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Baseball stat heads tracked 4M pitches to prove that umpires really are blind

Apr12
by on April 12, 2019 at 1:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web


It’s been less than a month since Opening Day. The 2019 Major League Baseball (MLB), like more than a century of professional baseball seasons before it, has already seen its share of controversial calls by the game’s most hated employees: umpires. For the home plate umpire, life can be a bit tricky. He stands inches behind the catcher, zeroing in on another man, the pitcher, standing 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate. In a fraction of a second, he’s responsible for determining whether a pitch traveling at speeds often exceeding one hundred miles per hour lands within an invisible…

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YouTube’s plan to reward ‘quality’ content has some problems

Apr11
by on April 11, 2019 at 11:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, video


After a turbulent year, YouTube is allegedly doing some damage control with its advertisers. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company is looking for a way to reward constructive and quality content. The problem is that’s not something that can be done by algorithms. That’s something that’s going to take human eyeballs, looking at every video if the company doesn’t want another scandal. Bloomberg reports the company is testing internal metrics to find videos with good “quality watch time,” which appears to mean videos that aren’t objectionable and don’t contain words or images which might offend the average person. Presumably the…

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