Songs:Ohia – The Big Game Is Every Night
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Songs:Ohia – The Big Game Is Every Night
- **Note:** Box score - speaking about my experience recording stats at baseball games with my dadJacobs argues that “strangely enough, baseball was better when we knew less about the most effective way to play it.” In Jacobs’s view, when everyone knows the most efficient way to play the game, the game as a whole loses its color and variety.
from The Limits of Optimization by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Alex Wittenberg added
Baseball offers perhaps the world’s richest data set: pretty much everything that has happened on a major-league playing field in the past 140 years has been dutifully and accurately recorded, and hundreds of players play in the big leagues every year.
from The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Tim Ferris: "It's not even the first inning. It’s like the anthem before the game has even started. And I have never seen so many highly intelligent, ambitious, capable people drop whatever they’re doing, in many cases really attractive things, to dedicate their time to this."
from Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (#542) by Tim Ferriss
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