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How do you pick the red background and keep it on?

Mine keeps resetting to blue.

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Quote from: chimpfood on September 29, 2025, 02:51:31 PMSchedule just dropped, only having two home non-conference games is brutal (no offense to Alfred State and Misericordia, whatever the hell that is, but they don't count)

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/2025-26

Actually it's 4, not 2.  Colgate and Army are non-conference, too.

And Misericordia is a tiny D-III college outside Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Right, I wasn't counting the D3 games because I can go to Ithaca high school and catch a more interesting basketball game. I'll still probably go to those though because I'm a sicko.

Aaaaahhhhh.  Now I understand.

To be fair, I went to one BBall game in my 4 years, so no Bball game is truly interesting to me.

Quote from: chimpfood on September 29, 2025, 02:51:31 PMSchedule just dropped, only having two home non-conference games is brutal (no offense to Alfred State and Misericordia, whatever the hell that is, but they don't count)

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/2025-26

Actually it's 4, not 2.  Colgate and Army are non-conference, too.

And Misericordia is a tiny D-III college outside Wilkes-Barre, PA.

"Well, fuck" indeed.

Just an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

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Quote from: BearLoveryou are being a bit obtuse here.

https://youtu.be/iYhYzqqs8pQ?si=_8-AoQ99ryg52aWI

I usually can't stand "Family Guy", but that was funny.

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Quote from: BearLoverI'm not even convinced yet he's a great coach—I mean, he probably is a good coach, but what basis do we have? A slightly over .500 record in 12 years at Clarkson? Let's have a good season or two before we start talking about national championships.  

The college hockey landscape has completely changed the last few years. ASU just signed a kid straight out of the AHL. Casey is going to need to revamp how Cornell recruits if we want to compete nationally.

This is a stretch (go figure), and no one should be worried about what ASU or Bemidji (and now Quinnipiac) has done. It's hyperbole to say "straight out of the AHL" ... The kid was in the ECHL - which is where players go after major junior when they've aged out and have nowhere else to go. The ECHL is filled with players barely as good - if at all - than what is currently in college.  The fact that he was "called up" to the AHL and played a few games, is commonplace for Double-A players and means pretty much nothing.  He played half a season in the ECHL after aging out of MJ. That's about it.

As for Casey, I've said it a thousand times - but let's do it again. He's a top shelf recruiter, and certainly a good to great coach. Equaling Schafer is a high bar. Casey is right there. He basically coached the Ohio State team that went to a Frozen Four - in addition to recruiting 3 first rounders. If you know the history there, you know what I mean when I say he basically was the head coach of that team.  What he did at Clarkson, in and out of the pandemic, was very good, given they have less to work with than Cornell does when it comes to recruiting in this landscape. He lost 2 All-American goalies at the last minute when they bailed out to go to "bigger" schools.  Goaltending was their biggest problem in the last few years, and they still knocked on the door of the NCAAs.

I'm not going to bother arguing about this - but that's it in a nutshell.

Mike Schafer also didn't pluck Casey Jones out of a hat. They've known each other for 30 years. If anyone is concerned about the Legacy and Future of Cornell Hockey, it's Coach Schafer. And if anyone knows what it's like to be a student athlete at Cornell, its Casey Jones. I like our odds.

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Quote from: scoop85Right after we beat Maryland someone posted here that they were happy to trade the success of their professional teams for a Cornell championship, and I wholeheartedly agreed with them. Well, with the Mets in freefall and the Giants looking miserable after one game, God is putting me to the test (but I still stand by my prior assertion).

I think God is making it easy for you. She's taking you up on your word.

As a Phillies and Eagles fan, I'm glad I didn't make such a pledge.

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Quote from: adamwmy turn to say I agree a billion percent with Trotsky (I know there's no a billion percent, don't at me). I've been having these same conversations with my wife and her AI-loving friends. I win these arguments every time -- at least, in my limited mind.

You could also play them this video.

My prediction is we will eventually reach the tipping point where the regurgitation of comfortable, well scrubbed existing sounds, ideas, and I dunno maybe smells and textures will feel more "real" to people than actual new things, and then we can bring down the curtain on the whole human experiment.

Apex predators die of suicide.

Ha - I watch every Rick Beato video (former Ithaca College professor after all) and have mentioned that video plenty.

Beato is terrific.

Another Beato fan here!

Quote from: ugarteall that and a rare undefeated season

You knew somebody would say it, didn't you?

Quote from: TimVExcellent. Difficult for poles to go over his head, Tall enough to see the field over the goaltender and cage when he's at X. Or can post him up 10 feet off the crease and send high feeds to drop down over the tender's shoulders.  Gotta muscle him up in the weight room.

I can see a lot of passes from X hitting him on the cut for a beautiful high-to-low shot,

Just saw it on The Guardian.

A truly great man.

RIP.

Quote from: TimVExcellent.  At what point do we get the designation of "Attackman U?"

He's 6'4".  That's a little different from most of our previous attackmen (except Kirst).

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Quote from: BearLoverbelieves AGI will arrive within the next five years.
https://arcprize.org/arc-agi

Every year since 1960.  cf. cold fusion.

It's not real, my friend.  It's an illusion.  War's over; Hubey dropped the big one.  Even MIT eventually admitted it.

https://components.one/posts/building-heideggerian-ai

I'll read this stuff at some point but just FYI your form of argumentation is not persuasive. You're citing as gospel theory that was written decades before the major advances of the past 5-10 years.

Well, I don't mean to.  The point is the fundamental approach of AI is based on a misreading of what consciousness and intelligence are.  What changed in the last 5-10 years was a shit ton of money got behind it so now we're all going to find out quickly what a handful of pointy headed philosophers figured out 50 years ago.  

Which is good, actually.  AI is really cool in a lot of ways.  It just isn't "I."  It's math.  Math is great, I keep a lot of my stuff in it.  But it is a model.  The world is going to find out that the model of human cognition represented by math for the last 500 years is a model, not the actual thing.  The map, not the territory.

Descartes wanted to understand houses, so he drew a crude picture of a house.  Now he had a picture, so he could do all sorts of things with it: measure it, break it into pieces.  Centuries passed, and we got better and better at pictures.  A pretty weird guy named Frege developed a beautiful method of reducing all the components of houses to a syntax.  An infinitely weirder guy named Wittgenstein had Deep Thoughts about this and announced he had drawn the final, inexhaustible picture of The House and no others would be necessary, then 20 years later recanted, scratched it all out, and announced houses were really just whatever we agreed at any given time was a "house."  And then finally we had computers that could support tremendous CAD images of houses.  And with that library finally "AI" is able to generate new images of houses which never existed before.  That is remarkable and can be used for all sorts of purposes.

BUT YOU CAN'T FUCKING LIVE IN ONE!  It's still just an image.  It's not a house.  It doesn't keep the rain off your head.  It's in your head, it's not in the world.  That's the difference.  You want to tell me about the great new advances in imagery, and yes there have been.  But it's still all just imagery.

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"?

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It probably doesn't do that very well, either.