I was really hoping the Astros would find a way to bring him back. But super happy Yuli gets to play meaningful MLB games again.
Him hanging his head after his injury running home in the playoffs still haunts me.
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Yuli at DH and hitting 7th for KC today
Look at this crappy opinion piece (regarding a Cole return to the Astros). My, how far Sports Illustrated has fallen. Sad.
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SI sourced from Bleacher ReportâŚgotta love internet sports journalism
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It is sad. SI has become a sports aggregator with very little original content.
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SI, Time, Newsweek are all just nameplates that have been sold.
Theyâre are relevant to journalism now as the Houston Post.
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That may be the stupidest, pull-something-out-of-the-ass piece of non-journalism I have read in a long time.
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Tom Verducci still writes the occasional column for si.com, but not very often. His last was mid-August.
SI? More like AI.
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Thereâs nothing intelligent about it.
This is a joke that will remain relevant for maybe the next 12 months or so. Itâs amazing how quickly the underlying large language models that are the foundation for generative AI co-pilot writers are evolving. I am already seeing highly technical writing (like writing a legal brief) equaling law degree / bar + 1-2 years experience in quality. And creative writing is not far behind.
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But theyâre regurgitating/consolidating information and opinions that are already out there, not forming new and unique ideas. And the more success that those tools have, and as they consume each othersâ output, the more uniform everything will become. Itâs very frightening to me.
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100%. They are being trained on existing data. You get very predictable and bland regurgitated content accordingly. The best of them are starting to self learn now though. For example, there are a number of fourth generation generative AI tools that are doing complex mathematical calculations, even though not a single line of mathematical equation code of any sort was ever coded into them. They understood that to get better at their primary task, they needed to learn complex mathematics and went out and did so. This is a shocking and largely unexplainable behavior that is confounding academic research entities the world over.
Edited to add: probably belongs in the Science & Engineering thread.
Janson Junk â waived and claimed by Oak to make room for Heyward â has just been DFA again.
I mustâve missed that Marwin was playing in Japan the last couple seasons, but he announced his retirement today.
Not a bad career for a Rule 5 guy.
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Greatest swing in Astros history.
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What a great, even-keeled article by MLBTR. Hats off to them.
Marwin played so many positions skillfully.
Happy retirement, King.
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The Astros have been blessed with the likes of Bill Spiers, Marwin, and now Dubon. If Iâm leaving anyone out please let me know.
These guys are key to success.
Think about, in your job, the folks that âfill in the gapsâ that just make things work when they might possibly not work.
No team exists without these dudes. Thanks, Marwin.
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Aledmys Diaz had his moments.
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