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Ethiopians and Kenyans have been dominant in track and field since the 90s, that's not exactly a recent change; both countries, btw, train fairly differently from each other, and I…

The article is specifically about the sport of athletics, better known as track and field in the US; it has nothing to do with basketball.

Thinner is faster, up to a point, but as noted in the article if you take it too far it leads to injury. I suspect a lot of the grey area stuff NOP was infamous for, i.e. abuse of …

If you currently have a job then you likely can't accept payment without violating your employment contract, so you wind up having to do all this extra work for free anyway.

Cython is another Python-like language that gets compiled to C; it's a great tool for getting big performance bumps for very little effort.

#masculinitysofragile

Maybe more men should consider it, "especially if their [wives] make a living wage."

There's a big difference between shoes and blood doping. No athlete should have to jeopardize their health, e.g. death from blood clots, in order to be competitive. Personally, I d…

This is the big thing for me. I used to work almost exclusively on a remote dev machine, using my laptop as a terminal, and tmux meant I could pick up in the morning where I left o…

It doesn't have quite the same feature set, but I wrote a simple, and I think "clean" neural net library for Python but with a pure C engine under the hood - could be pretty easily…

Try now - I just merged in some changes to make it Python 3 compatible.

I posted this earlier on datatau, but thought I would try a larger audience as well. This is a project I've been working on in my spare time, mostly as a learning exercise for myse…