Category: Numbers Games
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Cruise Control, or Why Katie Ledecky Dominates Distance Freestyle
I began paying attention to Katie Ledecky, the American distance swimmer, after Brian Phillips wrote a fantastic profile on her for Grantland, in the fall of 2014. Ledecky was seventeen then; she had been the reigning world record-holder in the women’s 800 meter freestyle for over 2 years. Actually, reigning, which suggests stasis, isn’t the…
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Do the Jitterbug (an analysis of cold brew efficacy using D3.js)
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink… Just kidding! My kitchen sink barely holds one wriggling (fat) pug. In truth, I write this melting, Elmira-style, in the peak of #heatdome2016. Temperatures like these (mid 90’s, egads!), merit rewards merely for enduring them, and what is a five dollar vat of caffeine if not a…
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