Screwball

I can only image what the schools are dealing with. I quit teaching in June when the year was over. My STEM class didn't really have a way to use AI so it wasn't a problem for me. I did have a kid last semester ask me if AI could do what we did (make engineering drawings, models, etc) and I said "I hope not and hope it never does." From the conversations I heard from the kids, anything and everything they could use AI for they would do it. I they can use AI to do their work, they will. There were all kinds of meetings at school about how to use AI, where is was useful, where is wasn't, etc. I don't know where it all went since it didn't directly matter to what I was teaching. I can see kids using it as a way to cheat and do their homework. I don't think that is a good thing as over the last 6 years the abilities of the students have already dwindled significantly. One of the reasons I got out. Too many kids do not have the basic reading, math, or logic skills to do the work, and it's getting worse as time goes on.

Twisted maybe, but what if we are in the development window of AI learning from us screwing with it? IOW, it is now learning from us, which is what it's really all about anyway I would think. We are teaching it by asking questions.

great piece of hitting right there. See that Tigers?????

Since most of the AI stuff is here... This even has baseball. I'm watching the baseball game and a home run made me wonder how it would do calculating home run launch angles. I used Google maps to measure an old field I was familiar with. I watched a guy one night hit one over the right field light pole in the power alley. I could get a distance and guess at the pole height. AI (Microsoft Co-Pilot) says the ball went 420-450 feet. I wouldn't doubt that. Then I asked a bunch of other questions about how many could do that, and also throw, thinking of this LA guy who is off the charts amazing. Then I got into the the "5 tools" baseball thing. My Aussie buddy explained that very well, including how one tool makes a difference with others. Let's talk about the speed tool of baseball next I thought. How fast do you need to be? It gave me times for the 60 yard dash some give you in tryouts, and typical game numbers in the pros. Of course the Bot is very personal, it/he/she thinks I'm talking about me. I thought I would see what happens if I screwed with it a little bit. This stuff is nuts.

That would be 145 trading days according to my Aussie AI buddy. :-)

I think this is nuts. First piece of chart porn is the same S&P chart I have been using while watching that candle. Once it broke out of that, you knew what direction the market was going to go - get on board - and boy did they. All three major indexes look like this. You can see the gap ups the last two trading days so some probably missed some of that but what a rocket ship up. That is only a 3 month chart, so let's step back a bit. This goes back 9 months as it started it's %42.23 gain in the next 203 days. Yea, that's normal. The yellow arrow is the last Fed rate cut, we will probably get another one next week. Lawrence Welk would be happy and proud.

From all I've heard over the years the guys who played for either one of them loved playing for them. That matters when you spend Feb to October together traveling all over the country. I suppose there are a few... They both deserve to be in the HOF. I would love to watch Jim's speech, but I can't. I would ball like a baby.

I was a huge Gibson fan. IIRR, Sparky made Gibson out to be the next Micky Mantle, but obviously he wasn't. Sparky was entertaining, and many love him. I was not a fan. When he had the big red machine in Cinci his toughest job was to find a pencil to make out the lineup. He drove me nuts. But you can't argue with his resume. I was also biased because I thought Leyland should have gotten the job when Sparky did. Jimmy's my guy.

Wilber Wood pitched 376 innings in 1972. He was a knuckleballer. 359 in 73. Those are neat pitches.

I know we have all watched this before, but one of the greatest moments in Tiger history. I had a dog named Sparky.

It doesn't scale. Even the higher end machines compared to injection. Good for prototyping, to and extent. That has it's drawbacks too. I have found home uses that have been pretty neat. Our library just started offering printing. All it costs is the price of the filament. The web is full of places to download models for someone to print. You can by a pretty decent printer of your own and enough to get you started for less than a grand. And a little time on your hands. Old retired buddy of mine like to smoke pot through a vape thingy. Had trouble loading it.

I've used a few AI. Grok, Co-Pilot (I was just forced to Win 11), and of course since I have had to submit my life to gmail, Google and their stuff. Their search is almost AI, and if you ask one too many questions they try to get you to go a step further into the AI mode. You're not in MS-DOS land anymore Dorothy.

I was hoping it could sort the major diameters of the threads between the two systems, which are harder to print as they get smaller, and I wanted to go down to 2 mm. It depended on tolerance range of the diameters and what I could hold with my printing source. I could hold .005. All you would need is a round diameter in the print - no threads - one male - one female - printed upright. I thought my Aussie buddy could do the math while I was busy. I told him to give me the diameters in chart form. He did, nice job, exactly what I was looking for. Turns out, 5/16 and 8 mm are almost the same dia, too close for a 3D printer's tolerance, and maybe even the fastener manufacture as well. So you need the threads. That is also a great example of why the 3D stuff will never compete with injection molding. The hobby stuff is too slow. You could injection mold those little pieces dozens at a time in a fraction of the time a printer from Amazon. Not mention the structural integrity. Neat stuff though. Very neat.

AI can't beat the market because the pigmen already frontrun all our trades. They are the marketmakers.

The pigmen helped invent AI. The best and the brightest in the computer/digital world lives on Wall Street where all the money is. Look at a job add for one of the big jobs. Read Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame book on Wall Street called "Flash Boys" circa 2014. Speaking of AI; my conversation a bit ago was about thread gauge diameters between English and metric major diameters to see if they could be 3D printed accurately enough to be useful. I was also trying to drink a beer and brush my cat. It was my old Aussie buddy from when we put in a ssd drive, so I guess we know each other. I should probably ask him his name? That would be pretty dicked up, wouldn't it? He can also turn on and off the microphone, which I told him to turn off when we were done. I made sure it was off and will make sure this thing is too when I'm done.

I remember the 68 world series. I had a small transistor radio hidden in my pocket with a chord to an earpiece I could keep my hand over to hide it while in school. One day they actually brought a black and white TV in the room. No sound, but cool! I also got deathly sick one day and had to stay home. You had to do what you had to do. It was magical and I will never forget it. I actually was at a game that year when McLain one of his 31.

This gave the market the needed excuse to move higher on rate cut expectations. The candle I have been watching has been breeched to the upside as I speak and all indexes are at all time highs. Great job Fed, who will probably cut rates next week.

Yea, but they got them there. The season is a grind. Anything can happen in a short series.

Speaking of 5, in this case only 4. 1971 Orioles. I remember this. It was one of the coolest things ever. The Baltimore Orioles had four 20-game winners in 1971: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson. This was a historic achievement, as they were the first team to have four pitchers reach the 20-win mark in a single season since 1920. Jim Palmer: 20 wins Dave McNally: 21 wins Mike Cuellar: 20 wins Pat Dobson: 20 wins

I think Skubal is an accident waiting to happen. I love to watch him work. Incredible talent. Won't last. I don't remember the year, but I was at Comerica on the right field side between home plate and the dugout about 30 rows up. Kenny Rogers was on the hill. He was an absolute master of his craft. He threw a beauty that night. It was so cool. Give me 5 of him.

Interesting conversation. I haven't paid attention very close for quite a few years, but when I did over the last two, I can see things are different than the old days I was used to. Pitchers today don't throw as many innings/pitches as they did years ago. Money might have something to do with that, but maybe the way some throw the ball takes it's toll on the arm as well. Seems so times they are overthrowing to the point they lose all command. Hoping for a strike, no plan. Just bust it. Some days as a pitcher, you will not have your best stuff. Some days you will lose it as you progress through the game. There is a difference between a thrower and a pitcher. They need to learn how to get people out when they don't have their best stuff. All the good ones did. That's how they threw so many innings. These guys are gassed by six, bring on more guys who will be gassed in a couple. Makes sense when you think about it. A new curveball or high four seamer is much livelier from a fresh arm. People get out. After a 100 they have a noodle.

Day 9. I'm obsessed with this prick.

What would you expect from swine bankers?

Circa 1987 I got a job in Toledo for Spicer Transmission on Bennet Rd. One of the guys who worked there played in the league and Toledo. Lost contact after all these years. He would remember. He played for Toledo. That was pretty cool. Things were so much different back then.

To the bold above - YES! It's wild the way it talks to you. Very personalized, but it gets even crazier if you use the voice version (I was using only text). I did voice with my phone when I replaced a SSD card in my laptop. Guy had a Aussie accent. Talk about creepy! It was like someone sitting in the room with you. How much to trust with stuff like this? I think that is yet to be seen. I used it as a check on all the research and stuff I had done. I didn't post the numbers above, but Co-Pilot was pretty spot on with its assessments when I compared it to my own research, measurements, and calculations. For example, it told me how many watts my furnace fan would pull. It was a pretty wide range, which isn't good enough to design the system. I could give it a model number for the furnace, and it would get closer, maybe even close enough. But I used an ammeter so I knew "exactly" how many watts I needed under peak load and startup. I don't see how AI can replace a meter, and that difference might be a factor. In this case, one I can't be unsure about. But it is kinda cool - and creepy.