The Tennis Belt
Who is the champion of tennis as a matter of direct succession? ...
Posts
Perfecting Rummikub
Making the best possible Rummikub player with integer programming. ...
The Birthday Problem for Last Names
How large of a group do you need so that the chances of two random people sharing a last name is 50%? ...
The Worst Feasible Sequence AI
Making the worst possible AI that can win at the game Sequence. ...
Stepping on Cracks and Gaussian Noise
Strolling through noisiness and periodic functions. ...
Volleyball Data Analytics App
A Shiny app I made to investigate a volleyball team’s performance. ...
Ballot Stuffing and Mansplaining
Learning a few things about the web via voter fraud and the Lex Fridman podcast. ...
How Badly Can You Win a Tennis Match?
Winning ugly. ...
Derangements, Stirling Numbers, and Counting
Attempting a “deadly” probability problem with combinatorics. ...
HRV and the WHOOP Recovery Model: Estimating Feature Importance
Heart rate variability (HRV) is the primary metric that the WHOOP fitness band uses to calculate your recovery. In this article I look at just how much HRV contributes to recovery, plus how a high HRV variance can make things tricky. ...