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While I think that autonomous weapon systems is a very bad idea in general, I don't think AI is the problem - people are. Lowering of the cost associated with killing someone is one of my biggest issue with this. It reminded me of a short video I've seen a while ago:

Fuck off. I absolutely hate DRS. If I want to see one car cruising past another on a long straight I'll go and stand on a bridge above a motorway (and probably jump off it). F1 should be the best drivers in the best cars overtaking by braking as late as possible and testing the limits of grip. They do need to simplify the front wings and generally redesign the cars do that they rely less on downforce and get disrupted less in the dirty air of another car. I've heard creating downforce more from the floor and diffuser instead of the wings could be helpful.

@Stan:

ah, the important things!

The era of the Hulk is upon us!

People are making some quality Andy Robertson memes:

Lots of intelligence being shown since Luke's excellent posting, but I do feel nobody has picked up on the main difference of our team last season compared to this. Luke's point on us having difficulty moving the ball quickly when we win the ball is answered pretty much by Frank each time he talks about our counter attacking over the period of 10+ years. He always said when we got the ball and there was no immediate outlet, the ball hit at Drogba became a key weapon. When Jose returned and Drogba was no longer that force, he fixed it with Costa. Now for whatever reason, and you all know what I think the reason was he was let go, we have not been able to replace that target man who so much would drop from benefiting our team. I have always said any player signed from overseas gets a season to come to fruition. Morata has not shown consistency other than behaving like a child attracting Yellow cards like a fresh Turd attracts Flies, and even the most optimistic Chelsea fan must have doubts he will be better next season. The insistence of the manager playing our best player in a so called force Nine was pretty much the time Hazard lost all form, so not only has the manager fucked us over with Costa, he has managed to find a way to lose our best player most match days since Christmas. Hence, for my mind, we find ourselves in the biggest hole the club has been in since the arrival of Glenn Hoddle. Jose's bad season is said to be down to the players not playing for him. Whats Conte's excuse? As much as I applauded how he turned around last season, for me this season is as far in the opposing direction he could have traveled. Some of his decisions in team selections & general leading the club in the eyes of the media MUST have other clubs thinking do they want a Manic Depressive in charge of their club when things don't go his way? I would add, the names being put forward as new manager material, none catch my eye. I strongly feel the need to bring it in house, someone who has the club running through his veins with help from others of the same. Afterall, when it was last in the hands of one of our own, that Big Eared Trophy found its way to London for the 1st n only time. I'll being going to the return FA Youth cup Semi Final and will meet up with a few who work for the club. It will be interesting to hear what they are prepared to share.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/05/killer-robots-south-korea-university-boycott-artifical-intelligence-hanwha Seems South Korea is trying to build autonomous weapon systems and the fear has already sparked a shutdown of the project. Can't say I'd blame anyone for trying to shut it down as I can't imagine how they'd really be able to distinguish real targets from false positives. Then again AI has come a long way since its primary logic block inception and KAIST is making some stellar progress.

My god, just look at this beauty

Spot on.

Johnny English strikes again

Our pressing game only really exists immediately after we lose the ball in attack in order to stop the other team countering us, it's very rare we're actually countered on unless of course the circumstances in the game require us to be more open and push more men forward. We do very well in this situation and it's something I noticed from Conte's first ever game in the Premier League. This image however is the bane of my life: We adopt this shape a lot and this is what I like to call the 'Conte shell'. Dembélé, has all the time in the world on the ball, taking up a position which many midfielders have found themselves in against us under Conte. We've made Xhaka look a lot better than he is on a good few occasions when he's took up this position. Kanté and Fabregas cannot engage the ball as it leaves space in between the lines and it's also exactly what the player with the ball would want for our two central midfielders to be drawn out. Willian and Hazard aren't central enough and sometimes you'll see our striker look to come in and help out and press the ball, this for me is normally a reaction to seeing the amount of time this particular midfielder from the opposition gets on the ball and it has a air of desperation about it on our part. We get overcrowded and perhaps it's not necessarily the fact that we lack a pressing game or the players lack the will to press when we adopt this specific shape during a game but rather the fact that the shape itself makes it awkward for the players to engage. This often leads to the periods of passivity which we have been watching a lot of this season and the previous campaign as well. Using the example above, it's very difficult for Spurs to play in between the lines here, very difficult. It's a problem if the opposition is outnumbering you in one part of the field but it depends on how well you manage that. Furthermore, if the opposition has a numerical advantage over you in one part of the field, this can only mean you'll typically have a numerical advantage over them in another part. Managing these advantages is key to football. We evidently have a numerical advantage in defence here and hence we are very good at snuffing out any danger in between the lines. Our problem at the moment is when we win the ball, it's become very difficult for us to get out, in 90% of cases it will be either Kanté, Fabregas or the defenders winning us the ball and then the opposition will press immediately, making the pitch seem very small. They know our exit routes and you can see from the shape above that we have to go from being very condensed to spreading out at pace, like squeezing a sponge ball. When we win the ball, Hazard, Morata, Willian and the full backs are like grey hounds, it's a race against the other team's press, a race the opposition are winning more and more. The problem is that after winning the ball our players have to be very precise, quick and intelligent at playing out under pressure but teams know our exit routes and we are also doing this from a deep position and have a long way to travel up the pitch. We may get out at times against the better teams, maybe we do very well on the ball or the opposition makes a mistake or is slow to press for example but counters are becoming a rarer occurrence for us as teams often stop us at source and block the exits so to speak. Not forgetting a lot of our players aren't the most comfortable on the ball either. Ultimately because it's difficult for us to get out due to the opposition's press after we win the ball, the opponent can control a lot of the match for long periods. The higher quality the opposition, the longer they can obtain control. Finally, the reality is the opposition don't actually create an awful lot against us, using the Barcelona game as an example. We have the numerical advantage in defence as mentioned above. As you can see in the screenshot it's very difficult for the opposition to play in between the lines which is the most dangerous area in football. Sometimes the opposition's play is very good and they cut us open, not much you can do about that but this is rare. The problem however we have is that because we adopt this shape and get stuck in it for such long periods, tiredness sets in. The opposition knock and knock on the door and it's difficult to keep the concentration, knock, knock, knock. Hence why we've seen a lot of mistakes this season from our players.

https://clips.twitch.tv/StormyBadPuddingGivePLZ So...fucking...cute.

yep, I'm hoping the latter too! It's actually agony and it's got to the point I can feel the pain working its way from the kidney to the bladder sometimes.