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  1. shmmeee

    Just need to be more clinical

    You can’t though. Chess is a very simple game to model with only relatively few game states. People have tried and failed to solve more complex games through heuristic methods, it’s only when approaches like reinforcement learning and deep learning (which are statistics based) were applied that...
  2. shmmeee

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Who is suggesting forcing anyone? No one has to work in healthcare or with vulnerable populations. When I started teaching I was told by my school to remove my tongue piericing and my parter to remove her dyed hair. We could have chosen another school or another career but decided we wanted to...
  3. shmmeee

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Not entirely, right wing is generally a libertarian take on economics (leave it all alone and let the market work it out as individuals know their circumstances best), left wing is authoritarian (people need taxing and money spending on group priorities).
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    That’s happened multiple times and still hasn’t touched the sides.
  5. shmmeee

    Just need to be more clinical

    Chess is a really poor analogy though, it’s got very limited set of states. Football is far messier and harder to model. Modern data science methods like ML are far more appropriate than heuristics which rely on an oversimplified model. This is why your player model based on team performance...
  6. shmmeee

    Just need to be more clinical

    Who is relying on anything? It’s just another data point. More data is always better. Machine learning has proved the value of statistics with big enough data over heuristics.
  7. shmmeee

    Just need to be more clinical

    I will wheel out my favourite data phrase: all models are wrong, some models are useful. xG has its uses.
  8. shmmeee

    Just need to be more clinical

    Yes. Because you don’t “expect” to score a worldie. Hamers xG was lower than his goals last season I think because he scored almost exclusively worldies. Whereas O’Hare misses sitters so his goals were lower than his xG. It’s just another data point to identify areas on interest and give...
  9. shmmeee

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    For most medical staff it’s clear when they join a trust, here’s a document from 2019 for Gloucester NHS staff: The precedent for this is well established. Why should we make an exception for COVID? Why weren’t you on the streets calling people Stalin for all these other diseases?
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Do you think doctors should be fired if they refuse to get vaccinated for measles or hepatitis as is the current rules? “forcing people to get vaccinated” is a red herring. No country forces any vaccines on anyone, just makes them a requirement for certain jobs or activities.
  11. shmmeee

    Player ratings

    VPN and iFollow
  12. shmmeee

    Where are we at

    And some shockers, the one that went wide and in front of Waghorn a classic example. He too often gets into good positions and just hits the first man or plays it where he hopes someone will be rather than taking a look and playing it to someone. I think generally this season he’s snatching at...
  13. shmmeee

    Where are we at

    Are you saying Grendel on the same path as Barnsley? Half a season settling in, half a season trolling comfortably and now taking it to the next level?
  14. shmmeee

    Player ratings

    Don’t get this at all. Taking yesterday I barely noticed Godden was on the pitch whereas Walker was chasing down, dropping back to help out and generally far more involved.
  15. shmmeee

    Striker partnership

    Walker for me. Goddens lack of pace and age put him behind Walker for me. Both excellent finishers though. Still not sure what Waghorn brings to the team.
  16. shmmeee

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Not the point who paid for it or where the animals were (though I’d bet a few afghanis would’ve happily gone in the hole considering they were clinging to the outside of aircraft). But it’s the operational resources needed to secure and organise the flight that are taking away from people in...
  17. shmmeee

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Just don’t think spending time and resource on animals is the priority nor should social media decide operational decisions in a humanitarian crisis. None of that excuses the Tory fuckups. But it’s the forces not the Tories saying what I’m saying.
  18. shmmeee

    Where are we at

    Got to be honest O’Hares final ball has been one of our biggest issues going forwards.
  19. shmmeee

    21/22 Summer transfer mega-thread

    Why don’t we feel we need left sided cover? Seems very strange to me.
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