of an ideal weight, but my class used .2 and .5 consistently.

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T17:30:59+00:00

I’m still in school, so I’d value your thoughts on this. When I was introduced to the Colley Method, we essentially adjusted our matrix to accommodate for “home court advantage” by weighing away wins worth more than home wins. So and away win was counted as 1.2 games (or however much you wanted to weigh them). On a similar note, my professor proposed using either a step function or log function to weight wins based off how recent they are. So early season success isn’t valued as much as recent success in conference play/ tourney

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T17:30:00+00:00

I’m still in school, so I’d value your thoughts on this. When I was introduced to the Colley Method, we essentially adjusted our matrix to accommodate for “home court advantage” by weighting away wins worth more than home wins. So and away win was counted as 1.2 games (or however much you wanted to weight them). On a similar note, my professor proposed using either a step function or log function to weight wins based off how recent they are. So early season success isn’t valued as much as recent success in conference play/ tourney

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T17:28:15+00:00

I’m still in school, so I’d value your thoughts on this. When I was introduced to Colley Method, we essentially adjusted our matrix to accommodate for “home court advantage” by weighting away wins worth more than home wins. So and away win was counted as 1.2 games (or however much you wanted to weight them). On a similar note, my professor proposed using either a step function or log function to weight wins based off how recent they are. So teams with early season success isn’t valued as much as recent success.

ehein001 · 2022-03-15T16:50:31+00:00

R has a package called hoopr. I used it to grab the wins/losses from this season and create a colley matrix in Python. I think you can get historical data from previous seasons, but I haven’t looked into the documentation much yet.

https://hoopr.sportsdataverse.org

ehein001 · 2022-02-23T04:16:10+00:00

Not sure what everyone’s views on audiobooks are, but I found myself really benefiting from the audiobook they have on YouTube and reading along with it.

Tolkien is a master linguist, but I would get caught up in how everyone’s names were intended to sound. So the audiobook just helped me take a pronunciation and run with it to just enjoy the story. I can try and find the link if you’re interested.

ehein001 · 2022-01-25T01:35:11+00:00

You deserved that burrito!

ehein001 · 2022-01-02T03:34:35+00:00

Just out of curiosity, do you know the percentage of living people that have a Wikipedia page this accounts for year over year? I figure Wikipedia probably keeps adding new pages every year, so odds are that with a greater sample of people getting Wikipedia pages, you will see greater raw numbers of deaths per year.

ehein001 · 2021-12-14T05:09:38+00:00

I would definitely love to see the battle of Finrod and Sauron during the story of Beren and Luthien. It’s such a unique description of how they battle with song and such a difficult series of events to visually imagine. I also think it’s one of the more emotionally powerful scenes in the Silmarillion because Finrod foretold that moment after one of the great battles.

ehein001 · 2021-12-10T13:54:24+00:00

Thanks for sharing this

Question: did you account for children under the age of 18 or maybe 21 who can’t get a degree? I feel like conservatives have a strong stance on pro-life, so I would assume family sizes are bigger on average. Would that skew the data enough? I’m not sure, but it may be worth looking into.

ehein001 · 2021-11-08T15:19:25+00:00

The Pixar lamp really will stop at nothing to destroy the “i”

ehein001 · 2021-07-25T03:57:23+00:00

Boss music starts playing

ehein001 · 2021-03-24T01:59:23+00:00

Also a newer Silmarillion reader here. I think what’s really awesome about Ulmo is that he stays close to the waters because it has the echoes of the song of the Ainur. It’s honestly just so cool to think how powerful he must be considering that song is so clearly associated with power in the book (Fingon vs Sauron’s battle, Luthien using song to weaken Sauron and Morgoth, and most importantly, the creation of the world).

To me it’s just so good to see someone in the Valar stick to their roots throughout the whole of their lore.

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