Christoph

I grew up playing tennis competitively, and two years ago, before two kids, I was still pretty good (9 UTR). I’ve been getting back into it, but I wish I had a world-class coach telling me what to work on. But good coaches are expensive, selective, and hard to find, whereas models are cheap, available, and should be already good enough. So clearly, @nicochristie and I needed to explore what's possible. We chained open-source models post-trained on tennis. This cut each broadcast down to live play, found and tracked the players, ball, court, and labeled every stroke with its type and a 65-joint skeleton. We then post-processed this data into 30+ biomechanical traits across serves, forehands and backhands, normalized for each player’s build and the camera. This included the goat @DjokerNole, @carlosalcaraz, @DaniilMedwed, @FTiafoe, @AlexZverev, @BenShelton, @Taylor_Fritz97, @NickKyrgios, @AndreyRublev97, @janniksin, and @TommyPaul1. Using the same pipeline, we then processed phone footage of myself and @phamrich_ (ex-D1, used to be >13 UTR) playing. Then we gave Claude all the measurements with a blank context. What impressed me: - Without being told, it found my weaker side (forehand) and Richard’s (backhand) - It joined differences that looked separate into one root cause per stroke - My own diagnosis of my forehand was wrong. Claude’s makes a lot more sense What do you think? @bgtennisnation @paul_annacone @darren_cahill Drop youtube links here if you want Coach Claude to give you tips

Remote Work Final Boss

Everyone is watching diesel. I am watching sulphur. Diesel is the first order effect of the war. Sulphur is the second. And I think the second one is going to matter more for the next twelve months.

We are entering the acceleration phase of the Global System Rupture. While world leaders are trying to work on one urgent geopolitical profile, another one emerges ad hoc due to the compound power of the global multiplicative cascade waves across all socio-economic systems.

Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component

Yet in France people burn cars on the streets once somebody mentions a higher retirement age…

Cuando inviertes en comunicación pasa esto

The elites of Victorian Britain got up late, drank ceaselessly, worked short hours, partied through the night, and knew nothing about science, technology or engineering. And yet, by their own lights, they were hugely effective. worksinprogress.co/issue/the… The Victorians are often held up as a model against the supposedly soft, feckless, humanities-educated elites of today. But I argue that the genius of their system may have been its drastic weighting towards soft skills, team-building and intra-elite networking: - A Victorian’s gentleman’s office hours typically began about 11am and finished about 5pm, including a multi-course lunch with wine. - Upper-class Victorians drank ceaselessly. Conduct guides recommended four or five glasses of wine at dinner *for married women*. Port was often served in pints. - Party culture was intense and nocturnal. Balls started at about 10pm, peaked after 1am, and continued till dawn. During the social season, bankers, judges and politicians might go to several balls per week. - Elite Victorians learnt almost no STEM at school or university. At least half of class time was given over to ancient languages, often as much as 80 percent. One leading educationalist remarked that it was not worth teaching science to gentlemen because it does not involve ‘continued reasoning’. - Sports and character formation were valued far above transmitting facts. A top headmaster described his school’s priorities as ‘First – character, second – physique, third – intelligence, fourth – manners, fifth – information’. This cannot have made elite Victorians more productive individually, but maybe the dense social and emotional network it created helped them to work as a sort of extended team. Perhaps we should think again about what makes groups of people effective.

new york social translations: "we should grab a drink sometime" = we will not "i'm so down" = i'm not coming "let's do something this weekend" = see you in november "networking event" = name tags and one guy pitching his seed round "community" = a slack nobody reads "members club" = a bar with an application "third place" = a coffee shop that kicks you out at 6

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Be satisfied with even the smallest progress.”

I think we have a problem

I hit 220,000 followers on X today. #1 for geopolitics in Austria & meanwhile among the most prominent geopolitical commentators and analysts in Europe and the world! Thank you for your trust, support & good wishes from the bottom of my heart. I’ll do even better in the future!

fightbürgertum

Men used to go to war now they check their sleep score to decide if they can take on the day.

25 years of friendship and still going strong

Pls give me a context this could have been taken out of.

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i watched this clip a few times today and i couldn't stop thinking about this: "the moral question in our society is, yeah, we have, we have all these good versus evil debates, but we are just, we are full of badness."