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We look good. Cournoyer is very solid, though he has a tendency to wind up on his stomach when things go sideways. Lots of good play all around.

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Quote from: Dafatone on November 07, 2025, 12:54:43 PMIf you fall for, like, a sextortion scam, paying the scammer doesn't stop them from demanding more money.

The terms the of the deal provide that the government cannot stop additional grants or discriminate against granting funds to Cornell.

What part of this presidential administration gives you the impression that it will abide by the terms of a deal it signed?

It can still conduct investigations. At best, they'll say "hey we found more nonsense, fuck you, pay me."

Cornell could take them to court and win. I agree this administration isn't trustworthy, but this is still the clear best outcome IMO.

Cornell could also take them to court instead of agreeing to terms. I believe that is what Harvard did.

Harvard is going to end up settling for a far bigger amount than Cornell did, or otherwise they are going to be litigating this for years while the Trump admin hits them harder and harder. They're in a terrible position in large part because they've chosen to fight. Harvard is also orders of magnitude richer than Cornell and can afford to keep fighting.

Cornell needed to restore the grants and end the investigations ASAP. Getting extorted sucks but $30m over three years is worth saving the university and all the people who get to keep their jobs now.

As far as I understand it, Harvard is currently getting its funding while the legal battle plays on.

Maybe Cornell doesn't have the option to do that today, teetering at the edge of a financial cliff. But they could have gotten the ball rolling on a legal battle earlier and been better positioned now by a court order restoring funding.

Quote from: BearLover on November 07, 2025, 01:22:30 PM

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Quote from: Dafatone on November 07, 2025, 12:54:43 PMIf you fall for, like, a sextortion scam, paying the scammer doesn't stop them from demanding more money.

The terms the of the deal provide that the government cannot stop additional grants or discriminate against granting funds to Cornell.

What part of this presidential administration gives you the impression that it will abide by the terms of a deal it signed?

It can still conduct investigations. At best, they'll say "hey we found more nonsense, fuck you, pay me."

Cornell could take them to court and win. I agree this administration isn't trustworthy, but this is still the clear best outcome IMO.

Cornell could also take them to court instead of agreeing to terms. I believe that is what Harvard did.

On second thought, in light of Trump pardoning Darryl Strawberry for his tax evasion conviction, I'm now fully on board with this presidential administration.

Quote from: BearLover on November 07, 2025, 01:16:04 PM

Quote from: Dafatone on November 07, 2025, 12:54:43 PMIf you fall for, like, a sextortion scam, paying the scammer doesn't stop them from demanding more money.

The terms the of the deal provide that the government cannot stop additional grants or discriminate against granting funds to Cornell.

What part of this presidential administration gives you the impression that it will abide by the terms of a deal it signed?

It can still conduct investigations. At best, they'll say "hey we found more nonsense, fuck you, pay me."

In light of today's news, I'm obviously still gonna root for us, but if we get blown out, I blame Cornell admin.

If you fall for, like, a sextortion scam, paying the scammer doesn't stop them from demanding more money.

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Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

Adam - I found the summary useful but noted the following line regarding home and away game weightings: For postseason conference tournament games, there is no weighting.

Is this true if the game is played at the home rink of the higher seed rather than a neutral site? And if so, what is the rationale there?

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yes it's true for all conference tournament games. The rationale stems from conversations with CC coach Kris Mayotte on our podcast a couple seasons ago, after his team barely lost out on an NCAA bid because it lost a best-of-3 home playoff series. He thought the team was getting punished for earning home ice, and then losing a tooth-and-nail 4/5 series. I thought he had a great point and it wasn't just sour grapes - and was glad to see it get taken to the Committee and go from there. Other coaches had said similar things over the years, but none had suggestion that kind of specific solution.  As you know 1.2/0.8 isn't really an accurate home/away split as it is, so to get dinged for it in a 4/5 series in the postseason seems pretty unfair.

I find references to Kris Mayotte triggering after watching him put up like 50something saves beating us at Lynah one year while I couldn't figure out wtf was on his mask.

It might have been a chocobo?

I'll say the same thing I've said just about every year since we rebounded from a mid 2010s lull: our new big skilled guys are gonna have to learn to outmuscle their opponents down low and clear space.

That being said, we looked very good for our first game against a good team. And UMass is huge, too.

I still think Keopple doesn't come far enough out of the net to challenge shooters and stayed buried in the crease, but he had a solid enough game.

Wasn't particularly impressed by either penalty call on Fegaras, but I'm watching on my phone so my opinion on that is iffy at best.

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Quote from: adamw on October 27, 2025, 01:07:22 PMIt's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

That link is fantastic, Adam!

just replaced the pairwise link that was there for 20+ years?  but hey - glad you caught up

What am I supposed to do with all the headspace I've devoted to remembering pairwise intricacies?

Also, you've explained it to me in fairly convincing detail before, but 1.2 to 0.8 still feels like too much weight for home/away advantage.

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Quote from: Chris H82 on October 22, 2025, 01:07:12 PMHey, technical question here.

The new software shows me that there are new posts on a topic.  But, unlike the old software, when I click on the link for the thread, it takes me to the start of the topic, rather than the location as to where the new post is at. I am logged in.  Is there something in the settings that would enable me to land directly at the new post?  I've looked in the settings, but can't seem to find it.  I have this problem both on my PC (Brave browser) and my Android phone (again, Brave browser). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

https://elf.elynah.com/index.php?msg=272326

Thanks! Absurd as it is, I've been less active lately because this has been bugging me.

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Quote from: jtwcornell91 on October 01, 2025, 01:01:40 PMI think I just figured out that "Sus Member" is short for sustaining member, and not "sus" like the kids use it these days.  My initial misconception was fostered by the fact that Trotsky was the one I noticed it on first.

No, it's the other one. You'll probably figure it out eventually.

I'm lost, but then my son informs me that kids don't say "sus" any more.

As a "kid" I can assure you we do.

you are in law school. my kid would say you have unc* status

*gender neutral

I'm 21...

anyone younger than him is a child anyone older is unc

LMAOOOOO I get it but also. Fuck I'm old now.

Welcome to the club.

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Quote from: stereaxGot an email blast from Coach Jones announcing the news.

Press release.

Here's Coach Jones's wording:

Now I've got some exciting news - In case you haven't heard, Mike Schafer will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame! Read the press release here. It's a huge honor for Mike and for the Men's Ice Hockey program. The Inductee Class of 2025 will celebrate on campus the weekend of November 21-22 while we are home versus Union and RPI.

One other key date to put on your calendars will be our Cornell Hockey reunion weekend which this year will be January 23/24 with Dartmouth and Harvard coming to town.  We will honor the '86 and '96 ECAC Championship teams that weekend.

So circle those dates

So no recognition at homecoming in two weeks?

Not for the Hall of Fame. They might do a different recognition at homecoming tho.

I was under the impression it was homecoming every year. Here's last year: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/7/29/general-cornell-athletics-elects-11-into-hall-of-fame-as-class-of-2024.aspx

Ah. Then no. This year it's November 22.

What?  Who the hell wants to come back to Ithaca in November?

Ithaca in November is pretty spectacular, actually.  Post grape-harvest and everyone is taking a breath. Leaves are at their crunchiest and the academic world is most studious.

QuoteThat weekend isn't even the Penn game any more either.

It should be, but Penn got too self-important and game-the-rankings to try to re-brand as the new Princeton or some-such and didn't want to associate with an Ag school anymore..  Eh, basically, fuck Penn.

You never know. My freshman year it snowed October 1st.

And May 1st, just to rub it in.

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Quote from: TrotskyAI is a statistically-weighted revision of this.  It isn't intelligence.  It isn't consciousness.  It doesn't have the self-awareness of a bumble bee.  And it will never have any of these.  It isn't undeveloped cognition, it is utterly a zero value.  It's a probabilistic calculator.

It's a blank canvas for our anthroporphism.

To the extent these things are true of AI, they are also true of humans. What we call human ingenuity, self awareness, or consciousness is really just us regurgitating data, similar to what an AI does.

Your post is a common retort about the limits of AI, but I think it's cope about a lack of human exceptionalism. Whatever limitations AI has now, it probably won't have them in 5-10 years (or sooner).

Or, the AI bubble bursts because the majority of implementations add no value to businesses/users and the environmental/energy costs vastly outweigh the useful utility.  

Eventually, either AI is gonna have to be helpful or it will stop being such a huge sector of the economy.

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Quote from: TrotskyI discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s.  

Wow, they were NOT good at all back then. And I'll bet you didn't have much company rooting for the Ms on Long Island.

it's ok he was able to enjoy baseball by rooting for the mets as well *touches earpiece*

TBH the Mariners have been the perfect pairing with the Mets.

This is why I will never, ever, ever be down on Cornell hockey.  "Fire?  I was born of this."

The Mets can't kill me because I'm already dead.