Nathan Walker

HOLD THE BALL

@karenvaites At app state if it was warm we would warn the tours "this is not the real weather!"

A lifetime ago, in my very first job, I worked as a college admissions dean for my alma mater. We always held admitted students’ visit weekend in April, and I was blown away to learn that the admission staff could predict the “yield” from that event (the share of visitors who’d enroll) based on the forecast. ☀️ = the class might be over-enrolled ☔️ = we might be going to the wait list They were never wrong in their weather-based predictions. I’ve always considered this to be a fascinating indicator about the whole college application endeavor.

@3kliksphilip nvidia is blocking HL3 from existing

Such a shame to see the tech space become so radically polarised. I've been receiving hate mail all evening simply for covering DLSS 5. It's blatantly obvious it has incredible potential and is one of the most exciting developments in recent years (and there's been fierce competition for that spot). Incredibly short-sighted for people to dismiss it for minor and misinformed points, and to turn any discourse about it into a witchhunt. The tech community deserves better.

is there no Who Picked Whom page for ESPN's bracket challenge anymore? :(

⌚️ Damian Lillard's 71 in a game with just 92 scoring opportunities is outrageous. Wilt's 78 in a game with 178 scoring opps is less so. We need to talk about pace inflation: tomthefinder.com/p/the-hidden-c…

startlingly high!

@BenjiGameDev Probably more about switch 2 being relatively less popular and less mainstream than the other Pokemon games

my understanding of relative franchise popularity is way off

@kmedved eg if you're aggregating 5-man stats, you'll get perfect correlation between points & offensive rating (which is the 'wins produced' problem) so wondering what exactly you're aggregating (maybe i'm misunderstanding the mechanism for the prior)

@bbstats Not following?

Now with support for 2 man, 3 man, 4 man, and 5 man lineups.

@kmedved how do you deal with points summing exactly = ortg etc?

@kmedved its PI all the way down

I slept on it. I had to do it. Sorry, Heat fans: Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game deserves an asterisk. 83* joins my definitive short list of 70+ scoring nights with an asterisk: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/ba…

not this time friends

@SmartInSimple1 @ShamsCharania @anthonyVslater bot

@ShamsCharania @anthonyVslater Does Steve Kerr need to stop being 'cautious' and let Jonathan Kuminga take 25 shots a game to keep the season alive?

Golden State's Stephen Curry will miss another 10 days with his ailing knee, stretching his absence to five more games and a total of 20 consecutive, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater. Curry has started on-court work and is aiming to intensify his workouts.

@alyssaleann 12+18=30

kinda obsessed with this love is blind sankey diagram ≈4% success rate seems not-terrible given how utterly insane the whole premise is

@kmedved Looks like stealzz guys are dropping like crazy in the playoffs...

Still doing more analysis. Will put up a complete thread with methodology when done.

@kmedved you're going to blow up twitter with this

@_robanderson low* returners

@_robanderson would be curious how that compares to those with poor returners - in general some of these teams were due for some regression upward

@jadamlucas @UNC_Basketball @sethtrimble1 really just for my mom - who is the biggest UNC fan I've ever met, saw MJ play when she went there....would be a great early birthday present for her. re: Seth, she says, "Seth is my other son. He just doesn't know it"... LOL

Have two tickets to give away to @UNC_Basketball senior night tomorrow (senior recognition begins at 6:30 p.m.). To be eligible: Be following and have DMs open. Reply with why you want to be there to send off @sethtrimble1 in his final Smith Center appearance.