Daniel Evans

Illini Nation, ITS GAMEDAY

Illinois’s campus is 120 miles from the Final Four in Indianapolis. This was the scene as the Illini took the court for open practice.

One of the more unforgettable sequences in NCAA tournament history:

The City of Champaign is enacting an emergency order restricting the sale of alcohol on the U of I’s campus ahead of tomorrow’s Elite Eight matchup against Iowa. The mayor says it’s, “…to reduce the possibility of public safety hazards…” Hear about it tonight at 5 on WCIA 3.

Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so. We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences. And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents. This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.

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University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson on Illinois and its No. 1 rated (in the nation) offense: "The (Keaton) Wagler kid, I'm sure he's going to be a lottery pick. I was watching tape yesterday of his 46 point game at Purdue. He's awesome. He's 6-7 point. He's just a guard, but he can play the point. And everybody around him. Brad (Underwood)'s done a really job with his roster of putting the right guys in the right spots. They're all difficult to guard. . . "There's certain teams that you scout them for the first time, I haven't seen Illinois play much this year at all, but scouting 'em and just watching 'em for the first time I found myself being a fan. Just enjoyed watching them. "Then I go, 'Whoa, how do you guard it?' It's an unbelievable challenge to try to get ready for them. But they're really fun to watch. They've got super smart players. . . "I think the most important thing that they do, that separates them, is the offensive rebounding. We're a good offensive rebounding team. But Illinois is a better offensive rebounding team than we are. . . That's one of the reasons their efficiency is so high. They have the ability to beat you with the first shot and they can beat you with their second and third. And that's why they're the ultimate challenge."

Illinois freshman David Mirkovic with a wild stat line in his March Madness debut 😳 29 PTS | 11-17 FG | 17 REBS

Be back Saturday.

"After watching Anthropic's Enterprise Agents briefing event, we have even greater conviction that model providers are unlikely to displace software incumbents and are instead positioning themselves and their agents to be an orchestration layer on top of existing and incumbent systems" - Deutsche Bank