Corran1138

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[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

one described it as “clumsy, chaotic and poorly planned.” Hmmm, do I detect a hint of bias in the writing at the AP? Why does this need to be included if all but one of the groups seems to 'welcome' it?

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I can only imagine that Aaron Rodgers is sitting in a corner saying "NO, not like that!" to his desire to have a 'new' coaching staff.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s 50 Out of 2.2 million?

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Headline should read, DeepMind calculated 2.2 million hypothetically stable crystal structures with the possibility to advance everything from materials science to biology (emphasis mine)

There's a large difference between a hypothetical crystal structure and being able to produce that crystal structure in the real world. And an even larger difference between the hypothetical and the ability to produce the crystal structure in an efficient and cost-effective enough manner to be usable. There are already multiple materials that are known that would make better batteries than lithium-ion batteries, but either the manufacturing method is too hard or expensive, or the materials are extremely rare. So it's nice DeepMind was able to do this, but it's years from being usable still.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s all up-front costs! /s

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It’s like they were trying to jump the Gorge Dukes of Hazzard style. Crazy to watch.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I would add on that apparently the play tree for Dorsey was apparently so simple that defenses could figure it out in only a few plays. Like if guys lined up in a certain way, then the D knew it would 1-2 plays max. That allows defenses to guess the play and jump routes, which accounts for a significant chunk of Allen's interceptions for the year. If that's true, then it's no wonder Allen has the number of interceptions he does and then blame really doesn't fall on the offense's shoulders, but on the OC for being so transparent.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Username… checks out?

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's a problem in that it ignores the fact that McCown (who happened to then fight for the Confederacy after) collected this bird and gave it to another white man, who 'named' it. The bird was already well known to Native American tribes in Texas and Arizona. So to say that McCown 'discovered' it is just blatantly wrong. The name that the AOS will go with is the 'thick-billed longspur' as it's anatomically accurate and doesn't make it seem like McCown discovered this bird.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Don't give them any ideas.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I'm sitting here trying not to laugh, thinking about the old adage: how do you know if the Pope is venomous or poisonous?

If you bite the Pope and you die, he's poisonous. If the Pope bites you and you die, he's venomous.

[–] Corran1138@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I feel like he would spray holy water though.

 

I've seen a lot of people wondering how Prigozhin could make such a terrible mistake. I think that ISW has got the right of it in their analysis from today.

The second paragraph describes Prigozhin's thought process about why he may have thought he was safe. He was still personally loyal to Putin but his drive on Moscow was to remove Shoigu and Co. But it so embarrassed Putin that Prigozhin had to die. So Prigozhin thought he was safe enough due to not trying to oust Putin, which is why he's been traveling around as if he's untouchable.

Putin’s speech largely confirms ISW’s prior assessment that Prigozhin did not intend to oust Putin during his June 24 rebellion and instead saw himself as loyal to Putin while seeking to force Putin to fire the Russian military leadership as he had been demanding.[8] A Russian insider source, citing an unnamed individual who knew Prigozhin, claimed that Prigozhin was confident that Putin would forgive him.[9] Prigozhin likely underestimated how seriously his rebellion had personally humiliated Putin. Prigozhin had also apparently overestimated the value of his own loyalty to Putin. Putin places significant value on loyalty and has frequently rewarded loyal Russian officials and military commanders even when they have failed. Prigozhin’s rebellion was an act of significant insubordination despite his claim that he rebelled out of loyalty to Russia.[10] Putin’s statement was therefore a warning to those currently loyal to Putin that some mistakes are too serious for loyalty to overcome.

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