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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stanford

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

https://pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/10/using-tesseract-ocr-python/

YT PyTesseract: Python Optical Character Recognition | Using Tesseract OCR with Python

YT Tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path - fix to extract data from receipts meh

https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/
https://builtin.com/data-science/python-ocr
https://builtin.com/data-science/python-code-snippets
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr?tab=readme-ov-file

https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/ gets format right

https://jaidevd.com/posts/ocr-misconceptions/ "Over the last year, I have been working on an application that auto-translates documents while maintaining the layout and formatting."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/document-intelligence/prebuilt/layout?view=doc-intel-4.0.0&tabs=sample-code
https://labelstud.io/templates/optical_character_recognition
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72893442/paddle-ocr-boundingbox-format

https://pyimagesearch.com/2020/05/25/tesseract-ocr-text-localization-and-detection/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77153098/text-search-in-ocred-documents-with-bounding-box-info-for-words-lines-characters
https://github.com/IgorMeloS/OCR/blob/main/8%20-%20Text%20Bounding%20Box/text_bounding_box.ipynb

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/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170323064751/https://www.granadahouse.org/testimonials/an-ex-residents-story/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090505020146/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/print Very good

https://mbird.com/literature/david-foster-wallace-went-to-church-constantly/

Farther Away “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and the island of solitude. By Jonathan Franzen Franzen was close friends with DFW. Counterbalances the 'secular saint' narrative - speaks of DFW's dark secret self - that felt it could never be loved. On the twisted logic of his suicide.

"The curious thing about David’s fiction, though, is how recognized and comforted, how loved, his most devoted readers feel when reading it. To the extent that each of us is stranded on his or her own existential island—and I think it’s approximately correct to say that his most susceptible readers are ones familiar with the socially and spiritually isolating effects of addiction or compulsion or depression—we gratefully seized on each new dispatch from that farthest-away island which was David. At the level of content, he gave us the worst of himself: he laid out, with an intensity of self-scrutiny worthy of comparison to Kafka and Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky, the extremes of his own narcissism, misogyny, compulsiveness, self-deception, dehumanizing moralism and theologizing, doubt in the possibility of love, and entrapment in footnotes-within-footnotes self-consciousness. At the level of form and intention, however, this very cataloguing of despair about his own authentic goodness is received by the reader as a gift of authentic goodness: we feel the love in the fact of his art, and we love him for it."

On Franzen's "The Corrections" About harrowing process of writing the novel. I like his writing tips - also like the letter DFW wrote Franzen about the book

Okay

https://www.fictionadvocate.com/2012/08/01/the-infinite-jest-liveblog-what-happened-pt-1/

https://www.fictionadvocate.com/2012/09/19/the-infinite-jest-liveblog-what-happened-pt-2/

https://steamthing.com/2008/09/the-great-postm.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20031205010946/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/26/approaching_infinity/ interview

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend Ending speculation

https://dfan.org/jest.txt How Hal acquires his speech impediment

https://asupposedlyfunblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/infinite-jest-as-infinite-jest/

http://arkbooks.dk/fun-with-teeth-how-dental-imagery-works-in-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest/ A bit turgid

#1 - on whether Avril is Luria P.

#2 - on the state of JVD's face

https://www.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJest/comments/17l3gd5/what_happens_in_infinite_jest_my_own_personal/ #4

https://www.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJest/comments/k7bdpy/the_consummation_of_the_levirates/

https://ijustreadaboutthat.com/2011/04/11/david-foster-wallace-three-items-about-what-didnt-make-infinite-jest/

https://thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/the-first-draft-version-of-infinite-jest.html

Madame Psychosis ~ metempsychosis (transmigration of souls after death)
Metempsychosis is apparently a motif in Ulysses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJest/comments/6bph20/just_made_the_connection_between_madame_psychosis/

https://ambiguities.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/semiautobiography-madame-psychosis-and-metempsychosis/
"But it’s more than homage, and part of the bloody point of this book is that there’s more to life and to fiction than creating a web of allusion and referent and ambiguity, although those are cool. He’s engaging with Joyce through this name and this idea, but there’s more. I think he’s making a kind of argument about the nature of literature: that what it is, in a way, is a transmigration of souls, from an author to a character to a reader. "

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
"Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”

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.