I’m a huge UConn fan and I can’t believe he just made me feel like freaking Dawn Staley was being treated unfairly

Relegation now

How can Azzi’s left hand be this bad?

So is everything fine? No everything is not fine. Recall that the practice of astrophysics cannot be learned from reading about astrophysics, and that astrophysics is not about obtaining the answers, but rather the work we do, ourselves, to find those answers. When we offload that work to LLMs, we are no longer doing astrophysics, we are no longer becoming astrophysicists, and, eventually, we no longer are astrophysicists. The let-them-cook policy, in the end, leads to the death of astrophysics, the end of astrophysics at universities, and the end of astrophysics education. Astrophysics would no longer be by humans, and then it would no longer be for humans.

David Hogg's article on LLMs in Astrophysics, "Why do we do Astrophysics?" is the most thoughtful critique I've yet read on the topic, and relevant for computer scientists and software developers: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.10181

@noadalzell.bsky.social enjoyed your article on D White’s block!

Just a nit: you misspelled Pelle Larsson’s name three times

I guessed right! woo (also boo)

Ruin is so photogenic, it's a topic hole I could get sucked into so easily. I love it but also hate it, because it's so easy to avoid asking questions about and just admiring. But it's beautiful!

(Your photo is great, just brings up feelings for me)

Thanks, it's a really hard thing to get right in the general case

@deanolytics.bsky.social looks like today's NBA summary isn't working

ah dang, excited to see it!

🎼 UConn Huskies, symbol of might to the foe... 🎵

Pynchon's python, surprisingly: good

I am just coming back to life now, I actually died when Braylon Mullins hit that shot

Congrats and good luck to your Illini! (As long as they don’t meet UConn anyway)

I have suggested this to the ceo of render.com, haven’t seen anything on that front though

A record sleeve on top of a record player

Picked up Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison and enjoying some peaceful listening, thinking that not all things are bad

Assuming you’re asking honestly: there will be hundreds of thousands of people out protesting tomorrow all across the country. Yes we care a great deal

Love it!

So happy to see Solo knock one down

We can root for no overtime so we might sleep tonight

You browse with ads? Why?

(Yes I am shocked)

alum of my high school, weirdly. He came to the school once while I was there; I don't have any feeling for him one way or the other

A graphical comparison of KAT and Julius Randle by some different components

Last night I made a tool for creating player comparison graphics based on ESPN Analytics data.

Here's Julius Randle vs Karl Anthony Towns; you can also expand it out to look at different play types

Compare any two players here: billmill.org/nba/compare#...

A statistical comparison between Donovan Clingan and Rudy Gobert

Fixed up the "3-point defense" and "2-point defense" columns, which were incorrect data

The URL lets you share comparison pages. Here's Kon Kneuppel vs Cooper Flagg: billmill.org/nba/compare#...

comparison of Jaylen Brown and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander by their net points components

Added a little headshot overlay effect, that's probably good enough to ship it

A comparison of Victor Wembenyama and Nikola Jokic by ESPN analytics net points components

Working on a widget for comparing two players by their @deanolytics.bsky.social net points components

I must not nerd-snipe myself into finding the set of counties that _most_ resembles a triforce

cardiac Kemba

I was watching that game, but was young... this is the one for me though