Matthew Cole 👨🏻💻
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Still far too many people who would seek to undo that history …
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Still far too many people who would seek to undo that history …
Sorry, “California Clasico”
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sorry, “California Clasico”
Just look at the current western conference. Which of these is least worst?
- a “western division” of Cascadia + 3 of 4 Cal teams
- 4 Cal teams + RSL + COL, but Cascadia has to fly to Central time zone
- 4 Cal teams + 2 of 3 Tex teams
- Cascadia + RSL + COL + SJ, but break the Cali Classic derby
- a “western division” of Cascadia + 3 of 4 Cal teams
- 4 Cal teams + RSL + COL, but Cascadia has to fly to Central time zone
- 4 Cal teams + 2 of 3 Tex teams
- Cascadia + RSL + COL + SJ, but break the Cali Classic derby
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Just look at the current western conference. Which of these is least worst?
- a “western division” of Cascadia + 3 of 4 Cal teams
- 4 Cal teams + RSL + COL, but Cascadia has to fly to Central time zone
- 4 Cal teams + 2 of 3 Tex teams
- Cascadia + RSL + COL + SJ, but break the Cali Classic derby
- a “western division” of Cascadia + 3 of 4 Cal teams
- 4 Cal teams + RSL + COL, but Cascadia has to fly to Central time zone
- 4 Cal teams + 2 of 3 Tex teams
- Cascadia + RSL + COL + SJ, but break the Cali Classic derby
I ran k-means clustering last night repeatedly. 30 teams with 5 clusters inevitably puts 8/9 teams in the Northeast cluster, and 3 teams in the Northwest and 4 teams in the Southwest. There’s no good solution to getting 6 in each cluster.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I ran k-means clustering last night repeatedly. 30 teams with 5 clusters inevitably puts 8/9 teams in the Northeast cluster, and 3 teams in the Northwest and 4 teams in the Southwest. There’s no good solution to getting 6 in each cluster.
I am for the calendar shift. I am less enthusiastic about the “one table, five divisions” part of the plan. Western Conference and probably 2-3 teams from Eastern Conference aren’t going to partition nicely, meaning they get uncompetitively balanced amounts of travel compared to the rest of MLS
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I am for the calendar shift. I am less enthusiastic about the “one table, five divisions” part of the plan. Western Conference and probably 2-3 teams from Eastern Conference aren’t going to partition nicely, meaning they get uncompetitively balanced amounts of travel compared to the rest of MLS
I know these people, they 100% used PowerPoint
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I know these people, they 100% used PowerPoint
He’s a broken clock, he happened to be right about how American eating habits and our food supply needed to change. Problem is that he’s done very little if anything about it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
He’s a broken clock, he happened to be right about how American eating habits and our food supply needed to change. Problem is that he’s done very little if anything about it.
I think 3. is “shake sack and undo the tie”, but I need to workshop it a little before we go public.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I think 3. is “shake sack and undo the tie”, but I need to workshop it a little before we go public.
1. Put possum in sack
2. Ring doorbell of your mortal enemy
3. ???
4. LOLs
2. Ring doorbell of your mortal enemy
3. ???
4. LOLs
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
1. Put possum in sack
2. Ring doorbell of your mortal enemy
3. ???
4. LOLs
2. Ring doorbell of your mortal enemy
3. ???
4. LOLs
This is a family website, we don’t condone murder here
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is a family website, we don’t condone murder here
But given a choice between Brindisi who would usually vote in line with the Democrats as a Problem Solvers Caucus member, and Tenney who would always vote MAGA … sometimes boring is the right answer.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
But given a choice between Brindisi who would usually vote in line with the Democrats as a Problem Solvers Caucus member, and Tenney who would always vote MAGA … sometimes boring is the right answer.
This. And would also add that some of upstate needs centrist Democrats that are unpopular in the liberal circles.
Thinking about how we beat Claudia Tenney in the 2018 midterms, only for her to win the seat back in 2020 because Anthony Brindisi wasn’t exciting enough for NYC donors, for example.
Thinking about how we beat Claudia Tenney in the 2018 midterms, only for her to win the seat back in 2020 because Anthony Brindisi wasn’t exciting enough for NYC donors, for example.
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This. And would also add that some of upstate needs centrist Democrats that are unpopular in the liberal circles.
Thinking about how we beat Claudia Tenney in the 2018 midterms, only for her to win the seat back in 2020 because Anthony Brindisi wasn’t exciting enough for NYC donors, for example.
Thinking about how we beat Claudia Tenney in the 2018 midterms, only for her to win the seat back in 2020 because Anthony Brindisi wasn’t exciting enough for NYC donors, for example.
And frankly I see a lot of the same complacency here in Maryland, just at a smaller scale and with less visibility because fewer electoral college votes and Virginia next door getting a lot more national attention as a swing state.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And frankly I see a lot of the same complacency here in Maryland, just at a smaller scale and with less visibility because fewer electoral college votes and Virginia next door getting a lot more national attention as a swing state.
Yeah, I just left NY in 2024 after finishing grad school and moving to a faculty in MD. Grassroots advocates are making things better, but it’s clear they’ve had to drag those in seats of power kicking and screaming to get there.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yeah, I just left NY in 2024 after finishing grad school and moving to a faculty in MD. Grassroots advocates are making things better, but it’s clear they’ve had to drag those in seats of power kicking and screaming to get there.
Problem is that Schumer doesn’t come up for primary until 2028. He’s counting on New Yorkers to A) forget by then B) fall in line with whoever the NY Dems endorse
IMO, New Yorkers must flush the NY Democratic Caucus to get rid of incumbents, and that will require years of local, long game politics.
IMO, New Yorkers must flush the NY Democratic Caucus to get rid of incumbents, and that will require years of local, long game politics.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Problem is that Schumer doesn’t come up for primary until 2028. He’s counting on New Yorkers to A) forget by then B) fall in line with whoever the NY Dems endorse
IMO, New Yorkers must flush the NY Democratic Caucus to get rid of incumbents, and that will require years of local, long game politics.
IMO, New Yorkers must flush the NY Democratic Caucus to get rid of incumbents, and that will require years of local, long game politics.
NY has some of the most regressive, disenfranchising voting laws in the nation. They’re so bad that red states point to NY to justify their bad laws. Example:
fairelectionscenter.org/media/republ...
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Republicans, defending voting restrictions, point finger at blue states with laws they say are worse
By Jane C. Timm | NBC News, April 8, 2021 Republicans, under fire from Democrats and major corporations for their nationwide push for new limits on voting, are defending their proposals as similar to ...
fairelectionscenter.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
NY has some of the most regressive, disenfranchising voting laws in the nation. They’re so bad that red states point to NY to justify their bad laws. Example:
fairelectionscenter.org/media/republ...
fairelectionscenter.org/media/republ...
New York also has fusion voting. So if you want to terrify the Democrats but not help the Republicans, cast your vote on the Working Families Party line. It’s almost always the same candidate, but you send a small message that you don’t approve of how the NY Democratic Caucus is conducting business.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New York also has fusion voting. So if you want to terrify the Democrats but not help the Republicans, cast your vote on the Working Families Party line. It’s almost always the same candidate, but you send a small message that you don’t approve of how the NY Democratic Caucus is conducting business.
We can’t observe the inputs because of quantum effects, the internals are not human comprehensible but are principled if you’re an AI that thinks in tensors, the outputs only look wrong because you’re asking the wrong questions.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We can’t observe the inputs because of quantum effects, the internals are not human comprehensible but are principled if you’re an AI that thinks in tensors, the outputs only look wrong because you’re asking the wrong questions.
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This feels like those stories from the Vietnam War where Generals in DC would send hundreds of GIs to their death over a hill significant only because it had a surveyed elevation, only to abandon the hill a week later.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This feels like those stories from the Vietnam War where Generals in DC would send hundreds of GIs to their death over a hill significant only because it had a surveyed elevation, only to abandon the hill a week later.