I notice both F1 and the ATP Tour are cracking down on influencers ruining the events for the general punter. F1 has been slowly weeding them out for a period of time, to the point there was uproar about Hamilton's partner being exempt to the crackdown. In tennis the US Open announced a crackdown with a plethora of complaints from fans about blocked views and unwanted photography. This reminded me of an experience.
A short while back I had a similar experience at a hatted restaurant, we were there taking advantage of a very generous gift voucher, expensive but not too expensive for us as we had "help". But there were a lot of people in the venue paying the full ticket, celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, other special occasions, etc., etc.. All of it interrupted by a foodie influencer turning every coarse into a web documentary. To the point at one stage they stood on a chair and took an aerial photograph of the table, I'm assuming to get a wide angle view with obligatory cleavage shot. You know the type of shot, "I was ripped off by my landlord, but my tits saved me!" photograph. The restaurant staff asked them to restrain their activities for the sake of other diners, at which time they made a scene about paying good money to be there and being free to "experience what they have paid for however they like!" One diner quietly piped in with a beautifully timed comment, although it was also a bit misplaced, "The food is beautifully presented, but not so much your fat arse!" As the situation degraded security was called and the influencer and conspirator were ejected while "vlogging" all the way out the door.
What the feck is wrong with these influencer people? This was a hatted silver service venue, somewhere many people might only experience once in a lifetime and may have saved up good hard-earned money just to attend that once.
There is plenty wrong with them, and with the those who follow them. There is some tipping point - don’t ask me what it is - where number of followers sees them start to monetise their platform, as companies look to place their product or run ads. I guess also that the segment they play in could be competitive too. Brazen behaviour to distance yourself from your competitors would be rewarded by more views from some, seen as cool etc.
I finally saw Andrew Mackay’s name mentioned. For mine he showed up every week, never gave inch, was fair at the same time and left nothing the ground when he walked off. 4xAll Australian too. If anyone had a better an attitude and work ethic I”d like to know who they are. It made him a great in a different way.
I don't do this normally but I since I was flummoxed has to how we won I had to look at the stats. It's been a week and a bit but I had to look.
The positive from the Essendon game was that it was an ugly win.
We has had marginally more disposals and less inside 50s Efficiency was effectively the same We were significantly better going into the F50 They won the frees We were handed our trousers at stoppages They smashed us for contested - we were better at uncontested Marks overall were close, but they murdered us on contested They were in front for almost 79 minutes. We didn't quite hit 30 We won defence
If there was winning ugly, this was it. (the Richmond win wasn't just ugly, it was borderline unworthy)
I'd have to look at our 'big loss' games in detail but Essendon's stats I suspect are like ours were. Big emphasis on contested possession at the expense of everything else. Can't have 18 blokes trying to be first to the ball some need to be ready receive and run.
Our higher uncontested possessions and notably better inside 266 vs 242 45 vs 49 - we had less , but our delivery was better, and our better defence rendered theirs less effective. 48.9% vs 38.8% - we had less but our efficiency was 25% better
It was tough to watch but the stats say we used the ball better when we had it and that coupled with winning defence was the the difference.
Very sorry for all here who are bearing sad news, and my thoughts with all of you. Most of have us our moments of being wacky and emotional on other threads , but that's just footy and we can look to the next week. This stuff is the real stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Part of this is on the players, collapsing like a house of cards. Maybe Cripps isn’t the general we thought he was (or ever was). The umpires obviously love him so which I think indicates there’s minimal if any nastiness in his manner. I just don’t get it. Maybe he’s not great with words. but I don’t think he galvanises the team like other captains can. He never shirks anything but he’s 6’5” and lots of kgs. Is someone smaller in stature doing the same thing more inspiring? I don’t know. Grasping for straws here. It just can’t be one blokes problem. Time for Walsh? He’s going to be around for ever.
We just had 2 wins in meaningless games against last years finalists, but we couldn’t have done this if they hadn’t a degree of ‘gel-ing’. They are a better foundation than we realise I reckon. for one am very excited about tomorrow night .The MC has backed the recruiters. 7 newbies mean things will change.
I refuse to use anything that is overly autonomous and needs to make decisions about my safety. Computers are just too unreliable. Reboot and all is well, but after the next batch of security updates, you might have a brick.
In my current Engineering R&D type job we have intrinsically safe and also high availability systems, none of them use a PC for hardware control, they are built on real-time hardware using industrial microcontrollers not a PC. We talk about MTBF measured in years of continuous service. PCs are used, but in the user interface not in hardware control.
The only way we get some semblance of reliability out of the PC based hardware control systems is to make sure they get a regular manual reboot whenever the opportunity arrives, which is usually at least once a week. Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, it makes no difference. The longest genuine claim I have heard was about one year for a PC, but most were really talking of virtualisation of an OS on bare metal that itself gets cycled while the client OS gets a snapshot and resumes after the hardware reboots. I'm sure there will be users who have a Raspberry Pi or something like that sitting there running continuously doing mostly nothing, but that's a different story to operating continuously under genuine demand.
There is no way AI should be allowed anywhere near a robot or cobot.
I’ve seen production Linux hosts run for over a year. Can’t say the same for the Windows platform. Less than perfect code slowly leaking memory is a usual suspect. Infrequent race conditions are another.
LLMs logical language models. They build answers by calculating which word is most likely to follow the previous word based on the troves of information they have trolled through. Obviously there is more to but simply put this is what is going on. It explains why they aren’t very good at maths. I really worry when they start learning off their own content. We need some sort of standard in document tagging that classifies the veracity of the source.
Easily Moir's best game. Plenty of touches, 17 of them and 4 goals. Encouraging.
Ben Campo's last half was terrific after a slow start.
I think we've all seen it with Moir. It's one of those things were a player just looks a class above when he moves and with some of the things he does. For those players with this X factor, sometimes the difficult looks effortless and just comes naturally. The problem in the past has been that he's had trouble finding the ball. That's improving. It may not be time yet, but since he's been playing a bit on the ball he's looking like he could be the goods.
Yes Moir looked good. His work in the middle was good but I worry when/if he plays in the senior team. We kick backwards the opposition gets back we bomb it in and good movers like him don’t get chance to shine. If the balls coming in fast and he can move around use his flair then great. He won’t get as easy contested marks next level up. Nice game all the same and we need to find out what he can do. Really like the versatility with both feet.
