Goes for 30 tonight, with 7 boards and 7 assists. She seems like the best player on the Valkyries. Should be considered for Most Improved Player in the league.
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Think I heard her referred to by one of the TV commentators as "the pride of Northwestern." (Doesn't hurt!)
She has been getting good press in Bay Area media. Maybe she should change her first name to Veronika and be Veronika the Valkyrie.
She's been playing quite well I think.
I have to wonder if these players don't have big chips on their shoulders, at least for this season. If I understand the expansion process, they're basically all players their teams were willing to dump, and now they might feel they have something to prove beyond the natural competitive nature they already all have.
I have to wonder if these players don't have big chips on their shoulders, at least for this season. If I understand the expansion process, they're basically all players their teams were willing to dump, and now they might feel they have something to prove beyond the natural competitive nature they already all have.
Cut by the Wings and then not protected by the Sun. She would have a great reason to have a chip on her shoulder. Also shows why both of those teams are near/at the bottom of the league. Bad decisions. Perhaps a blessing in disguise for her
She went out of the Dream game yesterday after an elbow to the ribs by Nia Coffey. Wildcat on Wildcat crime!
Great to see!
She’s opening up the playoffs today against the Minnesota Lynx. Hope they make a run.
I didn’t watch the game but the Valkyries supposedly got jobbed by the refs too.
When is AI going to fix bad game officiating in the pro and college ranks?
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When is AI going to fix bad game officiating in the pro and college ranks?
Nakase calls out officiating after Valkyries lose big in Game 1
Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase called for officials to give her team a "fair fight" after, she said, the officiating tilted in favor of the Lynx in Game 1.
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Hate to break it to you - I work in AI. And AI is as biased if not more biased than people in most cases (particularly generative AI). Some types of tech may help, but don't hold your breath on AI helping in real-world, complex tasks like officiating a game.I didn’t watch the game but the Valkyries supposedly got jobbed by the refs too.
When is AI going to fix bad game officiating in the pro and college ranks?
Nakase calls out officiating after Valkyries lose big in Game 1
Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase called for officials to give her team a "fair fight" after, she said, the officiating tilted in favor of the Lynx in Game 1.
Drawing the Lynx is a tough setup, and they definitely got smoked refs or no.
On to the next game!
On to the next game!
But I bet an AI referee system would've called at least 3 penalties on Oregon last week! Humans are more biased (and blind).
And the training data is based on what humans historically do. With additional bias of a data scientist somewhere being biased in deciding what training data to use.
That’s based on how LLMs are used currently - scraping the internet, looking at’s what’s been done, and trying to predict “the next best word” (or pixel or whatever). It can certainly be trained using actual data of penalties so all of these blatant mistakes stop helping cheate
College & NFL referees should be using augmented reality which should be linked to the video dashboard of the stadiums (and TVs).
AI should also be applied objectively to independent review.
I’ve also been working with and studying AI for decades (Computer Engineering background). We can both agree we’re in the nascent stages, and ChatGPT-5’s marginal improvements over -4 show the limitations of LLMs (there are many).
Really well said and I agree with you entirely. Would add that those limitations of LLM's are magnified when everyone defaults to Generative AI. LLM's can do a lot more analytically when they aren't attached to a chatbot, eliminating hallucinations in addition to the equally large accuracy problem of false negatives.
Valkyries’ Veronica Burton Got Sweetest TV Message From Her Dad After WNBA Award Win
Father-daughter goals.
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