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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This reminded me of reading the volume extras from the adorable Gal x Gal Yuri manga

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do you count putting frozen stuff in the oven or air fryer for the listed times as cooking?

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you take them at their word (which is obviously a questionable thing to do), the average solution took the equivalent of 3 hours compute time on GPT Pro.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is my new argument against divine creation. No God would create such ugly mathematics

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unless he wanted to make sure people knew it was real so they knew who to blame

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let's assume that's true for the sake of argument - do you have a proposed solution?

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, unfortunately, plenty of people who are fairly smart are still people who support Trump and the rest of the far right. Intelligence and morality seem to be orthogonal (largely, anyway)

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And since they a field goal that goes above the uprights is unreviewable by rule, it leads to very dumb stuff. Seems like they could just put small cameras facing straight upwards at the top of the uprights and make it very easily reviewable....

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This looks like the defense knew it was a screen and those wideouts didn't know it

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah this was my thought as well

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've flown probably 50+ times, primarily Delta and United, and I think I've only seen people clap a few times maybe.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's the opening snap of the game, starting at exactly 15 minutes. I started a timer counting 30 frames the frame the snap moves. It goes from 15:00 to 14:59 after... 20 frames. 2/3rds of a second. I think NBC just has a messed up timer.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you not understand that the point is that the broadcast had a sync issue? And so relying on the time shown on the broadcast is incorrect in this case.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Uh, thanks for admitting that you don't care about the truth I guess?

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I get it, you want your narrative to be correct, so you're ignoring the actual footage breakdown and in stadium phone footage, that shows you're wrong.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nope, because the refs had them reset the clock to 9 seconds before the play started, so it was set to exactly 9 seconds. Here is a phone video from the stadium where you can see the stadium clock still shows 1 second x.com/Blitzynga/st...

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bswords (@Blitzynga) on X

@ChrisVannini There’s 1 second. Clear as day. Refs made the right call

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, the NBC clock counted down to zero. The stadium clock still said 1. Here's a phone video where you can tell that x.com/Blitzynga/st...

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bswords (@Blitzynga) on X

@ChrisVannini There’s 1 second. Clear as day. Refs made the right call

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

However, yeah, agreed that the play took less than 9 seconds. For it to hit 0 at the same time as the tv clock showed 0, this shows how far before the snap the clock would have had to have been started.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will say that the screenshot in the mgoblog post of the clocks being off is not as big of a deal as it initially seems - at least from the peacock stream that I have access to, it was only off on that post-field goal shot for literally one frame

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Essentially, it appears that the NBC clock started counting down from 9 to 8 about 2/3rds of a second before the ball was snapped. Here's another way of looking at it. Syncing up when the on screen clock hit zero, you can see when the 9 second clock had to start running relative to the snap

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I would agree except that you can clearly measure and see that the play took less than 9 seconds bsky.app/profile/dr-i...

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/dr-i... If you look at the length of time it took, you can see there that the actual play from the instant of the snap to the end of the play was around 8.3 to 8.5 seconds

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have said elsewhere that WMU is right to feel screwed here and that for all practical purposes I think the CFP committee should consider WMU to have won that game. That said, it is undeniably the case that the play took less than 9 seconds to run and NBC's clock was definitely wrong on it

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Weird. I copied that screenshot from elsewhere. I agree that youtube video doesn't have it. I went back to the peacock stream of it, and it is definitely there... but it's only one frame off there

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean the NBC clock differed from the actual stadium clock. Here you can see that NBC's clock shows 35 seconds while the stadium one shows 36. NBC messed up their video sync.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It seems like it is more than 5 to 10 frames delayed. At least looking at the timing of the clip here, there are around 20 frames left at 30 fps when the clock hits zero. bsky.app/profile/dr-i...

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Until a couple months ago, I thought of LLMs as being basically giant, very complex Markov chains. But that's drastically underselling what they actually are.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean, if that's your stance and you're claiming that there isn't anything emergent from it, then aren't you functionally claiming that you can generate a 100 page long mathematical proof with just statistical patterns of text? That seems like an untenable claim.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Weirdly the clock took just barely over 8 seconds to hit zero from starting at 9 (the counter is counting down 270 frames). I think they started the clock about 20 frames before the snap

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And here is a clip with a frame counter going down from 270 (9 seconds at 30 fps) showing it. Incidentally, even though I am now convinced that the refs were actually right... I still think Western should have been granted the win. Or just call the game a tie.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Here's a clip of it with a frame counter starting at 270 frames (9 seconds at 30 fps) synced to the snap

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Okay I decided to do some zaprudering. That clip is 30fps, so assuming that's accurate, I started a 270 frame counter (9 seconds) the frame the snap starts moving at all. You can see when 9 seconds ends. So the clock shows zero before 9 seconds elapses?

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like a lot of Michigan fans have been saying the exact same thing as Richard, though.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay but the real important question Andy is what do you think of Hasan Piker?

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yeah, AWS constitutes something like a fifth of all of Amazon's revenue currently and accounts for over half of their actual profits.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yeah I saw an estimate of water use comparing the xAI Colossus 2 Data Center (which I believe is the largest data center in the US) to In-N-Out Burger - the annual water usage for the Colossus was roughly 2.5x the annual amount of water used to produce just burgers for a single In-N-Out restaurant.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I thought the same thing, but I believe that rule only applies if the players are in a confrontation with each other.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Aww, I was hoping this would be more directly what you said. Still, definitely a couple points with some good facial reactions

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The thing is, even using that measure - current true unemployment is at a good level compared to historical levels. So I'm not sure that answers it.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

That sounds like a fantastic lesson that everyone is going to need, though!

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I feel like fancy autocorrect (or really, fancy autocomplete is more accurate to it as a next word predictor) does really undersell some of the things it's capable of. That said, I think that kind of training that you described is absolutely something that needs to be done.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

@jonbois.bsky.social I was caught off guard by one of the entries in today's Catfishing game. Had to really dig into my memory bank to remember the name of the thing you wrote. catfishing.net/game/today

catfishing.net

catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I really want the Bradley Whitford/Barack Obama card, for obvious reasons lmao

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

(And to be clear, there is no chance of it happening doesn't mean we shouldn't apply massive pressure to try to make it happen. Just recognize that it is a long haul fight)

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Drew @dr-ill.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Interesting that you say no chance of that until after midterms, but you were also saying defund ice and dismantle it completely. Do you think there is a chance of that before the midterms? (Also, realistically, there is no chance of either happening with Trump having veto power)

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