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Hello, loyal readers! My shoulder has been repaired. All went smoothly, though the operation was substantially longer than expected, because what do you know, there were three tendons torn, not just one as the MRI had suggested. Pain fairly bad but I think each day’s gonna be less bad than the last. And I did […]
At least it wasn’t the Yankees. Yes, Adley Rutchman, an Oriole yesterday, is a Red Sock today. Not much to say about it that hasn’t been said over the last 20 hours. I understand that he probably wasn’t going to be an Oriole beyond 2027. It still feels bad. Together with yesterday’s trade of Dean […]
Dean Kremer, the last Oriole among those acquired in the Manny Machado trade, is now a Twin. Almost the last link to the dark days of the rebuild. Ryan Mountcastle is still, tenuously here, and OK, there’s Keegan Akin, who I’d forgotten has been on this team since 2020./ Kremer was never a star for […]
The trade deadline for ancient civilizations is approaching. I am traded for Aeneas.
That’s what it looks like, at any rate. My dad says this is from the Joint Statistical Meetings.
Really nice new preprint up by Zhao Yu Ma. Earlier this year Mark Shusterman and I posted a paper which I somehow haven’t gotten around to blogging about yet. But the point (it got long, there are actually a few points, I should say a point) is that if V is a braided vector space […]
Correct outcome, but imagine if Argentina had won this on penalties without taking a single shot on goal in 120 minutes of actual play! That could easily have happened, and what an embarrassment. My proposed rule change: the number of penalty kicks a team gets is either five or the number of shots taken on […]
Dream. I’m giving some kind of lecture to grad students with not fully prepared slides. There are slides that I made some time ago and have forgotten whe I meant by them. But what feels important is an image that’s just the number “7”, in black, sans serif font, against a plain white background; this […]
I have trouble sleeping — trouble staying asleep, not trouble falling asleep. I have found that the best way to get back to sleep at three or four in the morning is to listen to a podcast on a 10-minute fadeout timer. But the podcast has to land in a very specific zone: interesting enough […]
Big screen, big crowd to watch USMNT against Belgium. Team USA, sadly, didn’t do much to make it festive. The three North American host countries knocked out in three straight days. Sure was a nice night by the lake, though.