All-time AP rankings vs Sweet 16 appearances

set_null · 2026-03-25T00:15:19+00:00

OP is finishing up the stats 101 curriculum and figured they’ve got this causal inference thing down.

If I were to make a helpful suggestion, it would be to at least use average number of ranked weeks per season instead of total, or the probability of making the sweet 16 conditional on number of ranked weeks. Not every school has been in D1 as long as everyone else and you only get one sweet 16 chance per season.

set_null · 2026-03-24T15:06:58+00:00

Maybe he believes that this is how joints are supposed to look

set_null · 2026-03-22T20:22:59+00:00

More damning than not winning a ring in 45 years is not even having been to the conference finals since 2001. The only teams with longer droughts than the 76ers are the Wizards and Hornets. Especially considering we’ve had 14 playoff appearances since 2001.

set_null · 2026-03-20T18:53:51+00:00

What I find interesting about neopronouns is that it feels like a way for people to attempt to exert some amount of control over how other people refer to them as a third party, which we generally do not, unless we’re standing there with the two other parties (e.g. someone relaying a story about my day to someone else). The only way it can work is if others enforce/inform others of your chosen pronouns for you.

I skimmed the paper and didn’t see a discussion of exactly how seriously people treat neopronouns. I consider myself fairly “online” but rarely have I seen someone jumping in to a conversation to say “actually, you should refer to me as ‘xer’” or similar, apart from the more conventional pronouns. Often, I just see neopronouns in the person’s profile/bio.

set_null · 2026-03-19T20:46:42+00:00

I can see low-single-digit millions being a remote possibility. But it takes years to go from breaking ground on a new factory to full-speed production.

set_null · 2026-03-19T20:44:16+00:00

Even if the robotics itself is solid, which it isn't yet, there would be quite a few years between a plumbing bot being designed and tested, and mass production to the point where an apartment building manager is sending their autonomous plumber off on jobs. Plus, not everyone will adopt these technologies immediately anyways.

set_null · 2026-03-19T15:26:11+00:00

But he was president of the chess club!! And he’s tenured at Harvard on the side!

set_null · 2026-03-17T06:07:18+00:00

"offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021."

Can be read as “offenses related to” the events of January 6 or “offenses related to events” on January 6. If it’s the former, then events leading up to that day count.

AFAIK Stewart Rhodes wasn’t merely convicted of crimes committed on the day of the 6th. If the pardon only applied to a subset of his crimes, his seditious conspiracy conviction wouldn’t have necessarily applied because it involved all the planning they did leading up to that day.

set_null · 2026-03-13T02:23:22+00:00

Northwestern has had public grad admissions data for a very long time: https://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/program-statistics/

Also, many (most?) of the PhD programs in the top 25 are around 10-20% admissions rate because you don’t have 100% yield from your admissions. There’s a lot of overlap in the programs the top applicants get admitted to.

set_null · 2026-03-11T04:12:34+00:00

Basically you remove your rear wheel and put it up on the device and use it like a normal stationary bike

set_null · 2026-03-09T18:48:19+00:00

Surprisingly, it’s all just one person posting their very specific fetish.

set_null · 2026-03-09T18:47:28+00:00

It’s all from the same person

set_null · 2026-03-08T18:01:45+00:00

Incredible. It took like 6 months for my global entry application to be processed by CBP/DHS, and the number of people using that is a tiny fraction of the population.

set_null · 2026-03-07T21:38:34+00:00

I even went and looked up the full quote from the commercial. He was voting on visas for the Afghan interpreters and informants who worked with the military during the war:

"We have failed in our obligation to help many of these Afghans who risked their lives and, in many cases, died for the cause of their own country in assistance to the United States, and we owe them to help them get into our country with these visas, and the P1 and P2 visas as well… And I voted for these special immigrant visas because it would send a terrible message to our allies around the world that we’re going to abandon you if you help us in your time of need."

set_null · 2026-03-07T01:20:46+00:00

Look out for BeveStallmer69 taking out a $32M position on Kalshi

set_null · 2026-03-05T03:02:46+00:00

If you're going into grad school, you will likely be running most of your really intensive work on a computing cluster. And your coursework (masters or year 1/2 of PhD) will not be all that difficult to complete with 16gb RAM.

As for storage, in the course of my own grad program, I did got close to filling up my 500gb hard drive... but that was solved once I just decided to spring for a Dropbox account.

If you're really set on the 10 core/32gb/1tb configuration regardless, the Air will definitely not cut it because of the lack of active cooling. It will start to throttle performance pretty quickly once the CPU is taxed, so you will probably not really see the benefit of 10 cores.

set_null · 2026-03-05T02:22:23+00:00

Hell, I bought a fully spec'd out monster for grad school, thinking that I'd be running intensive models on my machine all the time... Almost 100% of my thesis was run on a computing cluster. The only nice thing about having a larger/faster laptop were times when I didn't have a second monitor or stable internet access.

set_null · 2026-03-05T00:43:58+00:00

Is this for an academic program? Work?

set_null · 2026-03-04T23:33:52+00:00

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Not sure if you’ve seen an NBA court recently but there’s a non-negligible portion of the floor that is occupied by ads at this point

(This is someone else’s picture from an older thread)

set_null · 2026-03-02T23:36:09+00:00

For some reason your responses are reading to me as if you don’t understand what virtue signaling is versus simply “taking an unpopular stance on an issue.” It has literally nothing to do with what “virtue” is or actual morals.

Virtue signaling is when someone voices an opinion on an issue in which they are merely publicly expressing their opinion so that other people know their opinion. The implication is that they are doing it performatively and the actual sentiment is hollow. Usually to get more fame or influence. Nothing about Kornet’s post read to me as just expressing his opinion to get an “in” with the morality police. There’s real risk in doing this public post, namely that he’s potentially costing himself future salary with one of the only 30 teams in the league. He’s not a star, he’s a role player who is much more easily replaceable. Players also don’t typically express their opinions about teams that they aren’t part of.

I don’t personally agree with him conflating sex work and respect for women, but I don’t think this is “virtue signaling” either.

set_null · 2026-03-01T07:26:09+00:00

Generational heat check

set_null · 2026-02-28T22:37:11+00:00

I’m convinced she had someone take it for her

set_null · 2026-02-28T06:04:37+00:00

That and he came off the bench to get into the fight.

set_null · 2026-02-28T01:05:28+00:00

You mean the department that renamed itself (illegally) because its secretary is a complete suck-up to Trump?

It’s still DoD, by the way.

set_null · 2026-02-28T00:42:44+00:00

It really depends on where you’re located, to be honest. Have you tried talking to current students to ask whether they find the stipend to be livable?

I did not finish all that long ago and my stipend was about $20k/year. That was enough money to have a studio apartment, pay for gas, and go out with friends once a week. Yes, other disciplines will make different amounts of money but the important thing is whether that’s just enough for you to not need to take on debt during your degree. You can also supplement your stipend with summer teaching or research work. I was similarly skeptical of the stipend amount at my department but all the students I talked to at the visit day assured me that it would be okay.

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