Otherwise strength of schedule ends up equal for the whole season for everyone (and more or less equal, with home/away effects, after first half). But I think that doesn't adequately account for those kind of differences. More work for you, of course, but maybe a fun project?

And playing a team when they go on an early-season run of form is different than when their best two defenders get injured and they fall apart late. I wonder if something like a running 5-game xg difference might capture some of what it means to play Liverpool now (in crisis) vs at start of season

Scott, what would it take at this point in the season to create a strength of schedule rating that wouldn't rely on team performance to date but would take into account something like "form"? So, for instance, playing a team when it has 7 players at Afcon is different from playing it when it doesn't

this essay tells one piece of my CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY origin story

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these are my LLM guidelines for the course - grateful for everyone who’s shared their approaches on here and especially for the ideas shared on the against-a-i.com website by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social and Krista Muratore

Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.

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something something complex joke about aerodynamics of the V formation...

"I went through partners like shit through a, well, me, I guess..."

Ooh ooh... is the answer to the physician one "a shaman"? Or is that unfair to shamans?

This is actually a fun game. Every school bus driver needs to identify a person who has had their driver's license revoked they admire... Every optician needs to identify a naked mole rat they admire...

There's even great data on this, despite all the talking points & revealed preferences of everyone, including many university leaders, for participating in the collective societal push to convince parents & students that the liberal arts are bad choices for students' career & salary prospects.

He might but pretty sure the bit would have thousands proposing to you, so, even-steven.

I need AI glasses to tell me what your AI glasses are doing.

The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)

back up now, weirdly. Maybe Eze broke it.

@poorlydrawnarsenal.com do you know if something has gone wrong with the Arsenal Catch-Up feed? Somehow it's blank for me after working for months...

I will say that Nelson Weiper has absolutely KILLED for me in multiple iterations of Football Manager--fully endorse this move!