After 28 years, sadly my time at Opta has come to an end. Through seven different owners, some good, some bad, I've helped the companies grow the brand from start up to global behemoth and I've been very lucky to have a job that was also my hobby.
Force of Will 🌊 For MTG Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive.
Thanks to ADs @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social and Tom Jenkot for entrusting me with such a significant card!
#mtg #mtgsos #mtgstrixhaven
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
Our first home game of the season.
UNITED 👊
The Brennan Johnson Experience.
No pass. Only shoot. #epl-live
How is Google the only organization free from Nvidia’s GPU dominance, through use of its own proprietary hardware - Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)?
Answer: JAX ( github.com/jax-ml/jax )
With Sesko now off to Man Utd, #NUFC 's pool of available options has grown smaller.
While there are some obvious shot execution issues, Nico Jackson is the right age & would probably benefit from being away from Chelsea's madness with a coach like Howe.
4 / This feels like a watershed moment for PIF because while we’ve been left without a CEO, DOF and a competent transfer team / strategy, they have been off funding our rivals. Next season already feels like a write off, it could even be Howes last. Let’s see how they react.
Newcastle United, Alexander Isak’s wish to leave, and the challenge of being elite. #NUFC
www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...
Ahh! This explains the new followers. Welcome!
You should listen to @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social where @michaelcaley.bsky.social and I do soccer yammering that’s occasionally about soccer.
Like today when we talked about Euros (the currency) and the Turkish Lira.
A pass clustering graphic showing the most unique passes in each of the top eight European leagues. It shows a great variety in approach across the leagues
Most Unique Pass Types
Top European Leagues. 2024-25
A window into the passing DNA of each league
> Probing around the penalty area in the Premier League
> Back and forth to the keeper in Serie A
> Clipped passes to the flanks in the Eredivisie
What else stands out to you?
#NUFC Appreciation Post 🖤🤍
Given the history of local lads leaving too soon, Sean deserves all our applause 👏🏻
Endured dark days 🌨 under the previous manager and fought through it all.
Has been pivotal, with many standout performances.
We’ll always remember that night 👇🏻
#NUFCFans #Newcastle
Anthony Elanga has joined #NUFC in a £52m deal from Nottingham Forest.
Following long term interest, the acquisition ends the club’s 3️⃣ year search for a new first team right winger.
Why did Howe & co. opt for the 🇸🇪 international? Let’s dig in 🧵
brilliant piece as ever Kev!
The 24/25 season was historic for #NUFC. Howe turned a rough summer into our first major domestic 🏆 in 70 years—and UCL qualification.
But success brings expectation. With PSR easing & more games in 25/26, fans & Howe expect investment.
But who to buy? Welcome to my third annual Summer Transfer 🧵
We don’t have to say this but we will..
This man is an absolute legend. To deliver our second Champions League campaign, on top of our first domestic trophy in 70 years, is way beyond our wildest dreams of where we thought we might be just four years ago. Eddie Howe’s Black and White Army 🏴🏳️🏴🏳️
ahhhh that’s sad 🥲
you never regret making the deep fried salmon skin!
all Isak’s goals & attempts in 2024 🤴🏿
Happy New Year 2025 🎉🎉🎉
This team! 😍
HOWAY THE LADS! 👊
Again, I must recommend everyone wondering how this will go, read "Character Limit" by @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social.
The near total lack of intellectual curiosity about how things work combined with the absolute confidence that he understands stuff he does not, is a dangerous combo.
The Firefly Sparkle is a redshift zspec = 8.304 ± 0.001 gravitationally magnified arc lensed by the MACS J1423.8+2404 cluster. Left: Full field with the three objects of interest - Firefly Sparkle (center), Firefly-Best Friend (FF-BF; bottom left), and Firefly-New Best Friend (FF-NBF; bottom right) - shown in boxes and circles. The contours show the lines of lensing magnifications (μ= 15, 20, 30, and 40). Top right: zoom in on the Firefly Sparkle with the clusters labelled. Bottom right: source plane reconstruction of the Firefly Sparkle with the position of neighbor FF-BF shown in red circle.
The next official JWST release will be of a high resolution image of The Firefly Sparkle galaxy: the earliest stages of the assembly of a Milky Way-type galaxy in a 600 Myr old universe.
🔭 🧪
What a hit! 🤩
Flexibility is often simplified to mean 'can play multiple positions' but it can also mean that they can play different iterations of the same role. Anthony Gordon's one of those who can be whatever kind of winger you need that day: in-behind, playmaker, goal-hound, dribbler, etc. Very useful.
