An NFT is worth the ownership stake of the server that it points at. This is a huge problem. Jacob Kastrenakes writing for the Verge details the problems, the solutions, and the problems with those solutions. Basically, as long as an NFT is corrected backed off a distributed server infrastructure, and the people running that infrastructure do a good job, and someone keeps paying for all of this, your link will keep pointing to your asset. …

The sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, you may have different words an for these things and ascribe them different meanings but the underlying physical thing is extremely consistent. In the world of null hypothesis testing, you should be completely comfortable rejecting the null. Coin flips are interesting, they are wobbly. …

Aside from College Football Playoff rankings time, there is no better time to cram your RAM with sports than March Madness. Generally, there are two ways to do this the easy fun way (true seeds) and the hard way (machine learning). If you want to get ahead this year, I suggest you use a few simple mathematical tricks to produce your bracket. Let’s just dive on into the tricks…

True Seeds

On the ground level, the bracket is a snake. Moving counter-clockwise (odd seeds) and clockwise for even seeds. Thus the top bracket should include teams: 1, 8, 9, 16…

When I am worried I buy sausages, usually Andouille. For a few weeks, easily by 16 February, I had been buying tubes for a few weeks because of the intensity of what was on NHK every morning. In January, my partner asked if we needed to continue watching NHK on the regular, as the wall to wall virus coverage was not exactly pleasant for our children. We persisted, James Tengan is a great anchor, heavy on the gravitas. The coverage of the virus was pitch perfect. …

Ann Herbert was forced to resign from Nike because of the truth of her success, being promoted to lead North American operations due to leading the Direct to Consumer Offensive, with a major player in that industry being none other than her own son, using her credit card. Over the last four years, Nike has nearly doubled direct to consumer sales, and is now at roughly ten times their 2012 level, turning the tables on Adidas who they once trailed. Surely selling more shoes at retail to consumers would be profitable and direct internet sales are preferable to opening stores…

In the promotional commercial for the Golden Globes, the ultimate punchline delivered was: “if we play our cards right, this will be the last awards show.” Their point was facetious of course, they, Poehler and Fey, are among the finest in the hosting game. Very slightly edgy, but never misunderstood — the ultimate combination for a moderately reflexive moment. Awards allow for a group of writers, actors, or some other interested audience, to offer some kind feedback about what is good, and what is not as good. …

In the course of my daily rummaging through Twitter I saw a strange take: GameStop didn’t matter because it wasn’t still everything. Because the stock wasn’t still in infinite bubble mode the story was over and because the story moved to a new phase that means it “didn’t matter” in the first place. This seems like an absolutely goofy take to me as I have talked with dozens of people personally involved in the story through their efforts to lift the stock to the moon.

Then it hit me — for some people now the only story that mattered was…

He is running a special purpose acquisition company (also known as a SPAC) worth 300m, that’s what. But what is that? A company with no product except synergy — that sounds like some nonsense from 30 Rock…

Unfortunately this is the same answer for the question — what is happening at Buzzfeed, why did Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias exited Vox and why it will merge with Vice. Because all media companies with starting with V must merge to be some sort of Voltron?

The truth in the boutique media world is that a SPAC has come to save the…