In weight training this is also referred to as "tempo" and can be expressed as a set of 4 numbers. Eg: 2 - 0 - 4 - 0

Which would mean: 2 second up, pause 0 seconds, negative for 4 seconds, pause 0 seconds start again.

Adjusting the tempo is a big part of most advanced training schedules.

If you do any training beyond simple resistance training I feel like you would encounter the concept. It's very old.

I also have fond memories of my highschool weights coach yelling "fast up, slow down!!!" At us over and over again.

Is this person describing objectively horrible people, of just people who are incompatible with him?

I reckon about 5% of folks rub me completely the wrong way and I likely do the same for a similar number. I don't know that I agree that makes them inherently bad/the worst.

I thought it was just me struggling with the tailwind flex docs...

Kind of off topic, but it would be a fascinating experiment if you could take all the art that influenced a real artists and train an ai on it an compare to the artist actual output.

Do humans have original ideas or are we synthesizers of what we take in?

I'm pretty sure any skilled player can reliable judge what opposing players are going to in the next few seconds. Probably with closer to 95% accuracy.

Especially for volleyball, because the only open question are: “to which attacker the setter will pass”, “where's the attacker going to attack” and “will the defense be able to get the ball”.

For the “nine well-defined classes: spiking, blocking, set- ting, running, digging, standing, falling, waiting, and jumping” used in the paper, the only things that are hard to predict is “jumping”, for the attackers, because it depends on who the setter will pass the ball to, and who's going to be “falling” because it depends where the attacker will shoot the ball and which defender is in range to catch it.

I've just tried to do it on a Youtube video, and it's actually a pretty fun game to play for a minute or two. (I think I'm above 85%, despite not having practiced volley outside of school's sport classes and never having watched it on TV, so I'm pretty convinced your 95% figure is well within reach of a skilled player).

The interesting thing is whether you can identify exploitable tendencies in opposition team play (again, faster than your human analysts would otherwise do). If so, that takes preparation with the whole team rather than split second decision making.

There are clearly a number of structural and cultural factors at play which are hard to address easily.

But also yes, some of this poetic justice.

To be fair, clock speeds have not really gone up in the last 20 years or so.

Multi core CPUs and speedups in other bottlenecks on the other hand..

F'kn oath!