# lasso (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lasso. Page: Feed: --- ## [The best TV show this week is a chill cartoon for kids. But Lanterns is pretty good too.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/the-best-tv-show-this-week-is-a-chill) _2026-08-21 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Earlier this week I was reading some comments on the new HBO drama Lanterns and read someone say something to the effect of “The show seems like the next Andor.” ## [If we are done with superhero TV shows and movies... why are so many people still watching?](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/if-we-are-done-with-superhero-tv) _2026-08-20 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ New HBO show Lanterns, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern character(s), drew an audience of 9.3 million viewers worldwide in its first three days. ## [A positive conversation about Paramount?](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/a-positive-conversation-about-paramount) _2026-08-19 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ One of the frustrating aspects of the impending (?) Paramount-Warner Bros merger has been that it may upend some of the interesting work underway at Paramount with its newly-installed TV team. ## [Aussies aren't watching much Aus TV. But claim they want to watch more.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/aussies-arent-watching-much-aus-tv) _2026-08-18 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ To the surprise of nobody living in Australia, a Screen Australia report has found that Australians don’t watch that much Australian TV. ## [The future of television. Well, the next 36 months of it. Supposedly.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/the-future-of-television-well-the) _2026-08-18 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Are industry executives the best voices to listen to in terms of where the future of television is headed? ## [20 years of the last innovative Australian TV show](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/20-years-of-the-last-innovative-australian) _2026-08-17 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Today marks 20 years since the debut of Australian talk show David Tench Tonight. ## [Netflix's new manic pixie dream girl, HBO's gritty space cops, and Disney's lost FBI agents](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/netflixs-new-manic-pixoe-dream-girl) _2026-08-14 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ It was about twenty minutes into My Brilliant Career where the frustration began to set in. ## [The first 5 minutes of Lanterns. And that's all I'm (unfortunately) allowed to say about this (whispers: very good) show](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/the-first-5-minutes-of-lanterns-and) _2026-08-13 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Back in 2011 there was a Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds that STUNK. ## [What was Variety trying to accomplish with its 61 top showrunners list?](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/what-was-variety-trying-to-accomplish) _2026-08-12 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ There are also SO MANY trailers today ## [A neat YouTube restoration, the Independence Day creator wants Doctor Who, and HBO lands a name actor for Harry Potter wizard](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/a-neat-youtube-restoration-the-independence) _2026-08-12 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Just getting straight to the news of the day this morning, but I do want to drive readers attention to the comments section of the newsletter. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7AlTIFIXz3iD) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [Nancy predicts the end of The Simpsons. Your boy Dan makes a different prediction.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/nancy-predicts-the-end-of-the-simpsons) _2026-08-11 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ 40 seasons and two movies???? ## [30 films a year in cinema. Sounds great, but how? There's no strategy.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/30-films-a-year-in-cinema-sounds) _2026-08-10 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Remember when I used to just be able to talk about TV in this newsletter? ## [Yeah, Ted Lasso is back. But Sterling Point is the show that deserves your attention.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/yeah-ted-lasso-is-back-but-sterling) _2026-08-07 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ I had a whinge about Ted Lasso earlier in the week in Always Be Watching. ## [This is why Paramount won't be cutting a deal to break up Warner Bros assets.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/this-is-why-paramount-wont-be-cutting) _2026-08-06 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Trade publications, irrespective of industry, will often report on the work of analysts who specialise in their chosen fields. ## [Ted Lasso is back for season 4 with a field full of fan service](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/ted-lasso-is-back-for-season-4-with) _2026-08-06 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ So many of the television (and cinema) experiences we have are based off pre-existing IP. ## [“Guys, you can trust David Ellison” - David Ellison, 2026](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/guys-you-can-trust-david-ellison) _2026-08-04 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Save the date! ## [I have never been evacuated from my lounge room because of a fart](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/i-have-never-been-evacuated-from) _2026-08-04 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ At home viewing: 1, cinemas: 0 ## [The mostly-forgotten history of live-action Spider-Man on television](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/the-mostly-forgotten-history-of-live) _2026-08-03 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ With The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brave New World both owning cinemas globally right now, racking up well over a billion dollars between them with another billion on the horizon, it wasn’t a surprise to log onto streaming services the past few days to find curated shelves of content capitalising on their pop cultural dominance. ## [Diarra From Detroit is cool as hell and you need to watch it. Or shut your mouth.](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/diarra-from-detroit-is-cool-as-hell) _2026-07-31 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Back in March of 2024, BET+, a newly defunct streaming service focused on African American audiences, debuted Diarra From Detroit. It streamed the first season of eight episodes with almost zero conversation around it. I saw a few reviews from critics, which were all fairly positive. But a small show on a streaming service nobody really had doesn’t exactly get the clicks. So, coverage just wasn’t… ## [Here's why Marvel's TV shows are mostly dogsh\*t](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/heres-why-marvels-tv-shows-are-mostly) _2026-07-31 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Not at all surprising news this morning is that Disney+ has reversed course on Marvel‘s Wonder Man, cancelling the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II show despite giving it a second-season renewal in March. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/S5bAUh9evos4) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Are you seeing Spider-Man: Brand New Day on the best possible screen?](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/are-you-seeing-spider-man-brand-new) _2026-07-29 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is swinging into cinemas today. ## [The best The Simpsons TV fast food tie-in, a bunch of keen trailers, and this week's Cool-o-meter](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/the-best-the-simpsons-tv-fast-food) _2026-07-29 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ We have well and truly in the doldrums of a very quiet June-July TV season. ## [Inside the Colin From Accounts season 3 launch](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/inside-the-colin-from-accounts-season) _2026-07-28 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Last night the DAZN-owned Australian general entertainment streaming service BINGE held a launch event for the third and final season of its comedy Colin From Accounts. ## [Comic Con makes clear Netflix's absence](https://www.alwaysbewatching.com/p/comic-con-makes-clear-netflixs-absence) _2026-07-26 · Dan Barrett · Always Be Watching_ Not every studio and streamer has a show to pitch the San Diego Comic Con crowd ## [Welcome to the Lasso Newsletter!](https://throwlasso.substack.com/p/automatic-coupon-clipper) _2026-06-11 · Lasso · Lasso_ Your one-click guide to saving time, saving clicks, and keeping more money in your pocket. ## [Brainteaser about the probability of two particular lines intersecting](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/brainteaser-about-the-probability-of-two-particular-lines-intersecting/) _2026-04-19 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ Pick a point uniformly at random in a square and connect it to the bottom-left corner of the square. Pick a second point uniformly at random in the square and connect it to the top-left corner of the square. What … Continue reading → ## [Brainteaser about max probability of a random variable being 0 given some constraints](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/brainteaser-about-max-probability-of-a-random-variable-being-0-given-some-constraints/) _2026-04-01 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ is a non-negative random variable such that its expectation is 5 and its variance is 25. What is the maximum probability that ?(Source: quantprof.org) Decompose as , where and are independent, , and with probability , and otherwise. The problem … Continue reading → ## [What is a probability-generating function (PGF)?](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/what-is-a-probability-generating-function-pgf/) _2025-11-10 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ If is a discrete random variable taking values in , then the probability-generating function (PGF) of is defined as where is the probability mass function of . PGFs obey all rules of power series with non-negative coefficients. In particular, PGFs … Continue reading → ## [Brainteaser about points belonging to the same semicircular arc](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/brainteaser-about-points-belonging-to-the-same-semicircular-arc/) _2025-08-31 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ points are placed uniformly at random on a circle. What’s the probability that all of them lie within a semicircular arc? Label the points . For each , define the event as the event where all points lie on the … Continue reading → ## [Brainteaser about expected number of rolls](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/brainteaser-about-expected-number-of-rolls/) _2025-08-30 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ An -sided fair die is rolled repeatedly. What is the expected number of rolls until the total sum becomes at least ? This question can be solved by conditioning on the outcome of the first roll. For , let be … Continue reading → ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6SsOcACEf6xo) _2025-08-30 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/downloading-datasets-from-our-world-in-data-in-r/) _2025-01-30 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data. Our World in Data hosts datasets across several important topics, from population and demographic change, poverty and economic development, to human … Continue reading → ## [What is the fused lasso?](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/what-is-the-fused-lasso/) _2025-01-17 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ The fused lasso, introduced in Tibshirani et al. (2005) (Reference 1), is an extension of the lasso. While the lasso produces sparse models, the fused lasso produces models that are not only sparse, but favor a locally constant coefficient profile. … Continue reading → ## [What is the Cauchy combination test?](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/what-is-the-cauchy-combination-test/) _2024-09-07 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ Set-up Assume that we have p-values . Assume that they are computed from z-scores (test statistics following normal distributions). Let and let . Without loss of generality, assume that each test statistic has variance 1. With this, we can express … Continue reading → ## [An interesting result involving the Cauchy distribution](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/an-interesting-result-involving-the-cauchy-distribution/) _2024-09-07 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ If are independent variables and is a random vector independent of the ‘s with for all and , it is well-known that also has a distribution. It is also well-known that if and are independent standard normal variables, then has … Continue reading → ## [Converting a uniform distribution into a Cauchy distribution](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/converting-a-uniform-distribution-into-a-cauchy-distribution/) _2024-08-29 · kjytay · Statistical Odds & Ends_ The following proposition demonstrates how one can transform a uniform distribution on into a standard Cauchy distribution: Proposition. If and , then has standard Cauchy distribution. Proof: For any , where the second-last equality is due to the fact that … Continue reading →