Mathematics
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Why Stats Fail in Sports, and Why AI Will Fail Us
I should not even have to write this. But I will. Using stats to run a team in basketball or baseball does not work. It does not work because players are not islands to themselves. Their individual stats are products of the players around them. To give a quick example, Michael Jordan was a product…
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Palo Alto Gods
Why we will and will not survive Palo Alto. One of the truly horrible and most unfortunate experiences in our lifetime is the rise of Palo Alto, California as a power center. The people who operate their digital kingdoms there are amazingly deficient. For being educated, they’re not educated. It’s important to remember that most…
Cowboy Archer 