John Rap

No inside information here, just imagining what might've went on inside the board rooms of these AI companies. They probably looked at their asset sheets and found that they had a bazillion little apps that could be sort of useful but that nobody would buy separately. Because consumers already have far too many apps on their phones, plus accounts and passwords and TOS and whatever other baggage each app brings. So, again just imagining, the tech companies decided to bundle up all of their little widgets into one server/farm and allow access to it, and direction of it, via a natural language interface (NLI.) So if a user needs some help with their math homework the NLI interfaces with a WolframAlpha/clone. If they need something turned into comic art it goes to a Clip Studio/clone. There's widgets that format text, OCR documents, transcribe audio/video, convert web search results into cohesive prose, whatever you need. There's an app for that. And you don't have to know which app it is, or install it, you just tell the AI. So far so good. Perfectly natural. Like night follows day. Is AI the best name though? AI is not the best name for an everything-at-once server. It's a loaded term, that makes people think a search engine loaded up with generative applications is going to start WWIII. Because the term AI already exists and its known meaning is nothing like what these servers/farms do. It's probably too late to rename this. But whoever approved the name "AI" for these type of servers caused a market bubble that is going to bring a lot of pain. I don't want this post to be about H1-B but it kind of is. When everyone in management at every tech company is not part of the culture they are marketing to, didn't watch War Games and Terminator, etc. then mistakes happen. Like referring to a Swiss Army Server with a Natural Language Interface as Artificial Intelligence. Maybe that name that I just type with zero full seconds of thought is stupid too. But at least it isn't loaded, as AI is.

Gavin Doty 2026-2027

I’d take the W. With that said it was a captivating game today. It will be remembered.

Had they asked you before the tournament would you rather Siena be a 14 and beat a 3, or be a 16 and hold the nations attention for 2 hours?

Just watch whatever school or conference you want. They all know how to play basketball.

@GatorDrew352 Looks worse every time I see it. He stepped on one foot and then kicked out the other. Thankfully Doty wasn't seriously injured. Though he clearly lost a step after that. And that step means everything to his game.

Because it’s Duke. They are spoon fed and protected.

@PaulPabst I mean, technically they were in the building...

The bench really didn't show up for Siena today

@CBSSportsCBB @SienaMBB String music!

SIENA EXTENDS THEIR LEAD TO 6! Francis Folefac knocks down the triple. @SienaMBB

@TheClemReport No-one told them it was an exhibition?

SIENA THINKS IT’S A DAMN FIGHT!!!!

Could 20 minutes from Chandler have made the difference? MAAC rivals probably cheered when Chandler was ruled ineligible. But once Siena won the MAAC tournament without him that meant Siena had to represent the MAAC in the NCAA tournament without him. Would it have been any different? We'll never know.

For the love of hoops! Siena’s roster was completely depleted by injuries and a player ruled ineligible. He had no bench.

@YahooSports I had Siena winning the whole thing.

Salute to the 1.4% of brackets that had the courage to pick Siena 🫡

@CBSSportsCBB That was rough.

Gavin Doty just went down hard into the scorer's table 😳

@RepPaulTonko Did you see Chuck and Kenny after Doty was interviewed at halftime? They said that looks like a dude that truly believes he can win. Adding my own thoughts, yes, you have to believe. Otherwise, why even play the games?

First half over and Siena is up 43 - 32 against the #1-overall seed Duke!! The Saints are showing up and showing no fear! 💪 #MarchMadness

@bradballer1212 @HornetsRuinedMe Mulvey played amazing in the conference tournament and looked pretty good in the first 10-15 minutes of the Duke game. But we could've used some more rebounds in the second half.

@HornetsRuinedMe Outside of the giant white dude in the middle the other 4 are really freaking good

Is Siena not abnormally large for a 16 seed?

@HornetsRuinedMe Siena's 7 foot center and 6'8" shooting guard both grew up minutes from the campus. The area must've been settled by the Dutch. I don't know who found Folefac and directed him to Siena.

@OdjHoops Rough.

This sequence completely changed the game

@PolymarketSport Scal

Siena has a 1% chance of beating Duke today... Who is the worst NBA player that would make Siena win this game if put on their team?

@BrotherhoodCBB Then why did they play Duke in the first round? 16-1 15-2 14-3 . . . 9-8

I genuinely despise feeling the inclination to say this after a first round NCAA Tournament game, but it is objectively and factually true: Siena was not a 16 seed.

@IraGorawara I thought the post read better without it. But in the days of algorithms I guess it’s needed. Computers being dumb and all.

Realized I didn’t add Gerry McNamara’s name. Seems like that would’ve been helpful.

St. John’s head coach Rick Pitino said he's "never heard of that before," in reference to Siena almost beating Duke with five players. Then said: "Just tremendous coach doing that at Siena... And maybe we'll see him at Syracuse."