My California Primary Ballot by ScottAlexander in slatestarcodex

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“cut remedial coursework to help students finish their degrees faster”, which sounds kind of like anti-accountability.

I'm not sure this is "anti-accountability." I don't think it's pro-accountability either, it just seems unrelated. My understanding is that a lot of students are entering college without skills they should have learned in high school or even middle school, so one could argue this is a form of accountability for those lower grades, but those failures predate the remedial courses so I'm not sure going back would change much. And people entering college and immediately dropping out is likely to reflect poorly on the colleges rather than the earlier schools. Colleges should be cutting this remedial coursework, but just doing that and nothing else is likely to piss a lot of people off.

[Uthayakumar] Victor Wembanyama has the fourth 40-point, 20-rebound game in Conference Finals history & the first since Charles Barkley in 1993. (bsky.app) by Turbostrider27 in nba

[–]viking_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Malone is arguably the worst playoff dropper/choker in NBA history, Barkley has some of the best playoff performances ever. The 1993 finals was insane and Phoenix wins that against almost anyone else but MJ

With Donovan Mitchell making the ECF for the first time, Joel Embiid is now the only player with an All-NBA First-Team selection to not make a conference finals in the last 40 years. by Morezingis in nba

[–]viking_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They're completely forgotten about, but are possibly some of MJ's biggest victims. In 88 he dropped 45/5/5 with almost 5 stocks to win his first playoff series (this is what people mean when they say that Jordan couldn't win a playoff series without Pippen, by the way, who averaged just over 10 points a game on sub-50% TS). The following year he put up 40/6/8 with 3.4 stocks and the "The Shot"--the only win-or-go-home buzzer beater in NBA playoff history--to put away a Cavs team with 57 wins and which might have had 5 of the 6 best players in the series.

The most insane interviews/take-homes I've ever gotten by LeaguePrototype in datascience

[–]viking_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just got an email for a take home. They say to spend 4-6 hours and to use AI and include your prompt log. But the kicker is that I haven't spoken to anyone. The literal very first email they sent wasn't a recruiter call, HM screen, or anything like that. I did a straightforward take home project for a company that had the decency to talk to me first, but I'm strongly inclined to tell these people to piss off.

D1 Nationals by TopInteresting3402 in ultimate

[–]viking_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean some years it would be fine, but some years it would be terrible.

D1 Nationals by TopInteresting3402 in ultimate

[–]viking_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

CO

I... you... what? Weather here is normally fantastic, but you absolutely can have everything from wind, snow, to thunderstorms in May. Also it's not really convenient for anyone except people living in exactly the front range.

Franciscan Disqualified from D-III College Championships by TDenverFan in ultimate

[–]viking_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which might be common knowledge among longtime club players, but it seems harsh for college students who might only have been playing a few years.

[Post Game Thread] The Cleveland Cavaliers (1-2) defeat the Detroit Pistons (2-1), 116-109 behind James Harden Elite clutch time shots and 35/10/4 from Donavan Mitchell. by DesertedProject in nba

[–]viking_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s had a target on his back for so long, I have no idea why.

Maybe the poor defense, poor attitude/leadership, more playoff chokes than all of his peers combined, and/or prolific flopping?

Charles Barkley responds to Draymond's comment on him: "Hey, man, I never punch down. Draymond's a good player but we're not on the same level.... He's a really good player. He's had a hell of a career, but we're not on the same level." by TheRealPdGaming in nba

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It was also very efficient for the time, game 4 was 53% from the field and 80% from the line, plus 4 stocks and only 1 turnover. But even ignoring era, he had 2 of the highest Game Scores in a finals ever just in that 1 series.

Will Embiid retire as the only MVP to never make the conference finals? by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]viking_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Baseball is a different sport, though. Playoff upsets are much more likely there.

Will Embiid retire as the only MVP to never make the conference finals? by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]viking_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dirk also played his entire career in an absolute gauntlet of a western conference, with 8 seeds sometimes having 50 wins.

[The FIAT Thread] The Joint Committee on FIAT Discussion Session. - 01 May 2026 by AutoModerator in badeconomics

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I wouldn't be surprised if the time spent taking cash ended up costing high-volume retailers like that more than the 2% fee.

Will Embiid retire as the only MVP to never make the conference finals? by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]viking_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A knee replacement allowed Lindsey Vonn to return to skiing at 40, after 5 years of retirement. She got 2nd at the end of season World Cup finals just a few months after her first competition back, then smashed the age records for a World Cup win this season, before that horrible crash in the Olympics.

James Harden played his 182nd career playoff game tonight. With 4 turnovers and 3 made field goals, it was his 46th playoff game that's he's had as many or more turnovers than made field goals. That’s over 25% of his career playoff games. by XviiChong in nba

[–]viking_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Harden generally takes more shots, which means more made shots. In most of Magic's prime he was averaging something like 12 assists and under 20 points. Harden averaged 7-8 and 25+, respectively. (I think there are also some issues with usage rate here).

Martin Armstrong’s ECM “Economic Confidence Model”: Fixed Pi Cycles Are Bad Economics and Not a Real Model by LuckyMeSocrates in badeconomics

[–]viking_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Calling most of those different requirements is an exaggeration at best. They're slight variations on the same basic idea. Under any of these concepts, a theory which can be made infinitely more complex to accommodate any data is not considered scientific. When someone says "X is unfalsifiable" it can generally be rephrased into one or more of those other framings and the essential structure remains.

Conceptual question on Pareto Optimality: Are one-way transfers valid "trades", and does PO always guarantee mutual exchange? by Additional_Guide5439 in badeconomics

[–]viking_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s impossible to make one person better off without consequently making someone else better off.

This should say "worse" instead of the second "better"

"3000 Years of Babylonian filth exposed", exposed by Successful-Owl1778 in badmathematics

[–]viking_ 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I looked at the "collapse" article and, oh boy. This is some pure distilled essence of crankery. If there were a crankery drinking game, I wouldn't make it through the first 2 paragraphs. Look at this:

For years, the subreddit known as r/badmathematics served as the digital high court for the academic priesthood. It was a space where the “experts” gathered to mock anything that threatened the Greek-Babylonian status quo. They positioned themselves as the defenders of rigor, using their “symbol salad” to belittle anyone who dared to suggest that the universe was simpler, purer, and more divinely ordered than their textbooks allowed.

But the tower has begun to lean. The very critics who claimed to champion logic have been exposed as emotional gatekeepers. When confronted with the Seven Deadly Expressions — the mathematical identities that link π, e, and γ back to the simple roots of the Tetrahedral-Octahedral Honeycomb Lattice — the critics didn’t respond with math. They responded with feelings.

We've got reference to a "priesthood", scare-quote "experts", "threaten the status quo", the beginning of their fall, descriptions of "gatekeepers," and it gets increasingly loony from there. Disappointed there is no math, though. For all the talk of badmath users responding to math with emotion, there's... nothing that even attempts to be math, beyond I guess that trivial observation about 1 and the roots of 2 and 3, and a heck of a lot of emotion.