Everything posted by boilerhorn
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CFB coaching carousel
Reports of Barry Odom to Purdue. https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/unlv-football-coach-barry-odom-reportedly-closing-in-on-deal-with-purdue https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/purdue/2024/12/08/purdue-football-coach-unlvs-barry-odom-boilermakers/76836840007/
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Atrocious Coaching
We did get on our own ways. However, there were different interpretations of holding and hands-to-the-face as a function of the color of your jersey,
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2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
JFC folks. Smart is a whining choade and ground the officials to dust. Officials had their thumbs on the scale the entire time. SEC is corrupt. We win this game by 3 scores if the “G” is not on their helmet.
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2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
Don’t care. They’ve gotten help all year. Reckoning
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2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
Uga 3 penalties 24 yards texas 10-89 thumbs on scale.
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2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
Herbstreit talks too much.
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2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
Smart is a clown. refs have thumbs on scale corrupt
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SEC Refs Suck
Smart is a clown. sec refs have thumbs on scale.
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2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
This is quite the graphic. Production team must have spent days researching it. 100 years after the war of 1812. 112 years before today. smh
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2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
And Starbucks https://starbucks.asu.edu/ And Adidas https://adidas.asu.edu/
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Still shaking my head about, "We Guard Against Unnecessary Care." Totally tone deaf. A person's doctor (or the associated PAs or RNs) are the most trusted people in medicine. When one of the most loathed pieces of a system rejects a request from a trusted part of that system, it becomes more loathed. This fool just doubled-down on that. This is a T-shirt opportunity: UHC - We Guard Against Unnecessary Care If UHC has a director of comms or a PR firm, they need to reel in the CEO - or push to have him replaced.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Let's follow the transitive property a little further. It's a circle. Texas > Michigan > tOSU > Nebraska > Colorado > Ok St > Ark > Tenn > Bama > Georgia > Texas And now everyone sucks
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CFB coaching carousel
So, BB signs on at UNC and gets them through Jan. When the preferred NFL job comes open, he quits and Stephen becomes HC for 2025 season.
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Seems like the NYPD has really shitty image inference AI or is intentionally throwing shit out there to see if something sticks. A 30 second visual review of the photos of the guy smiling would say, "that ain't the same guy." And that bike is clearly not a Citi Bike.
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Holy shit balls is Intel (INTC) Fucked?
Dear Intel Board, Great move pushing out Gelsinger without a plan. Since you announced the change of leadership, Intel has shed roughly 15% of its market cap. Congrats, The Shareholder That aside, part of Intel's winning culture involved eschewing lower margin, industry leading technologies in favor of higher margin domains. Grove's famous pivot from DRAM to CPU is why Intel was what it was in the 80s and 90s. I suspect that's why the SSD technologies, etc. were abandoned. AND, they can have cyclical major downturns. For what it's worth, the 18A node is yielding at 10%. That alone could have pushed Gelsinger out, esp. since there were earlier quotes about it being at 50%-60%. That said, yield is a function of area, custom/stdcell/SRAM, but if he's been claiming 50% to the board and someone has a legitimate report of 10%, he's gone. As @Captainant article notes, CEO BK was an abject disaster. Everything he did was about efficiency, etc. and he gutted/reduced/etc, several strong R/D teams in his time. For example, the entirety of the beginning of MSFT's SOC/silicon team came from Intel (2016). Ampere was started - and largely staffed - by a former Intel exec in 2017. Google, AMD, nVidia, etc. have built (or are building) design centers near key Intel development centers.
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Many companies - even mid and smaller ones - are self-insured, to a point. They have a form of super-cat insurance for major issues. When I was at a smaller company a few years back, we'd have folks spending 1/2 a day on the phone fighting through a $400 denied claim and/or looking for an approval. Boss (at the time) and I just asked our benefits coordinator (also HR person) to approve these and we'd eat the cost. For the most part it was small and it kept people focused on what we hired them to do. That said, the culture at places like UHC and others is to make their customers happy about the service and financials. As a result, there is incentive to deny claims and push back. Some folks acquiesce and eat the costs. Insurer then comes back and says, "We billed you $2mm this year for services and your claims were low last year. As a result, your premium for next year will not go up the 10% everyone else is seeing. You'll see a 3% increase." A friend is at a larger company and his daughter had issues in 2023 and 2024 that cost nearly 7 figures. That company had no problems taking care of it. In fact, that company approved his daughter being extended on their health plan beyond age 26, which was astonishing to me. They're footing the bill (or the super-cat limit kicked in).
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Maybe don't lose to Georgia Tech or Syracuse. And need to be bailed out by biased officials 2 times. "Them boys" are watching tape and realize that Miami was indeed bailed out by the officials at least twice. CFP folks have Miami as #12, but they get supplanted by the Big12 winner (ha). Sagarin has Miami at #14. Massey composite has them at #13. Ole Miss and SC have a better case, IMO. SEC office had its thumb on the scale for LSU against both of them - until they realized LSU is not very good. Add half a win to Ole Miss and SC That aside, It's better that we are quibbling over the first out at the #12 position than the first out at the #4 position.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
The Broyles list is very interesting: Dirk Koetter, OC, Boise - Koetter was HC for Boise from 1998-2000 and was a key part of their surge to relevance over the past 25 years. Al Golden, DC, Notre Dame - HC for Temple 2006-2010 and HC for Miami 2011-2015 Tosh Lupoi, DC, Oregon - Everyone's favorite bagman and hypothetical, "let's get him as DL coach" target. Was on Sark's staff at UW in 2012-2013; averted a show cause... Tom Allen, DC, Penn State - Indiana HC the last time they were relevant (2019-2020), 2019 had DeBoer as OC. 2019-2020 had Penix as QB Tim Beck - the Vandy version. Lots of familiar names - many are retreads.
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2024 Houston Texans Season Thread
Runyan's behavior here is worse than Azeez's
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Son and I rented Citi Bikes in NYC. Required app, linked to phone, linked to payment, etc. First time use is a PITA. Guy either (1) pushed a person off a bike or (2) bought a burner smartphone, installed apps w/ fake credentials, and procured a 1-day pass for cash. As the guy above notes, the bikes are easily tracked.
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CFB coaching carousel
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CFB coaching carousel
Of the above list, Helton, Albin, and Monken are most interesting. Huff and Brohm less so. Not sure Odom would want to go there, as I could see him at a higher profile program in his next step. The others? Meh. Hard pass on Mack Brown.
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Jesus, that is some top-shelf gallows humor.
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Holy shit balls is Intel (INTC) Fucked?
Not sure how my comments were either anti-capitalist or a screed. Please elaborate. Re: AI. Around 2015-2016, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of AI startups in the marketplace. Many of them were focusing on specialized domain-specific architectures for accelerating AI workloads. Some focused on inference, some on training, some tried to do both. For most, the software problem was secondary. "We have this great new architecture with peak FLOPs of X." The assumption was that SW developers would flock to the best HW. However, for most of these firms, the SW was indeed the constraint. New models were being developed at breakneck speed; internal SW teams could not keep up, as the "we'll just deploy an army of SW folks to optimize to our HW" mindset failed. On top, nVidia had CUDA. While not perfect, it was low friction. It remains low friction today. Intel had a multi-pronged approach to AI. First, expand the x86 ISA - AVX, AVX512, AMX, etc. To the CPU architect every problem has a CPU/ISA solution - zero thought of adoption in the SW community and the inherent limitations of CPU vs. GPU in peak/effective performance. "If we build it, they will come." Second, Intel acquired several AI firms: Habana, Nervana, Movidius, Mobileye - for around $18B (Mobileye was $15B of that). Each of them - in some way - led the field in performance. For example, Habana had fantastic training performance numbers in MLPerf. Nervana is (more or less gone), Movidius is used in Intel's vision processing units, Mobileye was spun off, and trades at $13.9B. Habana created Gaudi, but the market acceptance has been low. Moreover, most key parts of the Habana team - innovators, developers, etc. - have left Intel. It seemed as though the strategy was "buy all the big names and see how it goes."