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Yeah the MLB media team really knows what they are doing. The MLB has long had the best tech out of the big 5 sports leagues in the US

This doesn't really seem that innovative to me -- even the postal service can send you an email of what is in your mailbox.

To take your comment a little deeper despite me knowing you are being facetious, I think that's exactly it: the algorithms cannot communicate to facilitate these types of advantage…

This is awesome, and something I was doing as well for fun! Go's image package has some pretty nice primitives. One thing I think would make this even simpler is you could simply s…

I just use a text editor with plugins.

Yep. I primarily use Go, so you are often forced down this way because it uses a simpler regex engine. I used to complain but in hindsight I realized it was a blessing in disguise.…

It's more likely that technological advances in mining techniques allow us to extract the millions of tons of gold closer to the upper mantle.

Within my own self, I have a dichotomy. When I am on the piano and reading from sheet music, I feel "classical." I am a bit more deliberate and I stumble a few times. When I am on …

Correct my understanding here where I am wrong - In my mind, if a leaf of a tree or any vegetation photosynthesizes, it is pulling in air (dirty air by your account which is why th…

Follow up, can you define much here? I am just interested in this, I read this paper as a primer to my own question, and it seems that with proper city and road planning combined w…

This may sound like a naive question, but how does this compare to say, trees?

May I suggest a crazy idea? Ditch it and just see what happens. We are a large organization, and had an end of year crunch so naturally when you need to pinch the absolute most pro…

This is the norm in more industries than you would expect. A primary example is food service. You have a main job function, but you do whatever is required of you. Dishwasher buste…

Target is portrayed in the book "Naked Statistics" as having some pretty advanced data collection and modeling techniques -- they could figure out which of their shoppers were preg…

Is there a world of software architecture that exists outside the "OOP" patterns we have seen in the last 2 decades? A quarter of the way through my career and I have already grown…

Most of the recent psychologists who study expert performers all tend to agree that "genius level" just like "innate talent" is a cognitive distortion and discredits the amount of …

Last time I looked at the source for Java's dual pivot quicksort implementation, it used exactly this for 7 elements or fewer