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I loved your appearance on House of Strauss. Didn't realize you were a Bulls fan! I live in Baltimore, MD but I have a ton of family in or from Chicago. So I latched on to those teams early in life.

Count me among those who really hate these Nike ads as well as the uber-PC mentality coming from a lot of sports media in general. And those Social Justice jerseys from the NBA bubble playoffs last year? My goodness, those were cringe.

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The rainbow oligarchy reminds me of an old episode of South Park where there is outrage over the town flag, which depicts four white people hanging a Black person. In the end, they change it to a multiracial group hanging the person, and everyone is satisfied.

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I love that Freddie is including a NFL pick of the week. I also love that Freddie apparently hasn't watched a Carson Wentz appearance since 2017.

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Love the "NFL Pick of the Week." I am also of the opinion that Carson Wentz is much better than people realize, and I'm no Eagles or Colts fan. He was an MVP candidate not too long ago before he was injured; he's also a very effective dual threat QB a la Josh Allen, even though most people seem to overlook this. And he was given far too much of the blame for last season, especially considering how terrible his offensive line was (I think he was both hit and sacked more than any QB). I'm hoping his new offensive line, which is considered one of the best in the league (when healthy), will help.

Also agree about Seattle. I'll never understand their perverse, obstinate refusal to 1) not draft or trade for better protection for Wilson and 2) "let Russ cook."

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I find it difficult to read arguments (whether pro or con) on genes v. environment when people don't at least attempt to consider the information and arguments of Thomas Sowell on this subject.

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Am reading, but it's late and I have turned into a pedantic jerk: "I think it touches on a lot of important points for both Dr. Harden and I...."

Shouldn't that second "I" be "me"? (English is my second language and people like me take note of that stuff......)

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I guess _Flowers for Algernon_ always was a fantasy at heart. But based on this summary, I need to re-read _Brave New World_ instead. And where was that article about cloning a million copies of John von Neumann?

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I'd be a bit more cautious about Hsu's Genomic Prediction outfit. He had a preprint making claims about genetic predictions out at the upper tail of a distribution. There were so few data points out there that he relied heavily on assuming Gaussian distributions. He tested the Gaussian hypothesis and got incredibly low p-values. So he said that the assumption was good, cuz, you know, low p-value is good!

(For non stats people, those extremely low p-values in fact meant that the hypothesis he was using was extremely incompatible with his data.)

One of my sons noticed it and called it a "reverse Costanza", after the time George began wailing "Negative! Why me?" when told his biopsy had come back negative.

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I’ve grown weary of Drew Magary over the years; look forward to listening to the podcast.

Seahawks don’t have a big star rushing the passer but they do have depth: Dunlap, Mayowa, Hyder, Robinson & Poona are all solid, while Darrell Taylor is finally healthy after a terrific college career.

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Does anyone know of any research of what makes late bloomers happen? Reading the article about genes it seems everyone knows that some subset of the population will be this. A lot of individuals confound the idea that our ability bands are set in early elementary--especially consistently among neurodiverse people more limited in early elementary by social skills and conscientiousness than intelligence. There are probably a lot of other confounding variables but I've seen so little work on this.

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The article you linked about Nike is far, FAR more interesting than I would've thought an article about sports equipment marketing had any right to be. Cracking read.

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