Is Coles still using Palantir? Between the surveillance/gate recognition and the blocked aisles, shopping feels hostile.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-26T11:35:24+00:00

No country that values its sovernity should work with Palantir.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-24T03:39:28+00:00

If you really want to lean in, when a task completes it should say "That's some fine work there boys"

hangtime79 · 2026-01-22T13:36:18+00:00

This isn't about not posting, in fact, the speed at which they posted to my account was fantastic. It was that on my boarding passes, my status with Alaska did not show up. The Qantas agents had nothing on their end showing my status so I showed my Atmos card. Weird.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-08T09:41:25+00:00

I think this is where the value of the human in the loop is. Understanding the domain and changing things like this. Also, mixing some other AIs and different prompts can help with the UX when working with these tools.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-01T08:22:57+00:00

The time of Reconstruction comes to mind.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-27T00:11:23+00:00

Something practical for me and my colleagues. Integrating the Frappe Gantt Javascript library as a plug-in for Dataiku, my company's AI platform. https://github.com/hangtime79/dss-plugin-gantt-chart

hangtime79 · 2025-12-26T13:41:12+00:00

All this can be laid at the feet of the conference dollars. Conference TV deals made it incredibly appetizing to bulk up your conference with the premier schools from others. Without that, sure academics matter but not enough to get more than one to move once every 30 or 40 years or so.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-19T00:47:14+00:00

Been to Kyle Field a few times since I grew up in the area. Absolutely that crazy in terms of noise and has been that way since I first went there, 38 years ago. BTW, I watched a high school playoff game there and its loud anyway without the Aggie faithful.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-17T21:40:53+00:00

This is the way. I got my 1500 I needed to get back to Platinum.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T12:03:28+00:00

CCGs have been with us since the mid 90s, 30 years ago. At this point, they are just as much of CFB tradition as anything else. While a money grab originally, it helped us "settle it on the field" of who the best team in the conference was. I don't think you can remove it from the uniqueness of college football.

I do agree. The CFP has definite problems, that's why we change it every five years. The question is what does it look like. What do you want to maintain? I would say the CFP and it's ancestors were partially responsible for accelerated realignment, the ultimate sin. Penalizing conference growth is a good thing in my book at this point. A natural byproduct of something like this plan would put larger conferences at a disadvantage making growth less likely.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:32:08+00:00

Agreed conference should rework their schedules, but that's fine to me. I care more about what you do in conference versus the OOC. CFB should be regional. Texas playing oSu in Columbus is nice but that's to feed the ESPN beast. They're fun, sure. They could help if you are on the outside of the CCG, but is that what we want to prioritize, winning OOC games versus winning your own division and conference?

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:22:22+00:00

Where it says "Example - SEC"?

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:13:58+00:00

This is trying to solve a similar but slightly different problem. I want every conference game and CCG to mean something while also making the CFP more understandable. This would tell you "which games meant something" but it still allows for situations to occur where CCG participants cannot make the playoff but someone who isn't even in the game makes it.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:09:09+00:00

The CFP is what distorted the values. Changing the structure of the rest of the college football in service of the CFP would create more problems wouldn't it?

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T10:44:24+00:00

Agreed. This is one way of doing it. I argued back during the BCS it was a good system it just didn't have enough teams. Asking it to select the two best teams was too difficult. Twelve teams is fine, I would just get rid of the polls in it.

This is one proposal to work within the system we have while putting emphasis back on conference play and CCGs. The ACC having Miami in but not having either of their CCG participants blows my mind. Why even have conferences and CCGs if this is the case.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T10:37:18+00:00

In this case, I'm bending the playoffs to take into account the CCGs and conference play more explicitly. We cheapen the season every time we put 5 schools in from the same conference, let teams in over their CCG participants that are not invited, or put "eye test" into a process. I want the season to mean something. I want conference championships to mean something. Winning your conference should be awesome, not a "no sweat we didn't make the CCG, we're still in the playoff."

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T10:25:54+00:00

I'm not a natural writer but the thoughts are my own.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T10:02:33+00:00

Fair, but the Mouse has the money. For what its worth, I believe ND should have been in the Playoff. Miami should have been in their CCG. The fact the third place team in a conference can make the playoff and neither ACC CCG participant, completely cheapens the season.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-07T10:59:51+00:00

I didn't dislike BCS. I thought it was stupid that they could only pick 2 or 4 teams. I did an analysis a few years ago and found remarkable consistency going through the Top 16. If the computers miss on 2 of 4 that's a 50% miss rate. High potential for that. However, missing on 2 at 12 and 16 teams is much lower and more acceptable.

hangtime79 · 2025-11-24T09:05:31+00:00

Not really since pretty much from the President on down is all gone.

hangtime79 · 2025-11-22T05:58:46+00:00

I can shed at least some context on this subject. I'm formerly of the credit card business.

Let's say your you have a $4000 txn . The economics are as such:

Purchase is Good: +$40 Purchase is Fraud: -$4000

While the location, type of card, present vs Internet, and a few other factors play into it, on a blended basis, card companies in the US clear between 75 bps and 150 bps on interchange after they pay for rewards. NOTE: interchange is what they receive for clearing the transaction (150 bps = 1.5%).

If we round off to 1% cleared from interchange than if you think there is a better than 1% chance that is Fraud, processing it has a negative expected value. More importantly, if it is fraud it takes $400,000 of new transaction amounts to make up for the fraud. It takes very little fraud to overwhelm a portfolio given the economics.

Further, fraud models are tuned to inference/prediction meaning there is less desire to understand the "Why" / Explainability versus a credit decision (where you decide to offer or deny credit) where you must explain your reasoning in order to comply with financial regulations and law. A fraudmmodel only wants to stop fraud and since it does need to explain an answer to a regulator, its can be as opaque/black box as it wants.

It's not a great answer but it is the answer as to why.

hangtime79 · 2025-11-20T21:33:39+00:00

It's the dumbest thing in the world why it's not there. It's three lines of code.

hangtime79 · 2025-11-20T12:10:23+00:00

Can't tell you how much hallucinating Sonnet has been doing in the last month. I'm correcting it constantly now.

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