- poaches the Big 12's two best teams, nearly destroying the conference - fifth-best team gets a playoff spot over the more deserving second-best team in the Big 12 - "dude the Big 12 has taken so much from us trust me bro" are we fr

Final | Mississippi State 6, Oklahoma 0

"Top-quintile outcome" is a wild way to decide who makes the playoff. It'd be wild even in the much more permissive pro leagues. A top-quintile outcome for the Browns over the last 30 years is going 8-9. That doesn't mean we design the playoff to make sure 8-9 gets you in.

both of these teams went from preseason top ten to 7-6 last season

this is like if the best oracle in the land prophesied you would become king but as part of a triumvirate with your two most hated enemies

In a 24-team playoff, both these teams are comfortably in, with a bye. This game means nothing. In 2013, it’s widely regarded as one of the most dramatic football games of all time.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @NoahShachtman & me @WIRED wired.com/story/madison-squa…

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gotta look out for Lamar here

"history"

Why has Texas A&M moved up five spots in the last ten days without playing a game?

Teams 7-11: #7: lost to Howard, MTSU #8: lost to George Mason #9: lost to Columbia, CMU, Indiana #10: lost to UNLV, Bradley, N Col, Loyola Chi, UIC #11: lost to Dayton, Kent St They did suck. So why didn't Seton Hall take advantage?

Colorado Mesa, which is 33-1 and ranked #4 in the coaches poll, is not one of the eight #1 seeds...or one of the eight #2 seeds...but a #3 seed, and placed in the same region as overall #1 Texas Woman's. That's...a choice.

hi so this is misogyny

Richmond just beat their conference leader. They went *up*, not down.

Princeton blows out two teams by 20 points and drops three spots/one seed line, because fuck 'em I guess

Mississippi State loses at home by 15 to a 16-12 (4-9) Florida team and drops one entire spot

1. untrue 2. irrelevant 3. can be used for literally any type of playoff to say the playoff should be bigger, not an actual argument

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