Category: Basketball
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Final One
Well, the unscientific verdict (“unscientific” because saying anything based on one tournament or especially one game is foolishness) is in: if you’re looking to win some money or whatever, you can do a lot worse than to start from the pure LRMC rankings and go from there to make your bracket picks, at least given…
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Five-Minute Posts: Five March Madness Thoughts
Editorial note: First off, I realized today that my titles for the first three of these short posts contained a common error. I wasn’t planning on writing five minute posts, but rather posts that took me five minutes to write (by the way, it’s usually been more like ten, but I haven’t done too bad…
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Special Combined Sunday Judgment/Hacker Within: March Madness
Today’s subject: the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. First, a couple of confessions. (1) It’s a bit of a stretch to throw the Hacker Within label on this post, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to integrate my two regular features in one post. (2) Since I have picks to make, and also fair number…
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Off Today
I’m gonna take a break from the Sunday Judgment column, and posting in general, today. If you really need a language fix, Safire‘s got the etymology of waterboarding. An added bonus is that it’s a vicious, though typically subtle, indictment of this horrifying practice. Also, congrats to Wauwatosa East, my alma mater, for winning the…
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Music To My Ears, and Eyes
I’m telling you, Julie Rehmeyer is fast becoming one of my favorite science writers. Her Science News Math Trek piece this week follows up on a paper by music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko that represents musical chords in hyperdimensional geometries. Even cooler than Rehmeyer’s very accessible written description of the work, though, are the accompanying videos…
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Big Ten Champs!
Thanks to my roommate’s awesome soon-to-be in-laws, I got to see the Badgers clinch a share of the Big Ten Championship tonight. It was a pretty serious blowout (not a word to all my Penn State alum coworkers, I promise), which was great fun on Senior Night. I’ve got no real insight here, I’m just…