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@growing_daniel If not OpenAI and Anthropic, those models wouldn’t be free.

why do we have openai and anthropic if open weight models are this good

@macbohannon Enjoy these times. Soon there will only be questions about IPO and liquidity events.

i asked my company groupchat to submit questions for our all hands and the thread has devolved into "is the ocean a soup"

@PalmerLuckey @mattyglesias I am kind of amazed how well balanced Gemini is.

@mattyglesias This would be a lot more convincing if the models were not heavily chained down by left-wing humans.

The most advanced technology in the world has progressive views and conservatives’ only takeaway from this is to get mad.

@GergelyOrosz They have an integration with Instagram. People accidentally click links which opens a threads app. That counts as a mau. Time spent will be shameful.

Mainstream media keeps reporting that Threads is bigger than X... just not my experience. As in there's so few tech people there (I sometimes cross-post, but less and less) Forbes reporting Threads > X forbes.com/sites/conormur…

The moment you realize that X >> Threads for anything tech-related in reach / engagement Mark Zuckerberg posted the exact same launch post here and on Threads (I never understood how Threads claims more users than X. Feels like a tech ghost town there)

@mindys4biden You need to go one further. Obama let Putin take Crimea without any major consequences.

I'm old enough to remember when a US president wasn't Putin's bitch.

You are correct that Europe plays numbers game, but Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, all Scandinavian countries etc are under 20m population but they produce top talents consistently. Even Iceland punches above its weight. Even 5th most popular sport should have more players in the US than in Belgium.

You can’t predict a 5 year olds talent. The “hit rate” is absurdly low in almost any sport. We remember the outliers. What much of the dialogue misses is that the England or European soccer model is about volume. It’s sucking up as many potentially talented folks as possible. It’s getting as many as possible in the pipeline. Then they have investment by the kid and time to see what few out of a massive number will make it. They can do this because soccer is their top sport by far. So it’s the first choice. The competition for talent is slim. And they have a huge number of academies. The downside? A lot of carnage is left on the side of the road. Kids who invested a ton since a young age don’t have another sport to pivot too. This system will never work in the US. Why? Soccer is like our 5th sport of choice. We have too many options. And from a popularity and even financial side the other options are better. American sports thrive on the optionality. Our best talent try football, basketball, track, etc. and don’t narrow until much later. What that means practically is soccer gets crowded out. Add in the pay to play model, and it excludes even more talent. It’s two different models of sport. You can’t just copy the UK model in the US. It’ll never work when you don’t have soccer as one of the top choices, and when your system is set up for optionality into HS sports. I don’t have the solution. But for soccer development it basically comes down to: early exposure and then keep as many in the pipeline for as long as possible to see what happens. Most of Europe does this through academies. Norway has a slightly different model early on. Americans can’t just copy Europe. But they do need to figure out how to widen the pipeline.

I am sure in Argentina and Egypt football is subsidized by government, but likely it is not the only source of funding. Professional teams have massive financial motivation to raise players and sell for profit. For some reason this model completely fails in the US. I don't think taxing people and giving money to private football schools is a sustainable solution here.

@komakazy21 @HarrisonCLee Literally every football-centric has a free model. If Argentina and Egypt can get it done the US has absolutely no excuse. Unless the excuse is the country’s capitalistic model that screws over its citizens for the 1%

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

I don’t fully buy the cultural issue. Population is large enough to support 4th or 5th most popular sport. Especially for immigrants it is by far #1. You don’t even need to fix the system on the country level. Population of LA is 3.8m, local fix there should be able to produce couple of world class players every 10 years. Develop them till 18 and then ship to Europe.

I think there are multiple issues and that is definitely one of them. Personally I think the biggest issue is that soccer is not in the cultural fiber of our country yet but it's starting to show up more than ever. I think this world cup is going to help. Until we can fully commercialize our own pro league here and it becomes one of the better paying leagues in the world then we will still be behind most of the soccer obsessed countries. People think it's because the best athletes aren't playing here but the reality is it has more to do with the fact that we're not culturally there yet. When adults start to consume our own professional leagues and the pathway to the professional side is better for our players then we will continue to get better. Countries like Italy and Germany have fallen and it's taken decades it will take decades for us to get on top.

Maybe making travel soccer even more expensive will help the US finally get good.

@Eliastrejo @DanWetzel @patricksandusky So basically the issue is not enough elite academies or just the US being more spread out? Population density may not be high enough to open academies everywhere.

If you look at the top 5 leagues in Europe and the countries that host those leagues you have about 800,000 square miles in those countries, England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. They have an "Elite" training facility or academy every 3100 square miles. The United States has an "Elite" training facility or academy every 19,000 square miles. Sometimes the travel is necessary to play against other top teams because of the size of the country.

@DanWetzel @patricksandusky Does American youth teams travel more than European ones? How do other countries handle logistics?

@patricksandusky There was very little D1 football mentality on the field tonight. Some but not enough. It’s not just the money either, it’s having a parent who can devote so much time to the travel - not working weekends, skipping Fridays, etc.

@themitak Calculating payout from a parlay is difficult and having completely different handling of favorite vs outsider seems too complicated.

@datval probably.... though I'm not a gambler so I don't know. Just saw this on the side of Twitter

Just realized that in US betting odds format, +100 and -100 mean the same thing. You bet $100 to win $100.

@Trevornoah @_Zeets Because 10 men goes into a low block and there are no spaces to exploit.

@_Zeets This happens so many times to a team. When they’re playing against 11 men, they’re more dynamic and seem like they might win. Then their opponents go down to 10 men, and they get tunnel vision around how they’re gonna get their goal.

No idea why Mexico had a man up and decided the best path to success was launching in crosses

@_Zeets What other options do you see against such a low block?

@OSB9_ @Bd_irB_ll

@Bd_irB_ll He’s inevitable. He did the same thing to Saliba last year at in the 5-1 at Emirates. Only guy I ain’t seen him dunk on is Van dijk

Gabriel is one of the few remaining CBs who loves the physicality and the problem for him is Haaland is one of the few remaining strikers who loves it even more

It is actually very easy to explain: - Speeds were much lower, you could not watch videos, which takes most of the bandwidth. - Phone screens and cameras were much lower quality, so pictures were much smaller to load. - Phones had smaller RAM and everything was much more optimized for it.

I can't believe I'm the same person who used to survive on 1GB data for 30 days

@rabois People forget how controversial football refereeing was before VAR. Current usage of the tech makes this sport much much fairer.

Interestingly, technology has made baseball, football, hockey and tennis better (mostly) and the NBA and soccer materially worse.

@_ayandamay Because competition will not include that in price and you will buy a ticket which is 10$ cheaper.

If you’re going to charge $10 for Wi-Fi on a flight, why can’t you just bury it into the original ticket price and call the Wi-Fi “free” so I don’t have to get pissed off at 35,000 feet?

Went 10/11. Crazy.

@schadjoe @_lm277 What does success mean in this case?

@_lm277 Reports out of Canada suggest the trials are successful

What offside would be and not be if Arsène Wenger, FIFA's chief of global football development, gets his way. The change effectively means there has to be daylight between attacker and defender for an offside offense. Otherwise, all those goals count.