I am concerned about my investments in artificial intelligence made in my Vanguard accounts. Do you know to what extent I am exposed to an AI bubble collapse with these investments?
What would be a strategy using Vanguard if one presumes an AI bubble collapse will occur?
Recall the Reddit post about thrown pool games in the Joao v Haas match. A good example of the same thing involving the eight best pool players of the world occurred in Las Vegas in 1991 in a $50,000 Winner Take All tournament. Jay Helfert, the referee in the final game of that tournament, figured the game was rigged. Helfert--- a hustler, a players’ agent, and promoter --- described the match in his book, Pool Wars: On the Road to Hell and Back with the World’s Greatest Money Players (p.143, iUniverse, Bloomington IN. 2012).
Jay describes below how the favorite, Buddy Hall, very likely threw the match to the player with 20-1 odds to lose. The eight players and Jay figured the player, Mike Lebron, was better than that and that the odds made no sense. At match end, about a dozen $200 bets had been made on Lebron and those gamblers won over $50,000.
Some evidence corroborating Jay Helfert's suspicion is that the tournament bookmaker made no lines on subsequent Challenge of Champions tournaments. It was Jay’s guess, too, that the Winner did not Take All in the tournament; the prize money was instead divvied up among the eight players. In any event, in subsequent years players signed agreements that no deals of any kind would be made else no $50,000 payment.
Jay described the finals between Buddy Hall and Mike Lebron:
A tip from a slow learner with problems with pool stance.
I am 5-foot, six inches height, right-handed, and play on a 9-foot table. I can do the back-n-forth drill pretty good but have problems with some regular play. This would show up, for example, standing on right side of table, leaning over table a fair amount, and aiming at left corner pocket. Normally, my right foot is on the aiming line and my left foot a little in front and to the side of right foot. Under these conditions with the table blocking my left leg, I would put my left foot in back of my right foot. Wrong. By pulling my hands back on cue and stepping back some, I could put my left foot in front of the right foot—like it is when I do MOFUDAT. I pocket more if I keep the stance like that in MOFUDAT and it feels normal. I will try a mid-cue extension today to see if I can do this more easily with more shots.
You can do MOFUDAT perfect but mess up on some shots including the Mighty X. Try to keep foot positions the same when doing MOFUDAT and with awkward shots.
The documentary had interesting video because the newsletter publishers (the Natick MA residents) had a video system to monitor sound and picture outside their house.
The bad guy, Baum, had been a bodyguard and some of his personality deficiencies probably helped in that job while other personality faults could not have been expressed because he had no authority like that at eBay. Once he was promoted at eBay, however, his bizareness was magnified by him and his underlings.
Ina said eBay did accomplish its goal of stopping their publication because she and her husband had changed as a result of eBay's harm --- any feel good or light approach at the publication was lost. What a discouraging trip eBay's hard-core, smaller sellers have had.
Makes me want to sell my next cue stick on Mercari.
It is on Amazon Prime:
What are the gate receipts, internet receipts, and sponsor funds for matches like Joao v Haas?
In the 3-hour video of most of the game, there didn't seem to be spectators or even a referee. Where does the money come from for hosting such a game? Where does the money come from that pays the players?
I try to post a photo and Reddit bars it claiming "All media assets must be owned by the submitter of this post". It usually happens with a photo but other times similar photos are posted fine without the error.
I liked aiming with the fractional aiming system because I knew exactly what to aim at. Unfortunately, it was useless compared to ghost-ball aiming. With ghost ball, however, I need to guess where the ghost ball is and have to keep it in my mind while I look from behind the object ball at the pocket to looking from behind the cue ball at the ghost ball.
I have practiced putting balls along the line to the pocket in front of and back of object ball. I try to look at the bigger picture of the table and the line from pocket to object ball intersecting with shooting line from cue ball. I have looked at the object ball from every direction. I have tried to eyeball the balls at table height and move my eyes back and forth like pro player Moritz Neuhausen(or like that used to find one’s vision center). I have tried to find a spot on the cloth to aim at. If I know it is a 30 degree cut, I go back to my fractional aiming and hit half ball.
Sometimes I don’t use ghost ball where if the cut is so thin, I just try to barely hit the object ball.
How do you keep the picture of the ghost ball in your head?
In doing the back-n-forth MOFUDAT drill, I hit cue ball the length of the 9-foot table and cue ball returns near to my cue tip.
I find that I hit the center of the cue tip a little left of the vertical center of the cue ball to do this.
Do I have this right? Am I looking at the cue ball wrong and that is not really the vertical center just a snort right of the cue-tip center?
One answer: Combination shot is better if the choices are i) hit object ball to travel along rail to pocket ; ii) hit the same object ball into another object ball sitting a couple inches outside of pocket.
For corner shots on the right side of the table, I miss cut shots coming short at one pocket and make them at the other. I compensate at the pocket I am missing to pocket balls there, too.
Does this always make sense?
Initially, in both pockets, I aim to pocket ball in the center of the pocket. Isn’t it best to trust my eyes and aim for that always? Compensating is okay if its easily learned, logical, and can be remembered. Something like, for example, compensating due to cut-induced throw: half-ball hit, object ball about two feet from pocket, slow hit, and hit with stun. That will occur regardless of what pocket is used.
But, if I don’t know why I need to compensate, how can I keep track of all this compensating? Or, is it better sometimes instead to not compensate and fix something else?
