hello! not as far as i know--would you mind trying to delete your browser's defector.com cookies? happy to keep troubleshooting over at info(at)defector.com if that doesn't do the trick.

that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com.

The paywall is also down:

the phrase "jaguars junction" is one of the last remaining reliable sources of reward neurotransmitters

Kelsey wrote about what I think is the single most evil blog I've ever read. Her post is good, The Free Press one is not. defector.com/the-free-pre...

years ago you described this look as "idm jacket," a phrase i now think about each time i put on my idm jacket

this is what porter ricks's "biokinetics 2" would sound like if you were to retrieve it from the seafloor: kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/track/d2-pau...

Ever since reading this @albertburneko.bsky.social paragraph a while back, I find myself thinking about it, encountering unwelcome exemplars of it, far more often than I wish.

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

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wonderful, thank you! i was nearly certain i'd seen this somewhere; should've remembered that it was in the context of that kaggle comp.

people are already calling this "the most read blogpost of all time"

(i would obviously love this; i haven't yet found anything public that is remotely as accessible as what you two publish.)

to (re-)learn `brms` i'm trying to extend BP's work on skew-normal EV distributions to simultaneously model EV, LA, and SA, and i'm not totally sure how to bake those correlations into the fit.

x-mov and z-mov seem similarly correlated--more z-mov --> less x-mov--and easier to work with.

forgive me if this is either already public or a state secret, but: for the expected movement contours, are you guys fitting (normal?) distributions for x-mov and z-mov as a function of arm angle, pitch type, and pitcher handedness?

can't get enough of this sound

albert burneko named and nailed this a couple months ago (🎁)

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In this story I unpack some complicated feelings on the Buffalo Bills Hallmark movie, and Hallmark movies in general. Also yes that's Joe Pantoliano. He's in the Bills Hallmark movie. defector.com/the-hallmark...

sunstein's error was in not playing offense vs. chotiner. with FVV down you can draw him out with questions about who's gonna initiate for his rockets and then get him backpedaling on "well how does amen beat a defense going under his PNRs" and "do you really think reed will hold up on a switch"

KNIFEPLAY was the band in question here. they exceeded my high expectations, totally ripped the back half of this one: knifeplayforever.bandcamp.com/track/agoniz...

catching 'em on their brief tour the rest of this week (detroit, milwaukee, chicago, pittsburgh, philly) is my Stone Cold Lock for you

knifeplay! they are great, remind me of cloakroom if you swapped neil young in for their metal influences:
knifeplayforever.bandcamp.com/track/spirit...

it's more or less right at high and lane. definitely seems newish but i think (with the caveat that my sense of time is fried) it was up and running when i was in grad school (18-19).

opener poses a dangerous thought experiment: what if archy marshall was from central ohio

⚠️ warning: ohio posting ⚠️

i'm seeing a cool zoomer shoegaze band in the basement of a donatos rn

i think this is what you're looking for--it's the aggregated dataset with bin sizes, the unweighted OLS fit, and the residuals:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...