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Are Junior players being set up for a tough life?

highkarate
Badpenguin said:
There is no secret AI engine only available to the select few. Maybe some tech players get early access to certain new models that have been hyped, that is about it. The GPUs behind it are almost all the same, they are using the latest nVidia chips (except google and China). Some grifter really did a number on your company. What is really scary is that it is going to be people like you, and your company, who completely destroy the world's economy.

AI lies (hallucinates) to you when it doesn't know an answer. It is fundamental to how it functions and will not change, probably in our lifetime. You are forking the salary of a white collar worker over to another company to bet the future of your company's success on. Just think about that long and hard bud. These people and the entire AI industry are all grifters, they are defrauding everyone. If you have to check the results of the work because you _know_ it lies, is it really worth it? What happens when you get overconfident with the results? If it was MY money, MY retirement fund, that you are investing based off of the advice of AI, and you blew it, I'd hunt you down and take it out of your hide. You just think it is saving you time. And running forecasts is not AI, it is good old fashioned computing. There may be a very small number of things that "AI" is actually pretty good at, but it is nowhere near what people think.

We don't have the electrical grid to support it. These data centers are not actually being built. No one can show a profit being derived from the use of AI. Most companies are doing what is common now in tech, hype it up, sell it and cash out to become set for the rest of your life. No long game, no consideration of long term consequences. What happens when your AI provider goes tits up and you can't run your business any more? You can't find the experts to handle the coding any more? But hey, cash out now, screw the fact that you gambling away all of your client's money, that will be someone else's problem on down the line.
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Ai doesn’t make any direct decisions for the company, it provides analysis and data aggregation at a rate humans cannot match. You’re right there is no secret Ai engine but there are definitely tiers and you’re also paying for the cpu. I agree that in the widest lens it is a net negative for society. I also live in said society where I’m at the mercy of the people who sign my paychecks. I’m not advocating for it, and I think it’ll likely render companies like mine useless in short order as all trading on any time frame will become somewhat gto. I’m not arguing anything beyond your assumption that it’s a paper tiger that’s not coming for jobs. I’m telling you from experience, it might be a paper tiger in the way people make assumptions about it, but it is coming for jobs
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Perfect Aim / THE SHIFT will be on the road again. First stop will be Phoenix, AZ. FREE mini lessons everywhere I go......5/13/2026 1st day.

genomachino
After being on the road teaching Perfect Aim for 5 years I was rear ended in Peoria, Ill. and broke my neck. 2013. At that time I had just done my 2,000th lesson with Perfect Aim in 5 years.

3 years they tried to rub it and hope it would heal up but eventually I had c5 c6 and c7 fused. 11 months after the surgery I was back on the road on my first trip and got rear ended by a young lady in Rockford, Ill. I had just got done with my 5th lesson and heading back to the motel room in Beloit. That was the end of my traveling, I could hardly stand to ride in the car. Too much pain. But I'm ready to try it again.

Since then I had, heart surgery, lung surgery, right and left knee replaced, hip replaced and took seizure meds. Lingering results from being knocked out in 4 separate accidents over the years. During this time I have continued to teach averaging 4 lessons per week plus still maintaining a 700+ Fargo rate. I only have 15,000 games in the system and don't play leagues.

I'm ready to go again and have some pretty amazing stuff to show off. A new addition to Perfect Aim is the SHIFT. Understanding this is why I can keep the high Fargo rate even at the age of 73.

Perfect Aim / The SHIFT is the final piece of the aiming puzzle. It pretty much answered so many problems I had as a young player trying to get right English equal to the left. Too much left and not enough right. A player can play this way and still play at a high level. But once this is learned it will raise everyone up to a level they could not even imagined.

It only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to show a player why they need to know this. It's like Aiming on steroids.

I will be in the Phoenix area for at least 2 weeks maybe more. Anyone that wants to see this just needs to call me. 715-563-8712 The mini lesson is FREE.
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Seeing the contact point on the object ball.

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Paul Bell said:
Cutshots' and Straightline’s methods to determine the aiming line differ in two ways.

Straightline uses a step Cutshots doesn’t: Straightline uses the midpoint between object and cue balls while Cutshots does not. Likewise, Cutshots uses a step Straightline doesn’t: CueShot uses the concept of equal and opposite areas of overlap between the object and cue balls at contact to determine the aiming line while Straightline recognizes that geometry but it is not needed to determine the aiming line (the line before parallel adjustment).

Straightline and CutShots’ methods determine the aiming line by first finding the object-ball contact point. CutShots’ method then has the player looking at the object-ball contact point and noting how there are equal areas from the contact point to ball edge on each side of the contact point.

CutShots then has the player shifting his view to now looking at the object-ball contact point from behind the cue ball. With this new view, CutShots notes how the visible area on one side of the object-ball contact point now has shrunk. Utilizing the equal and opposite concept, the shrunken area corresponds to the overlap area during the balls contact. CutShots instructs player to make a line from the contact point on the object ball to the cue ball so as to make the same amount of overlap area on the cue ball as on the object ball — an area opposite to and equal to the shrunken area on the object ball.

Straightline’s method is much easier to explain. It starts with two points: the object-ball contact point and the midpoint between the object and cue balls. The player connects those points. That is the aiming line.

Both methods then move the aiming line parallel toward the cue-ball center doing a Straightline “center point roll” to make the cue-stick aiming line.
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Couple things about straightline's method. First, it's Wei table's revelation to me. Other posters used it sans chronology or credit so I'll call it the AZBE. E for epiphany. Previous to that I was the proud independent discoverer of reciprocal section overlap. Or overlaps as PJ calls 'em. Water...

The center point roll IIRC is some poster here I never refound his post or the thread(s) containing this mystical artifact. I find the, absence very odd - it's a fundamental set of truths. I'm not FBI eesnomyjob. So that.

Biggest effort required of CPR (lol) is finding the mid point. Went though various stages of standing off to the side and estimating with aerial hand spans until I could estimate accurately from the cue ball. Suddenly...

lol After many months of CPR it occurs to me that EAO gives you the midpoint; no guess work. I've come to consider this crossing wait for it...

THE MIGHTY X

taddahhh...

Take that Feijen.
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