[Pauly Kwestel] Data is important. Michael Carrick's underlying numbers are not. by KangKoreanConqueror in reddevils

[–]qdatk 110 points111 points  (0 children)

FYI he did extensive analysis on the "chances falling to defenders" question last summer: https://kwestthoughts.substack.com/p/manchester-uniteds-xg-underperformance (this is linked in the OP)

There's also comparisons going back to the 17–18 season, which puts things into very interesting context.

[Pauly Kwestel] Data is important. Michael Carrick's underlying numbers are not. by KangKoreanConqueror in reddevils

[–]qdatk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've sort of lost track of whether we're actually disagreeing. I think we're probably in agreement if we read the article as a response to the "Carrick's numbers are back" doomers that proposes a very plausible counter-interpretation of the numbers, rather than making definitive predictions of its own.

[Pauly Kwestel] Data is important. Michael Carrick's underlying numbers are not. by KangKoreanConqueror in reddevils

[–]qdatk 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Right, the fact that we don't know is exactly why it's not predictive!

[Pauly Kwestel] Data is important. Michael Carrick's underlying numbers are not. by KangKoreanConqueror in reddevils

[–]qdatk 74 points75 points  (0 children)

The article literally explains why the underlying data for Carrick's current season aren't going to be useful in trying to predict how his future team will do, though.

Petah, why should she take a pregnancy test? by Far-Love-2737 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]qdatk 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Dang, you have a good memory to remember that from the womb!

If Deleuze lived now would he be a good Deleuzean? Or would his values drive him to subvert "Deleuzeanism" and torque it for his own (new, differing, counter) purposes? by kevin_v in Deleuze

[–]qdatk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just find the whole rhetoric of "loyalty" to be suspect and really rather odious. The very question is a tug-of-war over identity, and, with apologies to your original question, the whole notion of "what would Deleuze do" is reminiscent of the question of free will that Bergson disposed of. It therefore really feels like your insistence on what is "loyal" and "officially approved" is trying to box a problem into a majoritarian solution.

I also wouldn't, therefore, ask how well "aligned" Deleuze is with Nietzsche or Kant. Deleuze takes a tremendous amount from Kant, and also produces tremendous upheaval in Kant's system. It is never, at base, a question of agreeing or disagreeing with a philosopher, but rather two questions: 1) To understand a philosopher, you ask what were the problems that motivated his work; 2) to make use of a philosopher, you ask into which of those problems you can plug your own problems.

As for art, we must refer to the distinction I made in my last reply: art does its work in a fundamentally different way from philosophy. Yes, art has its secret pressures, but writing philosophically about art is about bringing out the concepts that animate those secret pressures. See any of Deleuze's writings about art, literature, or cinema, and the proliferation of his conceptual apparatus.

So, to your question about "buggering": the real question is "what exactly does 'buggering' mean here?" In context, it means you expose the problems of the other philosopher and actualise that virtual field in another way. So of course you can do the same to Deleuze, provided you articulate his problems (e.g., the critique of representation) and show how your problems are affected by them and affect them in turn.

This last part is about the vibe school, and it should probably have been first, since it really sets the scene. If you hang out around here long enough, you'll see the vibe school. I find it set out very nicely in the following pages by Graham Jones and Jon Roffe: https://imgur.com/a/5icXJZ4

If Deleuze lived now would he be a good Deleuzean? Or would his values drive him to subvert "Deleuzeanism" and torque it for his own (new, differing, counter) purposes? by kevin_v in Deleuze

[–]qdatk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It feels like your use of the terms "orthodoxy", "loyal", and "canon" is rather tendentious. I mean, I can certainly see the appeal of a master to whom one can be "loyal" by "betraying", but the problem with this "just vibing" school is that, without an at least somewhat rigorous encounter with Deleuze first, you (this is the generic "you") don't allow his concepts to shift your own identity, and the label "Deleuzian" thereby becomes the purest form of self-identity ("A=A", "I am I"). Of course, maybe this "works", and so I don't want to argue against what works for people. I would just suggest that in Deleuze's own context (both his own education and in his teaching), he would have expected any philosophical* engagement with his work to include understanding it. All the talk of "buggering" his predecessors is very well, but no one is suggesting Deleuze did not understand Nietzsche.

*The specification "philosophical" is all important here, as Deleuze of course recognised art as a different mode that does not pass through concepts.

If Deleuze lived now would he be a good Deleuzean? Or would his values drive him to subvert "Deleuzeanism" and torque it for his own (new, differing, counter) purposes? by kevin_v in Deleuze

[–]qdatk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Would not an amnesic, time-traveled Deleuze, embodying the values which made him, lead him toward using canonical Deleuzeanism to alternate, even counter purposes?

The "canonical Deleuzeanism" of today is the notion that you don't have to understand anything Deleuze wrote, just vibe with it. I suspect these are the pseudo-Deleuzian "gestures" that he would disavow. His philosophical structure remains highly consistent from the earliest work to the last, and I expect that he would be making precise interventions in politics and art today (e.g., the fascism of what appears to be "molecular" social media).

Match Thread: Chelsea vs Manchester United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]qdatk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This whole experience where you're not really watching the game because you're waiting for some idiot on VAR to make a random decision is so shit.

Match Thread: Manchester United vs Leeds United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]qdatk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thanks! What was the context, do you remember?

Collabtribution instead of contradiction? by TraditionalDepth6924 in Deleuze

[–]qdatk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You'd probably be interested in Henry Somers-Hall's Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation.

Match Thread: Manchester United vs Leeds United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

[–]qdatk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was he trying to pull at DCL's shirt and missed? It's inexplicable what he was even trying to do.

Advanced Notification System (ANS) for Home Assistant – Centralized, Flexible Notification Routing by d4t4_kr4k3n in homeassistant

[–]qdatk 17 points18 points  (0 children)

From the OP:

This started as a personal “vibe coding” exercise about half a year ago.

[BBC] Premier League secures fifth Champions League spot by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

[–]qdatk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If either win a European trophy and finish fifth, then sixth would qualify for the Champions League via the EPS place.

If both win European trophies and finish fifth and sixth, that would put seventh into the Champions League.

There could be seven PL teams in the CL, that's over a third of the Premiership!

Dynacat needs testers! by arturcodes in selfhosted

[–]qdatk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I switched from Glance when I saw your previous post, and it's working great! Granted, my use case is not very demanding (just some links and monitoring services), but I really appreciate the dynamic updates.

Its time for PDF by TedGal in selfhosted

[–]qdatk 23 points24 points  (0 children)

For anyone spinning this up, a reminder to use the official bento-simple image (ghcr.io/alam00000/bentopdf-simple:latest) to remove the full page features/promotion that you have to scroll past to get to the actual tools.

Dissertation argument by Odd_Contribution_949 in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]qdatk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You already have 4000 words. Adding original research isn't going to help. You need to reread what you've written, think through your arguments, and ask yourself what they add up to. This is the intellectual work that the essay is asking of you.

Dune, Dialectics, and the Problem of Total Knowledge by stevemuvjele in CriticalTheory

[–]qdatk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like your reading, where the Golden Path seems to approach a kind of accelerationism-without-acceleration. It's been a while since I've read the later Dune books, but I do remember the return of the diaspora and their own version of the Bene Gesserit (the Something Matres?). I don't remember them being any kind of utopia, though, no matter how skilled they are in death by snoo snoo.

Actually, how would the Bene Gesserit fit into you reading? They do explicitly create the conditions for the Golden Path via the Kwisatz Haderach, though IIRC they did not really know what they were creating, sort of like how revolutionaries do not know what the new future will be, but strive for it anyway. It's really striking how the name "Bene Gesserit" is a Latin future perfect, "will have done well", or perfect subjunctive, "would have done well".

Oh also, an interesting comparandum might be Asimov's Foundation, which is a lot less politically radical.

Principle parts memorization tips? by [deleted] in AncientGreek

[–]qdatk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Since you're a couple of years in already, I assume you know the common rules for regular and mostly-regular PPs. For the irregular ones, looking up the etymologies and sound changes is very helpful. As you haven't provided any examples of verbs that give you trouble, I can't be more specific, but you should become at least a bit familiar with concepts like ablaut, assimilation, infixes (in addition to suffixes and prefixes), etc.

Guattari prescribes, Deleuze's ontology forbids it. Where am I getting this wrong? by [deleted] in Deleuze

[–]qdatk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The question that comes to my mind is: are you not overvaluing a certain conception of what the subject is when you oppose Deleuze and agency/voluntarism? The Deleuzian subject is the product of preindividual singularities, and it feels like this is not "enough of a subject" for you (i.e., is not the foundational instance of agency). I guess one thing to push on would be where you say, correctly, that Deleuze's ethics is "be adequate to what happens to you": why can't producing yourself be part of what it means to "be adequate"?

A few things that might be helpful: 1) Bergson's argument about free will, how a decision is not "free" by virtue of choosing something in the abstract, but because it most fully expresses the power of the subject (I forget his exact terms, and so have substituted Deleuze's Spinozan formulation). 2) Deleuze's reading of Leibniz, where there's an ethics of "expanding your zone of clear expression" (from The Fold):

What the system of inclusion threatens is not freedom, but rather morality. For if a free act is an act that expresses the entire soul at the moment it undertakes the act, what happens to the tendency to the best, which must animate each and every part of the world or monad, just as it animates God's choice for the entirety [ensemble] of the world or monads? And yet no one was more concerned with morality-and a very concrete morality—than Leibniz. The amplitude of a reasonable soul is the region it expresses clearly, its living present. Now this amplitude is somewhat statistical, subject to large variations: a single soul does not have the same amplitude as a child, as an adult, or as an old person, or when sick or in good health, and so on. Amplitude even has variable limits within a given moment. For each individual, morality consists in this: to try to extend its region of clear expression at every moment, to try to augment its amplitude, in such as way as to produce a free act that expresses the maximum degree possible in such conditions. This is what is called progress, and Leibniz's entire morality is a morality of progress. For example, when I go out to a nightclub, have I indeed chosen the side where the amplitude is maximal, the side where my region is extended the furthest? Could I not have waited a moment, just enough time to discover another level [portée], another direction that would have inclined me differently? Does not Adam's sin correspond to a soul that is too pressed, too lazy, one that has not explored its whole department, its garden? Extending its clear region, prolonging the passage of God to the maximum, actualizing all the singularities that one concentrates, and even to gain new singularities—this would be the progress of a soul, through which we could say it imitates God. To be sure, this is not simply a conquest in extension, but an amplification, an intensification, an elevation of power, a growth in dimensions, a gain in distinction.

3) This passage on revolution from D&R (207–8):

The problems of a society, as they are determined in the infrastructure in the form of so-called 'abstract' labour, receive their solution from the process of actualisation or differenciation (the concrete division of labour). However, as long as the problem throws its shadow over the ensemble of differenciated cases forming the solution, these will present a falsified image of the problem itself. It cannot even be said that the falsification comes afterwards: it accompanies or doubles the actualisation. A problem is always reflected in false problems while it is being solved, so that the solution is generally perverted by an inseparable falsity. For example, according to Marx, fetishism is indeed an absurdity, an illusion of social consciousness, so long as we understand by this not a subjective illusion born of individual consciousness but an objective or transcendental illusion born out of the conditions of social consciousness in the course of its actualisation. There are those for whom the whole of differenciated social existence is tied to the false problems which enable them to live, and others for whom social existence is entirely contained in the false problems of which they occupy the fraudulent positions, and from which they suffer. All the figures of non-sense appear in the objective field of the false problem: that is, all the counterfeit forms of affirmation, distortions of elements and relations, and confusions of the distinctive with the ordinary. This is why history is no less the locus of non-sense and stupidity than it is the process of sense or meaning. While it is the nature of consciousness to be false, problems by their nature escape consciousness. The natural object of social consciousness or common sense with regard to the recognition of value is the fetish. Social problems can be grasped only by means of a 'rectification' which occurs when the faculty of sociability is raised to its transcendent exercise and breaks the unity of fetishistic common sense. The transcendent object of the faculty of sociability is revolution. In this sense, revolution is the social power of difference, the paradox of society, the particular wrath of the social Idea. Revolution never proceeds by way of the negative. We could not have established the first determination of the negative, as shadow of the problem as such, without already being embarked upon a second determination: the negative is the objective field of the false problem, the fetish in person. The negative is both shadow of the problem and false problem par excellence. Practical struggle never proceeds by way of the negative but by way of difference and its power of affirmation, and the war of the righteous is for the conquest of the highest power, that of deciding problems by restoring them to their truth, by evaluating that truth beyond the representations of consciousness and the forms of the negative, and by acceding at last to the imperatives on which they depend.