Look at Ray Ray Run

Yeah but saying madrigal isnt the fourth best because kelenic has been real good, would imply that the three ahead of him were better. Mize for sure, but Bohm and Bart? I'd rather have madrigal.

Based on what? Bart and Bohm you could argue have been worse than madrigal easily.

Sox I have zero problem with people not liking Madrigal, but to argue hes a bad pick while all hes done is live up to his pick so far seems odd. How can some argue they should have drafted someone else when no one has played in the league and madrigal is the closest to it and hes a consensus top prospect? It also makes no sense saying madrigal will be a long time big leaguer and contributor but was bad pick at 4. That would be a success at 4 based on the expected outcome of the fourth pick. I've said this many times but people really seem to overrate mlb draft picks; implying the expected outcome of the 4th pick is a game changing superstar is just absurd.

Yeah how dumb of a pick. Guy is ready for the league in under 2 years, has been a top 50 prospect consensus, and people are saying we should have drafted kelenic. Smh.

I've seen him called out multiple times too and he just ignores everyone calling him our for changing the story 10 times and making up repeated nonsense.

David Price opts out for the season. I have mad respect for Price after this entire off-season. First he paid Dodgers MiLB player he felt were being shafted by the system out of his own pocket, and then he decides the season isn't worth the risk to his family so forgoes the money and sits out. Commendable stuff from Price this off-season, even if you want baseball as much as I do.

Man this is rich coming from you; soxtalks king of disinformation pertaining to covid.

This is where that guy got his information from too: lol and here he is this morning: Stop feeding twitter troll idiots.

It didn't happen. The guy who was spreading that rumor and started it was literally on twitter this morning saying we'll never know the truth because the media won't cover it. He said "I hope we find out." He said he saw a tweet from a Riverdale coworker lol, and then talked to a "source close to the situation." He has 4 twitter followers, lives in a house with a television on the floor in his living room, and he has always lived in Illinois. The tweet never existed, and he never had a source.

Not Sox related, but Freddie Freeman having some pretty rough Covid symptoms is what I heard. Not a good start.

again this never happened, please stop spreading rumors that were started by twitter trolls.

This did not happen. Please stop spreading twitter misinformation.

Darvish will be 34 years old this year and hasnt been healthy in 3 years, and that was his only healthy season since 2013. Yu seems like a good guy but it's an awful signing.

Machine learning and AI is really DS and the future of economy in general, imo. Finding a way to implement that level of automation while still maintaining a sense of work/purpose for the people is going to be one hell of a challenge and hurdle, but it'll be a lot of fun.

1. Depaul 2. Work is not, and that's fine. I have the money set aside to cover the program already so don't need to get any loans or etc. 3. I actually learned R/Python and SQL when I started to model MLB and NCAAB/NBA when I was playing poker fresh out of college. Amazing how easy you pick things up when the thing your working on you love doing. Made a couple bucks exploiting NCAAB total markets and mid-major sides and NBA Daily Fantasy Sports, and then gave it all back in MLB where I learned people who model that are well ahead of me at this time in my life. 4. I hear you; communication is difficult in this world, and there are so many people who honestly just have no idea what you're doing or talking about, even though they know it's valuable. I actually don't mind remote learning as I tend to be better at self-teaching and problem solving than having someone walk me through it. Good luck! I think you'll be fine. It's one hell of an in-demand career right now, and the movement up the ladder is really quick in major corporations for the entry level jobs in that field.

but for systems building and efficiency management, you are in turn making your company money they just don't see it that way. you are correct though, there are modelers and machine learners that run the revenue generation, but from an angle of accountability and profit maximization, you are not viewed as a revenue generator.

Finance and Data Analytics Honestly though, all my coding skills and etc have been self taught online; my education is much more formal on the math and finance side of things. There are a couple free courses I would recommend you try first, and see if it's something that is interesting to you. I would recommend a Python Course to start and learn the basics of the language. In data science you shouldn't really be pigeonholed to any industry. I find the biggest hurdle and issue I see with many machine learning/AI/Data Science people is that they understand code but they don't understand what is useful inputs and they don't really know how to implement operational change that coincide with their tellings/findings. A big part of data science is collecting and analyzing, but the valuable part for business is being able to convert those reports into operational usefulness and a language that everyone can understand. This is a hurdle that many are having a difficult time overcoming. Never forget, regardless of how much money you save the company and how streamlined you make efficiencies, you will never be considered a "revenue generator" for a business.

This was said by Harold earlier, but this type of microdosing is a lot more prevalent than you think, and I'd argue it's really just a "mental" boost and not much else. Certainly not cheating to some degree of gaining some massive edge imo.

Thanks. I was actually surprised I got in because I feel old, but I'm young enough I think (33) where there's a real benefit. I already have a Python, SQL and Dax/PowerBI/Excel Macro background. I'm looking forward to it. I deal with big data now, but I am no where near where I want to be. I got tired of being upset and frustrated by privilege - privilege that I benefited more from than 99.99% of people in this country and I know that and I would like to attack a systematic issue within economics and how we teach/learn it that marginalizes far too many people. How did it go for you? I remember when I first joined my last company I sat and looked at all their data and their entry system and realized they honesty probably wasted over 5000 hours a year on shit that could be solved by a simple 3 line program. This exists all throughout corporate america. It is amazing.

Not all companies are inherently evil at all, but the companies that are most rewarded under the current system absolutely are. And frankly, the greatest issues with the system and the lack of decency shown to many workers - by whom these companies were built - is being magnified even more so due to the pandemic. We can go on and on about what behavior is rewarded. Predatory banking and lending. Undercutting labor laws and outsourcing to impoverished nations. Tax evasion. Employee contracting. Avoiding benefits. Environmental shortcuts. Caufield tries to make this always a left vs right issue, and frankly it's a bunch of BS. While the right is far worse than the left at this point in time - especially with the dear leader promoting no masks - the bottom line is both parties have nurtured this system of inequality for 60+ years. Both parties have ignored the growing wealth gap, and both have produced mass propaganda to discredit and devalue the work done by millions of people in this nation. That's why you see people all over the internet hating on unions; people literally fighting for better pay, better working conditions and workers rights. Why? Because the entire machine that we operate under hates a unified voice to negotiate. Because a unified voice has power and money to compete vs the corporations power and money. While unions aren't perfect by any means and many were mismanaged, the core basis of the union is to lift up the majority and give them a fair pay. People in the middle class fight against minimum wage hikes - despite minimum wage hikes correlating positively to middle income wage increases. People against that absolutely baffle me. And under the current system? Being profitable doesn't even matter; it's all about having the biggest bank account of investors; the biggest venture capitalist. The way the market works now is companies lose endless amounts of money undercutting an industry that operated on micro-margins to begin with (Uber vs Taxis for example), until eventually the companies that can't operate at a loss have to fold, all because the other company could afford to undercut them for a decade - losing money year after year - and now they've obtained the entire market share. Most every massive startup in America now makes money solely off your data - that's the only thing they generate any real revenue off of. That data belongs to you and me and etc.

And those workers are making shit pay and receiving very little protections and have no benefits; we're literally sitting here arguing that these people are essential for the basic functions of human life in this country, and we treat them and pay them like they were replaceable garbage. They've been treated as subhumans for a long time and even in the media today, politicians openly state that it's not real people getting sick, it's the immigrants in the meat processing plants in places like Iowa and etc. The best part is many of them feel threatened or etc, and are working for less than the $600 they'd get on unemployment. It's shameful. No one is saying close the doors on the entire world. That is not feasible, but drastic measures, restrictions and closures clearly saved a lot of people elsewhere, but we're too damn worried about the bottom line to give a shit about the people who actually produce those goods.

Let me break some news to you; the government can print as much money as it wants. Do you know why we have not seen massive economic hardship quite yet? (and don't get me wrong, there has been some as food banks have been packed). Because the actual income levels for 60% of the country went UP with the $600 unemployment add. It's sad to me that the majority of people in this nation working full time aren't even taking home 50,000 a year. If you look at ANY financial growth chart - I can analyze this in 100000 ways, whether Minimum wage hikes or Middle Class growth - the stagnation of the middle class and low classes for 40 years has been breathtaking. If you take the middle class and lower class and give it the same wealth growth as the top 1% since 1980, the middle class income per person (not family) is $280,000 and the lower class income is $115,850. THINK ABOUT THAT! Instead, what happened is every inkling of financial growth in this country since the late 1970's has "trickled down" to the .5 percent beneath the top .5%. You could have still normalized wealth growth at the top 1% and gotten the middle class and lower income people to well above a livable wage. And people shout about inflation! People who do NOT put their money back into the economy are bad for the economy. Billionaires and generational wealth are bad for the economy; they remove a vast majority of their wealth from the actual money pool by hoarding it for generations. Money that is removed from the true spend market and only remains in the investment market inflates the true value of the market, as well as prevents businesses from making profits off your money. So the moral of the story here is for years they taught you - and ME! - the fallacy that was inflation in order to sell the concept that poor people couldn't be helped with safety nets and that if everyone had money, inflation would destroy the country. It's COMPLETE nonsense. The government just printed money that equated to 35% of the national GDP and the value of the dollar and the price of goods DID NOT budge a cent. The price for taking all people out of extreme poverty in the USA? Well under the 5 trillion we just printed. As economics evolves rapidly - which is what is happening right now - we get a better understanding. The national debt took 300 years to reach 2 trillion, then doubled every two years under Obama and now it added 2 trillion in six months under trump! Obviously at some point you need to begin to balance things, but as long as the US dollar is the global currency, and the US remains the wealthiest nation on earth by a SHIT TON, there is absolutely NO EXCUSE that we should have as many people living at such a disadvantage. It's embarrassing, and the people have had enough. That's why the streets are talking now. This by no means is arguing inflation does not exist, but again it exists in a supply and demand world but there is a supply shock right now, and the demand has shrunken for many items. Giving people money to survive - money that is put RIGHT BACK INTO the economy - in no way causes trauma or inflation. The poor people and people struggling are by far the best people to give money too because they spend every dime buying things they have to. This is basic modern Econ 101; and as someone who is going back to school in September to get my masters in Data Science solely to attack big data in economics from a more modernized angle, this is something I love and am passionate about and it's also something that enrages me. Econ has a dark and evil past, and it's riddled with racism and sexism to this day. It is the whitest and malest profession of any of the advanced degree professions. The models that we have used for generations are riddled with racial and class biases on the data inputs, and it has destroyed the lives and opportunities for millions and millions of minority and/or impoverished people. It needs to change and it needs to be fixed.

Containment at this point is damn near impossible but we should at least try

And spare me all this - we did what we had to do for the economy. The EU has more people than the USA, its borders are as open as states, and they were infected first... they have managed the virus well and things are returning to normal in many places. They didnt need to declare martial law or any of the other dumb bullshit nonsense americans try to fear monger into everyone. On 9/11, 3700 americans died and we went to war and signed away our freedoms in the patriot act. We were terrorized as a nation. 130k people are dead, and people are talking about how not getting a hair cut, their nails done or going to the bar is destroying their life lol.