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The NIT Semifinal is over this half and ISU won without that much difficulty. The final game will be a moment of glory for Schertz and the ISU team. It will be a moment that will bring a lot more attention upon Schertz and ISU than they have had for a very long time. I do not think I am wrong if I mention that Schertz's agent has probably been working all the angles as hard as he can up to this moment, and specially if ISU does win the NIT championship. It is not a matter of a little team in a minor league, these guys have beaten very good teams in the NIT tournament. I think we should wait until Schertz is settled at SLU before we celebrate. I really hope he comes here, it would revitalize our program.

We certainly will find out, primarily who wins the ISU UT game, in a few hours.

OK I agree from a philosophical point of view. However, it cannot be denied that money is the center and most important thing for a lot of people as well as corporations. To develop ChatGPT to be an excellent surveillance tool and also an excellent marketing tool means a lot of MONEY to Microsoft. Look at it from this point of view, first find what individual people want through surveillance, and then tailor suggestions to provide them what they want. Microsoft will make a bundle. Obtainig some original thinking out of ChatGPT, nope it is not built to do that.

Happy Easter everyone. HE is risen, rejoice.

Wiz, you are giving, at least the current generation of AI, a power that it plainly does not have. The current AIs have a great deal of capability doing surveillance and marketing guidance towards specific goals determined by the AI company, rather than by the user. I consider them primarily a marketing tool /surveillance tool. I really do not think it is a matter of the AI machines becoming smarter than us. I think it is more of a surrender by people of the power of their own thinking, and choosing instead the easy advice provided by the machine. In other word we, the people, are abandoning our ability for original thinking and seeking for solutions to actual problems. and following the advise provided by the machine, We are becoming stupider than the machines, not the other way around. And yes, as long as people follow the advice of the AI they will slowly become dumber than the machine, and will be easier to predict and get them to buy specific products. Your example of continuing to do the weave every new season hoping to get better results somehow is a prime example of stupidity. This is something that a coaching AI programmed after Ford's coaching would be likely to do because that is what he did. Of course, your computer would find it easier to predict outcomes for a team using this "Ford" AI as long as the team continues doing the weave and hoping for the better every season. As far as an OG AI goes, I do not think such an AI will be programmable to reproduce my thought patterns, although it may copy my writing style. I The ChatGPT AI is artificial but it is not intelligent or capable of original thought. However, it is effective as a marketing and surveillance tool.

Hey ABomb, there are multiple levels of popular writing about scientific topics. Let me use 3 basic levels with books and authors to explain: 1. Malcolm Gladwell. He tells a story that digs into real science but his work is primarily storytelling. You can call his work very readable and very interesting but it does not go deep enough to explain what is going on in a depth that makes the process understandable or applicable. Blink, David and Goliath 2. David Eagleman. He is not telling a story, he is talking about science but at a level that it is likeable at a popular level, and gives enough scientific detail, which goes back in history to the beginning of science, but without causing the reader to feel buried in concepts that are strange and hard to combine. After reading his work you probably understand enough of the processes to apply them superficially at least. Incognito, Sum. 3. Daniel Kahneman. This is the real thing. He never set out to write popular science he set out to write stuff that was published in professional journals, Science, and Nature. Out of his many papers came his book, which is very dense and hard to read but which contains real applicable information. By the way Kahneman was an officer in the IDF dealing with psychology and how to use it to predict outcomes, including combat outcomes. You might like this one if you have the time and patience to spend more than a month reading his book. He was awarded a Nobel prize in economics and his book was a part of the award. It is very dense, know that. Thinking Fast and Slow. So, you have your choice of level to choose from. Please do not start by Kahneman. I had some trouble piecing it up together. Have fun and enjoy, yes, leaning is fun.

This is a fact, not conjecture. After age 65 the people that die first are those with the greatest disease burden already present. Those that live the longest have the smallest disease burden present at age 65. Do not worry about this everybody develops a level of disease burden as they age and at the same time your organs age and lose functional reserves. This is an ongoing process, NOBODY can avoid it. Of course there are those that die earlier than they could have from accidents or homicide. A fair number of old people reach age 70, and a large portion of everybody reaching age 70 may reach age 80. However the vast majority of those reaching age 80 will die of various causes before they reach age 90. And IF you reach age 90 the probability of getting to age 100 is negligible. The state of Ohio did a survey in the early 2000's trying to find how many centenarians were alive in Ohio, they found a grand total of 132. Ohio has a lot of people in it. People reaching age 100 are a rarity. The old lady reaching 100 was interviewed by the press. She was asked what was best about being 100. She said "No peer pressure." Joking aside, I am close to 80 and being realistic, I do not think I am likely to reach 90. Am I concerned?, hell no. You cannot stop nature.

Wiz, computers work processing data which is actually defined by prior events and actions. People do not, people have a conscious part, which is what determine actual events, and a vast subconscious part which determines how to define what is passed down and creates the conscious level. We, people living in a conscious world, have little knowledge of what is going on in the subconscious. However the subconscious is the determinant part of our perceptions and knowledge. What we consider reality, is only real up to a point. Read "Incognito" by David Eagleman. He is a neuroscientist at Baylor and leads the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. Very interesting, this short book really raises questions about how people make up their minds about everything. This is NOT the concept that people act to improve their lives, what determines how people believe and act like is done in a very different and hard to understand subconscious manner. Cheap read, $15 in paperback, Vantage Press, very worthwhile read.

Nope, what the Germans did, followed immediately by the Italians, was to declare war on the US right after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you want an egregious example of crass stupidity, there it is. Hitler and Mussolini "Stupidus Maximus."

AGAIN?

Torch, Pestello is quitting next year, who is going to fire May if he screws up again? I do not think Pestello is likely to fire May. I think May will probably stay until the new President takes over and decides May has to go.

Now, that is interesting. Does this mean that a holes or at least a hole looking people are not allowed in by the Church? I doubt that, I have seen a lot of a hole looking people in Church.

The home court facility for Indiana State U is Hulman Center in campus. This facility was fully renovated in 2020, it is a very nice facility. that seats 9,000. The facility being used for the NIT tournament is not the Hulman Center. Of course the money that is distributed by the NIT is the money that goes to the NIT, not the ticket sellers. I have no idea if they include the TV money in the distribution or not.

Just to make sure everybody is aware of this. The NIT distributes the money from ticket sales, after expenses, among the schools playing at the tournament according to the number of games played. 25% off the top goes to the game winner, the rest is distributed equally among all schools playing at that level. The NIT also pays for transportation to and from the tournament games, plus staying at the tournament site (room, board, etc) for schools attending. A significant portion of your $100 per seat goes to the schools playing.

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At least, I keep you guys entertained trying to figure out that I am myself and no one else. Now we know Utah will be playing against ISU. If they play like they did tonight Schertz's announcement will be coming soon after that game. Utah ripped VCU to shreds.

And what would Putin be doing in the SLU board? He has much to do at a much higher level than I will ever reach.

You have confirmed that money is much more important to you than most other things. Everybody is free to think and have his/her own preferences.

I have an interesting question for you laker 119. I assume you are, or have been married. Think back upon the time you were choosing your wife. Why did you marry her and not someone else? Most people, rationally or irrationally, chose someone sometimes for reasons they do not fully understand. And there is the answer to your question at least a portion of every major life choice is not fully rational or fully understood. There is something inside you saying "this is the one." Take the economy for example, long ago in the XVIII century it was presumed that people always decided upon what was best for them. This is incorrect, a lot of decisions are made without a full understanding of something or the other that may or may not be what is best for the person making the decision. Everyone that has divorced understands this concept. What makes you think that Schertz decision will be totally rational?

Some bad decisions by the refs gave the game to ISU.

Cincinnati came close but lost the game. I was hoping for ISU to lose, after all, most of the game ISU was behind, but they won. I had hoped the announcement would be out tomorrow but not now, we still have to wait. Too bad.

This is an amazing thread. There are people swearing their confidence that Schertz is coming to SLU, and within a day or so there are discussions as to how much would have to be paid by anyone else getting him as a coach to break the contract. A figure of about $3M appears to be required. From my point of view, getting $3 M from Schertz or the other school to break the contract makes sense only if we have another good coach ready to step into the job at SLU. If May is as I think he is, we may get the $3 M but another good coach for SLU may not be so easy to get. I really do not care who May is talking with, as long a someone is there IF Schertz walks.

I do not wish to offend anyone, but after having read the discussion going on I do not feel certain we will get Schertz. I am also quite concerned that May is well on the way to blow this recruitment. However, I can think of something good coming from May blowing Schertz recruitment and having no backup plan. I think that May could gain a pink slip andd be let go if he blows this recruitment.

There is more than that Wiz. There is May and the tremendous confidence he inspires that everything will work as expected.

We can do nothing else. You are getting it slu72