Balls and Wheels: August 2024

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Poetry

https://allpoetry.com/Death-Fugue "Black Milk" by Massive Attack takes from it its title.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Fantasy football

Keon Coleman

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/keon-coleman-fantasy-outlook-2024/ Could be Josh Allen's top target. Silas is high on him.

https://www.pff.com/news/fantasy-football-breakout-quarterbacks-for-2024
Jayden Daniels - big fantasy potential for his scrambling (8.10)

Trevor Lawrence - has had good stretches - offense is improved (10.08)

RB;
Jaylen Warren

Sean Payton's folks
WR:
Rashee Rice (7.08) -
Rome Odunze (8.08)
Brian Thomas Jr. - just 21.
TE:

https://www.pff.com/news/fantasy-football-breakout-tight-ends-for-2024
Kyle Pitts (5.11) - should be utilized better - will have better QB. Has been great last 3 years but not used well for fantasy purposes.

Jake Ferguson (7.08) - looking up

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/breakout-fantasy-players-afc-2024/

Zay Flowers - BAL WR

Khalil Shakir - BUF WR
Zack Moss - CIN RB -Mixon gone, competing with Chase Brown for touches
Jerome Ford - CLE RB
Jaleel McLaughlin - DEN WR
Tank Dell - HOU WR
Anthony Richardson - IND QB - dual threat
Brian Thomas Jr. - JAX WR - rookie
Rashee Rice - KC WR - elite if playing
Brock Bowers - LV TE - very positive
Ladd McConkey - LA WR - room opening up for him
Jaylen Wright - MIA RB - yes, another one
Ja'Lynn Polk- NE WR
Garrett Wilson - NYJ WR
Jaylen Warren - PIT RB - way more efficient than Najee last year - but ADP 25 back
Tyjae Spears - TEN RB - very efficient last year

https://www.rotoballer.com/fantasy-football-breakout-candidates-for-2024/1392387

Tyjae Spears - efficiency - good receiver
Rashid Shaheed - NO WR - probably WR2 - has been good in limited time - Saints got former 49ers offensive coordinator, which bodes well

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Box score transcription - image to text convertor - OCR

https://help.transkribus.org/data-preparation "Transcribe at least 25 pages before training a Text Recognition model: these pages will be the data (Ground Truth) on which the model will train itself and learn to recognise a new script."

https://www.affinda.com/tech-ai/how-to-convert-image-to-text-using-python

https://medium.com/artificialis/how-to-extract-text-from-any-image-with-deep-learning-e834d5a9863e

https://www.docsumo.com/blog/convert-image-to-text

https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/qwamlx/how_would_someone_go_about_creating_ocr_from/ It ain't easy

Friday, August 16, 2024

David Foster Wallace

http://web.archive.org/web/20040606041906/www.andbutso.com/~mark/bookworm96/

https://www.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJest/comments/6vhm2g/whatwho_is_lyle/

https://www.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJest/comments/dpmym7/what_is_the_function_of_dfw_structuring_the_plot/

IJ reading notes

IJ/Sierpinski search

https://thirdtriumvirate.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/david-foster-wallace-was-alive-an-infinite-jest-review/

Thursday, August 15, 2024

cLOUDDEAD

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/48ipe3/hiphop_listening_club_of_the_week_206_clouddead/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fantanoforever/comments/xdvhlg/opinions_on_clouddead/

http://web.archive.org/web/20180604053038/http://www.self-titledmag.com/2014/08/25/exclusive-interview-doseone-why-and-odd-nosdam-look-back-on-clouddead/

https://genius.com/Reaching-quiet-on-gummy-worms-on-dental-floss-lyrics opening alludes to "What About Bob?"

https://genius.com/Reaching-quiet-out-of-live-wires-and-twisties-lyrics explicitly references "What About Bob?"

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Just the punctuation

https://just-the-punctuation.glitch.me/

Interesting players

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hillti01.shtml
Over the last three seasons has struck out 71 batters in 139.1 innings. A side-armer. In 2022 & 2024 has combined for three homers allowed in 95 innings but gave up seven in the middle season.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=raabe-001bri

1990s - mostly AAA. Very low strikeouts.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=griffi001wes
Career arc: p-of-2b-of-c. Never made majors but was hitting .300+ in AA in late 30s.